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. […]
We’ll start the rundown with a portrait of world leaders by David Rowe, with Donald Trump in the center and his babysitter at his feet. You may notice that it’s not a terribly flattering portrayal, but if you look around the world, you’ll find there aren’t a great many flattering portraits of Dear Leader.Much of […]
March 20 Update: Dana has revealed what is happening with the Phoebe and Her Unicorn comic strip: I’m bringing the daily newspaper strip to an end. The Sunday comics will continue, but as of March 30, 2025, I’m finished with daily comic strips. And just as, in the strip, Phoebe has moved to a new […]
Canada’s National Newspaper Awards has announced the finalists for the 2024 awards and in the category for Editorial Cartooning the finalists are Michael de Adder of the Halifax Chronicle Herald/The Globe and Mail; Gabrielle Drolet of The Globe and Mail; and Patrick LaMontagne of the Calgary Herald/Calgary Sun.The cartoonists’ portfolios, along with all the other […]
Cartoon artist John Peck, also known as The Mad Peck, has passed away.John Frederick Peck aka The Mad PeckNovember 16, 1942 – March 15, 2025From the WPRI obituary: John Peck, the artist behind the poster who signed his art as “The Mad Peck,” died at the hospital on Saturday after a sudden illness, according to […]
The Trump administration’s crack down on foreign visitors has raised both questions and risks for international comic creators who may be planning to visit the US or Canada to attend comic conventions. As the recent R.E Burk case has made clear, there is a higher risk of being denied entry and detained if authorities suspect […]