Luckovich poses an important question: What’s so bad about being woke? Or, grammatically, “awakened” or “awoke” but let’s hope at least one?By illustrating the opposite, he somewhat answers the question, but it should be noted that the popular slang term wouldn’t exist if it weren’t a protest against and rebuke of those who either don’t […]
Wading over to Mike Peterson’s side on the pool.The “New” Woke SupermanWell it seems the new Superman movie is just too woke for the right wing pundits and cartoonists. Accusations that James Gunn has “politicized” Superman come laughably late, as the world’s most famous superhero has always been political, write narrative strategist Andrew Slack and […]
From The Bayeux Tapestry in the 11th Century to Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, plus Felix’s Bag of Magic Tricks – seems we’re in a war zone today.Part war propaganda, part comic strip From NPR: LONDON — The earliest-known depiction of the 1066 Battle of Hastings — which began the Norman Conquest, changing England’s […]
Back in the days when I really did a “Comic Strip of the Day,” and only needed one, I had a policy that I would only hold daily strips for 24 hours but could hold a Sunday for six days, following the Audit Bureau of Circulation rules that said a daily paper is “dead” the […]
Hearst buys Dallas Morning News; Jane Pauley and G. B. Trudeau honored; New York Newsday: Truth, Justice, and the Comics; small town journalists disappearing; journalists in general are disappearing; more newspaper printing plants are shuttered affecting jobs and deadlines; the Associated Press at 179; Rob Tornoe’s Pulitzer cartoon.Hearst Buys The Dallas Morning News From Rick […]
Back at the dawn of time, when I was in college, there was a mynah at the Kresge’s department store in South Bend with a fairly large vocabulary. In addition to saying “I’m a pretty bird,” and “I can talk. Can you fly?” he had absorbed a number of phrases from the customers who stopped […]
Some of Steve Benson‘s friends have written about him on the occasion of his passing. From editorial cartoonist Jack Ohman, like Steve a former president of the AAEC: I heard Steve Benson died yesterday, in the late afternoon, as I was about to go into the grocery store—the banal things we all do. The news […]
Twelve cartoonist and free speech organizations have signed a letter protesting the arrest of four individuals associated with publishing a caricature in LeMan magazine officials have interpreted as depicting Moses and Muhammad fraternizing in heaven.According to Reporters Without Borders, the Istanbul prosecutor’s office opened a judicial investigation on June 30 against cartoonist Doğan Pehlevan, editor-in-chief Zafer Aknar, […]
I don’t know that things seem quite as grim from the inside as Wuerker suggests, though those on the outside have long questioned whether Dear Leader was genuinely accomplishing anything.A Cult of Personality, on the other hand, tends to be fairly steadfast and myopic. The term originated with Stalin and while the Hungarians and Czechs […]
In the world of comic art, artists are often dubbed ink-slingers based upon not only the volume of ink used, but the activity in which that ink is slung. Grin and Bear It! “Lichty works fast. His style is apparently slapdash; he pencils in outlines and features, and then brushes on tones or color. (He […]
A recent cartoon by Adam Zyglis involving natural disasters and the MAGA philosophy has right wing voices objecting to the “rules for thee, not for me” hypocrisy hitting home. “Now is not the time.”From Carlos Garcia for The Blaze Media: ‘Twisted, vile, and shameful’ The Buffalo News published a political cartoon appearing to mock right-wing […]
Dear Leader has announced another set of tariffs, which he claims will likely be modified once he has concluded trade deals with the nations involved, which is most of them, or possibly more than all of them, since he once said “There’s 200 countries. You can’t talk to all of them.’’You certainly can’t, because there […]
Seven Days Cartoon Issue; The Duckton Weekly #12; Alley Oop new and old; all-new Bloom County; where, oh where, has my Zoolies gone; Ed Steckley caricatures the Reuben Award nominees.Seven Days Cartoon Issue Seven Days has published their annual Cartoon Issue for 2025 with a charming When Harry Met Ali jam cover by Harry Bliss […]
Editorial cartoonist Steve Benson has passed away.Stephen Reed (Steve) Benson January 2, 1954 – July 8, 2025 The Arizona Mirror is reporting the death of Steve Benson: Steve Benson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist known for his sharp wit and incisive commentary on American politics, has died at the age of 71. After being laid […]
Sorensen reframes matters in current, rather than traditional, terms, and it’s hard to disagree with her suggestion that we stop pretending things are the same as they’ve always been. It seems time to, as Howard Cosell put it, “Tell it like it is.”It’s hard to avoid knowing that things have changed, and if for some […]