I’ve still got an oversupply of funny stuff, so, since I’d just as soon not sink into despair this early in the week, this Paul Noth piece is as political as I’m going to get today. I’ll simply add that, if they cut off everybody’s head, there’d be nobody left to build cathedrals and fight […]
In the summer of 2018, I drew a political cartoon for the local newspaper of a small Adirondack lake community in upstate New York. Hilarious, right? Well, not everyone thought so. After the cartoon ran, the editor informed me that several people had canceled their subscriptions, calling the cartoon mean-spirited and partisan. He said the […]
This is going to be a very random day, and I’m starting by acknowledging Paul Berge’s commentary on a TV station that fired its meteorologist over an anti-Musk posting she had on her personal Instagram page. Firing her was an overreaction, but we’re likely to see a lot of similar overreactions over the next four […]
Cartoonists here and there, comics hither and yon. Spotlight on Paul Gilligan PAUL GILLIGAN writes and draws the syndicated comic strip Pooch Café with Andrews McMeel, which runs in over 250 newspapers around the world and has been twice nominated by the National Cartoonist Society for best strip. He is also the author-illustrator of Pluto Rocket: New in […]
We’ve been monitoring the newspapers that have dropped Candorville since cartoonist Darrin Bell‘s recent troubles. Now comes the first reports that Candorville has been “discontinued” and “no longer available.” From the Fairfield (CA) Daily Republic: The Daily Republic over the next three weeks will be featuring three new comic strips. We would like your feedback […]
We’re in no danger of running out of frightening, stupid things to comment about, but I’m overwhelmed with funny, inventive comics, so let’s pause the existential angst. It’s not like it’s going anywhere. Today’s Willie ‘n Ethel offers a hard truth but a bit of perspective. I’ve seen a lot of political cartoons lately about […]
Luke Farookhi, a freelance caricaturist and illustrator, has emerged from The Spectator’s contest to find a new political cartoonist. He has been contributing cartoons since November. According to The Cartoonists’ Club of Great Britain, Luke is 36 years old and studied History of Art at Leeds University. According to his LinkedIn profile, he is currently […]
The death of famed cartoonist Jules Feiffer was international news. But we would like to recommend those obituaries prepared and issued by the comics community. Jules Feiffer mastered every major narrative art form of the 20th century — comic strips (Feiffer), theater (Little Murders), cinema (Carnal Knowledge), novels (Harry the Rat with Women), graphic novels […]
Charlie Sykes illustrated an excellent rant with an 1889 Samuel Ehrhardt cartoon that bears the caption “History Repeats Itself — The Robber Barons of the Middle Ages, and the Robber Barons of Today.” Mark Twain said “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes,” which is clever but inaccurate: History is indeed repeating itself, as […]
A Sacramento judge released Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Darrin Bell from custody Thursday ahead of a Feb. 4 court date as prosecutors added more child porn allegations to his case. The 49-year-old Bell faces a number of conditions of his release — and yet more charges filed in an amended complaint by Sacramento County prosecutors who […]
The Rev. Mike Morgan put this week’s For Heaven’s Sake to use as a great tribute to President Jimmy Carter and highlighting a wonderful part of both men’s faiths. The doctrine expressed trips up many a professed Christian, especially those of the political persuasion. Other tributes. Yesterday both Warped by Michael Cavna and Working Daze […]
I write this in my first days as President of the AAEC. I’m humbled by the honor, and have big shoes to fill. We have, moreover — all of us, not just political artists — work to do. We’re in the middle of a Mass Extinction Event and the air is filled with the smell […]
Jen Sorensen notes the people who may not have expected that what they were promised was going to happen. Some of them voted for Trump, some of them didn’t vote at all, some even voted for Harris but considered it a formality, little expecting, even if “their side” lost, the changes that are suddenly arriving. […]
Barry Blitt, Jack Ohman, and Jen Sorensen discuss the promise and many perils of their chosen artform. [I]n the year 2025, editorial cartooning was back on the front page. Washington Post Opinion editor David Shipley released a statement that the paper had killed Telnaes’s cartoon to avoid redundancy because they had just published a column […]
Here is a roundup of some news items from the past week featuring Clay Jones, Max Gustafson, Guy Badeaux (Bado), Brigitta Blair, Mark Parisi, Dave Blazek, Wayno, Peter Bagge, Julio Salgado, and more. We added this Clay Jones cartoon and Substack link as an update to the Lee Judge/Latrobe Bulletin item so some may have […]