Wallace the Brave (AMS)‘s Mom decides that a snow day should be a snow day. I feel that education is very valuable, and I suspect she does, too, but snow days are also important and, besides, between the digital divide and power outages, you wouldn’t achieve perfect attendance and the day would be a waste […]
The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) announces its annual call for entries for consideration for the 79th NCS Divisional Reuben Awards, recognizing excellence in professional cartooning for work published in 2024. The NCS has announced the opening for submitting for consideration in a baker’s dozen of categories. Note: the Animated category has been reinstated. See Jason’s […]
I liked Shoe‘s rephrasing of the various end of year holiday greetings that had just past. And, naturally, it is always a pleasure to see David Reddick use his pen (stylus?) to delineate other comic characters than his regular cast. More fabulous comic strip females in today’s Legend of Bill. Rina and Hilary gave me […]
Ten years after the deadly attack on Charlie Hebdo, the magazine remains defiant Tomorrow marks the 10-year anniversary of the deadly attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. The satirical magazine published a special issue today to commemorate the day two brothers began a shooting spree to avenge the oft-ridiculed Prophet Mohammad. The shooting killed […]
Art Spiegelman is clarifying a news story that first surfaced on Hyperallergic in December that he was working on a new graphic novel about Gaza with Joe Sacco. The Pulitzer Prize winning Maus author says his comment on what he was currently working was twisted from a three page comic into an “epic-length work.” In […]
The tribute cartoons marking Ann Telnaes’ courageous departure from the Washington Post continue to appear, and DD Degg has links to several. This one is by Tjeerd Royaards, editor at Cartoon Movement, and that organization has released a statement on the situation which is worth a read, because it talks about the state of political […]
When colleague Mike Peterson said “it is all over the Internet” regarding the Ann Telnaes-Washington Post news, we didn’t realize that that was understatement. Every newspaper and news website worth their salt has reported on The Post’s refusal to publish the Telnaes cartoon. Go to the news search engines and enter Ann Telnaes and see […]
Allison Garwood & Petunia & Drew, Sarah Anderson & Sarah’s Scribbles, Terry Beatty & Rex Morgan M.D., San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Funnies, Colleen Doran & Dr. Martin’s Dyes, Michael Maslin & The New Yorker, The Saturday Evening Post, Paula Pugh’s Best of 2024, and the Animated 2025. Allison (Big Al the Gal) Garwood is taking […]
I’ve had enough reality lately, but it’s best to ease your way out of it gently to avoid getting the bends, and Sharon Murdoch’s reality-based take on an old Irish blessing is just what I needed. I hung around with Irish ex-pats for several years and never ran into this blessing except in gift shops. […]
Creators Syndicate found a conservative political cartoonist to fill the empty left by Bob Gorrell’s retirement. Jon Russo signed with Creators last month/year with his first cartoon appearing there on December 26, 2024. While definitely on the right side of the fence he will not ignore the Republican party. The Creators biography of Jon tells […]
Yesterday Tea Fougner, Editorial Director of King Features Syndicate (KFS) comics since 2018, posted on her LinkedIn page that she has stepped down from her position at KFS and from the company itself. Tea wrote: Today was my last day at King Features. I was offered a choice between a reduced role and a severance […]
We try to avoid duplication and stepping on each other’s toes around here, and by now you’ve likely seen DD Degg’s coverage of Ann Telnaes’ resignation from the Washington Post. And if you haven’t seen his coverage here, you’ve almost certainly seen some coverage because it is all over the Internet, with regret and praise […]
I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now. Cartoonist Ann Telnaes has ended her relationship with The Washington Post. On Telnaes’ Open Windows Substack she goes into detail about why she HAD to do it, and presents the full cartoon that offended the […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novelist Art Spiegelman and comics journalist pioneer Joe Sacco are teaming up for a new graphic novel about Gaza. Story Update: Art has clarified that he is not working on an “epic-length work” and that the size of his project has been exaggerated. Art mentioned the collaboration during the premiere of a […]
Bob Gorrell last November announced he was retiring after a half century of cartooning. For almost 50 years, I’ve had the incredible privilege of foisting my personal opinions on the innocent public through my editorial cartoons. Now is the perfect time to retire from that and move on to other interests and passions in my […]