Dr. Bruce MacKinnon Editorial cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon joins a small group in the cartooning community who can legitimately put the honorific “Dr.” before his name. From St. Francis Xavier University and Education News Canada: St. Francis Xavier University graduated nearly 300 students during its Fall Convocation 2025 today. Bruce MacKinnon, one of Canada’s foremost editorial […]

An exhibit entitled “Faces of Peace” in the Church of the Holy Spirit (Bern, Switzerland) is being criticized as anti-Semitic for displaying portraits of journalists killed in Gaza. The artwork was created by Italian free-speech activist Gianluca Costantini. From Der Bund (translated with Google): The Jewish author Hannah Einhaus is always outspoken when she suspects antisemitism . […]

An expression emerged during Watergate that it wasn’t the crime but the cover-up that doomed Nixon. It mostly came from his defenders, who envisioned a wall between the burglary at the Watergate and everything that followed, with an innocent president drawn into the cover-up of a crime he hadn’t known was happening. Tapes and testimony […]

Back when I was that age corporal punishment in schools was alive and well, at least in the religious school I attended, and a comeback like that would have sent me to the principal’s office for a meeting with “the board of education”; if not an immediate slap upside the head. A Public Service for […]

Walt Handelsman’s LAST Cartoon Caption Contest Walt Handelsman‘s retirement isn’t only the end of his political cartooning, it is also the end of his Caption Contest. NOLA.com announces the last chance to caption a cartoon drawn by Walt. Emi Brudge’s Last Olive A while back I wondered what was going to happen with the newspapers […]

I don’t know that stupidity always wins, but I do know it has the inside track. The fad of biting into detergent pods passed by quickly, but it did happen and was quite a tribute to peer pressure and general idiocy. OTOH, looking back on my own misspent youth, I don’t picture 10 kids standing […]

It’s that time of the year again, Thanksgiving is over and all of your Christmas/Hanukah shopping is done, the only thing left to do, other than drawings your daily editorial cartoons, is to go through your 2025 archives and decide which ones should be sent for consideration to the various award committees. Here is a […]

Featuring Tom Toro, Cathy Guisewite, Tomi Ungerer, Denis Kitchen, Hunt Emerson, and some comics Boomers may remember. Tom Toro: New Book and New Interview Nicole Kinning from GoComics interviews Tom Toro about his new book from Andrews McMeel. In October, Andrews McMeel Publishing released Tom Toro’s debut cartoon collection, And to Think We Started as […]

In case you missed it, and particularly if you didn’t, FIFA has capitalized on the clear path to success in the United States. On the eve of the World Cup tournament, they guaranteed something or other by creating a gaudy, ridiculous “Peace Prize” and awarding it to Dear Leader, whose country will be co-hosting the […]

First there was the long list, then the short list, and now finally we get the finalists for the European Cartoon Award. The finalists include: Emad Hajjaj, Zehra Ömeroğlu, and Tjeerd Royaards. The winner will be announced next week during their annual Cartoons Day in Hague, Netherlands.

Editorial cartoonist, sculptor, and painter Ken Crook has passed away. Kenneth Erle (Ken) Crook July 13, 1929 – November 30, 2025 Carl MacGowan at Newsday is reporting the death of their former editorial cartoonist Ken Crook (or here): Kenneth Crook, who drew cartoons for Newsday for more than a decade before leaving in 1970 to pursue […]

If I were still editing a kid-written weekly feature, we’d have already had our annual Nutcracker-or-Christmas-Carol discussion. I miss the kids, but I don’t miss trying to cover this pair of mandatory holiday extravaganzas. The Nutcracker was easier, because, while it barely changes each year, we had enough kids who actually knew something about ballet […]

FranceInfo has announced their 10 finalists for their Prix de la bande dessinée d’actualité et de reportage (award for current affairs and reportage comics AKA graphic journalism). The prize has been awarded since 1994. This year’s finalists (with Google translation) The winner will be announced in mid-January.

Editorial cartoonist Walt Handelsman has announced through his newspaper that he will retire at the end of this year after a nearly forty-five year career. From Kieth Spera at The Times-Picayune: Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Walt Handelsman is putting away his pen and ink after decades of delighting Louisiana with his alternately humorous and poignant […]

It was a pleasant surprise to see Signalgate back in the news yesterday. I thought it was gone and forgotten, but it turns out somebody had been looking into it all this time and now there is a report saying that what everybody knew happened happened. Rowe combines it with the ongoing, not-to-be-forgotten Epstein saga. […]