For our re-boot of The Cartoonist’s Cartoonists, I was excited that Ann Telnaes agreed to provide us a list of her 10 cartoonists who influenced or inspired her work and career. Ann is the award winning political cartoonist for The Washington Post. She has won every major prize in editorial cartooning including The National Headliner […]
Christopher Downes offers some laughs as the Trump administration begins to take shape, but his exaggerations are well grounded. Trump truly is advancing Christian nationalism despite having no real sense of what’s in the Bible. He went to church as a kid, but the Trumps were congregants of Norman Vincent Peale, who wrote The Power […]
November 11th, 2024, (LOS ANGELES, CA) — There have been many firsts on the Zoop crowdfunding platform lately. And today is no different. For the first time ever, the entire syndicated comic strip, Mullets by Steve McGarry and Rick Stromoski is being collected all in one glorious graphic novel package. The book will also feature […]
Matt Pritchett has a talent for reducing complexities to simple imagery. Journalistic neutrality is a polite fiction, but it works if you take it seriously, as we once did. Walter Cronkite is often held up as the model for broadcasters. When he took off his glasses in announcing the death of JFK, or when he […]
Before we get to some recent comics let’s take a peek at some future funnies. Jumble has posted their preview of this year’s 12th annual Guest Jumbler Week. I see Bob Weber, Jr. and/or Scott Underwood, Luca Debus, Georgia Dunn, and Todd Clark but I am at a loss with those top two corners. Anyone? […]
As of today the comics division of the Washington Post Writers Group (WPWG) no longer exists. The distribution of the last Fort Knox comic strip for November 10, 2024 effectively shutters the comics and cartoon division of the WPWG that began in 1979. The Washington Post Writers Group itself began in 1973 as an outgrowth […]
Patrick Chappatte calls the Trump election a wake-up call for Europe, which demands more analysis than a first reaction might suggest. I invoke Robert Burns in today’s headline, the full closing lines of To A Louse, On Seeing one on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church being “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us To […]
Fort Knox by Paul Jon Boscacci has come to an end after fifteen years. From the Washington Post Writers Group about page: Fort Knox cartoonist Paul Jon Boscacci is, of course, a military brat himself. “The downside was that every time we moved, I gained a new bully. Eventually, I had to give them numbers […]
Tommy Siegel offers an explanation of what happened this week, and, while foolish arrogance doesn’t explain it all, I feel free to skip politics today and just offer some laughs and general social reflection. I think the political cartoonists need some time to reflect and refocus. There have been some good responses, as seen here […]
In every interview cartoonists are asked how they come up with all those ideas. The cartoonists reply with a generic club approved answer because you see, just like magicians, there is a code not to reveal cartooning secrets. Now Bob Eckstein reveals the most closely guarded secret of the cartoonists’ society to The New Yorker. […]
Michael deAdder Ben Garrison We won’t get through all the emerging political cartoons about the election today, but here are the bookends: de Adder sees it as the monster returning, referencing Poltergeist, the 1982 horror film about a gateway opening up to the other side, while Garrison cites the Magnificent Seven, in which a group […]
Tony DePaul, Tayo Fatunla, John M. Burns, David Fitzsimmons, and pagination? When Writer and Syndicate Disagree Tony DePaul offers some opinions on the just passed Presidential Election, but before getting to that he addresses a problem he is having with management at King Features about the current Sunday Phantom story: Meanwhile, I’ve been required to […]
From thomasnast.com, where the cartoon is explained: As mentioned in the above quote, while the first Thomas Nast Republican elephant cartoon appeared in the Harper’s Weekly issue dated November 7, 1874, that edition of the magazine appeared on the newsstands 10 days earlier – on October 29, 1874. Like the Democratic donkey, Nast did not […]
La Cucaracha (AMS) confesses to having faced lead time, but Alcaraz did a nice job of predicting where we’d be at this stage. Mind you, Alcaraz has long been on record against Latino voters who support Trump, as this political cartoon from June attests. It may be disappointing, but not surprising, that he spotted the […]
Armed with watercolors and a “passive-aggressive” sense of humor, the New Yorker cover illustrator finds the funny, even in ugly times. The New Yorker’s YouTube channel presents a wonderfully entertaining, self-effacing, humorous interview with “cartoonist and illustrator” Barry Blitt. Some of the best seven minutes you’ll spend today! Cartoonist Dave Coverly talks about the creative […]