A year after being let go by the USA Today/Gannett chain of newspapers, editorial cartoonist Mike Thompson has joined the staff of the independent Minneapolis Star Tribune. From The Star Tribune: After a national search, the Star Tribune Opinion team is excited to announce the addition of Minnesota native and four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Mike […]
Ann Telnaes, Chris Browne, Jules Feiffer, Joe Heller, Ellis Rosen, Ian Boothby and Pia Guerra. Dave Whamond, Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds, Clay Jones, and an Ode to Calvin and Hobbes. The Washington Post PR Blog celebrates Ann Telnaes’s Herb Block Win Ann Telnaes, editorial cartoonist at The Washington Post, is the 2023 recipient of […]
Jules Feiffer and I were born 94 years ago in the Bronx, two months apart. We both grew up to be terrible at sports, and we both started to draw characters from the comics when we were 8 or 9 years old. We both became cartoonists, and last year, both of us ended up in […]
Harry Allard’s 1974 book “The Stupids Step Out” has been banned in many places because it’s not funny to refer to people as “stupid,” though you might try the transactional explanation, “It’s not that you’re stupid. It’s that you do stupid things.” Which seems worse, but I’m not going to defend the term, having merely […]