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The Rotary Cartoon Awards (Australia)

And the award goes to…..Cartoon of the Year to David Rowe for Nuts Open Category winner Jason Chatfield for Coronavirus Diary 1- 3Merit Award to Jed Dunstan for Kangaroo looking for a date Sports Category winner is Harry Bruce for Faster, higher, stronger with Merit Award to Lindsay Foyle for Excitement Comic Strip Category winner is Ian Jones […]

Stephan Pastis Gets Out of the House

Stephan Pastis is going on a “mini-book tour,” meaning the tour is short not that his book is small (the newest book is a giant-sized treasury).Stephan is abandoning The West to visit a number of cities in The South to talk about his Pearls Before Swine comic strip. He’s already adding more cities to the […]

CSotD: As The War Drags On

I particularly like Andy Davey’s piece, both for what it is and for how it contrasts with other commentary.We need to be a little cautious in accepting everything we hear from the resistance, because they’re in a war for hearts-and-minds, too, but it is plain that Ukraine hasn’t folded up like Putin expected it to.Not […]

The Games Cartoonists Play

These kind of things work better as print comics than as web comics.Funky Winkerbean and Lio go sideways, though at a 180 degrees from each other.To save you the extra computer steps here they are right side up:   © Batom Inc. © Mark TatulliThat is the second Atomik Komix cover by James Pascoe and […]

CSotD: Profits and losses

The war has — appropriately — taken up a lot of interest, but it’s not the only thing happening in the world, and Ann Telnaes expresses her opinion of an attorney general who not only kept his eyes shut but helped hide and deflect what illicit behavior he couldn’t ignore.Until it was time to cash […]

David Fitzsimmons Steps Away From Daily Grind

Arizona Daily Star editorial cartoonist David Fitzsimmons says: In my 66th year of life, I have decided to cut back to a column and a cartoon a week, enter the realm of joyful semi-retirement and enjoy the gift of time. I’ve been essentially doing the same thing nearly daily for the past six decades. I’ve […]

CSotD: Comedy and character

Comedy today, but starting with a bit of political humor that makes a point about cartooning as well as Lindsey Graham’s splendiferous rewriting of history.His remark was so ridiculous that I wanted to twist his words by suggesting confusion between “kiss” and “kick,” but it’s hard to phrase it in a way that doesn’t either […]

Cartoonists in the News: Guindon, Shermund, Baker

Richard GuindonThe death of Richard Guindon is major news in the upper Midwest.From The Minneapolis Star Tribune:A fixture in the pages of the Minneapolis Tribune, Guindon wielded a distinctive drawing style that seemed to borrow in equal parts from Aubrey Beardsley and Peter Max. His quirky, observant musings, syndicated to newspapers across the country, were […]

Question Re: Print v E-Edition Newspaper Comics

The Lewiston Tribune, along with its sister paper The Moscow-Pullman Daily News, has had some delivery problems with the hard copy editions of their newspaper: How we consume information is evolving. The same holds true for those of us in the business of sharing information. That hit close to home in recent weeks with the […]

CSotD: Oh, what a lovely (Western) war!

Jordanian cartoonist Morad Kotkot (Cartoon Movement) asks today’s question: Why is the whole world focused on Ukraine, when it doesn’t seem to pay any attention to other wars?It’s possible to nitpick his choices, given that we started the Iraq war and bailed out on the Syrians and have conflicts of interest that keep us from […]

A 1905 History of the Sunday Comic Supplements

R. F. Outcalt, F. Opper, George Luks, Gus and Rudy Dirks, F. M. Howarth, Bunny Schultz, C. W. Kahles, and others are among the comic strip creators of the first decade of Sunday Comic Supplements as described by Roy L. McCardell, journalist and humorist (and occasional gagman for the cartoonists) who had a hand in […]

Lalo Alcaraz is 2022 Herblock Prize Winner

The Herb Block Foundation has awarded the 2022 Herblock Prize to Lalo Alcaraz.  “Powerful versatility. That is one way to describe the work of cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz. Alcaraz is equally as comfortable creating a faux woodblock print to address our country’s history of racism and xenophobia as he is mocking up a blueprint to satirize […]

Letters To and From Editors re: Ed-Op Cartoons

© Chris BrittAt The Las Vegas Review-Journal: Regardless of political affiliation, I highly doubt that Republicans, Democrats or independents favor the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This Saturday syndicated cartoon by Chris Britt stating that the entire GOP is in support of the invasion is disgusting and offensive.  Steve Kelly, © Pittsburgh Post-GazetteAt The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: […]

CSotD: State of the World

Christian Adams makes use of Putin’s long table to demonstrate the current state of affairs, as, in the wake of a United Nations condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine, Russia finds itself isolated from the rest of the world. Well, somewhat isolated. Here’s the vote on that resolution, and it’s not surprising that Belarus, North Korea, […]

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