Comes word via a Facebook posting by Hilary Price that the New York Post is dropping its comic page as a cost-cutting move. I haven’t got a second source on this and don’t know her initial source, but I know and trust her personally, so while we can all hope someone got it wrong, I’m […]
Cal Grondahl of the Standard-Examiner of Ogden, Utah, was cut this week. Cal is a great cartoonist, the Standard-Examiner was lucky to have him and the whole thing is depressing, but, first, let’s look at my favorite Cal Grondahl cartoon, which he did on the occasion of the death of Rosa Parks.I was going to pull this […]
Perhaps you heard: Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post. That could be the topic of Dan Wasserman’s cartoon, except that Wasserman works for the Boston Globe, which was also sold this week, to the owner of the Boston Red Sox. Since both papers begin with the word “The,” I’m going to assume the gag is an […]
(NOTE: Today’s post is not about brilliant cartooning. It is about cartooning as part of local coverage, and local coverage as the forgotten factor in why newspapers once mattered.)My brilliant career as a political cartoonist took place over about a two year period from 2006 to 2008, and was not only short but was only […]
It’s been four years since I lost my last full-time, ass-in-the-chair job, which means I can chuckle instead of wince at today’s Candorville.These days, the question isn’t “how long will I last in the job?” so much as “how long will the job last?”Technically, I was canned a few weeks before the paper I edited […]
Daryl Cagle, he of the political cartoon aggregation site, uses the term “Yahtzee” for the times when multiple cartoonists simultaneously come up with the same idea. Or, if it is a weeping Statue of Liberty in the wake of tragedy, the same non-idea.And it is indeed rare that a true Yahtzee — five of a kind, […]
RJ Matson is a good editorial cartoonist, whose take on the Supreme Court’s Affordable Care Act ruling headlined my post on the topic in June.And, as of Thursday, he’s unemployed. Tom Spurgeon reports that the St. Louis Post Dispatch held a throat-slashing party at the end of the week that included their editorial cartoonist, as well […]
The Lockhorns are CSOTD today in part because I love stupid and in part because of timing.”Stupid” not in the sense that the gag is stupid — the gag is brilliant — but because Leroy is stupid today on a level I would expect more from Willie in Willie and Ethel. The kind of stupid […]
Today’s La Cucaracha must be provoking some hearty laughter in Lalo Alcaraz’s hometown of Los Angeles.It used to be that the Wall Street Journal was noted in the industry for an editorial page filled with raging, rightwing opinion pieces based on information clearly contradicted in its own pages by its own independent news department. (I […]