Robert ‘Bro’ Russell, founder of Cartoonist Rights passed away this morning. He was 84 years old. Bro Russell founded Cartoonists Rights in 1999. It was the first human rights organization to focus on protecting political cartoonists. Since its founding the organization has helped cartoonists from around the world with legal, financial, and moral support. Current […]
GoComics had the black line issue solved for quite awhile until recently. Today Biographic lost it, and since it is only available as part of Andrews McMeel Syndicate’s newspaper e-portal I don’t know if it will ever be fixed as they did to The Born Loser after Labor Day weekend. The unsyndicated Looks Good On […]
Morland sums up Trumpapalooza, which I would point out was the Republicans’ own nickname for their unprecedented midterm convention, not mine. I’d say showing a packed crowd is being particularly generous, given the number of empty seats there really were in the place, the number of candidates who chose not to show up alongside Dear […]
Peter M. Wallace is an Episcopal priest in Hawai’i, an author, and a fan of comic strips. He used his most recent weekly Substack essay “In Praise of the Comic Strip” to proclaim the virtues of the small reading material to society and to newspapers. First of all, I confess, I have loved comic strips […]
With Derf Backderf, Bill Dyer, Tim Atseff, Mike Luckovich, Steve Kelley, Terry Mosher, Joel Pett, and Ron Cobb. Derf Backderf Annie Nickoloff for Cleveland Magazine interviews Derf (John) Backderf about this his new book The Dissidents, a graphic history about “the artists who worked for New York City’s The Masses, a socialist political magazine of […]
While other cartoonists reflected the mood 25 years later, or encapsulated how we’ve changed and what we’re learned since, Ann Telnaes instead posted a collection of her 9/11-related cartoons from that moment, including this first impression, which is dated 9/13/01.It’s a better cartoon than much of what ran in the days following the attack. I […]
This month filmmaker George Lucas’ one billion dollar Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will open to the public. Reviews of the Los Angeles comic museum which features comic and illustration art side by side with classic art has drawn high praise and pans in reviews. The praise comes from L.A. news sources who have no […]
Palestinian cartoonist Safaa Odah is now living in Angoulême France after nearly two years of trying to leave war-torn Gaza. Her safe arrival in Paris on Aug. 28 marks the end of a dark and dangerous chapter where her cartooning provided a light of hope to the world. Her journey to Paris has been long […]
In West Australia the right-wing party One Nation targeted the right-wing Liberal Party (yeah, this is Australia where the Liberal Party are the conservatives) instead of the liberal Labor Party. It is the first non-Labor electorate One Nation has targeted in the state. But the bid has taken a particularly personal twist, with leader Pauline […]
Peter Schrank’s response to the 9/11 attacks of 25 years ago became an anchor in the editorial cartooning presentation that was part of my educational mission in those days. I was doing Newspapers-in-Education for the Post-Star in Glens Falls, NY, visiting schools in the area and creating curricula to teach media literacy and current events. […]
Following failed union negotiations that would have allowed the newspaper to outsource content to “AI, freelancers, managers” Block Communications will take the same path it did with The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: shut it down if a Good Samaritan cannot be found to purchase The (Toledo) Blade. Ground News supplies bullet points and links to news story […]
In an open letter “to the publisher and editors of The Baltimore Sun, as well as any other journalists who try to pass off AI images as legitimate editorial cartooning” The Herb Block Foundation joins the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists in condemning newspapers using artificial intelligence to create content. On September 4, 2026, The […]
For Standford Magazine Kali Shiloh talks to Amy Kurzweil and Kendra Allenby on “The Gag Economy.”Kurzweil and Allenby are comparatively new cartoonists on the 101 year roster of New Yorker contributors, having “only” been published by the magazine since 2016. Stanford grads, they met and bonded in The New Yorker offices on pitch day where […]
Cartoonists and other satiric commentators have been borrowing quotes from Orwell since the first Trump administration, but it has often meant finding general observations about dictatorships that could apply to most governments, or extreme examples that had to be toned down to apply to our current situation. Here Matson borrows the 1984 example of declaring […]
Single panel gag cartoonists opened their mail Tuesday to find a note from Bob Mankoff: Hello Artists, I’m very sorry to pass along the bad, sad news that AirMail has suddenly stopped buying cartoons. We didn’t have any warning, or we wouldn’t have asked for your last batches. But I guess we should have known the handwriting was on […]