Andy Donato’s rejected cartoon, P. C. Vey’s last(?) New Yorker cartoon, The Baltimore Sun goes both ways with artificial intelligence, Michael de Adder joins The Order of The Skull Ring. Andy Donato’s Rejected Cartoon Led to Retirement In a move reminiscent of Ann Telnaes quitting The Washington Post a relative of Andy Donato is saying […]
With Derf Backderf, Bill Dyer, Tim Atseff, Mike Luckovich, Steve Kelley, Terry Mosher, Joel Pett, and Ron Cobb. Derf Backderf Annie Nickoloff for Cleveland Magazine interviews Derf (John) Backderf about this his new book The Dissidents, a graphic history about “the artists who worked for New York City’s The Masses, a socialist political magazine of […]
To call Lynn Johnston a legend would undersell her influence on newspaper comic strips. Her strip For Better or for Worse launched in 1979 and quickly became one of the most widely syndicated comic strips with a client list rivaling those of Peanuts and Garfield. FBoFW was one of the few comic strips whose characters […]
I promised more coverage if there were more cartoons about the VP Debate, so we’ll start with Walt Handelsman’s contribution, because the buried joke here is that the undecideds didn’t likely watch the debate but he’s right that they are likely still peddling the same-old-same-old excuse. It’s so much better than admitting that you can’t […]
Is this a political cartoon? Steve Brodner thinks so, and said so, at the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists convention in San Francisco this past weekend.Picasso’s painting is considered Great Art, but he was reacting to the bombing of Guernica and he was certainly expressing his take on the horror. The fact that he didn’t […]
In today’s Medium Large, Francesco Marciuliano speaks for many, I’m sure, though he has the advantage of a strip that is extremely meta, such that commenting on commenting is within his mission.Other cartoonists are in a position similar to 9/11, because they are required to say something at a moment when it’s hard to do […]