There seems to be an epidemic of “I Told You So, Maine” erupting across the nation, or at least erupting across the editorial cartooning world. I kind of thought I’d covered the Graham Platner thing the other day and we would move on, but I was mistaken.Bramhall isn’t particularly snarky in his commentary, which plays […]
Dominique Musorrafiti for RetroFuturista interviews Ralph Steadman in “Beautiful Splatter.” From the introduction: …later attending the London College of Printing during the 1960s. This period proved highly productive, as he established himself by contributing to major publications including Punch, Private Eye, The Daily Telegraph, The New York Times, and Rolling Stone. He permanently altered the […]
“You thought it was a joke and so you laughed You laughed! You know you laughed. I heard you laugh! You laughed and laughed and laughed.” When I noted the week-long amorous adventure of Brad and Toni in the Luann comic strip the reaction was a general “pfft, c’mon” over my reservations that it may […]
As with the best of political humor, Margulies gets a laugh alongside a sigh, but my first reaction was “Who cares what Chris Christie thinks?”He had his shot and he blew it. One of my father’s gripes about the steel industry was that it took in his generation when they came back from the war, […]
The Society of Professional Journalists announced the Sigma Delta Chi Awards for work done in 2025 Thursday night July 9, 2026. For Editorial Cartooning the award was given to Adam Zyglis of The Buffalo News. Judges said: “These are challenging days for editorial cartoonists, it’s easy to get so angry the results are hot instead […]
But before we get to this week’s comic strips we need to catch up to a couple from last week. Didn’t mention Marco Finnegan‘s guest stint as Gil Thorp artist last week ’cause I was waiting to see if the gig lasted longer than a week. It didn’t, Rachel Merrill returned this week. I only […]
Nor should we listen to those who say “The voice of the people is the voice of God,” for the turbulence of the mob is always close to insanity. — Alcuin to Charlemagne, 798 AD“Friends, I want to remove any cause for contention between you two fine fellow-Democrats”HerblockI missed getting to vote in 1968, because […]
Vermont’s favorite alternative newspaper Seven Days has released its annual Cartoon Issue cover featuring Vermont’s newest cartoonist laureate Stephen Bissette with an interview inside. And a whole lot more as Dan Bolles tells us: In a Seven Days interview, Bissette said his primary goal during his three-year tenure is to produce a history of cartooning […]
Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) used a cartoon to object to portions of the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act moving through congress. The cartoon shows veterans standing before a firing squad of bureaucrats and media and is drawing heat from the bill’s sponsors. (In the update added two House members quoted in the original […]
Opening with one political cartoon, largely because I disagree. Trump’s clodhopper interference in the World Cup didn’t destroy the integrity of soccer. It merely pointed out the lack of integrity of FIFA, which — as has been noted here and everywhere else — wasn’t in doubt to begin with. If the red card kerfuffle made […]
Creative Boom has released the results of its 2026 survey from creatives around the world, with the scales tipped toward the United Kingdom and the Unites States. The state of the creative industry 2026 survey as spelled out by Tom May Our wide-ranging survey lays bare a profession that’s exhausted, anxious about its future, and […]
First, here’s the Red Card Menace:Just when you think Dear Leader has run out of ways to make everyone in the world hate us, he pulls this. They all laughed at him when he got that stupid pretend Peace Prize, but everybody assumed that was going to be the end of it. As I’ve said […]
Cowboy cartoonist Mike Scott has passed away. George Michael (Mike) Scott December 13, 1952 – July 4, 2026 From the obituary: Mike earned degrees in Animal Science and Agricultural Extension and Education from New Mexico State University before beginning a 27‑year career at Fort Sumner Municipal Schools. As an agriculture, shop, and science teacher, he […]
For nearly 50 years Daryl Cagle has been illustrating. For over 30 of those years he has been an editorial cartoonist and since the year 2000 he has owned and operated Cagle Cartoons, the largest syndicator of editorial cartoonists. Tracy Lehr for KEYT-TV profiles Montecito’s favorite son. “Here is Trump killing PBS and of course […]
While we’re remembering 250 years ago, it was about then that Samuel Johnson wrote “My old friend, Mrs. Carter, could make a pudding as well as translate Epictetus from the Greek, and work a handkerchief as well as compose a poem.”Whatever the quality of Elizabeth Carter’s cooking and sewing, the quality of her scholarship is astonishing, […]