Liana Finck on parenting, patriarchy + brevity What is your process for writing a cartoon? How many drafts does it take to get to the perfect, pithy final? Do you think there’s some inherent brilliance in brevity? I do think there’s an inherent brilliance in brevity. That said, my cartoons tend to be better when […]
Cartoonist and Illustrator Kate Charlesworth has been named one of this year’s Royal Society of Edinburgh’s cohort of Fellows. The Fellowship recognizes “outstanding individuals whose contributions are shaping society in Scotland and beyond.” Kate has producing comics, illustrations, and graphic novels since the 1970s. From the announcement: Cartoonist and illustrator Kate Charlesworth is also part […]
Tom Toles played on Trump’s call for Russia to hack into Hillary Clinton’s computer, a 2016 campaign ruckus that began when it turned out she’d set up a computer at home on which she did some State Department work that should have been confined to government servers.Although it was a private server and not just […]
Some marginal items related to comics and cartooning. Johnny Hart Enters the Binghamton Hockey Hall of FameCartoonist Johnny Hart has been inducted into the Binghamton Hockey Hall of Fame. From WICZ: The latest inductees to the Binghamton Hockey Hall of Fame have been announced as three new members will be inducted into the Hall of […]
Paul Burke, father of cartoonist R.E. “Becky” Burke, is speaking out about the treatment his daughter received in the ICE detention system after being detained over a question about her VISA. Becky, with no criminal record, was detained for 19 days. On a Facebook post, he explained what happened and provided a FAQ on the […]
For two years cartoonist Edith Pritchett has been a controversial opinion page regular at The Washington Post due to her non-political cartoons that are more about cultural/social affairs than about affairs of state.Now it seems that she has been left behind as part of the upheaval currently going on at The WaPo. Mike Rhode at […]
We’ll start off easy with a familiar rant: There was a study, IIRC in Sweden, some years ago that showed kids who grew up on farms had fewer allergies than kids who grew up in cities because they were constantly exposed not just to animal dander but to dust that contained feces and other nasty-sounding […]
TributesLalo Alcaraz thanks Jules Feiffer for his service to cartoonists and humanity in today’s La Cucaracha. While cartoonist John Hambrock riffs on Rube Goldberg in The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee.Then Greg and Karen Evans recall a famous Philippe Halsman photo shoot from 1952 in Luann. Prince(ss) Val(entina) and The AdventurersIt seems Prince Valiant has […]
There’s a lot of rebranding going around these days, as various organizations and individuals decide if they’re going to resist or surrender. Columbia has decided to behave itself and let the government dictate what they teach and what rules they set for their students, which is kind of funny given how well the fellow now […]
Days after the Trump Administration froze $175 million in federal funding the University of Pennsylvania has terminated the employment of progressive Lecturer (and Cartoonist) Dwayne Booth, aka Mr. Fish.From the Mr. Fish Patreon page: I was informed that the reason for the termination was budgetary, which I think is the same reason they gave to […]
Luckovich uses that word, and I do think it means what he thinks it means.But there are two reasons to quibble with Luckovich’s cartoon, the first being that the Founders had, at best, a relatively select bloc of voters in mind. Voters weren’t specifically “elite” and it’s flat out wrong to suggest that they were […]
Featuring Greg and Karen Evans, Jamar Nicholas, Jeff Weigel, Dan Thompson, G. B. Trudeau, Peter Arno, and Charles Schulz. NCS Open House Meet-n-Greet and Member Spotlight On the other side of this weekend: Come mingle with current NCS members and others interested in the professional world of cartooning. Open to professionals interested in the NCS–please […]
French artist Julien “Jul“ Berjeaut was commissioned to illustrate an modernized version of Beauty and the Beast, but the French Education Ministry cancelled the order citing minor children characters using social media and Belle’s father depicted as inebriated and holding a bottle. However, Algerian born Jul, suggests that his depiction of Belle as “brown skin […]
Joy of Tech points out that it’s been a little hard to keep track of the disasters raining down on us, much less to plan for them. People have been pointing out that you can say “What’s he done this time?” and everyone knows who you mean, but I think that’s a bit unfair. They […]
Special Congressional Recognition for Lalo AlcarazGot it before the Dept. of unDEIs could undo it. Says Lalo Alcaraz: I’m so relieved this certificate of special congressional recognition came before the federal government realized I was not a white man, and made recognition of bad hombres like me illegal. Via Bluesky or by way of Facebook. […]