Today’s Cartoon News Roundup
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Featuring a Peter Brookes print and President Trump; Harry Harrison and The Year of the Snake; Steve Hill and the Dallas Stars; Martha Rosenberg on Food, Clothes, Men, Gas and Other Problems; and Eli Valley as The World’s Most Dangerous Comic Artist.
President Trump Presented With a Framed Peter Brookes Cartoon
Former hostage Eli Sharabi presented US President Donald Trump with a framed cartoon which featured Holocaust survivors next to released hostages during his visit on Wednesday.
Created by political cartoonist Peter Brookes at The Times, the cartoon was first published in the newspaper on February 10, two days after the hostages depicted were released.
The cartoon read “Never Again” above the Holocaust survivors, and “Again” above the hostages, which included Sharabi, Or Levy and Ohad Ben Ami, who were released together.
Full story at The Jerusalem Post.
Peter Brookes prints, including the “Never Again. Again.” cartoon, are available from The Times. As seen at that Times page Trump is proudly displaying a print from a cartoonist who clearly is not a fan of the President.
As long as we are overseas…
Harry Harrison’s Year of the Snake
Harry Harrison’s set of eight original watercolour and ink works takes cheeky digs at Hong Kong culture and politics.
The South China Morning Post reports on their cartoonist Harry Harrison and a set of his cartoons.
Over the past few months, the state of the economy has been top of mind for many, including Harry Harrison, the Post’s long-time political cartoonist.
That is why it is the key issue addressed in his latest collection of humorous Lunar New Year illustrations, which is titled “2025 … S-S-Snakes Alive!” as a nod to this year’s Chinese zodiac animal.
For Harrison, who has been drawing cartoons for the Post since 2001, the Year of the Snake is set to be full of surprises, which is why many of his witty illustrations this year reflect a general sense of uncertainty.
“Everyone’s hoping the Year of the Snake is going to be good, but snakes are unpredictable and can be dangerous. It might bite you. That’s the general feeling I get from the economy and also a lot of the geopolitics as well,” he says.
Closer to home, if your home is U.S…
Spits and Suds with Sports Editorial Cartoonist Steve Hill
You see his Dallas Stars Cartoons on social media where he is known as Sportstoons. Sports Editorial Cartoonist Steve Hill drops by to talk about drawing various Dallas Stars players with host Gavin Spittle. Steve talks about his love of hockey and where his love of the Stars came from. Which players he loves to draw the most. The art of not just the cartoon but the subject matter that needs to go along with it…
Sports cartoonist Steve Hill sits for a 20 minute audio interview concentrating on his Dallas Stars NHL team cartoons. As seen on his Sportstoon Substack Steve does more than the Dallas Stars including political cartoons, sometimes combining sports and politics, and his Instagram feed also shows more.
Food, Clothes, Men, Gas and Other Problems
I began writing for underground newspapers in New Orleans, then did a stint as an advertising copywriter – which got me so mad at corporate spin that I returned to underground reporting. A few years ago I experienced writers block (nature’s own rejection slip, as they say) so I began cartooning, a skill that uses the right rather than the left hemisphere of the brain.
Journalist/cartoonist Martha Rosenberg sits down with Hugh Iglarsh of CounterPunch for an email interview.
In the chapter about telling a joke, I note that you can’t tell a “dumb blonde” joke even if you are a blonde, as I am. In Mad Magazine days, people used to say, “That’s not funny; it’s sick.” Today the meme is more like, “That’s not funny; I’m offended.”
Food, Clothes, Men, Gas, and Other Problems is available at Amazon.
The World’s Most Dangerous Comic Artist
Eli Valley was a dangerous artist long before Donald Trump’s Christian nationalists took power, openly aspiring to a near-future apocalypse in Israel—or rather, post-Israel, minus Jews who decline to convert. In the introduction to this newest work, Valley says of his already famously (or notoriously) satirical work that his critics hate him most for calling upon memory. Memory that “has come alive, history is both metaphor and alarm, and past trauma [that] has the power to illuminate and help mobilize against our current catastrophe”
Paul Buhle and Raymond Tyler for CounterPunch (again) reviews radical cartoonist Eli Valley’s newest book Museum of Degenerates: Portraits of the American Grotesque.
Valley has long been hated for his attacks on the rising U.S. Right, but never so much as now. Assaulted as a Nazi by “Zionists who had never encountered a Yiddish cartoon” of the kind that ridiculed the Jewish rich and foolish, and described by Seth Mandel as “everyone’s favorite Nazi cartoonist,” Valley yielded not one inch of ground…
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