CSotD: Teach Your Children Well
Peter Steiner sums it all up. Thank you for coming and don’t forget to tip your waitress. But, no, I’ve…
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NCS and AAEC Convention Updates
Both the National Cartoonists Society (NCS) and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) have posted updates concerning their upcoming…
CSotD: The difference between ignorance & apathy
An obvious but timely meme, to which I’ll add an old but timely joke: “What is the difference between ignorance…
Play Ball! with Jim Borgman
Former Cincinnati Enquirer editorial cartoonist (and de facto sports cartoonist) and current Zits comic strip artist Jim Borgman returns to…
CSotD: Seeing Them Damned Pictures
I don’t care a straw for your newspaper articles; my constituents don’t know how to read, but they can’t help…
Noted Cartoonists, Past and Present, Noted
Stan Mack, Darrin Bell, Bil Keane, Clare Victor Dwiggens, Garry B. Trudeau, Asher Perlman, and Justin Green. Voices in The…
Will They Yahtzee Willie’s “The Catch”
A “cartoon yahtzee” is when five or more editorial cartoonists draw a similar approach to a news story. “The Catch”…
CSotD: Good guy, Bad guys
I’m going to let Bill Bramhall’s tribute stand for all the Willie Mays cartoons, most of which took advantage of…
CSotD: Puzzles and Punditry
Start with the good news, which is that I agree with Dave Granlund’s idea though not with the sense of…
CSotD: Person, man, woman, TV, camera, Jackson
I don’t mind opposing points of view, but I get tired of citing Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and I get particularly…
CSotD: Whose flag is it, anyway?
Clay Bennett (CTFP) marks Flag Day with a display of US flags flown respectfully over the years, contrasted with the…
John Adler – RIP
Harper’s Weekly compiler/indexer and Thomas Nast biographer John Adler has passed away. John Adler September 29, 1927 – June 11,…
CSotD: With the best of intentions
We’ll start with something that hardly counts in the Grand Scheme of Things, except that accuracy does matter, even when…
CSotD: Issues and Answers (Well, sort of)
There used to be a Sunday talking heads show called Issues and Answers, which was a pretty ambitious promise, though…
Iranian Cartoonist Sentenced to Six Years
From Iran International: The Revolutionary Court of Tehran has handed down a six-year prison sentence to Atena Farghadani, a cartoonist…