Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned from The Washington Post after an editor killed a cartoon depicting wealthy businessmen and leading media figures, including Jeff Bezos, who owns The Post, paying obeisance to President-elect Donald Trump. It is a sharp, honest jab at the powerful. That’s the role of an editorial cartoonist, and it […]
Rick McKee provides a context for the quote, “Where ignorance is bliss, ‘Tis folly to be wise,” by Thomas Gray, who wrote a few better poems but not many better quotes.It’s gobsmacking for one portion of the population to hear the utter nonsense, toxic lies and frightening promises of the past week, and then see […]
Jules Feiffer, RIPA bit surprised that Bob Englehart‘s has been the only tribute to Jules Feiffer from the editoonists.It came out the same day as Jules’ funeral home obituary. The Games People Play The New Yorker has a new game where the player puts cartoons in the order they appeared: Laugh Lines. Trigger Warning My […]
We’re jumping all over the comics pages.Thank you Lawrence Goldsmith and Sean Garnett! Anything that puts that earworm in my head is a good thing. The Sunday Andy Capp is a good thing. Too soon? Leigh Rubin uses a serial killer to make a gag in Rubes. Jesus Christ!Yeah, Mike Lester is gonna get letters […]
I’ve still got an oversupply of funny stuff, so, since I’d just as soon not sink into despair this early in the week, this Paul Noth piece is as political as I’m going to get today. I’ll simply add that, if they cut off everybody’s head, there’d be nobody left to build cathedrals and fight […]
In the summer of 2018, I drew a political cartoon for the local newspaper of a small Adirondack lake community in upstate New York. Hilarious, right? Well, not everyone thought so. After the cartoon ran, the editor informed me that several people had canceled their subscriptions, calling the cartoon mean-spirited and partisan. He said the […]
This is going to be a very random day, and I’m starting by acknowledging Paul Berge’s commentary on a TV station that fired its meteorologist over an anti-Musk posting she had on her personal Instagram page. Firing her was an overreaction, but we’re likely to see a lot of similar overreactions over the next four […]
Cartoonists here and there, comics hither and yon. Spotlight on Paul Gilligan PAUL GILLIGAN writes and draws the syndicated comic strip Pooch Café with Andrews McMeel, which runs in over 250 newspapers around the world and has been twice nominated by the National Cartoonist Society for best strip. He is also the author-illustrator of Pluto Rocket: New in […]
We’ve been monitoring the newspapers that have dropped Candorville since cartoonist Darrin Bell‘s recent troubles. Now comes the first reports that Candorville has been “discontinued” and “no longer available.”From the Fairfield (CA) Daily Republic: The Daily Republic over the next three weeks will be featuring three new comic strips. We would like your feedback as […]
We’re in no danger of running out of frightening, stupid things to comment about, but I’m overwhelmed with funny, inventive comics, so let’s pause the existential angst. It’s not like it’s going anywhere. Today’s Willie ‘n Ethel offers a hard truth but a bit of perspective. I’ve seen a lot of political cartoons lately about […]
Luke Farookhi, a freelance caricaturist and illustrator, has emerged from The Spectator’s contest to find a new political cartoonist. He has been contributing cartoons since November.According to The Cartoonists’ Club of Great Britain, Luke is 36 years old and studied History of Art at Leeds University. According to his LinkedIn profile, he is currently the […]
The death of famed cartoonist Jules Feiffer was international news. But we would like to recommend those obituaries prepared and issued by the comics community. Jules Feiffer mastered every major narrative art form of the 20th century — comic strips (Feiffer), theater (Little Murders), cinema (Carnal Knowledge), novels (Harry the Rat with Women), graphic novels […]
Charlie Sykes illustrated an excellent rant with an 1889 Samuel Ehrhardt cartoon that bears the caption “History Repeats Itself — The Robber Barons of the Middle Ages, and the Robber Barons of Today.”Mark Twain said “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes,” which is clever but inaccurate: History is indeed repeating itself, as Trump […]
A Sacramento judge released Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Darrin Bell from custody Thursday ahead of a Feb. 4 court date as prosecutors added more child porn allegations to his case. The 49-year-old Bell faces a number of conditions of his release — and yet more charges filed in an amended complaint by Sacramento County prosecutors who […]
The Rev. Mike Morgan put this week’s For Heaven’s Sake to use as a great tribute to President Jimmy Carter and highlighting a wonderful part of both men’s faiths. The doctrine expressed trips up many a professed Christian, especially those of the political persuasion. Other tributes. Yesterday both Warped by Michael Cavna and Working Daze […]