In 1961 Ernie Bushmiller, the creator of Nancy, contributed a comic to the Dutch Treat Club yearbook. The privately printed edition of 750 copies was distributed to the attendees of the club’s annual dinner in the Sert room of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel New York on May 3 of that year. The Dutch Treat Club […]
It was reported Friday that First Look Media made the decision to end funding for The Nib along with shuttering the web magazine Topic.com at the end of July. That is true and something that I’ve been dealing with the results of for a few weeks now. That leaves me writing yet another post on […]
You can still find them online so political cartoons aren’t yet extinct. But they are doomed. A century ago newspapers employed more than 2000 full-time editorial cartoonists. Today there are fewer than 25. In the United States, political cartooning as we know it is dead. If you draw editorial cartoons for a living and […]
Brewster Rockit being set in the distant future, today’s got a chuckle, granted a mordant, dark, very bad chuckle. Well, with, as Gary Varvel notes, editorial cartooning in a state of crisis, we could all use a chuckle. But the people in the newsroom don’t get it, and that’s part of the problem: They’re not […]