Andrew Borowitz’s very popular satire site The Borowitz Report reports on “The War on Cartoonists” these days, both editorial cartoonists… “Censorship has undermined the opinion pages of newspapers across the US during Trump’s second term. Two weeks after Telnaes resigned, a small newspaper in Pennsylvania outdid the Post in gutlessness. When…the publisher, Dave Cuddihy, announced […]
Australia not much caring who discovered America, First Dog instead brought us up to date yesterday on what we’ve made of our corner of the place 534 years later. Someone posted on Xitter last week about how much Trump is loved and admired throughout the world, but I’ll bet she’s nowhere to be found today […]
The Baltimore Sun‘s Opinion Page is now almost exclusively printing AI generated cartoons. As seen they have a preferred style to prompt their computer to generate an image for their editorial page, until this weekend. For the middle cartoon above they have scraped/stolen another style which is more cartoony than their regular prompts. So I […]
Research Sunday Phantom artist and South Seas researcher Jeff Weigel tells us: “Take note that this story will be dealing with real isolationist tribes in Papua New Guinea who deliberately avoid contact with the outside world. I’ve tried to convey their native garb as accurately as possible based on photos I found online.” Sports ToonsWAFB […]
Egyptian cartoonist Ashraf Omar remains in jail after the prosecution’s first witness failed to show up for today’s trial. It is the third time the witness, the investigative officer in his case, was absent.A new trial date has been sent for December 14. Omar has been in jail since July 2024. Visit our archive for […]
That is indeed how you know it’s Columbus Day, or Indigenous Day, or Discovery Day. The new names have caught on about as well as “the Gulf of America,” though they came from the other side of the political spectrum and had some genuine reason for existing. But if there’s any major hoo-ha to be […]
The coming of autumn brings a plethora of comic strips about falling leaves, does it also bring thoughts of death? Three strips kicked off with that topic today. Despite assurances and excuses that they don’t use anymore water than than 50 acres of food those of us who live in agricultural but drought prone areas […]
Consider this cartoon from Ireland, a Western-facing but tacitly neutral nation. Turner bundles Trump along with Putin, Netanyahu and Iranian leader Mojtaba Khamenei in a package of troublemakers.There was a time when Americans were justified in feeling that their country was, as Reagan said, “a shining city on a hill,” a beacon of freedom. Not […]
Last month we learned that the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) was rejiggering its organization and would align themselves with the Society of Illustrators (SI) as an adjunct federation and rename the new guild the Association of Political Artists (APA).Today incoming President of the Association of Political Artists Steve Brodner made an announcement: Wrote […]
The Electoral Tribunal (Guadalajara, Mexico) has ordered journalist and cartoonist Paco Navarrete to post an apology on his social media accounts for 15 days for a satirical image published in February 2025 criticizing comments made by a female local legislator. He will also been added to a registry of those who have committed political violence […]
When No Tab Pete announced his big extravaganza, this Far Side was my first reaction. Call it “wishful thinking.” But given the overall reaction to his idea, I’d say he may find both his TV show and himself canceled, though I hope they’re both remembered November 3, because this truly was “saying the quiet part […]
In a fraught political time that has been punctuated with acts of political violence, it is the job of our newsroom to be rational and not foment violence and antipathy. Alexis Huicochea The Arizona Daily Star is apologizing for running a political cartoon in its Friday edition: “The Arizona Daily Star published a political cartoon […]
June Brigman, Comic Artist June Brigman joins Mike Manley, Jamar Nicholas, and Steve Conley‘s Pencil to Pencil podcast this week. Brigman has been drawing Mary Worth for ten years and drew Brenda Starr from 1995-2011 before that though she is probably best known for her Power Pack comic books. She is currently drawing “The Pale” […]
Turkish cartoonist Doğan Pehlevan received a 11 months and 20 day suspended sentence for “insulting the president” with a tweet. His attorneys argued that the prosecution did not positively prove that the account even belonged to the cartoonist, nor did the tweet cross lines into an insult.The Istanbul 36th Criminal Court of First Instance rejected […]
I like the fact that Wuerker has given this clown a 10-gallon hat and a six-shooter, because the sort of clown who serves as a distraction, the way this one does, is more like the ones who used to be called “rodeo clowns” until the bullfighters decided it undercut the importance and dangers of their […]