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CSotD: The Voice of One Crying in the Desert

David Fitzsimmons drew this cartoon in 2008, but now he’s “writing about us” himself, or, at least, “us” in a modified sense, since he took a buyout in January and became a freelancer. (h/t to Michael Rhode) Temporarily, he predicts: Readers familiar with the industry will reel in horror to learn that the Arizona Daily […]

Tucker Toons and Don Drawings

As news spread quickly Monday that two longtime cable-news hosts, Fox News’s Tucker Carlson and CNN’s Don Lemon, had been dropped by their networks, editorial cartoonists wasted no time rendering their sharp judgment. Michael Cavna, at The Washington Post, highlights a half dozen editorial cartoons and thoughts from the corresponding cartoonists about the same day […]

CSotD: You are old, Joseph Biden

“You are old,” said the youth, “one would hardly suppose    That your eye was as steady as ever;Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose—    What made you so awfully clever?” “I have answered three questions, and that is enough,”    Said his father; “don’t give yourself airs!Do you think I can listen all day to […]

Heller High Water Marks

Every week the Isanti-Chisago County Star publishes a cartoon on page four with the signature, Joe Heller. Every week, Joe Heller makes us laugh, critically think, and sometimes makes us angry – all with a stroke of a pen.  But just who is this cartoonist?  Sierra Kingen, of the Northstar Media, profiles Joe Heller and […]

Mike Thompson’s First Strib Editorial Cartoon Brings an Editorial Apology

The Daily Cartoonist noted Mike Thompson beginning his new role as Minneapolis Star Tribune editorial cartoonist last Saturday. A rocky start as the cartoon drew complaints from local Muslim representatives. The publisher apologized. From The Minneapolis Star Tribune: Responding to criticism from four DFL Muslim legislators about a recent Star Tribune editorial cartoon they described […]

CSotD: Observational Humor

Thank god I don’t still have his voice in my head like this fellow in the Banx cartoon. But the political cartoons are currently evenly divided between Tucker Carlson and the November elections. I’m trying to be done with the former and, as for the latter, I’m taking the Scarlett O’Hara approach: I’ll think about […]

Frank Hill – RIP

Comic strip and comic book cartoonist Frank Hill has passed away. From the obituary: Frank Richard Hill, (93) of Soquel, Ca. passed away peacefully on March 10th, 2023 of natural causes. Frank’s career was fueled by creativity and the joy of cartooning and illustration. He would claim that he knew he wanted to be a […]

Just Another Wayback Wednesday

Oz Black. Plus Thomas Nast, Paul Conrad, Ted Rall, Bill Bramhall, Ann Telnaes, Herblock, Zapiro, Edmund Duffy, Barry Blitt and more Here in Lincoln by Oz Oswald Ragan “Oz” Black studied art at the University of Nebraska from 1918 to 1923. He went on to document local news 365 days a year for nearly four […]

CSotD: Hump Day Potpourri

Man Overboard manages what few cartoonists have, which is to make genuinely funny cartoons on Biblical topics without either being sacrilegious or being wrong about the scriptural references. Or, of course, both. AFAIK, the moneychangers and dove-sellers did not actually look like Laurel and Hardy, but if you assume, as many do, that Jesus was […]

Michael Ramirez Cartoons – Fit For Print?

Let’s get this straight right off the bat: this is not a political post. As most of you know Michael Ramirez is the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Reuben Award-winning editorial cartoonist for The Las Vegas Review-Journal with a conservative outlook. But again forget the politics, this is about his art. And one would be hard-pressed to argue […]

CSotD: All Tuckered Out

Odd timing at Non Sequitur (AMS) this morning, as Danae might well have watched the most popular cable news channel last night, but she’d have likely absorbed a less promising message about career paths. For those not operating on long lead times, however, the firing of Tucker Carlson called forth a torrent of intentional commentary, […]

Ted Richards – RIP

Underground comix cartoonist Ted Richards has passed away. From Last Gasp publisher Ron Turner: Talked to Miranda Lee Richards today… She let me know her father, the cartoonist Ted Richards had passed away on Friday of Lung Cancer… Ted was the creator of Dopin’ Dan comix, The Astral Outhouse and was one of the infamous […]

CSotD: Youth and couth and suchlike

First, this commercial, or anti-commercial, from Joy of Tech. I’m a Windows kind of guy, so I wouldn’t have known this, but Apple is getting into banking, and offering some impressive interest rates. As this article suggests, their 4.15% rate is better than traditional banks are offering and may spark banks to raise their current […]

The Funnies This Past Week – updated

Broom-Hilda celebrated her birthday this week, the strip debuted 53 years ago. Other than a very, very, verrrrry short period when he tried out a gag writer (didn’t work out, more trouble than it was worth), Russell Myers has been the sole cartoonist to work the strip. Which, as far as I know, is a […]

CSotD: On Further Review

There have been many, many Dominion/Fox cartoons since we looked at the immediate reactions. Here are some of the most thought-provoking from the second wave: Jack Ohman starts us off with an extremely important factor to bear in mind, which is that, while the lawsuit and its revelations were major news on most networks, Fox […]

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