Last month cartoonist Georgia Dunn took her Breaking Cat News comic strip characters to the American Library Association annual conference; and seemed to enjoy herself: AMP: Georgia, you recently made your debut appearance at ALA, where Lupin Leaps In ~leapt~ into the hearts of librarians who came from all over the country. What did you […]
What happens when you get Federalists Alexander Hamilton and James Madison (and John Jay?) together with anti-Federalists Patrick Henry and Sam Adams, and then choose Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis as the moderator?In this case the result is a seven and a half minute animated version of the birth of The Constitution.[Scott] said when […]
ICYMI, President Blutarsky gave a speech last night that has been compared to the memorable call to action that he delivered in college. Proving that, while we walk away from politics each Friday, well, sometimes politics just won’t be walked away from. Anyway, let’s see what the people who were actually trying to look ridiculous have been […]
[Greg Perry] who was set to replace Michael de Adder at Brunswick News Inc. says he no longer wants to work for the company and asked that his cartoons be kept off the editorial pages of its newspapers.Greg Perry has told CBC that he has been attacked and maligned on social media after Brunswick News […]
My father brought this magazine back from a business trip. I was on the verge of turning 8, which was a little young for it, though I liked the parts I could figure out.But my brother was 12 and right in the sweet spot. He got himself a subscription and so I was able to […]
It seems the unthinkable has happened, MAD magazine will shut down.Tom Spurgeon broke the news hearing of the demise but acknowledging it was unconfirmed.Now Evan Dorkin has confirmed the news. MAD began in 1952 with Harvey Kurtzman in charge and a stellar cast of artists. It soon changed to a magazine format, and not long after […]
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, […]