Carpe Diem (KFS) inadvertently captures my mood. Or perhaps I’m just not the only one who feels there is way too much doom in doom-scrolling these days.Three days after the invention of the wheel, somebody scrawled a picture on the cave wall of a man with that wheel just outside the doorway, and children representing […]

A recent editorial cartoon by local [Jacksonville] artist Ed Hall visualizes an argument that’s long been made by supporters of renaming Robert E. Lee High School. Supporters of changing the name of Robert E. Lee High School have adopted an editorial cartoon by Ed Hall as a striking visual part of their signs urging change.© […]

Pros & Cons (KFS) sets the mood for the day.Between what’s actually going on and what people are griping about, it’s getting tiresome out there. Maybe Lyndon avoids political talk out of patient privacy and maybe he avoids it because after eight hours, he’s had enough.But I’m not getting $75 an hour to listen to […]

In 1971, for the second year in a row, Walt Kelly helped publicize Earth Day with special art:Most seem to think that the two-panel comic strip was the regular comic strip for April 22, 1971, it was not. The Pogo comic syndicated to newspapers for April 22 was a continuation of that week’s satire. The […]

After the war that some called The Big One a lesser, more nuanced war began – a Cold War. While hot spots flared around the globe with the forces of Good and Evil vying for hegemony, our look here is about the propaganda part of the war between Capitalism and Communism.Close to home there were […]

I was thinking of employing a “You snooze, you lose” policy to Chauvin Trial cartoons that came in a day later, but Matt Wuerker (Politico) offers as much a reaction to the reaction as to the verdict itself.There is much wisdom in the quote often misattributed to Voltaire, “Defend me from my friends; I can […]

Cartoonist and illustrator Moira McDonough has passed away.Moira Anne McDonoughMarch 18, 1961 – April 1, 2021 From the obituary: A graduate of Lexington High School and Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA, she moved to Portland, OR to become an illustrator and cartoonist. Moira’s commercial illustration life in the Pacific Northwest led to creating […]

From Radio Ink: Political Voices Network and Counterpoint are working together on a service that will combine political talk and political cartoons. The service will be a one-stop-shop for the latest from America’s top opinion humorists. Political Voices Network is an audio-and-video destination for political talk from popular hosts. Counterpoint, is a source for the […]

There’s a lot to be said for simplicity, and Bruce Plante scores with a cartoon that tells the story and thereby sets the scene for today.The verdict came in so late in the day that it likely sent cartoonists scrambling to their drawing boards, though it’s common, on the eve of an election or a […]

Illustrator and cartoonist Newton Burch has passed away.   Newton Clay (Bud) BurchOctober 5, 1925 – March 24, 2021illustrator, art director, cartoonist From the obituary: Bud attended Drake University and later The Art Institute of Chicago. Bud worked for the State of Iowa as an artist 25 years. After Bud retired he became a Cartoonist.

How Did He Do It© King Features Syndicate The second panel on this strip was one of those panels where if you don’t sell it the whole gag falls apart. The following is a little behind the scenes look at what goes into a drawing like this. Jim Keefe shows how he sets up a […]

Here we are, more or less.That is, I think Marc Murphy takes a bit of a verbal shortcut in describing the Chauvin jury as “sequestered,” since they’re locked in now, but they weren’t during the trial, and it came up in the discussions after they were sent off to consider their verdicts.ICYMI, the defense argued […]

Regarding NFTs Alex Hallatt poses an interesting question when she comments: The thing that upsets me most is the copyright notice. Selling an artwork does not mean you sell the copyright. Unless you say that you are doing so. I must admit that being an old Luddite I am outta my depth with this cryptocurrency-NFT […]

We start the day, and the week, with a Barney and Clyde (WPWG) in which Weingarten et cie use “beg the question” properly, which is probably too smart for the room, but they redeem themselves by referencing “passive-aggressive,” a phrase that has come to mean any response short of a punch in the face and […]

The first edition of what is now called The Tribune hit the streets on April 15, 1871. It was called “The Tribune & Utah Mining Gazette.” As part of the Sesquicentennial Celebration cartoonist Pat Bagley created a poster.Thoughts on seeing stuff like this are (1) how long did this take to complete? And (2) at […]