But first, this: Alice Roosevelt said of her father, Theodore, that he “always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral” However, she didn’t suggest that he would declare himself prematurely dead in order to secure the role.Yes, editorial cartoonists are having a rough time. But enough. Stop pushing the concept — even by denying it […]
Matt Wuerker and Ann Telnaes, in association with Jenny Robb and Lucy Caswell, are going to try put together a small book/bookazine/catalogue based on the current Front Line: Editorial Cartoonists and The First Amendment exhibit at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum.Matt is asking for some help in gathering material for the project:Hi guys— […]
Essentials is a series from IDW Publishing through their Library of American Comics imprint. These books are 4.4 inches high and 11.5 inches long and ?1.2 inches thick, printing one daily strip per page. The books more or less cover an entire year.And for this Independence Week IDW is offering them at a 25% discount.Head […]
The reaper came for another editorial cartoonist over the weekend. above: Karl Wimer, 2009 Essays marking the decline of editorial cartooning have been perennial since 1954, when the Saturday Review’s Henry Ladd Smith declared the form trite and exhausted. But we are now really entering the end times of the editorial cartoon.Politico joins the chorus preaching […]
Andy Marlette provides a most depressing, but accurate, State of the Union to darken the upcoming holiday.I would add, by the way, that, while everyone draws the “tiny hands” that have become emblematic of Trump, the real key to a good caricature is that fatuous, self-satisfied smile.“Often in error, but never in doubt” and if […]
In 1961 Ernie Bushmiller, the creator of Nancy, contributed a comic to the Dutch Treat Club yearbook.The privately printed edition of 750 copies was distributed to the attendees of the club’s annual dinner in the Sert room of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel New York on May 3 of that year. The Dutch Treat Club was […]
It was reported Friday that First Look Media made the decision to end funding for The Nib along with shuttering the web magazine Topic.com at the end of July. That is true and something that I’ve been dealing with the results of for a few weeks now. That leaves me writing yet another post on […]
You can still find them online so political cartoons aren’t yet extinct. But they are doomed.A century ago newspapers employed more than 2000 full-time editorial cartoonists. Today there are fewer than 25. In the United States, political cartooning as we know it is dead. If you draw editorial cartoons for a living and you have […]
Brewster Rockit being set in the distant future, today’s got a chuckle, granted a mordant, dark, very bad chuckle.Well, with, as Gary Varvel notes, editorial cartooning in a state of crisis, we could all use a chuckle.But the people in the newsroom don’t get it, and that’s part of the problem: They’re not business people, […]
Internationally acclaimed cartoonist Guillermo Mordillo has passed away.Guillermo Mordillo Menéndez August 4, 1932 – June 30, 2019 Sources close to the family have reported the death.The news has spread worldwide, unfortunately, at this moment, I am not finding a report in English and Google Translate is not working for me right now. Here is a brief […]
In a burst of ebullient laughter, editorial cartoonist Nathan Archer confesses he always wanted to be Benny the Cab from “Roger Rabbit.” Today, he likens himself more to Disney’s Goofy.Archer got his start making editorial cartoons for the Tallahassee Democrat in 2016. His day begins with scanning headlines and looking for intersections between news stories […]
Between Friends gets a laugh because it’s an interesting twist on Parkinson’s Law that “work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion.”Parkinson’s Law itself was a joke because, of course, everything conforms to opportunity, which, in this case, means that, because women carry purses, the number of things they “have to” carry is […]
above: the June 29, 2019 Vindicator headline (via Newseum)Just days after celebrating its sesquicentennial The Vindicator of Youngstown, Ohio announced that it will cease publication at the end of August 2019.Betty H. Brown Jagnow, Publisher and Mark A. Brown, General Manager notified readers: On June 25, 2019, The Vindicator turned 150 years old – a […]
From Micheal de Adder via Twitter and Facebook:The highs and lows of cartooning. Today I was just let go from all newspapers in New Brunswick.Michael de Adder was born, raised, and educated in New Brunswick province and was a regular presence in its newspapers. Brunswick News Inc., which owns the Saint John Telegraph-Journal, the Moncton […]
One of the news stories getting attention from cartoonists this week has been the race for the Democratic nomination for president, and I’m giving Jeff Stahler honors not only for pointing out the actual stakes but for, I think, reflecting the opinion of thoughtful voters.It’s easy, even for relatively progressive cartoonists, to slip into Will […]