Signe Wilkinson, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, has donated original drawings to the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.From the news release: Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Signe Wilkinson has announced the donation of a significant collection of editorial cartoons and originals to Annenberg Library Archive, which will […]
I like Rod Emmerson’s commentary on America’s legally protected penchant for mass murder. The fact that he’s observing our national fetish from New Zealand is a good indication of how widely recognized, totally insane and appallingly unique it is.Even more telling is the fact that he drew this in 2015 and posted it now because […]
When politicians become desperate, they raise the flag.It’s not the only symbol of our country, but the GOP is already deeply committed to mandatory motherhood and while they’re enforcing non-existent laws against hurling sandwiches, it apparently hasn’t occurred to them to declare throwing apple pies a form of treason.And so here we go yet again […]
Landmark AI Copyright Win – Fair Use Anthropic has scored a major victory in an ongoing legal battle over artificial intelligence models and copyright, one that may reverberate across the dozens of other AI copyright lawsuits winding through the legal system in the United States. A court has determined that it was legal for Anthropic […]
Cartooning Pope Leo XIV Pat Byrnes and the newspaper he rode in on is taken to task by a Yakima Herald-Republic reader: To the editor — I’m Catholic and from Chicago and celebrating the election of the new Pope. But your May 13 cartoon on the editorial page went too far. The depicted “communion wafers” […]
Journalists and editorial cartoonists around the world are facing unprecedented attacks. Please join us May 5, in Washington, DC, to celebrate World Press Freedom Day with a panel of legendary cartoonists out on the front lines of free speech — and for the announcement of the 2025 Robert Russell Courage in Cartooning Award by Cartoonists […]
It’s always nice to get the family together for the holidays, and here they are before they went Hollywood.As for the current holiday, Greg Kearney noted the downpour in Maine, which was worse than we had it next door, but we also had some power failures and erasure of snow-making on the ski hills and […]
Kevin Necessary (AMS) offers a sarcastic salute to ignorance.I like it, though I wish we weren’t at a stage where ignorance matters quite so much and spreads quite so readily.The trigger for this cartoon is apparently the pushback over LeBron James’ quick Tweet following the death of Ma’Khia Bryant, which he subsequently deleted and apologized […]
John Cole (Times-Tribune) bemoans Bob Dylan’s decision to sell his catalog to Universal Music, and his worry that meaningful songs will become meaningless jingles isn’t off the mark.Still, Dylan is 79 and I can understand if he feels he should get his affairs in order. I guess his choices were to set up a corporation […]
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 […]
Signe Wilkinson offers commentary on Joe Biden’s current silence, which reminds me of an old piece of cowboy wisdom, “Never miss a good chance to shut up.”As her cartoon suggests, Trump’s nonsensical comments about disinfectants and his general mishandling of the Covid-19 issue are doing more for Biden’s chances than anything Joe could be doing […]
Signe Wilkinson offers a disturbing commentary on a disturbing situation, Tara Reade’s contention that she was sexually assaulted by Joe Biden.It is a plain, historic fact that women’s accusations of sexual assault have too often been disbelieved, that “he said/she said” has far too often, too automatically come down on his side.It’s important that we […]
I wouldn’t have brought up Harry and Meghan so prematurely the other day if I’d realized how much their decision to put their marriage ahead of parental expectations was going to explode into an international incident.I like Steve Sack‘s take because it tells the tale so simply, like finding out that Orr paddled all the […]
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 […]
If Australia were not on the other side of the globe, this would be the first day of Autumn there. As it is, it’s the first day of Spring and their first day of Autumn will be March 1.Point being that, while I’m all in favor of knowing about the equinoces (well, it should be […]