Drew Sheneman celebrates a bit of folly with some bite: The GOP is unwilling to admit that we’re unnecessarily slaughtering children because guns are not an issue of public safety but of political loyalty.As he notes, they are shielded by simply insisting that it’s bad policy to enact gun regulation in the wake of a […]
John Miller Baer, cartoonist turned politician turned cartoonist John Miller Baer, the first Representative elected to Congress under the endorsement of the Nonpartisan League, began his first full term on this date in 1917. Baer had been first elected to serve a partial term in 1915, filling the vacancy left by Representative Henry Helgesen. Despite […]
After 61 years the educational one column medical panel Health Capsules has ended. The didactic feature illustrated with a cartoon ran from February 20, 1961 to May 28, 2022. Health Capsules was created by Dr. Michael A. Petti and cartoonist Jud Hurd, they stayed with the daily panel for 41 years until May 4, […]
In my defense, unlike Wallace the Brave (AMS), I’m retired and don’t have to know what day it is.The post office is closed from noon Saturday until Monday, which is when the Chinese restaurants and barber shops are closed. That’s about it.Now that I’m retired, I don’t get a haircut very often and, as for […]
June 1st, 2022 saw Dave Blazek move his Loose Parts panel from the Washington Post Writers Group to Andrews McMeel Syndication.left: WPWG May 31, 2022 (Tuesday); right: AMS June 1, 2022 (Wednesday)This is the 4th syndicate for Dave Blazek and Loose Parts. Los Angeles Times Syndicate April 20, 1998 – December 23 (24?), 2000 Tribune […]
Last month the news of a new syndicate for editorial cartoons broke.Counterpoint founder Nick Anderson said the new operation would go active June 1, 2022. And so it has as a Jack Ohman cartoon with a Sacramento Bee/ Counterpoint Media credit appeared today.© Sacramento Bee/Jack OhmanClay Bennett, Lisa Benson, Tim Campbell, Jeff Danziger, and Jack […]
From the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists:Are you a young cartoonist [ages 18-25] who draws commentary on social topics? Do you know a young cartoonist doing work with a political tinge? The window is now open to enter the 2022 John Locher Memorial Award for editorial cartoons & comics. DEADLINE IS FRIDAY, JULY 1. Single […]
The Chicago Tribune ran a piece by Rick Kogan over Memorial Day weekend remembering the Chicago Tribune comics of the Medill/Patterson/McCormick era. above: Chicago Tribune Sunday funnies 1898 Patterson helped create and nourish, among many other strips, “The Gumps,” “Gasoline Alley,” “Moon Mullins” and “Terry and the Pirates.” He was energetically hands-on, offering advice, coaching […]
Information — that is, real information — is beginning to emerge from Uvalde, though perhaps too late to ever displace the rumors. But one thing that has been clear almost from the moment of the murders is that, as Ann Telnaes puts it, mass shootings are part of our culture.The outrageous part is not that […]
From the Heath Robinson Museum: William Heath Robinson is an artist whose work, whether in his well known humorous drawings or his illustrations for Kipling, Shakespeare or children’s stories, is integral to British cultural heritage. His name entered the language as early as 1912 and is still in daily use to describe the kind […]
U.S. Army(ret), sports (golf) writer, cartoonist Bill Rupp has passed away. William Nathaniel (Bill) Rupp December 27, 1945 – May 24, 2022From the obituary: He graduated from LCHS in 1963 and joined the US Army on August 26, 1963. He later graduated from IU with a BS radio and communications in 1973. He retired September […]
Let’s start the day with a grim chuckle from Wiley Miller, because, while today’s Non Sequitur (AMS) is funny, it’s not.Whatever the lead time for his strip, this was safe commentary, because we’re seeing book after book come out from both former White House apparatchiks and reporters who covered the Trump administration, explaining all the […]
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UK cartoonist Steve Bright leads off this chapter of our ongoing discussion of Uvalde with a cartoon about Ukraine. And why not? As Michael de Adder notes, War is war, whether waged between countries or within one. We are re-enacting the similar scene from Saving Private Ryan over and over, as if it were on a […]
The phone calls and emails roll in every so often. Readers want to complain about the opinion pages. Yes, even though it may shock some of you, I receive complaints about the pages leaning both far-left and far-right. It may be more surprising for some of you to learn that if you’re reading the opinion pages at all, […]