Industry news for the professional cartoonist
Delta College president Jean Goodnow has apologized to the for the hurt and disappointment caused by a cartoon that ran in the campus newspaper which painted the city of Saginaw MI as a place of drugs and violence. The cartoon has prompted outrage from several community leaders and prompted a community forum that included the…
The Independent Florida Alligator has issued an apology for running a cartoon depicting a man and woman having sex while texting their donation to the American Red Cross (link goes to the cartoon, NSFW). When deciding to run that cartoon, we in no way wanted to make light of the situation that happened in Haiti….
The Observer, an independent college paper serving the Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s campuses has issued an apology for allowing an anti-gay cartoon run in their Wednesday’s paper. The three panel cartoon depicts two charcters in conversation saying, “What is the easiest way to turn a fruit into a vegetable?” “No idea.” “A baseball bat.”…
The University of Arizona’s student newspaper is issuing an apology in today’s newspaper for a cartoon that recently ran that many Jewish students believe is anti-Semetic. The cartoon, by staffer Joseph Topmiller, depicts a receipt with only a 7 percent tip and the punch line: “Attention all crappy tipping Jews!!! Just because you’re ‘screwing’ the…
I reported last week of a University of Virginia student who had two highly controversial cartoons published in the student paper – the Cavalier Daily. The cartoonist has issued an apology and has asked that the cartoons be removed from the paper’s web site.
In a follow up to a story I posted yesterday, The New Straits Times, in Malaysia, has apologized for running a Non Sequitur strip that touched on the Muslim prophet Mohammad (but did not depict him). The Times gave a private explanation to the government Thursday and published an apology on its front page Friday….
Newspapers From this past weekend’s Albany Times-Union: On April 4, 1924, the Times Union told its readers it had officially became a Hearst publication, ending its years as a privately owned newspaper under the stewardship of publisher and former New York Gov. Martin H. Glynn. But the article noting the sale pledged there would be…
Barbara Smaller’s cartoon is hardly breakthrough humor, subconsciously echoing as it does a Tom Toro piece that has become a classic: It is odd that they both ran in the New Yorker. As an editor, I certainly would have recognized the repetitive nature and declined to run the second iteration. OTOH, if I were editing…
This past week La Presse put a Serge Chapleau cartoon on its website depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the 1922 film vampire Nosferatu, and then almost immediately took it down and apologized as accusations of antisemitism began appearing. Just as quickly the Association of Canadian Cartoonists (ACC) responded by backing their brother. ……
“(N)o plagiarist can excuse the wrong by showing how much of his work he did not pirate.” — Judge Learned Hand Mike Lester (AMS) is hardly the only conservative to be dancing on the grave of Claudine Gay’s career, now that she has been pressured into resigning as president of Harvard University. I begin today with…
The Monster and Mike Doonesbury, Milholland and The Mouse, Hugs and Kisses from Peanuts, Bret Blevins and Judge Alan Parker, The Comics Journal’s 2023 Best Name Checks a few Comic Strips, Cleveland Scene’s Comics Issue, and Love to Ramona Fradon on her Retiring at age 97. It’s that time of year when we get bonus…
The Washington Post recently published a few letters about some cartoons from mid-December. Editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez came in for some praise: Michael Ramirez’s marvelous Dec. 12 editorial cartoon, “Medal of dishonor,” should be copied and posted on the office door of every member of Congress who has cravenly linked further Ukraine aid to the…
The Cartoonist Rights organization has joined a growing list of groups and people boycotting X/Twitter: Effective immediately, CARTOONISTS RIGHTS will cease posting content to Twitter, now known as “X”, until such time as there is a change in ownership and a marked improvement in the website’s policies and functionality. Following recent changes in policy and…
The first 24 hours after The Washington Post printed a Michael Ramirez cartoon about Hamas tactics saw a liberal flood of reaction calling the cartoon “racist” and “despicable.” The past 24 hours has seen conservative media blast the liberal Washington Post for deleting a cartoon the newspaper belatedly deemed inappropriate. Caution: Clicking on more than…
By Alan Rusbridger: Imagine having a job which involves deliberately causing offence. Imagine going to work to ridicule, belittle, savage and generally humiliate others. We would shun such bitter and twisted people, right? Not if they were cartoonists. Unless we were ourselves unlucky enough to be in their crosshairs, we might well laugh with them….