The short answer to the headline question is: Nothing. Though readers of The San Diego Union-Tribune may have thought otherwise. Rick Griffin of the Times of San Diego catches up with former Union-Tribune cartoonist Steve Breen: It was Saturday, Oct. 18 of this year when The San Diego Union-Tribune editorial pages included an editor’s note […]
After a two year absence from the Southern California newspaper Steve Breen is once more appearing in The San Diego Union-Tribune where he had been the staff cartoonist for 22 years. In the Summer of 2023 Steve Breen left The Union-Tribune after it was taken over by Alden Capital. Later that same year he signed […]
An excellent piece by Telnaes that can be taken a couple of ways. Certainly, the brutality of the lawless attacks has damaged our freedom, but you can also take Liberty as a personification of the American people and those who wish to be American and interpret the attacks as happening to all of us. An […]
Featuring John Rose, Gilbert Shelton, Terri Libenson, Steve Breen, Chris Schweizer, Rich Powell, Drew Friedman. Barney Google and Snuffy Smith and John Rose John Rose, who since 2001 has been the cartoonist for the Barney Google and Snuffy Smith strip, will be at the Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History at 1 p.m. Sunday […]
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 […]
Cartoonist Steve Breen has accepted the position of Director of School Communications at San Diego’s Cathedral Catholic High School leaving him precious little time for his regular duties at inewsource. Steve informed readers of his Drawing Conclusions newsletter this weekend: All good things must come to an end! I appreciate you so much for following […]
For delivering piercing commentary on powerful people and institutions with deftness, creativity – and a fearlessness that led to her departure from the news organization after 17 years. Ann Telnaes of The Washington Post awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Illustrated Reporting and Commentary (link includes Ann’s submission portfolio). The Washington Post, who printed her […]
It’s Free Comic Book Day, A History of American Comics in 6 Panels, Tex Avery creates Bugs Bunny, Colleen Doran has advice for youngsters entering the cartooning world, and Michael Cavna talks to cartoonists about Pope Francis obituary cartoons. A quick reminder that it is Free Comic book Day. Visit your Local Comic Book Shop. […]
It’s not really International Obedience Day, and this isn’t a new cartoon. It’s World Press Freedom Day and Molina’s cartoon dates from 2019. I’m featuring it because I particularly like it and because I’m sorry that Molina is still here in America, having fled Nicaragua because there wasn’t a whole lot of press freedom there. […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for April 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Thinking About Thinking: Impossible Thoughts and Complicated Feelings by Grant Snider A playful examination of […]
Katauskas isn’t exaggerating by a whole lot, and while the current flood of insanity might make it hard for a fortuneteller to go off the rails, the resulting target-rich environment poses a different challenge for political cartoonists. There is, first of all, the question of which event to pick up on. You don’t want to […]
Being a Duke’s Mixture of various comics and cartoon items. Alison Bechdel – Fun Home/Packed House Bechdel, who is releasing a new graphic novel, “Spent,” this spring, first came to prominence in the 1980s with her comic strip “Dykes to Watch Out For.” Running until 2008, it charted the daily lives, love lives and political […]
Walt Handelsman in New Orleans at Mardi Gras time, Hearst 2024 celebrates Hilary B. Price and Popeye, The New Yorker cartoonists party at the Centoonial, Tom Tomorrow accepts the Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award, and a passle of Smercomics by Rob Rogers, Steve Breen, Jack Ohman, and Scott Stantis. Some Favorite Walt Handelsman […]
An excellent day for you to click on all the links, because there’s a lot to be said, but let me start with a quote from John Donne: Each man’s death diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind. This photo was taken September 16, 1920, in the wake of an explosion outside the offices […]
I suspect Biden’s decision to let Ukraine fire US-supplied missiles over its border, and his decision to supply the Ukrainians with anti-personnel mines, were an effort to shore up their defenses before Trump comes into office and begins catering to his great good friend Putin. He may well choke off their aid, but it would […]