Canadian editorial cartoonist Yardley Jones joins the Senior Strippers club by celebrating his 90th birthday with friends on May 2, 2020. Former Journal cartoonist Yardley Jones and columnist Nick Lees mainly made faces at one another Saturday when Lees went to celebrate the 90th birthday of his friend Jones, now living in a west end […]
The western strip Rick O’Shay by Stan Lynde began in 1958. It first appeared on April 27, 1958 (below), taking over the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate spot occupied by Ferd Johnson’s Texas Slim Sunday strip which ended the week before; both being humorous cowboy strips.Ferd Johnson, who had been ghosting for Frank Willard’s Moon […]
Ann Telnaes salutes Press Freedom Day.And so do I:A lady asked Franklin: “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?” Franklin replied: “A Republic, if you can keep it.” — Dr. James McHenry (for whom the fort was named)And a favorite quote from Jefferson:The basis of our governments being the opinion of the […]
From the May 1st New York Times, a profile by Abdi Latif Dahir entitled “Tanzanian Cartoonist Has a Stick for Every Powerful Eye.”From the piece: Gado, 50, is one of Africa’s leading editorial cartoonists. A native Tanzanian who calls Kenya his home, he has won awards and been syndicated in newspapers and digital publications worldwide. In […]
From the publisher of the Coos Bay newspaper The World:Dear Reader, The COVID-19 pandemic continues to alter our daily lives… Meantime, you may notice some changes to our regular lineup of comics, columns and features, and the resulting number of pages in each issue. Soon after we bought this newspaper on February 1, we learned […]
Over at Politico, Pulitzer winners Matt Wuerker and Darrin Bell chat about Darrin’s career, the lack of diversity in editorial cartooning and newspaper editors.https://www.politico.com/video/2020/05/01/punchlines-cartoonist-of-color-with-darrin-bell-074113
The Pulitzer Prize winners, usually named the third Monday of April, will be announced this coming first Monday of May. J. P. Trostle has taken on the insane task of handicapping the editorial cartoonists’ chances of winning their category this year.Sez Jape:Based on the past performance of the judges doling out the award, here then […]
I got a laugh out of this Ed Stein cartoon last night.It’s from 1994.I’d given up on contemporary cartoons for the moment, because the treatment of Biden/Reade went so far out of whack that it’s like when you shut down the washing machine because you can take a little banging, but now it’s threatening to […]
From The National:Jenny Hefczyc didn’t know if she could change the world with her art, but she knew she wanted to try. As a talented illustrator and artist based in Germany, she draws under the name Jenny-Jinya, and she’s taken social media by storm with a series of comics she’s created that focus on animal […]
original April 30, 2020 post:St. Louis Public Radio will interview local cartoonist Steenz, who recently took over the Heart of the City comic strip, at noon local time on Friday May 1, 2020.Local comic artist Christina “Steenz” Stewart initially didn’t consider making comics during her time in art school. She knew she loved the medium, […]
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health has distributed face masks with illustrations on use and disposal.The problem is that the illustrations come from cartoon instructions by Evangeline Neo.And the government agency didn’t ask or receive permission from the cartoonist. Or even credit the cartoonist.Eva created two versions of her Mask comics, one not signed:There were 2 versions, […]
But first, thisJuxtaposition of the Day(Michael de Adder)(Ann Telnaes)Maybe this is what happens when cartoonists get locked down and have nothing to do but make richly detailed, multiple caricatures, but this is quite a pair to have drop on the same day.The best part is that they assume the reader is intelligent and well-informed, and […]
Mark Evanier spends part of every summer heading numerous panels at the San Diego Comic Con, Mark being one of the most knowledgeable people about comics and cartooning and animation in the world. But this year that San Diego week has fallen through. Mark and Comic Con International are going to try work out something, […]
Famed caricaturist Tom Richmond has a new project.Alicia Eler and the Star Tribune explain: As the COVID-19 pandemic hit, his upcoming ComicCon appearances in Anaheim and San Diego got canceled. Then a fan reached out, asking Richmond if he’d be willing to do a daily caricature exercise with people via social media. He would pick […]
The Washington Post’s Michael Cavna talked to Jack Ohman, Matt Wuerker and Rick McKee about Vice President Mike Pence’s mask-free visit to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.From the piece: “Not only did he put himself and others at risk — and violate his own policy and that of the hospital — he set a horrible example […]