Tagged as: billy ireland

For reasons unexplained I have dozens of cartoonist self-caricatures. Before deleting them thought I’d share ’em. So… Not enough? Hundreds more at…

Ben Jennings offers the best view of what’s going on in Ukraine. Other cartoonists are either showing a bear retreating from the fray, or one vaguely bothered by a small biting animal of some sort. The former approach greatly overstates the balance of force in play, the latter infantilizes a courageous resistance.Jennings hits a nice […]

I’m headed out to Logan Airport so I can fly to Minnesota and explain things to my grandchildren, so, in lieu of my usual posting which would cause me to miss the plane, here are some old favorites, starting with a Cul de Sac.I miss Cul de Sac, but I miss Richard Thompson more. Aside […]

Since my headline is a takeoff on a Churchyism, I’ll start the day with a suggestion for anyone within range of Columbus. Bado’s Blog passes along this news of a new exhibit at the Billy Ireland and so do I and, for that matter, so does the Billy Ireland its own self, which also has […]

Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. — Matthew 23:24 This pair of tweets appeared together in my feed. Rob is a friend and a good guy and he’s right about the number, but he’s wrong about “great.”There have already been several fly jokes, and I say “joke” because they are […]

Today’s posting will be big on links, because, for some reason, I’ve suddenly come across a number of really good things you should go explore on your own.And if you are properly locked down and socially distant, you’ve got time for that, right? Right!So we’ll start with Sarah Cooper, who, if you haven’t already discovered […]

As noted earlier, a highlight of the AAEC Convention this year was a chance to tour the Billy Ireland’s “Front Line: Editorial Cartoonists and the First Amendment” exhibit with its two curators, Lucy Shelton Caswell and Ann Telnaes.Sharing a few samples of the exhibit today not only allows me to show you more than I […]

Day Two of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists included some fun, with a “Chalk Slam” happening on the sidewalk in front of the library. Here, Tamara Knoss, Matt Wuerker, Ann Telnaes, Patrick Chappatte and Salmeh Gaid admire Wuerker’s work. However, before the fun, there was one of two meetings for the weekend, which involved a […]

Arlo and Janis so often reflect my world view that it sometimes barely registers, but this one cracked me up, because I’ve noticed that ad writers have picked up on the term and insert it into commercials in order to assure us that their product is for cool people.Which, as Arlo notes, assumes a fact […]

Jimmy Johnson has a dedicated following, but it was still ballsy of him to produce a comic using only Arlo & Janis’s former hairstyles as an indicator that it’s set in the past.I’m just pointing it out, not criticizing it, and he’s crafted a cartoon that stands up even if you didn’t realize it was […]