Rob Rogers offers this play upon the question Ronald Reagan famously posed in 1980 to help him defeat Jimmy Carter: “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”It was a great question, because it has more to do with mood than with reality.Few people were going to actually go back and crunch […]
Nieman Lab reports:It was a “happy surprise,” Fraser Nelson said, when The Salt Lake Tribune received a letter from the IRS on Friday giving the 148-year-old news outlet nonprofit 501(c)(3) status — no questions asked. A final verdict on whether the Tribune could become the first legacy newspaper in the U.S. to go fully nonprofit […]
Original October 29, 2019 item:Daniel Cameron, Republican candidate for Kentucky Attorney General, posted about a Lexington Herald-Leader cartoon by Joel Pett on his twitter feed:Which led the Florida-based Biz Pac Review political news site (“breaking news and analysis unfiltered by the liberal bias that has eroded the media’s credibility”) to take up the cause:A white […]
CQ Roll Call cartoonist Robert “RJ” Matson has won the National Press Foundation’s Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons.The NPF judges said: “Matson’s cartoons combine visual clarity and instant impact. His drawing is fresh, clean and beautifully composed. Matson’s dry satire helps break down complicated issues and zeroes in on his […]
Robb McAllister noted in a comment here earlier today that the 1974 Jules Feiffer book FEIFFER ON NIXON is featured on Mike Lynch’s blog. Mike Lynch notes that after nearly fifty years, the times they aren’t really a’changin’.In a bit of synchronicity the New Orleans Times-Picayune has a feature story about Jules today.His age has […]
(Tom Toles)(Clay Jones)We’ll start out with our Juxtaposition of the Day, taking on Zuckerberg’s Theory, which is that you have to take the money because you can’t figure out whether the source is legitimate or not.Which is a substantial part of the freedom that sites like Facebook enjoy: The theory is that they are simply […]
Political cartoons are just the coolest. You get to make fun of people in power in a funny way, plus you get get big ups for your art if you do it right. Even people who don’t read the news might check out your comic. Who wouldn’t want that job? But the gig is also […]
So a cartoon by Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig again causes a stir.To be sure Leunig has his detractors:Oh no, Leunig is back, and he’s making cartoons again! Why won’t somebody stop him? If you’re not aware, Michael Leunig is a veteran cartoonist and Australia’s most whimsical anti-vaxxer — he also hates marriage equality! Honestly, it’s bad enough that […]
WTWO/WAWV carries the story of local cartoonist minister Paul Gray.At almost 90 years old, Paul Gray of Carlisle has been cartooning his entire life—he even still publishes a weekly cartoon for area newspapers. “In the early 1950s, I worked for the Detroit Daily News a little bit,” he said. He also worked for a number […]
Bizarro starts off our look at parenting with a dumb joke. I like dumb jokes, and particularly the kind that require you to think for about a minute and then realize you shouldn’t have had to.I also like the fact that Bizarro never softens its approach or apologizes for gags that whooshed over your head. […]
above: Boris Johnson in The Times by Peter BrookesTim Benson looks back at the cartoons of 2019 and asks, “How far can you go in making people think but not being tasteless”?In April, the international edition of The New York Times published a controversial cartoon. It showed a blind Donald Trump, wearing a skullcap, being […]
Ladies First: A Century of Women’s Innovations in Comics and Cartoon Art Nov. 2, 2019-May 3, 2020 at The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum above: the Jackie Ormes display (image via Pioneering Cartoonists of Color Facebook)Jackie Ormes, Rose O’Neill, Lynn Johnston, Edwina Dumm, Alison Bechdel. Nell Brinkley, and more.From the Columbus Alive article:A century […]
Charles M. Schulz again makes it into the top five of Forbes Top-Earning Dead Celebrities in this year of 2019. Another cartoonist comes in at #6. The other cartoonist achieved his fame as a book author.Go here for Forbes list of the 13 Top Earning Dead Celebrities of 2019.
Every fifteen years or so the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists overhauls its website. November 1, 2019 marks the latest.The old face of editorialcartoonists.com:The new face of editorialcartoonists.com (yes, the address remains the same):I guess this refurbishing explains the occasional “service unavailable” message that one got when checking in on the page the past couple […]
Jim Morin provides a good starting point and what may be Trump’s best defense: To simply scream that it’s all a hoax and a witch hunt and unfair.I particularly like that Morin does not have him pointing at his political opponents so much as the system itself. We’ve had several cartoons showing him destroying or […]