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News with Doug MacGregor, Charlie Daniel and Brad Boring and the SEC-NCS, David G. Brown, Pat Bagley, and a fact check on a viral Trump-Xi tariff cartoon.
Doug MacGregor
Doug MacGregor has been an editorial cartoonist for more than 40 years. He got his professional start at the Norwich Bulletin in eastern Connecticut in 1980. He moved to Florida in 1988 and drew cartoons for the News Press in Fort Myers until 2011. Doug created five cartoons every week, year in and year out, for nearly a quarter century. These days he draws one a week for The Naples Press.
We are way too late notifying people of Doug MacGregor‘s talks of ten days ago, but here is a nice article from WGCU about Doug and his current “Suitable for Framing: A Collection of Cape Coral Cartoons by Doug MacGregor” exhibit at the Cape Coral Museum of History that runs through June 15, 2025.
And it includes a link to Doug MacGregor’s wonderful archives at Florida Gulf Coast University.
Charlie Daniel and Brad Boring
Making it just under the wire is notification of the Southeast Chapter of the National Cartoonist Society (SEC-NCS) annual conference with a public event in Knoxville with Charlie Daniel and Brad Boring among others.
Promoting the event are editorial cartoonists Charlie Daniel and Brad Boring appearing on local tv stations. An eight minute segment on WATE and a half hour segment on WBIR.
The question not asked: Is Brad Boring any relation to comic book artist Wayne Boring?
David G. Brown
“Politics, Race and Cartoons: Two Decades of Drawing my Own Conclusions” will debut with an opening reception on Sunday, May 4, and will continue until February 21, 2026. His editorial cartoons have been featured in the Sentinel for the last 20 years.
“I said, ‘well, why not have this exhibit be like a narrative of over two decades,’” said Brown. “Not only my experience, but also Black America.”
So we’re giving a week’s notice for this event, though the exhibit will continue into next year. Brian W. Carter for The L. A. Sentinel profiles/interviews that paper’s editorial cartoonist David G. Brown in anticipation of the cartoonist’s “Politics, Race and Cartoons: Two Decades of Drawing my Own Conclusions” exhibit going up in May and remaining until January 2026.
“I started doing political cartoons my freshman year in college,” said Brown.
“I’ve always loved art, drawing, comics and all that kind of stuff and so, they started a student newspaper, called The Argo Newspaper.”
It was the 70s and Brown shared he was very liberal at that point in time. He shared that in high school, he did paintings of Huey Newton, the Black Panther Party, Shaft, and was strongly influenced by Blaxploitation films.
Pat Bagley
I’m kinda cutting in on Mike’s territory here but I was enraptured by Pat Bagley‘s title of a recent cartoon.
I will admit that the play on an O. Henry short story may have been done earlier but this was the first I had seen it and “The Grift of the MAGA” brought out loud laughs from me, especially since I have no respect for those prosperity preachers.
No, The Chinese Embassy in the U.S. Did Not Post This Cartoon
The presence of the U.S. flag emoji beside the flag of the People’s Republic of China implied that the post specifically referred to the Chinese embassy in the U.S.
On April 23, 2025, an embassy spokesperson told Lead Stories via email:
“No, we didn’t publish this image in question on our Embassy X or any other affiliated accounts.”
A cartoon spread on social media in mid-April 2025 claiming to be posted from the Chinese Embassy.
Uliana Malashenko at Lead Stories investigates the origins of the Trump Having Tariff-Related Tantrum cartoon.
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