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 […]
Our nation’s cartoonists are divided between those who see the ascension of Trump as a disaster and those who consider it a shining moment, but I’ve found little support for the fellow among foreign cartoonists. Morten Morland (UK) captured the swearing in with Trump about to press the plunger carried by Melania, in her Natasha […]
Cartoonist and playwright Jules Feiffer has passed away. Jules Ralph Feiffer January 26, 1929 – January 17, 2025 The Washington Post is reporting the death of Jules Feiffer. Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter and children’s book author who was one of the most humorously neurotic literary voices of his generation, died Jan. […]
I’m not ignoring what happened yesterday, but, like the host of Brendan Loper‘s quiz show, I just want to move on to Round Two. And I think that part of what happens next is that we keep on keepin’ on, which has to include some laughter. When laughter is outlawed, outlaws will laugh anyway. Maybe […]
You may have heard about The Latrobe Bulletin publisher who pleaded not guilty to his newspaper’s readers for printing a cartoon that raised the hackles of some – not guilty because the cartoon “slip[ped] through.” Lee Judge, the cartoonist responsible for that hackle-raising cartoon, and for the current price of eggs too for that matter, […]
Newspaper readers in Jersey City, New Jersey are losing their local paper come February 1, 2025, and with that comes comic strip cartoonists losing a six-days-a-week (which is about as daily as they come in most places these days) outlet. Slice of Culture reported The Jersey Journal’s shuttering last year with the closing of its […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) has a new Board of Directors. 2025 Officers and Board of Directors President: Marc Murphy, Louisville Courier Journal Vice President: John Auchter, Michigan Public RadioSecretary-Treasurer: Monte Wolverton, Cagle CartoonsDirector: Clay Jones, Claytoonz (2nd year)Director: Paul Tarr, Rattoons, Crooksandliars.com (2nd year)Director: Steve Stegelin, Charleston City Paper (1st year)Director: Alexandra […]
Walt Handelsman sums it up: The demolition crew is here to begin taking apart America. It may be metaphorical, but it’s not theoretical: Trump has already begun spinning and, to use an old phrase from Jonathan Swift’s era, “to say the thing that is not.” To accuse him of lying requires reading his mind. But […]