From Guy Badeaux’s (Bado) blog we learn the winners of the 26th World Press Freedom International Editorial Cartoon award. The theme this year was “Times are tough.” Taking the top first, second and third place are: Darko Drljevic of Montenegro, Joel Pett of USA, and Patrick Lamontagne of Canada.Ten cartoonists were honored with an Awards […]
The 86th Peabody Award nominees have been announced. The Art Spiegelman documentary “Art Spiegelman Disaster Is My Muse” made the list of 20 films up for the award in the documentary category. From the nomination description: This documentary explores the life and work of Art Spiegelman, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel “Maus,” […]
Well, I stand by yesterday’s post, and I’m glad that it — and JP Trostle’s “epic rant” — got said before Columbia University and their Pulitzer Committee delivered that stunning mean-girl snub because otherwise it might sound like sour grapes.As I wrote thenThe Pulitzers do reward good work. But they’re still just plaques, and the […]
Since I started yesterday with a cartoon about an eclipse that was over before you got here, I’ll start today’s with some thoughts about the Pulitzers, which won’t be announced until 1 p.m. by which you’ll probably have read this.JP Trostle launched a most bodacious rant about the Editorial Cartoonist category yesterday, reprinted by Bado […]
Politics has been leaking all over the funny pages lately, and today’s Non Sequitur (AMS) is a good example.The anti-mask issue is completely political. Nobody seems to object when they are told they can’t smoke in a particular place, or, at least, they don’t threaten violence or make great speeches about freedom.Acceptance of the link […]
I’ve recently mentioned my past covering shopping malls, but I hadn’t mentioned “category killers,” a term from that corner of retail business.A category killer is a store that makes it pointless to add other stores in that category. For instance, if you lease to Dick’s Sporting Goods, there’s no point in a smaller sports store […]
We all yearn to be Yossarian, but Chaplain Tappmann is probably the best we can manage on a good day: A perpetually puzzled, easily bullied, well-intentioned chaplain whose faith is continually in the balance. And let me begin by chiding that other Joe Heller, not the late author of the increasingly relevant “Catch-22,” but the cartoonist […]
Breaking (Good) News: All charges against Malaysian cartoonist Zunar have been dropped and he is not only a free man but apparently free to keep poking his sharp pen at corrupt authorities.Between the immediacy of the news and the somewhat opaque nature of Malaysian politics, it’s a little hard to sort out the details, but […]