Gary Varvel and Creators Syndicate are offering a new feature beginning February 6, 2021. Humor Me is a caption contest offered weekly (intended for Saturdays, but editors being editors… ). The twist here is that each local newspaper will pick the winning gag lines from local submissions. That makes for a quicker turn around than […]
Cartoonist (and now multimedia creator) Keith Knight has been nominated! The complete list of NAACP Image Award nominees. In other Keef news, he has a new address on the internet. © Keith Knight Support a cartoonist
Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has his hands full on both coasts. His Washington D.C. troubles are lead stories on national networks, at home a faux pas is front page news – headlined above the fold. From the Bakersfield Californian: In a cartoon posted on Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s blog last week, a woman lounges under a […]
A Dennis Draughon editorial cartoon is taking some heat. From the right-of-center The Hill: North Carolina’s first Black lieutenant governor held a press conference on Tuesday to express outrage over a political cartoon that linked him and other members of the State Board of Education to the Ku Klux Klan for their opposition to allowing teachers to […]
Which of The Usual Gang of Idiots Do You Most Admire? That’s almost impossible to answer … Mort Drucker was the master of caricature and literally defined the movie/TV parody. Jack Davis was the greatest action/movement/physical cartoonist maybe ever. Wally Wood was a virtuoso of ink, light, and shadow, and could draw virtually anything from […]
I’ll be sending you off to some good stuff today, but let’s lead with a cartoon I absolutely cannot understand. I almost always disagree with AF Branco (Creators) but it’s not hard to figure out his rightwing fringe take on things. This one makes no sense, though, unless he preferred the succession of liars, obstructionists […]