From David Bauder of The Associated Press: The Washington Post laid off one-third of its staff Wednesday, eliminating its sports section, several foreign bureaus and its books coverage in a widespread purge that represented a brutal blow to journalism and one of its most legendary brands. Rumors of layoffs had circulated for weeks, ever since […]
Mike Mike Mike knows what day it is. And now so do you!I agree with Parisi: The distance and anonymity of the Internet lets people say things they’d never say face-to-face. You have to be a close relative or somewhat pitiable to get away with such behavior in person.The solution might be to do away […]
Jamar Nicholas, in his role as National Cartoonists Society vice-president, interviewed a trio of NCS members: Andrew Farago, Bill Hinds, and Milburn Taylor. Though the interviews were recorded a year and a half ago they were just recently uploaded to the NCS YouTube channel.NCS Studio Visits: Member Spotlight on Andrew Farago Andrew Farago is the […]
Before Nancy Beiman found worldwide fame and fortune with her FurBabies comic strip she had a brief (40 years) but renowned career in animation and as a teacher of same.It is for that last profession that Nancy is among a group being inducted into the Animation Educators’ Forum Hall of Fame for 2026. Jerry Beck […]
Original February 1 post:Cartoonist Terry Beatty, who both writes and draws the Rex Morgan, M.D. comic strip has had the good doctor and Rex and June’s son Johnny in for surgery these days. Now it is Terry Beatty himself headed for the operating room. From Terry’s Facebook page: Well, folks, I suppose it’s time to […]
I think I’ve seen just about enough cartoons that play upon the I.C.E./ice coincidence. We’re having an exceptionally tough winter and facing an exceptionally draconian private army. But neither will be resolved by a pun. But here’s an exception to my word-weariness: Wolterink gets excellent mileage out of the two meanings, since the US announced […]
UK’s Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation (PCO) handed out their annual Splats Awards a few days ago. The only place I’m finding the results of The Splats Awards is on the PCO Bluesky account where they also post photos of the event. The winners are… Kevin Wells for Best Caricature Grizelda for Best Current Affairs Grizelda again […]
Jeff Kinney and his Wimpy Kid rule; Detroit is now a kinda, sorta a one newspaper town with two newspapers; some real life inspirations behind some animated characters. 300,000,000 Above are the Amazon Best Sellers in Children’s Humorous Comics & Graphic Novels as of this posting. Jeff Kinney and Dav Pilkey rule. Especially Kinney. From […]
Today is a sort of cartoonists’ holiday. Nobody takes Groundhog Day seriously, except the Chamber of Commerce in Punxsutawney, obviously, but there it is and gag cartoonists can pop out something and enjoy a short day.Editorial cartoonists can get their compensation sometime later in the year by showing Bill Murray waking up to another round […]
Title PanelsA new Sunday Phantom story, “1536” (four hundred years before the February 1936 start of The Phantom comic strip), means a new Sunday Phantom title panel by Jeff Weigel. Speaking of title panels…I’m enjoying the new weekly title panels Caroline Cash is creating for the Sunday Nancy comic strip. The Olivia Jaimes era only […]
Danziger explained it all back in 2018, but it’s a much older story than that. For Americans, as everyone who paid attention in high school social studies knows, the issue of press freedom was raised when we were still a British colony. In 1734, New York’s royal governor charged John Peter Zenger‘s newspaper, The New […]
Hearst editorial page editor John Breunig asks, “Why are editorial cartoonists drawn to Donald Trump?” (or here). How would Dr. Seuss have drawn President Donald Trump? This is what I’m thinking as we launch a new feature showcasing political cartoons of the previous month. Satirists seem to be competing to see who can sketch the […]
Surprises Cathy Commiserating with the people of Minneapolis was an unexpected show of support. Cathy Guisewite got all kinds of love on her Facebook and Instagram pages for sending good thoughts.Also out of the blue came Ben Zaehringer referencing Lewis Carroll’s cautionary tale of “The Walrus and The Carpenter” in In the Bleachers this past […]
I was prepared to jump right into this very non-comical story, and the AAEC has released a statement on it, but I didn’t find enough cartoons this morning on the topic, so it’ll have to wait. But Slyngstad dropped two commentaries, this light-hearted iconic one and a more serious one that you’ll see when more […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has issued a statement about the arrest of Don Lemon: There’s a reason free speech and freedom of the press are the first of the essential liberties enshrined as the Bill of Rights in our Constitution. If people aren’t free to speak and assemble and if the press isn’t […]