As DD Degg reported the other day, the ridiculously deep cuts at the Washington Post are making most observers feel that either Jeff Bezos is a raving incompetent or he has lost interest in the toy he bought and never quite figured out. Goris is far from the only one to capitalize on the slogan […]
Comic artist and ed-op page illustrator Randy Jones has passed away.Randy Glenn Jones May 7, 1949 – December 12, 2025From the Randy Jones entry at Lambiek: [Jones] received his artistic training at H.B. Beal Technical school in London, Ontario. Upon graduation, Jones moved to Toronto, where his first illustration job was ‘Goethe’s Faust’ for the […]
Illustrating the Progress of Art in Journalism (1897)It started a few days ago when Tony Rose uncovered a startling item in an old Editor and Publisher.A 1925 obituary for Albert Wilbur Steele includes a claim that he was “the first American cartoonist to draw a daily cartoon for a newspaper.” Steele, who had worked on […]
In January, the Washington Post spiked a cartoon by Pulitzer Prize–winning Ann Telnaes that criticized the supplicant attitude displayed by the paper’s billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, towards Donald Trump … She promptly resigned after the incident, the first time one of her pieces had been rejected over its subject. For 31 years, KAL contributed his […]
Alden Global Capital Doesn’t Take No For An Answer Alden Global Capital just can’t understand. Why would any newspaper not want to be the next to pass through its digestive tract? As I wrote on Monday, the DallasNews Corporation recently agreed to be acquired by Hearst at the price of $14 a share. Soon after, […]
Pat Bagley expresses the situation well: As firefighters struggle to control the wildfires in Southern California, the press also struggles with disinformation about those wildfires.The press wouldn’t be stuck with a mere squirtbottle if the only problem they faced were the normal flow of rumors and misconceptions that plague every major news event. But in […]
We try to avoid duplication and stepping on each other’s toes around here, and by now you’ve likely seen DD Degg’s coverage of Ann Telnaes’ resignation from the Washington Post. And if you haven’t seen his coverage here, you’ve almost certainly seen some coverage because it is all over the Internet, with regret and praise […]
Jen Sorensen skips the clever rhetoric and metaphors and gets right to the point: Tuesday is going to tell the story.There are any number of cartoons out there about how sick everyone is of political advertisements and arguments, and I’m sympathetic, but that’s how the system works, or at least that’s how it’s supposed to […]
There have been a number of cartoons responding to Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos having spiked an endorsement for Kamala Harris, many of them playing on the Post’s motto “Democracy Dies in the Dark.”Ann Telnaes gets the top spot in part because she works there and her cartoon joins with 16 Washington Post columnists who […]
Start with the good news, which is that I agree with Dave Granlund’s idea though not with the sense of crisis it suggests. That is, kids shouldn’t get drunk and drive around, but while you can’t stop all of them from doing it, it’s not the issue it was when I graduated (gasp) 57 years […]
A friend emailed last night, wishing me luck in sorting through the inevitable flood of political cartoons that were already coming, inspired by the Nashville murders. I responded “The real problem is people posting their old cartoons. I can’t tell the ones I’ve seen from the ones I only feel like I’ve seen.” I particularly […]
John Cole shows both reactions to Biden’s press conference. He gets the time wrong: It was just under two hours, hardly four, but still a prodigious effort.The dual response, I think, is between those who did the assigned homework — who watched the conference and judged it for themselves — and those who fake their […]
Rabbits Against Magic (AMS) establishes today’s theme with a joke that should make you weep rather than laugh.Facts are facts and opinions are opinions, but truth seems to waver somewhere in the middle, and saying “seems” only emphasizes the uncertainty.There are limits: When George Berkeley wrote that reality was only what our minds perceived it […]
This isn’t actually an editorial cartoon, except that it is.It’s one of HJ Ford‘s illustrations for Andrew Lang’s 1894 retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s “Blockhead Hans,” a story that suggested Andersen had a low opinion of the press in general and of editors in particular.There are enough editors in the world who think I’m a […]
The railroads did not stop growing because the need for passenger and freight transportation declined. That grew. The railroads are in trouble today not because that need was filled by others (cars, trucks, airplanes, and even telephones) but because it was not filled by the railroads themselves. They let others take customers away from them […]