Hate to use the same cartoonist too many times too close together, but the “red line” cartoons on Syria are starting to weird me out, and this Danziger cartoon hit the mark like no other.When did so many ink-slingers from both sides of the aisle become so easy-going about the lives of other people’s kids?Mike […]
I’m having network issues this week. I can get to just about everything except my own blog (I’m updating this through my phone.)Posting may be sporadic until I get this resolved. Sorry. AlanUPDATE: Network access to blog has been restored. Hosting environment froze access due to suspected malware/virus originating from my IP address. Got that […]
Not sure where this arc on Zack Hill is headed. Either her fears will be shown to be silly or dog parks will be unmasked as hell-holes. I’m hoping for the former, but Deering and Newcombe don’t always mirror my thoughts.Cat owners take a lot of grief for eccentricity — much of it deserved — […]
The impact of sequestration cutbacks on airport operations triggered a response in Congress and that, in turn, triggered a response from cartoonists.Some — particularly in the days between the emergence of the issue and the legislative fix — were content simply to point out the problem, which I suppose was okay, since moving things forward […]
(Click to see larger view.)Singapore cartoonist Leslie Chew was arrested last week after complaints that the cartoon published through Facebook was ?racially insensitive?. From The Wall Street Journal: According to Mr. Choo, the artist was questioned by police over a cartoon published on March 27. The cartoon criticized the government?s treatment of the city-state?s ethnic […]
A new documentary on the work of Herblock debuted last weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival. The Atlantic has a good write up of Herblock and the documentary. Entertainment Weekly has video of Jon Stewart extolling the power that Herblock had with his pen. In his slugfest with McCarthy, however, Herblock took an incredible risk, […]
The Overseas Press Club of America has posted video of the acceptance speech of this year?s Thomas Nast Award winner Rob Rogers.Via Michael Cavna
I’m going to assume that Wiley only stumbled into the news cycle today by happenstance, since “hotcakes” and “cupcakes” aren’t the same thing, and that it’s only barely possible to riff on an April 17 news story 11 days later, given deadlines.In any case, I don’t know about investing in hotcakes, but, if you invested […]
Last week, Texas Governor Rick Perry wrote a letter to the editor of the Sacramento Bee demanding an apology from the paper for running a Jack Ohman cartoon depicting Perry boasting of booming business followed by a depiction of an explosion. The governor claimed it was “mocking the tragic deaths” of those who died in […]
In today’s Knight Life, Keith Knight seems poised to leap into an unnecessary future.There are any number of reasons to resist the siren song of the new, and probably as many to embrace it. But the “dead trees” mantra needs to stop being a mantra and become, instead, a discussion.Beginning with a different phrase that […]
Does this happen to anybody anymore?Adam@Home had a computer crash and lost two months work. The arc begins here and is pretty funny to watch, if you’re into schadenfreude. And who isn’t?I’ve been pondering the arc, however, because I wonder how often this happens these days? Not that Basset and Harrell aren’t technically accurate: They […]
Texas Governor Rick Perry has demanded an apology from the Sacramento Bee after it ran a cartoon by their cartoonist Jack Ohman depicting the Texas governor boasting of booming business followed by a depiction of an explosion. Last week, a fertilizer plant explosion killed 14 people in the Lone Star State.In a letter to the […]
I’m having dishwasher issues, so I’m either washing dishes, washing dishes that the dishwasher didn’t wash or just muttering unclean words at the dishwasher. There are two punchlines that keep coming to my mind during this experience.Paraphrased from the TV show AfterMASH that ran brief as a sequel to M*A*S*H* comes this line: Colonel Potter’s […]
Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher has been the editorial cartoonist for The Economist since 1978. During those 35 years, he’s created over 140 covers for the magazines. They’ve posted a slideshow of some of those covers.The magazine has also posted a video of a Google hangout/chat session with KAL and readers from around the world.
Michael Cavna interviews Doonesbury creator Garry Trudueau about the creation and writing of an upstart political drama TV show available through Amazon Studios. The show is called Alpha House based on the premise of this article in the New York Times wherein four U.S. Senators live together as roommates in Washington D.C. The show brings […]