Thirty-four organizations representing freedom of press, speech and journalism have condemned Egypt’s arrest and disappearance of Egyptian journalists and cartoonist Ashraf Omar and are calling for their immediate release. They note that there are 11 other journalists that have been detained for over two years without trial. From their press release: The Committee to Protect […]
Sergio Aragonés at Weekly World News; David Ostow on TV; Grant Geissman, EC Comics historian; Behind the Scenes of Early Animation; Thumbs Up AND Thumbs Down on Firing Michael Leunig; and George Herriman Specialty Krazy Kay Original Art! Sergio Aragonés’ Weekly Comic for a Major Newspaper From 2005 to 2007 “MAD cartoonist Sergio Aragonés did […]
We have met the enemy, and he is Will Rogers. Constant Readers know I dislike the Will Rogers approach, in which everything and everyone is corrupt and true wisdom comes in condemning it all. In this case, and at this moment, I’m disinclined to criticize Michael Ramirez (Creators) because I’m not sure he is promoting […]
A couple weeks ago we noted Deon Parson announcing his Rosebuds going into print syndication. Well after not hearing anything last week this week we got notice that six of Deon’s local CNHI Indiana/Illinois newspapers picked up the comic strip for their weekend editions. The Goshen (Ind.) News; The Anderson (Ind.) Herald Bulletin; The Kokomo […]
Charlie McGill, after 70 years of sports cartooning for The (Bergen County) Record, has decided to retire from the newspaper at age 90. Mike Kelly for NorthJersey.com profiles Charlie’s 70 years of cartooning, including a 40 image gallery. At The Record’s former headquarters on River Street in Hackensack, his tilted drawing board — about the […]
Just a quick reminder from Madam & Eve that not everyone is starting to anticipate winter. We’ve just hit apple-picking season up here and winter can’t be far behind, but for those on the opposite side of the Equator, it’s nearly spring. I’ll be pleased when the pollen ends up here, and, oddly enough, happy […]
Happy 90th Birthday to Warren Sattler. Being born on September 7, 1934 entitles him entry to our Senior Strippers club. Warren was a comic strip cartoonist from 1960 working with Crockett Johnson on the reinvigorated Barnaby through the end of the 20th Century with King Features and Gil Thorp and Grubby. The comic strips Warren […]
The National Cartoonists Society has published their Playbill for 2024’s 78th Reuben Awards and NCS Conference in a sixty page digital edition making it available to for those of us who didn’t get to San Diego last month. Says NCS: We are pleased to showcase this year’s Reuben Awards playbill in a digital edition. Thank […]
Clay Bennett (CTFP) seems more surprised by Dick Cheney’s decision than I was, which is to say I wasn’t surprised by his decision but by the fact that he made his intentions public. However, it is, after all, one of a surprising number of such endorsements beginning to emerge. If I were a traditional, old […]
Wes Tyrell, President of the Association of Canadian Cartoonists (ACC), and Jack Ohman, President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC), have both signed off on the updated schedule of the joint ACC/AAEC Montreal Convention to be held October 3 – 6, 2024. Below is the new updated schedule. Featuring: Aislin, Lalo Alcaraz, Barry […]
So alphabetically Loose Parts follows Looks Good on Paper and yesterday they had an eruptive juxtaposition. Joining in the Mutts 30th anniversary celebration is the only not-Patrick McDonnell cartoonist, that I know of, to draw a Mutts comic strip – Jim Keefe. At his Patreon account Keefe tells how it happened that he partnered with […]
How on earth, someone asked me yesterday, can the polls could be so close? My response was to ask who answers polls anymore, and everyone there admitted that they don’t respond to polls on their cell phones, leaving the answers in the hands of god knows who. Which makes Joel Pett’s imaginary pollster a hero, […]
Rounding up a few items about editorial cartoonists and cartooning. For 13 months political commentator Michael Smerconish had had cartoonists contributing exclusive political cartoons to his newsletter three or four times a week; for the most part they have been Steve Breen, Jack Ohman, Rob Rogers, and Scott Stantis. Now he is publishing those cartoons […]
Postmedia, Canada’s largest newspaper publisher, has taken ownership of major parts of SaltWire Network, the largest newspaper group in the Atlantic Canada region. From the CBC: SaltWire publishes newspapers in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador, including the Halifax Chronicle Herald, the Cape Breton Post and the St. John’s Telegram. Earlier this month, a […]
Ann Telnaes combines her anguish over the crackdown on women’s rights under the reconstituted Afghan government with her fury over the assault on women’s rights and dignity by JD Vance and his misogynistic followers. Don’t say “It can’t happen here,” because it’s already happening here with the overturning of Roe v Wade, cutbacks to freedom […]