After Madison, WI-State Assemblyman Steve Nass threatened funding for University of Wisconsin if it went ahead with a planned “Art of Protest” exhibit, Madison political cartoonist Mike Konopacki created a parody press release taking jabs at Nass’ actions. Now Nass has filed a criminal complaint alleging Mike misused Nass’ official letterhead. The state has a […]
Gary McCoy is receiving national press over a recent Sandra Fluke editorial cartoon which he reports has also generated death threats. The cartoon depicts a woman stating, “Stay out of my uterus, government” (while holding a pro-choice sign) and then in the next frame, “that is, right after paying for my free birth control” as […]
The Republican (MA) interviewed Rhymes With Orange creator Hilary Price for their prominent women in the Pioneer Valley series.What have been some of the obstacles? The deadline, seven comic strips a week. You have to build up your creative muscle to keep pumping them out. And when it becomes your vocation, versus your calling, gone […]
One of the more frequent trials a newspaper editor faces is being polite to the person who has written an over-the-top, potentially libelous but certainly nonsensical letter to the editor and wants to know why it has not been published in the paper.You don’t have to ask if the person on the phone is actually […]
Congratulations are in order for Matt Bors who was named this year’s Herblock Prize winner. Matt is syndicated based out of Portland and also Comics Journalism co-editor of Cartoon Movement.The Herblock Prize honors editorial cartoonists “preserving the rights of the American people through freedom of speech and the right of expression.” As the winner, Matt […]
The following papers have announced (or are mentioned in news articles as having announced) that they have pulled this week’s Doonesbury regarding Texas law requiring women to have an ultrasound prior to having an abortion.Papers who are pulling the series: The Missoulian The Standard-Examiner (Utah) The Herald, (SC) The Press of Atlantic City ( NJ) […]
Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury is being pulled in about a dozen newspapers this week over the topic of Texas law requiring women to have an ultrasound prior to having an abortion. According to Reuters, The Oregonian said it was pulling it because it “went over the line of good taste and humor” and The LA Times […]
Today’s On The Fastrack cracked me up.A million panhandler cartoons have gone for topical jokes about the economy, but they’re so expected that it’s hard for them to come out of hiding with a punchline. Panhandler with a sign, read the sign, get a laugh, sure. Nothing wrong with them, but nothing surprising, either.And, of […]
“Semi-Classic” in today’s title means that this is actually yesterday’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal but I’m on the road this morning and what with the time change and all, I figured being off by 24 or 25 or 23 or however the hell many hours it is wouldn’t be taken amiss or even, perhaps, noticed […]
Pardon My Planet with a two-fer — a funny gag that raises a less hilarious question of whether our standards for truth have slipped or our ease-of-access-without-gatekeepers simply become moreso?The immediate booze gag reminds me of a line of Hallmark cards from back in the days of hipster humor. I had a book of those […]
The Columbus Dispatch, who has been without an editorial cartoonist since Jeff Stahler resigned in December under an accusation of plagiarism, has announced that they’ve hired Washington Examiner editorial cartoonist Nate Beeler. Nate is a Ohio native and conservative which makes him a perfect match with the paper.From the paper’s announcement Editor Ben Marrison said, […]
It’s hard to exaggerate the health care situation for comedic effect, but Edison Lee makes a good go of it this morning, with another episode featuring his re-configured and much more educational version of “The Game of Life.”Explanation for overseas readers: Yes. We live this way.Some countries crash their economies by attempting to give their […]
For Better or For Worse creator Lynn Johnston has been collecting parody comics of her feature and has posted them on her website. So far she has work by Mike Peters, Bill Amend, Mark Tatulli, Mark Parisi, Francesco Marciuliano, Jin Wicked, David Willis, Stephan Pastis, Jan Eliot and Ryan Sohmer, Lar deSouza
The two Philadelphia dailies are heading into an uncertain future. Currently the two papers and their joint web property, Philly.com, are up for sale and the papers are being combined with editorial separation. Buyouts are being offered to employees with the hopes of trimming the employee count. After Tony Auth leaves the Inquirer at the […]
After posting the news yesterday that Philadelphia Inquirer’s Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Tony Auth was leaving the paper after 40 years, it was easy to read between the lines that the decision was in part due to the plans to combine the two daily papers (Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News). In talking with Tony […]