Tom Spurgeon, CXC Executive Director, has announced that Olivia Jaimes will attend the festival.CXC 2018 will be the first major festival appearance for Jaimes, who took over the legacy feature in May 2018. The sharp contrast between Jaimes’ efforts and then-recent Nancy strips brought a surge of attention to the cartoonist and the feature. Jaimes’ […]
Ann Telnaes provides a textbook for those who want to learn, and some me-too style camaraderie for those who already know.Telnaes has one of the sharpest pens in the business, but this is not the time for wit or sarcasm, and she speaks here from the heart.A lot of the cartoons I’m seeing fail because […]
Doonesbury, Garfield, Star Wars, Peanuts, and more. This week’s releases include: #SAD!: Doonesbury in the Time of Trump by G. B. Trudeau Featuring Doonesbury Sunday strips created since President Trump’s election.From the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist whose acclaimed Yuge!: 30 Years of Doonesbury on Trump blew up the bestseller list, comes the sequel millions prayed would be […]
We have mentioned the Advancing American Democracy Award to three Icons of Political Art, and we have linked to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution article about Mike Luckovich being honored and The Daily Signal’s recognizing Michael Ramirez as a recipient.And now Heeeere’s Gary! The Indianapolis Star is Gary Varvel’s home paper and they haven’t over looked the upcoming […]
The Bloomington, Illinois, newspaper has some coverage of the new Peanuts Hotel (with some good photos) that opened in Japan in early August.From the piece:The Peanuts Hotel opened Aug. 1, and it offers 18 rooms, a Peanuts Cafe and a Peanuts Diner. Each of the boutique hotel’s three floors has its own theme of “Imagine,” “Happy” […]
It has been reliably reported, though not officially announced, that mysteriously anonymous Nancy cartoonist Olivia Jaimes will be appearing at CXC in two weeks.If it’s a true reveal-and-talk rather than a stunt, it’s going to be interesting, but I can’t guarantee I’ll cover it, since it’s not on the conference schedule.I’m already missing a session […]
Kal Kallaugher shared this 1991 cartoon on social media yesterday, and it was comforting in that it brought back the fury and anger of the way Anita Hill was treated, particularly by Arlen Specter, Alan Simpson and Orrin Hatch.Even those of us who remember the hearings have, I think, let the memories soften a bit […]
The cartoonist’s choice: Navigate a minefield of heightened sensitivities or produce pandering dreck for an audience of ideologues.Following the recent ruckus over a Serena Williams cartoon…What the backlash does remind us, however, is that there is not much public appetite for editorial cartooning these days. The medium simply does not fulfill the expectations of modern […]
Michael Ramirez and the Advancing American Democracy Award Ten days ago we latched on to the Mary Tucker Jasper Speaker Series and the Icons of Political Art from the perspective of Mike Luckovich’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution. A few days ago we mentioned Michael Ramirez and his new staff position with the Las Vegas Review-Journal.Now we combine […]
A September 16th Letter to the Editor at the Washington Post cited a 2017 Prickly City as the source of writer’s formerly held political stance.From the letter:When last year’s flurry of kneeling and other protests during the national anthem at the start of National Football League games took off, my view was best summarized by […]
Fresh off his head-scratching performance as Selsun Blue’s Dandruff, “Ginger Meggs,” New Yorker and MAD Magazine cartoonist Jason Chatfield, will be a contestant on NBC Universal’s “Doodle Wars.”
Today’s Mo offers a chance to update yesterday’s comments on the limited social skills of Catholic prep-school alums.The parallel between Kavanaugh and Thomas still holds up, but, now that Kavanaugh’s accuser has come forward and elaborated on her story, the specifics have made the parallel less direct.While I’m not going to get into the debate […]
Feature article by Matt Blitz at Today I Found Out on Peanuts becoming the popular comic strip it is.[W]hen the comic strip first appeared in the 1950s, [Snoopy] and his Peanut friends were considered, to quote Time Magazine’s David Michaels, “the fault-line of a cultural earthquake” due to the way the comic depicted life, real […]
In a September 15th letter to the Telegram & Gazette editor, a couple of readers are quite effusive in their “love” of “Wallace the Brave.”From the letter: My husband and I are long-time Telegram & Gazette subscribers. We *love* Wallace the Brave: we love the style of its drawing, the characters, and their adventures. It reminds […]
Let’s ease into the topic with Edison Lee and the perfect political speech.If you envision Orville and Edison in that final panel as a bar graph instead of as a pair of characters, you may have some sense of how such tautological, meaningless focus-group-tested drivel impacts elections.However, while little Edison is not yet old enough […]