Political cartooning today is challenged by two trends: The disintegration of intelligence and substance in politics The disintegration of taste and skill in drawing. David Apatoff, at Illustration Art, discusses The Art of The Editorial Cartoon.… But achieving a reliable likeness is not the goal of the best political cartoons. The real artistry lies in […]
The Los Angeles Times served notice to its readers that it will no longer carry Brooke McEldowney’s 9 Chickweed Lane comic strip.Since November 22 the comic strip has been featuring The Outer Space Adventures of Flight Lieutenant Charge Chucker, RAF, with Chapter One focusing on Pen Sallywright, Space Slattern.© Brooke McEldowneyThe current strip format contains […]
WQED Education is offering a second season of an innovative and fun project – cartooning. Renowned Pittsburgh cartoonist Joe Wos takes students of all ages (and the young at-heart) through the creative steps of drawing cartoon characters, while sharing educational facts on the cartoon subjects. He’ll also teach a few artistic terms during each online […]
This is one of those days where it doesn’t much matter where we start, but Alex got both a laugh and a nod, and that’s the overall goal.The headhunter goes on for half the strip about the importance of modern thinking and how it impacts old duffers like Clive, but, in the end, well, she’s […]
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State University Libraries’ Eberly Family Special Collections is hosting a new digital exhibition titled “The World According to Doyle: Editorial Cartoons from The Jerry Doyle Papers at Penn State.” 1974/75ca. 1966 (click on cartoons to enlarge) Taking an expansive view of American politics during the 20th century, the digital exhibition examines […]
While non-fungibe token (NFT) collectibles have been very popular, NFTs have brought a slew of unique debates to the table and one of them has been censorship. The artist behind Stonetoss Comics, a series of political cartoons, has been censored by two very prominent NFT marketplaces — Opensea and Rarible. Stonetoss has told the public […]
Jack Ohman (WPWG) notes the obvious lack of consistency in the pro-life movement, which has a dominant foothold on the Supreme Court.Whether it rises to the level of conscious hypocrisy or is more along the lines of willful blindness really doesn’t matter to that woman clinging to the overturned Roe boat (a nice and applicable […]
A Macanudo comic strip was upsetting to someone.© Liniers The Durango Herald received a letter to the editor: The so-called comic strip Macanudo has always been, to me, either weak or just plain stupid. However, the one that appeared last Friday (Herald, Nov. 16) insulting Christians was offensive. I’m guessing I’m not alone in that […]
In 1950 the Swedish comic book starring The Phantom began with reprints translated from the U.S. comic strip. A dozen years later they were getting close to using up all the strips. In order to keep the popular comic going the publishers contacted King Features Syndicate and a licensing agreement allowed for new stories to […]
Original November 29 post:Eleanor Davis, who The New York Review called “one of the very best cartoonists working today,” seems to have hooked up with The New York Times for a daily spot illustrating their “Of Interest – Noteworthy Facts from Today’s Paper” column.Above is her first from November 3, 2021. As seen the artwork […]
Some days are political, some days are comical. Today is a mix, but we’ll start with the shock of Michael Ramirez (Creators) pointing out that Marjorie Taylor Greene is an embarrassment to the Republican Party.Constant Readers will know I often disagree with Ramirez, but he doesn’t simply illustrate talk radio nonsense and this is an […]
Comic Legend: Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons did a fill-in Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. Earlier this month, the following bit was shared around social media: 27 years ago, the infamous November 14, 1994 colour strip of Calvin and Hobbes ran in various newspapers, the sole strip of the series not written and illustrated by […]
93-year-old East Meadow resident [Joe Giella] has had a part in bringing heroes and villains – including Captain America, The Flash and The Joker – to life. “This is a superhero-oriented country,” Giella says. “That kept me going. I just love to draw and instead of just drawing like static figures, I like the action, […]
© KFSThis week Bruce Tinsley returned to his daily Mallard Fillmore for the first time in five months (June 2021). His lengthy leave in 2019/2020 was due to an “extended illness.” It is unknown if this sabbatical was a recurrence of that earlier problem or ????. It remains to be seen if the previous pattern […]
Martyn Turner provides a good starting point by celebrating the fact that we’ve long since lost track of the starting point and it’s all ups and downs now.Turner is Irish, hence the snakes. The game we Yanks call “Chutes and Ladders” is “Snakes and Ladders” elsewhere because of its Indian origins, but it’s played the […]