Russians Using Cartoons to Influence Midterms
Graphika, a network analysis firm, has released a report on foreign actors, specifically Russian, trying to influence the United States…
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CSotD: The Final, Most Essential Command
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential…
George Booth – RIP
Cartoonist George Booth has passed away. George William Booth June 28, 1926 – November 1, 2022 Update: The New…
CSotD: And another thing …
Nick Anderson (Tribune) with the only hammer cartoon you need. Or, at least, the only one you’re going to see…
The Lucy and Sophie Cartoonist – Another Look (Updated with Part Two – A George Frink Profile)
Last year we reported the findings of Eddie Campbell and Barnacle Press’s Holmes and Thrillmer on the identity of the…
Día de los Angelitos – Kathryn Barbara Kelly
The Day of the Dead is a misnomer. It doesn’t last just a day, but three. November 2 is the…
CSotD: Men With Hammers
One of my first memes, from back when a man with a hammer declared “Mission Accomplished” before several thousand American…
No Penguin Random House Simon & Schuster Meld
From Publishers Weekly: A Federal Court has blocked Penguin Random House’s acquisition of rival Big Five publisher Simon & Schuster….
Chelsea Carr Curses GoComics
Appropriately GoComics introduces Curses! by Chelsea Carr on Halloween. From the GoComics blog: The comic strip follows Wilma, a witch…
Ward Sutton Wins 2022 Berryman Award
The National Press Foundation has announced that Ward Sutton has won the 2022 Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award…
CSotD: Twitterpated
It’s Halloween, but that seems to mean “Cartoonists’ Day Off.” I found myself resisting the urge to post an entire page…
A Gathering of Gallimaufry
A Hard-Copy of the Morning Newspaper is Vital Art Marmorstein needs four things in the morning: … a warm shower,…
CSotD: Asymmetrical War on a Darkling Plain
I’m going to have to be frugal with cartoons this coming week, given that most are either Halloween gags, which…
Harvard Magazine Profiles Harvard’s Own KAL
Grotesquerie is Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher’s bread and butter. For fifty years the cartoonist has rendered newsmakers in a fleshy museum…
A Brief History of Britain’s Political Cartoonists
An article takes time to read, but a picture speaks to us instantly. In the 18th century, William Hogarth campaigned…