Back at the 2023 Reuben Awards convention in September it was announced that Karen Evans had been elected the new National Cartoonists Society president, replacing the termed out Jason Chatfield. Now the NCS has revealed the entire new Board of Directors for the 2023 – 2025 years:President: Karen Evans1st Vice President: John Hambrock2nd Vice President: […]
Let’s start with our latest and, one hopes, last Cruella update. As I was going through cartoons yesterday at about 4 am here and 9 am in London, I came across this Morten Morland panel with Home Secretary Suella Braverman hanging like the Sword of Damocles over the head of PM Rishi Sunak.I appreciated the […]
What better way to start Monday than with Garfield. He’s got a new movie coming out next year.Variety has some details and the just released trailer: Chris Pratt embodies the world’s most sarcastic yet endearing orange feline in the trailer for “The Garfield Movie,” premiering in theaters on Feb. 16, 2024. The new animated feature […]
The woman in this Steve Kelley (Creators) cartoon asks an excellent question. I blame the Civil Rights Movement. Once Black people began to speak up and assert their right to a place in society, all sorts of people began wondering why they needed to keep their eyes downcast and accept being either ignored or bullied.To […]
Hogan’s Alley and Tom Heintjes present nearly 200 of David Folkman‘s photos from the 2023 Reuben Awards get together in September – see cartoonists checking in, see cartoonists in black tie, see cartoonists having fun. The National Cartoonists Society offers us a digital copy of the 77th Annual Reuben Awards playbill. The National Cartoonists Society […]
But first, an update:No word at this hour on whether Suella Braverman behaved herself at today’s formal Remembrance Day ceremonies in London, though Morten Morland suggests she’s already ruined the weekend. Reports indicate that some 300,000 people turned out for the latest Saturday march, and there were 126 arrests for violent disruptions and attacks on […]
We mentioned Never Been Deader getting a newspaper taking it on here. Now King Features has released a digital press kit announcing its availability in print format. Following the skeleton Lifeless Carl in his daily grief of working a grueling office job, Never Been Deader creatively depicts how it feels to live the humdrum nine-to-five […]
Rob Rogers, Harry Harrison, Wiley Miller, Jeff Kinney, Michael Cavna, and Bob Englehart – cartoonists all. Enjoy a sampling of Bob Englehart’s cartoons created to provoke, anger, entertain, challenge and illustrate individuals, issues, events and change associated with politics and political elections…with a picture and in a few words. Okay, we missed the reception but […]
We’ll give the lead today to Dave Whamond’s Day by Dave (AMS), because he’s Canadian and the poem that inspired Poppy Day was written by a Canadian doctor during World War I, when thousands fell but the churned up ground proved a welcome environment for the bright red flowers. There’s a great deal more about […]
Editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez spoke to Fox News Digital about The Washington Post pulling his Hamas cartoon and revealed some details of his contract with the paper, and if that relationship will continue. From Fox News Digital about the cartoon: The conservative-leaning Ramirez shed light on his working relationship with Post opinions editor David Shipley, […]
The first 24 hours after The Washington Post printed a Michael Ramirez cartoon about Hamas tactics saw a liberal flood of reaction calling the cartoon “racist” and “despicable.” The past 24 hours has seen conservative media blast the liberal Washington Post for deleting a cartoon the newspaper belatedly deemed inappropriate. Caution: Clicking on more than […]
It began with Kayliegh McEnany, former spokeswoman and still disciple of Donald Trump, in her current role as a Fox TV talking head, being unhappy with the courtroom sketch of her leader: Asked about what advice she would give him during the trial, she said: “Keep doing what he’s doing. Look, I would advise him […]
Cartoonists: Don’t forget that tomorrow is Small Child Saluting Day. Be sure to submit your cartoons of small children saluting before it’s too late!There will always be an EnglandI’ve always like Charlie, except for that arranged-marriage thing, which was worse than having to make the King’s Speech to open Parliament each year, though at least […]
Comiclicious by Olivera (“Liv”) Vukovic began as a webcomic in July 2017. In April of this year Comics Kingdom picked it up. In June the Comics Kingdom blog gave us a nice introduction to the strip.Now King Features Syndicate has released a press kit announcing that the strip is available to print newspapers. What we […]
David Rowe, operating with the benefit of being a dozen or so time zones away, comments on last night’s debate, in which five candidates vied for the title of Miss/Mister Congeniality, the main prize having been given away long since.Or perhaps he drew it earlier. Jen Rubin had it pegged several hours before it began:And […]