The deadline for teenagers to enter the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards may be as little as one week away. Though January 6, 2026 is the deadline for my Zip Code and probably yours.The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers in association with The Herblock Foundation is again offering “$2,000 scholarships for three teens whose […]
I like Mike Luckovich’s obit cartoon for Barbara Bush, because it suggests an edge to her that I could certainly see and that others reported from time to time.And which you sure wouldn’t pick up on from the mawkish, sentimental glurge so many other cartoonists provided.I would normally despise a tear in a cartoon, particularly […]
Start here: All three finalists for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning did excellent work.And for those who come here often, there’s no need for me to disclose my general contempt for awards: I’ve frequently written how much I dislike them and how little stock I place in them.But, since I’m about to disrespect […]
I’ve just finished making reservations to be at this symposium at the University of Minnesota next month, and I’ll cover it here but, if you’re anywhere within range, you’d do well to be there yourself.The occasion, the 30th anniversary of the landmark Hustler v Falwell decision that brought the 1st Amendment into focus for editorial cartoonists, […]
The last event of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists convention was a dinner and awards ceremony for which I put on a tie for the first time in a couple of years, but that symbolizes much of what I liked so much about this convention: You were expected to wash behind your ears for […]
Just as I was discussing the inability of editors to either judge cartoons or find someone on their staff who can, a stunning example comes to the fore.The editorial page editor of the Jacksonville Florida Times-Union has begun putting pretty pictures on his Sunday editorial page in place of editorial cartoons.He explained the decision Sept […]
Some very good news from Cartoon Movement, a major resource for those who want an international view of things: The site has been awarded funding from the Google Digital News Initiative and, while Tjeerd Royaards doesn’t specify the details of the grant itself, he outlines some solid improvements to the site that it will permit.I […]
As if to inflame a simmering controversey in the comments of a few days back, Paul Gilligan offers Poncho a choice of super powers and he picks one that would of course place him in the Alternate Comestible Universe, a series that Marvel will be launching next month.It consists of 12 variant editions released every week […]
Retail this week brings back a funny-now-that-its-over memory. Marla was delighted to lose her annoying assistant manager but is now going through the old resumes that people had sent in before corporate forced her to sign him.I was on the end of a “remember when you applied here?” phone call when I was still trying, and […]
Last night was the Super Bowl, but I missed all but the last two minutes of each half, plus that tiny slice of overtime, because I was in airplanes. Tank McNamara nailed my situation perfectly this morning — I’m a Houston fan, so I can schedule air travel on Super Bowl Sunday early enough to get […]
Given the number of people predicting that Donald J. Trump will be remembered as America’s worst president ever, I thought it might be interesting to go back to Inauguration Day 1921 and see how cartoonists welcomed Warren G. Harding to the post, given that he is our current Worst President Ever.And I was right. It […]
In the essay that goes with today’s cartoon, Clay Jones concedes that he’s doing more reporting than satirizing, and I have no problem with that. Sometimes that’s all you need to do.At least that’s what we thought before the election, when we were certain that simply exposing the ridiculous contradictions and outright lies would alert […]
Let this empty frame stand in for all the “after I voted I had to shower” cartoons that don’t deserve to be juxtaposed. When I juxtapose — which I’ll be doing today — it’s to show differing takes, not a collection of no takes at all.I was in a liquor store once and heard someone ask […]
Zits brings to mind a fellow who, back in the 60s and 70s, used to advertise a book called “How to Pick Up Girls” in the back of various magazines. We used to make fun of it, but, then again, it’s not like it went away. Somebody was buying it.Leave aside for the moment the […]
Jack Ohman on the $7 million blockbuster.I’m not a Hillary Clinton fan, but she had two moments in the past year that really impressed me. One was her speech in San Diego in which she eviscerated Donald Trump, the other was her calm, composed testimony in front of the House Committee on Partisan Fishing Expeditions.In both cases, […]