We’ve been monitoring the newspapers that have dropped Candorville since cartoonist Darrin Bell‘s recent troubles. Now comes the first reports that Candorville has been “discontinued” and “no longer available.” From the Fairfield (CA) Daily Republic: The Daily Republic over the next three weeks will be featuring three new comic strips. We would like your feedback […]
Luke Farookhi, a freelance caricaturist and illustrator, has emerged from The Spectator’s contest to find a new political cartoonist. He has been contributing cartoons since November. According to The Cartoonists’ Club of Great Britain, Luke is 36 years old and studied History of Art at Leeds University. According to his LinkedIn profile, he is currently […]
The death of famed cartoonist Jules Feiffer was international news. But we would like to recommend those obituaries prepared and issued by the comics community. Jules Feiffer mastered every major narrative art form of the 20th century — comic strips (Feiffer), theater (Little Murders), cinema (Carnal Knowledge), novels (Harry the Rat with Women), graphic novels […]
Charlie Sykes illustrated an excellent rant with an 1889 Samuel Ehrhardt cartoon that bears the caption “History Repeats Itself — The Robber Barons of the Middle Ages, and the Robber Barons of Today.” Mark Twain said “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes,” which is clever but inaccurate: History is indeed repeating itself, as […]
A Sacramento judge released Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Darrin Bell from custody Thursday ahead of a Feb. 4 court date as prosecutors added more child porn allegations to his case. The 49-year-old Bell faces a number of conditions of his release — and yet more charges filed in an amended complaint by Sacramento County prosecutors who […]
I write this in my first days as President of the AAEC. I’m humbled by the honor, and have big shoes to fill. We have, moreover — all of us, not just political artists — work to do. We’re in the middle of a Mass Extinction Event and the air is filled with the smell […]
Jen Sorensen notes the people who may not have expected that what they were promised was going to happen. Some of them voted for Trump, some of them didn’t vote at all, some even voted for Harris but considered it a formality, little expecting, even if “their side” lost, the changes that are suddenly arriving. […]
Barry Blitt, Jack Ohman, and Jen Sorensen discuss the promise and many perils of their chosen artform. [I]n the year 2025, editorial cartooning was back on the front page. Washington Post Opinion editor David Shipley released a statement that the paper had killed Telnaes’s cartoon to avoid redundancy because they had just published a column […]
Here is a roundup of some news items from the past week featuring Clay Jones, Max Gustafson, Guy Badeaux (Bado), Brigitta Blair, Mark Parisi, Dave Blazek, Wayno, Peter Bagge, Julio Salgado, and more. We added this Clay Jones cartoon and Substack link as an update to the Lee Judge/Latrobe Bulletin item so some may have […]
Our nation’s cartoonists are divided between those who see the ascension of Trump as a disaster and those who consider it a shining moment, but I’ve found little support for the fellow among foreign cartoonists. Morten Morland (UK) captured the swearing in with Trump about to press the plunger carried by Melania, in her Natasha […]
Cartoonist and playwright Jules Feiffer has passed away. Jules Ralph Feiffer January 26, 1929 – January 17, 2025 The Washington Post is reporting the death of Jules Feiffer. Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter and children’s book author who was one of the most humorously neurotic literary voices of his generation, died Jan. […]
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, […]
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 […]
Gary Markstein comments on the decision to move tomorrow’s inauguration inside. Or possibly on the entire process of making Donald Trump president. Both interpretations work, though the former is less partisan and potentially more constructive. There’s plenty of speculation and commentary about the decision, including people pointing out that the Kansas City stadium was packed […]