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. […]
The Museum of Australian Democracy has named Matt Golding its 2025 Political Cartoonist of the Year. MoAD’s announcement states: Golding was clear winner in the voting for this year’s award. A master of the pocket cartoon, in 2025 he created work that was funny, poignant and constantly inventive. His cartoons covered the big themes of […]
God Bless The Child That Got Their Own It’s very possible that the ages of the kids in Crabgrass and Frazz has been mentioned before and I never paid attention to it, but I always figured that they were a couple years older than what was established in today’s strips. Having grandchildren currently in the […]
This may seem a trivial place to start, but stick with me. Tariffs are not hard to understand. When a country wants to discourage people from buying goods from another country, they can require a tariff, so that the person who is importing the product has to add an additional cost to the foreign product, […]
The resurgence of Nancy takes another step forward next month when Caroline Cash takes control of the ninety-three year old comic strip star. New life invigorated the Nancy comic strip when the anonymous Olivia Jaimes took over in 2018 to varied response from rejection to high praise, with the praise getting most of the media’s […]
The most prestigious comic festival in the world, the Angoulême International Comic Festival, has been cancelled by organizers after a sustained call for change by notable cartoonists and publishers from around the world. The event has been held annually in southern France since 1974 (omitting Covid-19 hiatus). According to Le Monde, Noémie de La Soujeole, […]
Cartoonists Rights is running its annual pledge drive to support its mission to defend cartoonists around the world who are threatened or persecuted for their cartoons. The free speech organization reports that as a non-profit they are facing several challenges this year: government withdrawals from humanitarian efforts, the Trump administration policies that create visa disruptions, […]
Nice timing, since I was just talking about this to someone yesterday, but, then again, it’s a topic I think about a lot. We used to joke about 150 channels and nothing good on, which was a reaction to growing up with four or five channels and nothing good on. I’m no snob and I […]
A couple recent hour long conversations featuring editorial cartoonists talking to each other. First up is a wonderful discussion between Kevin KAL Kallaugher and David Horsey about the history of editorial cartooning and the changes over their almost 50 years each in the profession. The dialogue is available at David Horsey’s Substack. Then we have […]
The short answer to the headline question is: Nothing. Though readers of The San Diego Union-Tribune may have thought otherwise. Rick Griffin of the Times of San Diego catches up with former Union-Tribune cartoonist Steve Breen: It was Saturday, Oct. 18 of this year when The San Diego Union-Tribune editorial pages included an editor’s note […]