Chuck Legge, New Gig Same As The Old Gig
For 20 years Chuck Legge drew editorial cartoons for the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, a liberal voice in a conservative Alaskan…
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State of Syndicated Newspaper Cartoonists
It’s no laughing matter. Austerity, consolidation and platform disparity undermine cartoons and comics. “I’m expecting some problems.” Editor & Publisher…
CSotD: Release the Krakpots!
Robert Ariail depicts the Republican elephant whistling past the graveyard, and it certainly seems the GOP is coming apart at…
Can political cartoons survive in an age of sensitivity? Or: Too Many Snowflakes?
By Alan Rusbridger: Imagine having a job which involves deliberately causing offence. Imagine going to work to ridicule, belittle, savage…
CSotD: The Spin Cycle Continues
Jimmy Margulies (KFS) opens today’s conversation with the plain truth, in a situation in which truth seems anything but plain….
Editoon Updates: Israel/Hamas and Jordan
The Jordan in this case is Jim Jordan. The Columbus Dispatch, an Ohio newspaper juuust outside of Jim Jordan’s Congressional…
CSotD: Flashbacks
This classic xkcd may not quite express my long-term financial plan, but I’m glad I have been saving funny pictures,…
CSotD: Rant Mode On (and on and on)
Following 9/11, I used this Peter Schrank cartoon in my school presentations. It’s brilliant not simply because the world was,…
Intl. Report on Threatened Cartoonists
Coming soon: report on threatened cartoonists worldwide Oct 20, 2023 | News CARTOONISTS RIGHTS are pleased to announce a new…
CSotD: Windows, Doors and Walls
Brazilian cartoonist Amorim (Cartoon Movement) leads us off today with a reasonable critique of the humanitarian disaster unfolding in Gaza,…
2024 Editoon Awards Calls for Submission
Attention Editorial Cartoonists! It’s time to start sorting your best of 2023 for the 2024 award season. Yesterday the Robert…
CSotD: Adventures in Subjective Reality
Cathy Wilcox cites a phenomenon as old as war itself, the need to objectify and make “other” our opponents in…
Paying a Visit to Miss Cellany
Know, O children, that there was a time when coffee tables across the nation were covered with magazines – Saturday…
CSotD: Identifying the Usual First Casualty
Well, of course it is, David Rowe, but thank you for pointing it out, since we don’t seem to remember,…
MacKay Makes Cartoonists’ Convention
Graeme MacKay, editorial cartoonist for The Hamilton Spectator, attended the recent joint convention of the Association of Canadian Cartoonists and…