From the May 1st New York Times, a profile by Abdi Latif Dahir entitled “Tanzanian Cartoonist Has a Stick for Every Powerful Eye.” From the piece: Gado, 50, is one of Africa’s leading editorial cartoonists. A native Tanzanian who calls Kenya his home, he has won awards and been syndicated in newspapers and digital publications worldwide. […]
From the publisher of the Coos Bay newspaper The World: Dear Reader, The COVID-19 pandemic continues to alter our daily lives… Meantime, you may notice some changes to our regular lineup of comics, columns and features, and the resulting number of pages in each issue. Soon after we bought this newspaper on February 1, we […]
Over at Politico, Pulitzer winners Matt Wuerker and Darrin Bell chat about Darrin’s career, the lack of diversity in editorial cartooning and newspaper editors. https://www.politico.com/video/2020/05/01/punchlines-cartoonist-of-color-with-darrin-bell-074113
The Pulitzer Prize winners, usually named the third Monday of April, will be announced this coming first Monday of May. J. P. Trostle has taken on the insane task of handicapping the editorial cartoonists’ chances of winning their category this year. Sez Jape: Based on the past performance of the judges doling out the award, […]
I got a laugh out of this Ed Stein cartoon last night. It’s from 1994. I’d given up on contemporary cartoons for the moment, because the treatment of Biden/Reade went so far out of whack that it’s like when you shut down the washing machine because you can take a little banging, but now it’s […]