Tonight! Monday, July 20 @ 7pm ET via Zoom Free and open to the public. Come one, come all! Join us for a special NCS Open House with a live screening of “Reuben Legends,” a video created and narrated by Brian Walker — a loving look back at 80 years of National Cartoonists Society history, […]
President Trump’s speech last week has drawn poor reviews, which is an unusual response to presidential addresses, though in this case, the message was so clearly partisan that ABC and NBC declined to cover it except on their online news channels, and CBS and even Fox cut away and downplayed it when it became obvious […]
The United Kingdom will soon have a new Prime Minister so Jason Arunn Murugesu at the BBC went to award winning political cartoonist Graeme Bandeira to talk about caricaturing the new PM. Grame spoke to Burnham’s physical characteristics and cartooning politicians in general. A political cartoonist has said he is looking forward to spending more […]
Delayed Gratification I sent my RSVP to the Thorp/Healy wedding and showed up on time. Here it is a week later and the couple has yet to say their vows. Yeah, I understand it is still the same day in comic strip time, but maybe Henry Barajas should have put July 20 or whenever they […]
I don’t know that people overseas have a clearer view of our situation, but perhaps it’s easier to laugh at existential dread when you’re observing from afar. Not that there isn’t concern about the effects, because what happens in the United States certainly doesn’t stay in the United States, but what distance there is between […]
For reasons unexplained (greed?) Lee Enterprises is insisting on unheard of compensation from any library that will accept David Fitzsimmons’ editorial cartoons archive. From David Fitzsimmons Substack comes the details: For years, Lee Publishing, owner of The Arizona Daily Star, has been blocking me from donating my professional life’s work to my hometown Alma mater, […]
The death of Pat Oliphant brought immediate tributes from friends and colleagues. Those very early first responses have been followed with an astounding amount of words or pictures or both honoring the master of editorial cartooning. An outpouring of respect, appreciation, and love unseen since the passing of Charles Schulz. Michael de Adder brought a […]
The level of exaggeration in German’s cartoon depends on where you live. In some parts of the Northeast US, the skies really have reached a level of orange haze through which a blood-red sun could barely peek. In others, the smoke from Canadian wildfires is less visible, but that doesn’t make it less evident in […]
Newspapers.com with their 30 day delay has caught up with the June 13, 2026 end of Big Nate dailies. Unfortunately the Advance Publication papers ran an advertisement for the Sunday Big Nate during that first week so I still don’t what comic strip, if any, has replaced Big Nate in those daily newspapers. “If any” […]
With FurBabies, Talk Talk Talk, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, Cathy, Pearls Before Swine, FoxTrot, and a detour to the sports page. FurBabies Returning Nancy Beiman last month decided to take a sabbatical from her daily FurBabies comic strip. The pause is lasting less than expected. From Nancy’s Substack: I’m bringing the strip back on […]
Rowe once more takes advantage of the time difference between here and Australia to respond to late-breaking news. I don’t imagine many American newspapers will have responses to last night’s speech, either in the form of political cartoons or editorials because most of them go to press about the time Trump was on the air.Print […]
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Propaganda, Cancel Culture, Public Service, Public Remonstration, Cartoons and Cartoonists. Agitprop Animation Members of Parliment are warning of youngsters being victims of propaganda with the animated Masha and the Bear, a Russian animated cartoon aimed at pre-school children. George Francis Lee for The Guardian reminds us that there is a history of animated evangelism. Cartoons […]
Milbrath is not the only observer predicting that tonight’s speech will be about the 2020 elections and Dear Leader’s “proof” that it was stolen. Miles Taylor, who served as Chief of Staff at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the first Trump White House, was the anonymous author of a New York Times op-ed […]
In celebration of the quasquicentennial when California legislators repealed their anti-cartoon law the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) has decided to return to that state’s capitol for the organization’s 2026 convention. From the AAEC: This year, Association of American Editorial Cartoonists are taking over California’s capital. We will have an internal schedule for AAEC-members […]