Armed with watercolors and a “passive-aggressive” sense of humor, the New Yorker cover illustrator finds the funny, even in ugly times. The New Yorker’s YouTube channel presents a wonderfully entertaining, self-effacing, humorous interview with “cartoonist and illustrator” Barry Blitt. Some of the best seven minutes you’ll spend today! Cartoonist Dave Coverly talks about the creative […]
… an item of interest in the humour section: a hardcover volume entitled Dahl’s Brave New World, published 1947. Spare but effective cartooning, plenty of imagination and wit. By way of biography, Mr. Dahl (1907-1973) thankfully rated an obit in the New York Times on May 7, 1973. Allow me to quote liberally from it: […]
As Americans were waking up to the news of a second Trump administration, cartoonists in earlier time zones were already inking and coloring their feelings about our election. Let’s start with Badiucao, a Chinese cartoonist living in Australia. He gave us two cartoons. The first from yesterday is entitled, “Pray for Trump” and today’s cartoon, […]
Oh well. Wiley anticipated the outcome of yesterday’s vote with a Non Sequitur (AMS) that didn’t try to predict the winner but just observed that the Electoral College count doesn’t reflect the popular vote. There have been several cartoons over the past weeks suggesting we abandon the Electoral College and I think it’s a remnant […]