You may have heard about The Latrobe Bulletin publisher who pleaded not guilty to his newspaper’s readers for printing a cartoon that raised the hackles of some – not guilty because the cartoon “slip[ped] through.” Lee Judge, the cartoonist responsible for that hackle-raising cartoon, and for the current price of eggs too for that matter, […]
Newspaper readers in Jersey City, New Jersey are losing their local paper come February 1, 2025, and with that comes comic strip cartoonists losing a six-days-a-week (which is about as daily as they come in most places these days) outlet. Slice of Culture reported The Jersey Journal’s shuttering last year with the closing of its […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) has a new Board of Directors. 2025 Officers and Board of Directors President: Marc Murphy, Louisville Courier Journal Vice President: John Auchter, Michigan Public RadioSecretary-Treasurer: Monte Wolverton, Cagle CartoonsDirector: Clay Jones, Claytoonz (2nd year)Director: Paul Tarr, Rattoons, Crooksandliars.com (2nd year)Director: Steve Stegelin, Charleston City Paper (1st year)Director: Alexandra […]
Walt Handelsman sums it up: The demolition crew is here to begin taking apart America. It may be metaphorical, but it’s not theoretical: Trump has already begun spinning and, to use an old phrase from Jonathan Swift’s era, “to say the thing that is not.” To accuse him of lying requires reading his mind. But […]