Ella, Nathan Archer’s weekly comic strip for The Tallahassee Democrat, ended earlier this year. Nathan Archer had been a regular freelance cartoonist to The Tallahassee Democrat until this past Spring when Gannett decided to do away with editorial cartoons. It was also this past Spring that Nathan’s comic strip for that newspaper also ceased appearing […]
I think Jonesy is being a little hard on meaningless connective phrases, but that may be because I tend to use “so” as a connective phrase, which makes it okay. On the other hand, a connective phrase should connect two things, which makes “so” an absurd way to begin.Listening to the news will expose you […]
David Willson‘s editorial cartooning for The Palm Beach Daily News earned him another Sunshine State Award, the second in two years, from the Florida chapter of the Society for Professional Journalism. The Palm Beach Daily News has the news with a few samples from David’s submission.Editorial CartooningNathan Archer gave The Tallahassee Democrat a final parting […]
Rose Anne Prevec is about to reach 100 — cartoons sold, that is. A few years ago, the Dundas artist, who had been illustrating books and drawing cartoons for family and friends, decided to take her cartooning more seriously. “At first, I posted my cartoons directly on Instagram,” she tells me. “Once those started getting […]
There are many Prigozhin cartoons on editorial pages at the moment, but Mike Smith (KFS) manages to tie up both the Russian and American significance of the event, with only a few inexplicable loose ends.His take is witty without being funny. Editorial cartoons are only funny by happenstance, and generally only when they tackle something […]
Giving a shout-out to Crankshaft. For shedding light on evil authoritarian figures who are trying to keep people away from the trees of knowledge. They always have been and remain an affliction on society. It does my heart good to see a kid pick up a newspaper.Young people and newspapers in Big Nate. While the […]
Yesterday was National Dog Day or some such, but I posted too early to realize it, so I’ll compensate with some canine humor today, starting with a bit of truth from The Other Coast (Creators).Indestructible dog toys are largely an issue of trial and error. I’ve seen dogs eviscerate a toy, yank out the squeaker […]
St. Petersburg Times staff artist and illustrator Joe Tonelli has passed away. Joseph Felix (Joe) Tonelli November 19, 1926 – August 12, 2023Joe was staff artist at The St. Petersburg Times from 1962-1993, at times the chief staff artist.From the obituary: Recognizing his exceptional talent, his parents allowed him to ride a city bus to […]
So yesterday I’m scrolling through Facebook when among the innumerable “suggested for you” posts comes a comic panel so I linger over it – the one below on the left. While it wasn’t a high resolution scan the cartoonist’s name seemed to be blurred even more than the rest of the image. It is of […]
We might as well begin with the silly part, though our current situation is a mix of silly and deadly. Ed Hall is hardly the only person getting a laugh out of Trump’s self-reported dimensions of 6’3″ and 215 pounds, as recorded in his Georgia booking document.A Twitter account called CalltoActivism did a comparison of […]
Political cartoonists took up their pens to offend the powerful and defend the downtrodden as soon as the first publishers began hand-cranking newspapers through their printing presses in the 18th century. Benjamin Franklin created his own political art to fire up the American Revolution. So did Paul Revere. Now, two-and-a-half centuries later, with thousands of […]
On September 13, 2022, as part of the Lee Enterprises newspaper group, the Daily Journal of Park Hill, Missouri, on orders from headquarters, switched out their long running comics for the new standard Lee half-page: Two months ago Lee sold The Daily Journal to Better Newspapers, Inc. From Editor & Publisher: Greg Hoskins’ Better Newspapers […]
The cartoons of Pulitzer Prize winning Clifford K. Berryman are featured in three free e-books issued by The National Archives (in one of them Clifford shares the spotlight with his Pulitzer Prize-winning son Jim Berryman). Each book features a high resolution cartoon per page with a sentence giving the date and the event depicted. Also […]
Harry Burton offers one of a surprisingly few cartoon takes on Donald Trump’s mugshot, but I think he gets it right: What ought to be a moment of at least reflection if not humiliation turns into another promotional opportunity.The mugshot itself has been all over the Intertubes, mostly with people thinking it will speak for […]
Felix the Cat was created by Pat Sullivan in 1919 and became the animated superstar of the 1920s. The public’s desire for all thing Felix led to lucrative licensing early on – in 1923 it led to a comic strip. William Randolph Hearst, hoping to cash in on the cat’s popularity, signed on to distribute […]