Today’s Cartoonist’s Cartoonists is Matt Golding. Matt is an Australian editorial cartoonist whose work appears in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. He’s won multiple Stanley Awards – his first award for single gag cartoonist was in 2005 and he kept winning that category through 2010. He’s won the award twice more in 2016 and […]

Joe Heller explains how we have responded to the collision of a passenger plane with a military helicopter. We’re not waiting for investigators to sort through what happened, because we know who is at fault. Liberals believe it’s because 10 days ago changes were made in the top ranks of the FAA which immediately filtered […]

A Michael de Adder cartoon about Jim Acosta leaving CNN has created a bond between the two. The Daily Mail noticed the respect and appreciation the two shared: Jim Acosta appeared to take a swipe at his old network CNN this week, a little more than a day after his pointed on-air sign-off. The journalist […]

Here at TDC we mostly deal with newspaper comics and cartoons, but every once in a while we wander from the beaten path and check out comic books and animated film. Matt Bors on leaving political cartooning for Justice Warriors and Toxic Avenger Bors [founder of The Nib] is ready to move on, and the […]

I don’t envy political cartoonists, working in an atmosphere of “Baffle’em with B*llsh*t,” as Matt Davies (AMS) indicates. It should be obvious that Trump has backed out of the kitchen-table promises that brought so many voters to his side, but he’s following Bannon’s advice to flood the zone in order to keep critics from focusing […]

For thirty years, from 1942 to 1971, cartoonist Lawrence Lariar collected and book publisher Crown (Dodd Mead for the last five) published The Best Cartoons of the Year as an annual series collecting “the best” cartoons from Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Liberty, The New Yorker, Argosy, Cosmopolitan, Parade, Ladies Home Journal, McCall’s, Look, American Legion, […]

Echoes from Ann Telnaes walking away from The Washington Post continue to resonate. While Ann is the starting point the discussion has evolved into a broader discussion about editorial cartoons and the newspaper industry. Yesterday we linked to newspaper editor Tom Lawrence’s column emphasizing the need for editorial cartooning. Today Brittany Allen at Literary Hub […]

Gary Varvel (Creators) reports that paratroopers are landing in North Carolina, apparently in search of undocumented migrants. As you may know, Columbia University is basically a concrete campus in the middle of Manhattan, so, obviously, this is some other Columbia. Now, somebody is going to point out that there are many places named “Columbia,” but […]

Cartoonist and illustrator Doug Sneyd has passed away. Douglas Mord (Doug) Sneyd December 14, 1931 – January 21, 2025 From the family obituary: Passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, at Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital, Orillia on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, in his 94th year. Doug was a renowned commercial artist, illustrator, and cartoonist … From humble […]

Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned from The Washington Post after an editor killed a cartoon depicting wealthy businessmen and leading media figures, including Jeff Bezos, who owns The Post, paying obeisance to President-elect Donald Trump. It is a sharp, honest jab at the powerful. That’s the role of an editorial cartoonist, and it […]

Rick McKee provides a context for the quote, “Where ignorance is bliss, ‘Tis folly to be wise,” by Thomas Gray, who wrote a few better poems but not many better quotes. It’s gobsmacking for one portion of the population to hear the utter nonsense, toxic lies and frightening promises of the past week, and then […]

Jules Feiffer, RIP A bit surprised that Bob Englehart‘s has been the only tribute to Jules Feiffer from the editoonists. It came out the same day as Jules’ funeral home obituary. The Games People Play The New Yorker has a new game where the player puts cartoons in the order they appeared: Laugh Lines. Trigger […]

We’re jumping all over the comics pages. Thank you Lawrence Goldsmith and Sean Garnett! Anything that puts that earworm in my head is a good thing. The Sunday Andy Capp is a good thing. Too soon? Leigh Rubin uses a serial killer to make a gag in Rubes. Jesus Christ! Yeah, Mike Lester is gonna […]

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 […]