Architect and cartoonist Roger K. Lewis has passed away. Roger Kutnow Lewis January 1, 1941 – October 2, 2024 The Peace Corps Commemorative Foundation announced the death of their President and gave a profile: It is with a heavy heart that the Peace Corps Commemorative Foundation announces the passing of our President, Roger K. Lewis, […]
Daily New Age political cartoonist Mehedi Haque reflects on what it was like to draw political cartoons in Bangladesh during the student-led protests and the government’s violent crackdown during the 2024 revolution, which eventually resulted in the ousting of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Over the past year, people never shied away from reminding me that […]
Note: One of my father’s favorite expressions was “If you don’t want to know the answer, don’t ask the rebbi.” This would be an excellent day to skip reading if you don’t want to know. Rob Rogers brings up a matter you’re not supposed to bring up, which makes me wonder if any newspapers will […]
UPDATE Renowned editorial cartoonist Michael de Adder may have lost his job, but he promises he hasn’t lost his voice. The author and illustrator, who is a member of the Order of Canada and has won multiple national newspaper awards, says he was let go by The Chronicle-Herald newspaper this week after nearly 30 years […]
The Walkley Foundation has announced the finalists for its Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism. In the category of Cartoon of the Year, the finalists are Matt Golding, Fiona Katauskas, and Cathy Wilcox. The Walkley Award is the most prestigious honor in Australian journalism, akin to the Pulitzer Prize in the U.S. The award recognizes […]
Barry Blitt, Dennis Draughon, Tim Oliphant, Drew Litton, Cathy Wilcox, Jules Feiffer, Ernie Bushmiller, Quino. Randall Enos, and dozens of Cartoonists For Kamala. Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist Barry Blitt tired of Trump One might expect that Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Barry Blitt would be on the euphoric side with a coming U.S. election pitting his seemingly favourite […]
Creative spelling, as seen in this Moderately Confused (AMS), is an editor’s nightmare, but one that fortunately has morphed out of control in tune with the technical revolution. I used to run honor role listings in the paper, and, for a while, I’d come across some ridiculous version of a common name and call the […]
With Brenda Starr, Girl Reporter; 19th Century Haitian caricatures; PS: The Preventive Maintenance Monthy magazine; and The U.S. Army Air Force and Warner Bros and Private Snafu Commercial Article 16 – Dale Messick and Brenda Starr: Breaking Barriers and Hitting Deadlines Steven Heller interviews James Sholly about the latest issue of Commercial Article, which “explores […]
Always enjoy Robb Armstrong featuring Klondike Ike in JumpStart. For some reason I identify with Frank Cobb, maybe because I’m the only one in comics fandom who has a liking for the David Lettick version of Little Orphan Annie. The most recent short, three strip, Klondike Ike sequence starts here. Sticking with comic strips about […]
Morten Morland, who has been drawing covers for The Spectator magazine for the last 15 years, announced on Twitter that he was leaving the weekly magazine. On X/Twitter he wrote: It’s been a fabulous gig, working with great people. It’s been increasingly hard to fit the job in around my commitments for The Times, so […]
Gary Varvel (Creators) offers a sensible if not groundbreaking reminder that democracy belongs to the voters. Such messages don’t need to plow a whole lot of new ground, but they have value, particularly in a bizarre world in which people are being urged to distrust the system. We’ve seen school budgets get shot down by […]
An anonymous complaint about a Mark Knight editorial cartoon published May 21, 2024 in the Herald Sun has been deemed “offensive and prejudicial” by the Australian Press Council. The cartoon (below) was drawn in response to an increase of immigration into Australia. The complaint argued that the immigrants in the cartoon were depicted as “mostly Muslims […]
The 2024 European Cartoon Award finalists have been announced. The finalists are Tjeerd Royaards (Netherlands), Steven Lectrr Degryse (Belgium) and Victor Solís (Mexico). The European Cartoon Award was started by the European Press Prize and Studio Europa Maastricht in 2019 after the New York Times announced it would no longer run editorial cartoons. The purpose of the prize is […]
Being the anniversary month of when Peanuts (and Snoopy) first appeared in 1950 there is a plethora of news items about the comic strip and its characters, and that is not counting the multitude of stories about local corn mazes. On Oct. 2, 1950, “Peanuts” made its comic strip debut. Featured in seven newspapers, the four […]
Hard on the heels of our discussion of the topic, xkcd weighs in on the matter of college commas. To be finicky, there probably is a University of Chicago comma, but it may manifest itself in its absence. They have plenty of rules about commas, but since I don’t care enough to become a member […]