I like to alternate humorous and political cartoon days, but sometimes the categories cross so here we are. Mike Baldwin has the least political of the funny cartoons today, but the Boring Company is owned by Elon Musk. He claims he thought of the name while stuck in a traffic jam, which is problematic because […]
Barbara Brandon-Croft made history as the nation’s first Black woman cartoonist to break into mainstream press with her groundbreaking comic strip “Where I’m Coming From,” which debuted in the Detroit Free Press in 1989. By 1991, Universal Press Syndicate was distributing her work to more than sixty mainstream newspapers internationally, where it continued until 2005. […]
With the death of Pope Francis so also comes the end (apparently) of Patrick J. Marrin’s Francis comic, though nothing official has been announce as far as I know. The Lambiek Comiclopedia entry for Pat Marrin has a detailed history of the Francis comic strip: On 13 March 2013, the Argentinean Bishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio […]
Among the many things to be pondered as we approach 100 Days since inauguration is whether the First Couple even talk to each other. Melania, who varies her housing among New York, Palm Beach and the White House, was elegantly and appropriately dressed for the Pope’s funeral, while Donald stood out nearly as much as […]
The recent PBS “Art in Action” segment, “Political cartoonists on navigating a changing media landscape,” featuring Ann Telnaes, Michael Ramirez, and Sara Duke came into righteous indignation from the conservative media with the eight minute report featuring a few seconds (at around the 5:38 mark) of Ann Telnaes’ February 13, 2025 political cartoon commenting on […]
A roundup of cartoon and comic items finally being posted featuring Harry Bliss and You Can Never Die, Paul Kirchner and the bus, Jeff Kinney and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, the disassembly of Garry B. Trudeau’s Doonesbury, the editorial cartoons of The Simi Valley Acorn that are not editorial cartoons, and Heritage Auction is […]
The master of the Art of the Deal may be recognizing that his good pal Vladimir doesn’t actually respect him that much after all.Whamond is hardly the only one to note the gap between Trump’s campaign promise to end the war in 24 hours and his switch to what people are interpreting as a whine.MacKinnon […]
Comic book artist and creator Jack Katz has passed away. Jacob (Jack) Katz September 27, 1927 – April 24, 2025 Andrew Kunka, close associate of Jack Katz, let fandom know that the creator has passed away: Jack Katz passed away yesterday. He was 97. I had gotten to know Jack after I wrote an article […]
Good Timing? Bad Timing? The above Pearls Before Swine appeared two days after the announced death of Pope Francis. Some, who know nothing of lead times, took it as a swipe at that passing. Others took for what it was – just a case of timing. I agree with Stephan Pastis about obituary cartoons but […]
I guess 250 years is pretty good, but it does seem a shame the country couldn’t have survived a little longer. The error in Horsey’s cartoon, I fear, is that the lamps are going out all over America, which is a riff on a different war, but we’ve had plenty. I hope this isn’t the […]
The National Newspaper Awards has named Michael de Adder of the Halifax Chronicle Herald and the Globe and Mail winner of the 2024 Editorial Cartooning division. Gabrielle Drolet of The Globe and Mail and Patrick LaMontagne of the Calgary Herald/Calgary Sun were finalists as reported last month. This will be updated when the National Newspaper […]
News with Doug MacGregor, Charlie Daniel and Brad Boring and the SEC-NCS, David G. Brown, Pat Bagley, and a fact check on a viral Trump-Xi tariff cartoon.Doug MacGregor Doug MacGregor has been an editorial cartoonist for more than 40 years. He got his professional start at the Norwich Bulletin in eastern Connecticut in 1980. He […]
Another of those “no politics” days where you can’t avoid some politics. I like the notion of anything with a foreign country in its name being more expensive, and the idea of companies charging tariffs on things that shouldn’t have tariffs is funny.Except if it happens, and maybe it did and maybe it didn’t. A […]
The New England Newspaper & Press Association’s [NENPA] Better Newspaper Competition is New England’s largest journalism recognition program. NENPA has announced their Better Newspaper Competition winners for 2024. In the Editorial Cartoon division they have awarded the honors to Hakan Sahin of the Harvard Press 1st Place; Tim Newcomb of Seven Days 2nd Place, and […]
Independent Bookstore Day is held on the last Saturday of April every year. So naturally the 900-pound gorilla of book sales decides to have that and surrounding days as the weekend of their Spring sales event – doing what they can to ruin any effort by the small independents to survive. For anyone out and […]