Cartoonists and the USA Gun Culture
Sandy Hook Elementary. San Bernardino. Stoneman Douglas High. Uvalde. AR-15-style weapons are so common in American mass shootings that graphics…
July 2022
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The Phantom Strangeness – update
Art Credits Update The Chronicle Chamber has the ghost art credits for The Ghost Who Walks: What we understand is…
Doonesbury NFT Charity Auction Goes Live Today – Updated
NFTs still represented a strange new world to many cartoonists last year when Jason Chatfield decided to convene an online…
An R. C. Harvey Project
Remembering RC Harvey Harvey, who went alternately by Bob or R.C., was a perennial presence at NCS and AAEC conventions,…
CSotD: In Which I Lose a Year
I woke up this morning feeling really refreshed, but couldn’t tell why until I began going through the political cartoons…
Tom Kane – RIP
Sports cartoonist Tom Kane has passed away. Thomas Joseph (Tom) Kane, Jr. December 9, 1934 – July 10, 2022 From…
Durango Herald Joins Pulitzer Cartoon Protest
By Jan. 25 of every year, about 1,100 journalism entries are submitted to the Pulitzer Prize board. The competition is…
CSotD: The Age of No Reason
Well, yes, Prickly City (AMS), Carmen is correct that this is no longer the Age of Reason, defined as any…
Jordan Lockett: Cartoonist Emergent
Twenty-one-year-old Jordan Lockett creates stories that are relatable to any reader, but what’s distinctive about his tales is they contain…
Keith Knight Remembers The Old Hometown
We’ll narrow that Boston area to Malden. Keith Knight, a Malden native, infuses his work with humor, creativity and…
The Old Frontiers with Charles M. Russell
In the mid-1910s famed “Cowboys and Indians” artist Charles M. Russell began a new phase of his storied career –…
CSotD: Fair Commentary
There’s a dust-up among editorial cartoonists over a fellow who cartoons for Cagle under a cloak of anonymity, which seems,…
Miscellaneous Monday – We’re All Over the Place
A reminder that if you are, or know, a young cartoonist doing political cartoons or comics journalism, you have until…
R.C. Harvey’s Autobiographical Essay from 2005
From IJoCA: Bob Harvey, a longtime comics historian and cartoonist passed away last week, suddenly after an injury. We’ve asked…
Update: Gil Thorp, Popeye, Pickles, Peanuts Stamps
Henry Barajas begins his take on the Gil Thorp comic strip today. Over the weekend The Arizona Daily Star interviewed…