In a prelude to World Press Freedom Day yesterday Anthony Feinstein for The Globe and Mail checked in on the history of political cartooning holding those in power to account from the beginning to now, sometimes risking the cartoonists’ freedom and lives. When political cartoonists challenge the world’s most powerful people. (Or here.) The strongman […]
featuring Sir Quentin Blake, Gluyas Williams, Doug Marlette, Dirk West, Helen Hokinson, and William Hogarth.Quentin Blake Ask ChatGPT to create a portrait of Quentin Blake in the style of Quentin Blake and the results are so preposterously bad, it’s tempting to think that artificial intelligence might not be the death of everything that is pure […]
Okay, before I start blathering today, you have to go read Matt Bors’ review of the new GI Joe movie.Seriously. Go.I’ll wait….Was that awesome, or what?It brings up some great possibilities, only coincidentally related to the loss of Roger Ebert. But given the increasingly visual nature of our culture, given the decreasing attention span of our culture, […]
An encouraging strip from xkcd.The strip isn’t explicitly autobiographical, but it isn’t not-autobiographical, either, which is a facet of modern cartooning that matters. Some artists are explicitly autobiographical, like Keith Knight, others are implicitly autobiographical, like Adam Huber, and some put the comic on its own footing but are very open about the creative process, […]
Sheldon, once more, provides a bit of sea anchor for a world seriously adrift.Note that a sea anchor doesn’t stop the drift entirely. It just slows it down. And, in this case, it may be a case of dangling a piece of dental floss off the side of the ship for all the good it […]