Adam Zyglis Is Confused From The Buffalo News: The editorial cartoon on Tuesday was misleading. The Democrats, liberals and leftists are the ones endorsed by the communists and socialists, not the National Rifle Association. The NRA is fighting to keep the Constitution so that our defense against tyranny is maintained. …but you […]
iMediaEthics, “a not-for-profit, non-partisan news site that publishes the latest media ethics news and investigations into ethical lapses” has named their most controversial editorial cartoons of 2018 (through October). The list includes: Sean Delonas, Dieter Hanitzsch, Rob Rogers, Jeff Darcy, Avi Katz, Jos Valdman, Tom Stiglich, Gary Varvel, Chris Britt, Mark Knight and Rick McKee. From the piece: […]
A recent letter to the editor in The (Salem, Ore.) Statesman Journal cited the December 15th “B.C.” as insensitive in the current #metoo climate: From the letter: The daily syndicated strip depicts a caveman carrying a very large club and being asked by another character if he has a “big date tonight?” Is this really funny […]
Our weekly respite from the political flood comes just in time. If the Night of the Chickenhawk doesn’t shake a few Deplorables out of the basket, maybe they’ll start to figure it out when they find their wall donations are going to the wrong grifter. But never mind. C’est le weekend! We’ll get in […]
At the time of his death in the early 20th Century Thomas Nast became known as “The Father of the American Cartoon.” Well-known as creator of the Republican and Demoocratic party symbols, the elephant and the donkey. He was credited in helping to bring down the corrupt Boss Tweed. Further, at this time of […]
For 50 years, he has been at the heart of Britain’s morning conversation, as much a part of breakfast time as cornflakes and toast and marmalade. We are talking, of course, of Mac, the Daily Mail’s celebrated cartoonist whose laugh-out-loud drawings – sardonic but never cruel – have ensured readers up and down the […]
“Other teachers would call my mother into school. They’d say, ‘He sits and draws all day.’ My mother would say, ‘He wants to be a cartoonist.’ ‘Don’t worry,’ the teachers told her. ‘He’ll grow out of it.’” Spoiler: He didn’t. Hy Eisman has been in the comics business for nearly 70 years! As a […]
Cartoonist/caricaturist Frankie Bernard has passed away. FRANCIS J. (FRANKIE) BERNARD, JR. April 30, 1967 – December 18, 2018 From the obituary: Frankie plied himself as a talented and professional cartoonist. He was a featured editorial cartoonist for the Chelsea Record and Journal Transcript Publications, he also worked several years as a caricature artist […]
From the piece: In 2018, the most popular cartoons ranged in subject matter from dogs to cats, from parents to children, and from normal, emotionally balanced people to Donald Trump. They spanned a wide range of dates, too—the most popular cartoon on Instagram, by Peter Steiner, was originally published in 1990, which is quite a […]
I curate my social media enough that I miss some things, but if anybody is mourning the retirement of Paul Ryan, it hasn’t come across my feed. The most sympathetic take I’m seeing is along the lines of this simple Ann Telnaes commentary, which I don’t think is intended to be sympathetic. But there he […]
Bobby Hart, the Matriarch of the John Hart Studios crew, has passed away. From the obituary: Bobby Hart (Ida Jane Hatcher) left this world in the wee morning hours of Saturday December 15th, to reunite with her cartoonist husband Johnny Hart, on Heaven’s dance floor. Bobby is survived by daughters Patti Hart and Perri […]
It’s probably a mistake to lead off with the funniest editorial cartoon of the day, perhaps the week, perhaps more, but Bill Bramhall knocked me out my chair with this. There is a load of brilliance in this simple drawing. Anybody could have drawn Trump with his hand in the cookie jar, and perhaps have […]
In December 1918 Leroy Robert Ripley came up with an idea that would make him famous … and rich. But he didn’t realize it then, and it wouldn’t be until the end of the following decade when his idea struck gold. Robert, having dropped the Leroy, was a sports cartoonist for the New York […]
Editor Scott McIntosh of the Idaho Press in Idaho Falls has penned a tongue-in-cheek column where he says that he will no longer run any editorial cartoons that criticize Trump. From the column: You can see where I’m going here. Can you imagine what the newspaper would look like if we didn’t publish anything that […]
We’ll start easy today, with a bit of trivia sparked by the current Vintage Radio Patrol, from November, 1948. In the strip — which, by the way, I read for its camp value — the criminals have taken over a legitimate used car lot and are re-selling stolen vehicles. It would be another six years […]