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Tom Toles fires letter back to Joint Chief

Last year in February, Tom Toles received a rare and public letter signed by six Joint Chiefs of staff members criticizing him for a cartoon that he did depicting a multiple amputee soldier and a callous Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. With the latest flap over General Peter Pace’s recent comments calling homosexuality immoral, Tom […]

Sunshine Week editorial cartoons posted

This week is the annual Sunshine Week. Each year the American Society of Newspaper Editors sponsors a campaign to draw attention to the importance of a free and open government and information. And each year, many editorial cartoonists participate by drawing Sunshine Week cartoons or submitted their cartoons on the topic of secrecy. Over at […]

Doonesbury Duke videos posted to YouTube

Doonesbury is storming to YouTube – or at least some seven year old video archives of Uncle Duke’s run for the presidency. Universal’s uclick is uploading 6 new archive videos to YouTube and doonesbury.com twice a month. There are 30 short animation films in all. From the press release: In the March 4, 2007 “Doonesbury” […]

William Woodward cartoon incites allegations of racism

Mike Rhode, over at the ComicsDC blog noticed an article in the Washington Post about a cartoon by William Woodward Jr. that recently re-ran (the cartoon was originally published in 2002 and has been printed once before) in the St. Mary Today depicting what many are calling racist because it allegedly depicts three black men […]

Washington Post makes several line up changes

The Washington Post has announced that they are making several comic page changes. Starting on Monday, they are adding three new comics: Agnes (Tony Cochran) Brewster Rockit: Space Guy! (Tim Rickard) and Brevity (Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rodd Perry). Brevity with alternate with Close to Home (John McPherson). Dave Coverly’s Speed Bump will now run seven […]

Big Top comic to come to an end

Universal Press has announced that Bob Harrell will end his comic Big Top on March 25th. In statement by Bob, he says: This was an incredibly difficult decision. The strip, and the characters feel like family to me and I loved every day of doing Big Top. But for both professional and financial reasons, itâ??s […]

Killed Cartoon book hits book shelves today

Out on book shelves today is a book I’ve wrote about a couple of weeks ago called Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression. The author, Dave Wallis, has an excellent article in the San Francisco Chronicle that nicely recaps the major themes of his book. It’s an excellent read and worth a […]

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