Margaret Marilyn DeAdder, professional clipper of coupons, baker of cookies, terror behind the wheel, champion of the underdog, ruthless card player, and self-described Queen Bitch, died on Tuesday, January 19, 2021. Marilyn loved all children who weren’t her own and loved her own children relative to how clean-shaven they were. She excelled at giving the […]
Our RFK Human Rights item reminds us to mention other awards deadlines. Your submissions must completed by January 22, 2021Today is the last for National Cartoonists Society‘s Divisional Reuben Awards submissions. Entry deadline: Jan. 25, 2021Almost as immediate is The Pulitzer Prize, whose deadline is only three days away. DEADLINE: January 31, 2021For The Award Formerly Known as The […]
I don’t think squirrels are crepuscular, but apparently Harry Bliss and Steve Martin — teaming on this Bliss (Tribune) — do, and who am I to argue with them?I’ve never charted squirrels to see what they do around noon, and perhaps they aren’t diurnal, but then nobody’s out at noon, at least not in the […]
The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization is now accepting submissions for its Excellence in Journalism awards. … the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards honor outstanding reporting on issues that reflect Robert Kennedy’s concerns, including human rights, social justice, and the power of individual action in the United States and around the world. Entries should […]
© EC ComicsHundreds of years before The Impossible Trident there was …William Hogarth’s Satire on False Perspective, engraved by Luke Sullivan, offers an Escher-like array of impossible lines and vanishing points: a man lights his pipe from a distant candle; a flock of sheep grow bigger as they recede round a corner; a foreground flag […]
Artist, musician, teacher, and cartoonist Bill Bryant has passed away.Dr. Billy Joe (Bill) Bryant October 19, 1936 – January 18, 2021 From the obituary:In 1976, Bill moved his family back to Louisiana where he began his teaching career at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, retiring as Professor Emeritus in the Department of Fine and Graphic Arts […]
PARIS (AFP) — A leading French cartoonist on Wednesday said he would no longer work for Le Monde after the newspaper apologized for a cartoon he drew that tackled a sex-abuse scandal. France’s intellectual elite was rocked this month by a claim that political commentator Olivier Duhamel sexually abused his stepson, prompting social media users […]
Beginning today Gearhead Gertie by Mike Smith is available from Comics Kingdom.Mike Smith, the editorial cartoonist for the Las Vegas Sun, is a fan of NASCAR. In 1998 he created the weekly StockcarToon panel which was syndicated by United Feature Syndicate. At some point the panel switched to King Features Syndicate which also distributes his […]
Mike Thompson (USAT) provides a good starting point. The past four years have indeed been a time when a lot of us have begun each morning with “What’s he done now?”Which would simply be pessimism if our news feeds hadn’t so often produced an answer that, too many times, reinforced that “crushing sense of dread.”We’ll […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has announced its new officers.AAEC Officers 2021-2022 President: Jen Sorensen, The Nib Vice President: Ed Hall, freelance Secretary-Treasurer: Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons Immediate Past President: Kevin Siers, The Charlotte Observer Director: Tim Campbell, Washington Post News Service & Syndication (2nd year) Director: Liza Donnelly, The New Yorker (2nd year) Director: Gretchen Koch (1st year) […]
January 7, 1991 saw the first Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce. 30 years later, following so many comic strips and books (both collections of the strips and original material) Big Nate is bigger than ever.Andrews McMeel and GoComics celebrates with a Lincoln Peirce interview.What’s been your favorite story arc or gag in 30 years? Hmm. […]
I like Jeff Boyer (Albany TU)‘s take on today’s inauguration: Joe Biden’s got one hell of a task ahead.And he’s only got about a year to accomplish it, because, by then, the build-up to the midterm elections will be starting and, if every single piece isn’t precisely in place, he’ll lose any chance of getting […]
American cartoonist Jules Feiffer is considered the most widely read satirist in the country. In 1986, he won the Pulitzer Prize as a leading editorial cartoonist and one of his most widely read and popular series was the weekly satirical comic strip, “Feiffer” which ran in the Village Voice from 1956 to 1997. Feiffer’s cartoons […]
After a Jan. 29, 2017, image of Trump seated in Steve Bannon’s lap signing legislation while declaring “I’m a big boy” went viral, Guerra became a regular contributor to Portland-based political cartoon website, magazine and graphic novel publishing house theNib.com. Comic book artist-cum-editorial cartoonist Pia Guerra isn’t fretting about a lack of subjects with Donald […]
image © Dario CastillejosFrom Daryl Cagle: I run a newspaper syndicate for editorial cartoons and columns. Half of America’s daily, paid-circulation newspapers subscribe to my service, which features about 75 political cartoonists and ten columnists. Sometimes I choose to “kill” a cartoon or column that I think is inappropriate, which often leads to an angry […]