This gig is often a case of chicken one day and feathers the next, and this is the former: The cartoonists have been sharpening their pens.Let’s start things off withJuxtaposition of the Day #1(Steve Breen) (Adam Zyglis) (Chris Britt)Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) put a snippet from a blistering Senate speech on both Facebook and Twitter that is worth […]
Political cartoonist and The Nib mastermind Matt Bors is moving to Canada. No it’s not a political statement, it’s a financial and emotional statement. Matt Bors has had a bad year. Yeah, so has everyone. And sure, his year has included getting a Pulitzer Prize nomination for Editorial Cartooning—his second—and, in January, the birth of his […]
National Cartoonists Society ACE Award recipient (and television weather man) Al Roker “answered reader questions on the ‘Today’ show Tuesday morning, including one from a fan who asked what he and his colleagues wanted to be when they were kids.” “I wanted to be an animator for Walt Disney,” Roker said. “I’m an amateur cartoonist, […]
The Lubbock (Texas) Avalance-Journal, a Gannett newspaper, is asking its readers to fill out a survey to pick favorite comic strips for their Sunday Funnies.We’re checking in with our readers to see which comics they prefer as we continually evaluate our offerings. Please let us know your favorite newspaper comics by taking our free survey […]
Kal Kallaugher asks a depressing question, but I’m not sure he hasn’t set up a false premise.That is, while I will accept that trying to sell smoothies made from those repulsive ingredients would be hard, I also believe that the health claims of for-real smoothies are greatly overstated.A tall glass of blended fruit contains a […]
Deon Parsons of Life With Kurami fame has a new comic strip, Rosebuds, that will appear in print weekly in The Herald Bulletin and twice-weekly at GoComics.The Anderson (Ind.) Herald Bulletin announces the new comic strip: Many readers of The Herald Bulletin will remember him for the daily strip “Life with Kurami,” which was published […]
Reporting on newspapers cutting the Six Chix comic panel over the Tuesday July 28, 2020 installment by Bianca Xunise has become a national news story as NBC News is now covering the issue: Tea Fougner, editorial director at King Features, the comic strip’s syndicate, confirmed to NBC News that angry responses to the strip resulted […]
Sean Martin, faithful CSotD supporter and brilliant creator of the “Doc and Raider” web strip, died Monday morning, a little over two weeks after ringing down the curtain on his strip.Randy Riddle reports on Facebook:I’m sorry to say that our dear friend Sean Martin passed away this morning about six am. Sean had been suffering from […]
By some counts, the number of editorial cartoonists remaining on staff at news organizations in the country is down to 20 or 30 pen dippers. But if you take a slightly closer look, you’ll notice the remaining cartoonists on staff overwhelmingly work for locally-owned newspapers: Pat Bagley at the Salt Lake Tribune, Steve Sack at […]
In light of DDDegg’s news that Wyoming is losing all but one of its Monday papers, we’ll start off with Gary Varvel‘s riff on a classic Norman Rockwell illustration. Which I add here for the benefit of those too young to know the original, though cultural literacy should include a heapin’ helpin’ of Norman Rockwell.To which […]
By the end of August 2020 Wyoming will become the only (first?) state in the U.S. to publish no daily newspaper as the Casper Star-Tribune cuts its schedule to five days a week.The Nieman Lab reports: Wyoming has six “daily” newspapers, but now none of them will actually print a paper seven days a week. […]
The Reed Brennan/ Creators Syndicate announcement of Nest Heads ending was off by a day. Instead of ending on Friday, July 31 the comic strip ended on Saturday, August 1; which makes more sense. Creators, for the moment, is sitting on that last strip (a rerun from 2014):While GoComics has begun the cycle over, going […]
People who don’t understand editorial cartooning often look for humor instead of incisive commentary, but the point is to have a point, not to get a laff.However, Signe Wilkinson offers a rare chance to get both with this one. I take Trump’s attempt to corrupt and thereby deny the November elections very seriously, but her […]
Occasionally, over at The Daily Cartoonist Facebook page, we throw in, along with links to items here, a cartoon or drawing that impressed us but didn’t show up here on The Daily Cartoonist site. Here are a few from July.We started with this great Rob Tornoe cartoon celebrating the United States’ birthday from America’s Newspapers. This […]
Over at the YouTube, children’s author and “Savage Chickens” cartoonist Doug Savage reads (in a soothing and delightful Canadian accent) from his book “Laser Moose and Rabbit Boy.”Now, presented by Gotham Reads, here’s Doug Savage reading “Laser Moose and Rabbit Boy in ‘Day of the Aquabear.’”