Yeah, your potrzebian correspondent is most of the way through “The MAD Files”, a book collecting essays from various sources about the famed satirical magazine. Which is how this post will be – collecting news items related to cartoonists and cartooning from veeblefetzers near and far. HooHah! How Tom Richmond joined The Usual Gang of […]
A few days ago we reported on Scott Adams making public his terminal prostate cancer condition.That was naturally big national news. Here are the Associated Press and United Press International reports. Closer to Adams’ home was the San Jose Mercury-News story of their local(ish) cartoonist’s announcement. Later it was revealed that President Trump called Trump […]
The good thing is, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa knew what he was getting into. Or at least Zapiro did, having drawn this cartoon more than a week before yesterday’s shameful public exhibition of lies and attempted bullying.Perhaps, having spent the first 38 years of his life living under apartheid, Ramaphosa was well-adapted to quietly […]
Cartoonist Robert Crumb profiled; cartoonist Dan O’Neill and the Air Pirates collective of cartoonists; and cartoonist and publisher Denis Kitchen and Kitchen Sink Press. The Daily Cartoonist goes underground.R. Crumb If acid expanded Crumb’s consciousness, his discovery of underground comics in late 1965 was the real epiphany. Underground newspapers—The East Village Other, the Los Angeles Free […]
Lalo Alcaraz was named the 2025 winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Cartoon Award as part of the organization’s presentation of their Book and Journalism Awards held on May 22, 2025.In introducing Lalo’s submitted portfolio the organization said: Our cartoon winner is the child of Mexican immigrants, so he brings sharp insight into […]
Margulies starts the ball rolling with an observation which you should hold in mind throughout the rest of what is to come. First of all, he’s right. Trump reminds me of a wisecrack directed at Jesse Jackson some years ago by Detroit Mayor Coleman Young: “Jesse’s never run anything but his mouth.”Ditto, the difference being […]
It has been revealed that the recent documentary Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse was edited before PBS allowed it to be aired as part of their American Masters series. From Documentary Magazine: Twelve days before Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse (2024) was set to broadcast on April 15 across PBS stations nationwide as part […]
The Dallas Morning News (DMN) recently received a letter appealing for a more even-handed approach to the editorial cartoons appearing in their newspaper. The paper acknowledged that it was not the only like-minded request. So, how does The News pick editorial cartoons? And are they disproportionately anti-Trump? DMN Public Editor Stephen Buckley explains the circumstances […]
Murphy’s cartoon seems harsh, but, then again, he isn’t the one who has loosed masked men upon the population or ignored the courts and sent prisoners — many of them legal residents without criminal records — off to foreign gulags without trials.How many Americans recognize the term stasi? Is Gestapo too harsh? How harsh is […]
Seems the cartoonists in the news these days are the ones making the rounds promoting their latest books, but that does offer us a chance to read interviews and profiles of those cartoonists.And unlike some book lists you may have read the books listed here are all real. Peter Kuper Insectopolis: A Natural History Peter […]
The big comics celebration this year is the Diamond Anniversary of Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip. And it is certainly worthy of all the acclaim and hoopla and licensing.But it has some tough competition in the Best Humor Comic Strip of All Time ranking. Walt Kelly’s Pogo, Gary Larson’s The Far Side, E.C. Segar’s […]
An hour? Holy catfish! Caulfield’s got a way longer attention span than I do. My limit for sitting listening to anything on my computer is about four minutes. As for selfie-podcasts, my limit for looking at a close-up of somebody’s big fat face delivering a rant is zero minutes.The counter-benefit of ADD is that I […]
“Draw Off” with Phil Hands May 20th and with Adam Zyglis May 22nd, both featuring D. J. Coffman.Via GlobalNewswire: DAVENPORT, Iowa, May 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Lee Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ: LEE), a leading provider of trusted local news, today announced the company is hosting a “Draw Off” event series that will pair The Wisconsin […]
Today, Dilbert creator Scott Adams announced in an online video that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer that has spread to his bones. In the video, Adams was discussing Former President Joe Biden’s recent cancer announcement, expressing sympathy for the former first family.Adams also shared that his condition has become painful and intolerable, forcing […]
I’m surprised more cartoonists haven’t spoken up about the revelations of Joe Biden’s fade and his party’s (apparent) attempts to keep it from becoming public knowledge. Near as I can tell, the controversy is not over the accuracy of Tapper and Thompson’s book but over whether it’s a topic we should be addressing, given the […]