above: Boris Johnson in The Times by Peter Brookes Tim Benson looks back at the cartoons of 2019 and asks, “How far can you go in making people think but not being tasteless”? In April, the international edition of The New York Times published a controversial cartoon. It showed a blind Donald Trump, wearing a […]
Ladies First: A Century of Women’s Innovations in Comics and Cartoon Art Nov. 2, 2019-May 3, 2020 at The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum above: the Jackie Ormes display (image via Pioneering Cartoonists of Color Facebook) Jackie Ormes, Rose O’Neill, Lynn Johnston, Edwina Dumm, Alison Bechdel. Nell Brinkley, and more. From the Columbus Alive […]
Charles M. Schulz again makes it into the top five of Forbes Top-Earning Dead Celebrities in this year of 2019. Another cartoonist comes in at #6. The other cartoonist achieved his fame as a book author. Go here for Forbes list of the 13 Top Earning Dead Celebrities of 2019.
Every fifteen years or so the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists overhauls its website. November 1, 2019 marks the latest. The old face of editorialcartoonists.com: The new face of editorialcartoonists.com (yes, the address remains the same): I guess this refurbishing explains the occasional “service unavailable” message that one got when checking in on the page […]
Jim Morin provides a good starting point and what may be Trump’s best defense: To simply scream that it’s all a hoax and a witch hunt and unfair. I particularly like that Morin does not have him pointing at his political opponents so much as the system itself. We’ve had several cartoons showing him destroying […]