Cartoonist Michael Leunig, a fixture for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, for 55 years, was laid off along with dozens of others across Nine Entertainment Co’s chaing of newspapers. The media company claims the layoffs were necessary due to declining advertising and the loss of $15 million in revenue from Meta. Michael says […]
Mike Lynch (with Art Bouthillier, Randy Glasbergen, Ted Goff, George Jartos, Bart Roozendaal, and George Trosley), Ed Steckley, Warner Bros cartoons, Flash Gordon comic book, AI, and (sorry) Scott Adams. The Aspiring Cartoonist: The Craft and Business of Gag Cartooning Mike Lynch has a very fine habit of pulling old cartooning magazines out of his […]
Douglas Rodger saluted American workers with this Labor Day cartoon in the San Francisco News a century ago, but, in Chicago, my grandmother was involved in a different sort of labor, and I am rising to a point of personal privilege today. In those days, fathers were banished to the waiting room, and so in […]
We start not with Peanuts but Sparky’s other comic It’s Only A Game. A dozen years ago Nat Gertler wrote of a Charles Schulz rarity he had missed out on: … a booklet called Golfing — It’s Only A Game, which reprinted seven panels from Schulz & Sasseville’s “It’s Only a Game” feature, behind a […]
British cartoonist Bill Stott passed away on August 25. His career began as an art teacher in Liverpool. His cartooning career started at Punch magazine in the late 1970s. Bill described his early career as “teaching when it was light and drawing cartoons when it wasn’t.” He was a founding member of the Professional Cartoonists’ Organization and a member of the […]
Michael Ramirez (Creators) offered a curious take on CNN’s candidate interview. It appeared the morning after, but that likely means it was drawn before the interview aired. He assumed, then, that Harris was incapable of answering questions without Walz to save her. Now, judging it in retrospect, it’s clear from the transcript that absolutely nothing […]
The UK Column has posted a 90-minute video interview with Bob Moran, former political cartoonist for the Daily Telegraph. Bob is a libertarian cartoonist who took a strong position against Covid restrictions in Britain and was eventually fired from the Telegraph for tweets calling for his followers to verbal abuse a British NHS doctor. From the […]
Ruben Bolling, Georgia Dunn, Keith Knight, and dozens of more cartoonists; plus Dogs of C-Kennel, Lola, Shifts, Crabgrass, and the missing Vintage Apartment 3-G. Ruben Bolling, who has drawn and written his intricate, incisive, shape-shifting weekly cartoon “Tom the Dancing Bug” for more than three decades, works best under the pressure of a deadline. “Years […]
Sometimes the view from a distance is clearer. David Rowe, watching the latest scandalous behavior from Dear Leader and his disciple, declares them to be digging their own political grave while Harris and Walz need only watch them self-destruct. There’s plenty of reason to assume it, and to assume that, if nothing else, they’d obey […]
The Galway Cartoon Festival has announced their line-up for this year’s event. The annual festival in Galway Ireland will feature Lucie Arnoux, Dave Coverly, Ben Jennings, Malak Mattar, Will McPhail, and Dean Patterson. The Galway Cartoon Festival was established in 2017 with the objective to “nurture, promote, and develop the art of the cartoon in […]
Douglas is an artist and political cartoonist from New Orleans who has lived in Baton Rouge for 24 years. He’s done work for the Baton Rouge Business Report, The Times-Picayune and more. Douglas said he’s taught art for about 40 years, including classes at McKinley High School and summer programs at LSU. Torie Bovie for […]
Ben (MWAM) raises the issue of comic sands, albeit imperfectly. Assuming he dug holes deep enough so only the boys’ shoulders and heads were out, and only wide enough to fit them exactly, they could indeed be stuck. However, comic strips often feature people buried lying down who are then unable to get out from […]
But we’ll start with someone not so enamored of the golden oldies. A letter writer to The (Boulder, Colo.) Daily Camera argues against legacy/zombie strips: Quantity isn’t the same as quality. The camera editor, John Vahlenkamp, on Sunday, Aug. 18, explained and attempted to justify the changes in the Sunday comics with a, “more is […]
Jack Ohman — Tribune Bill Bramhall I remember when a candidate would be mocked for something as simple as sticking his dog in a crate on top of his car and having terrified canine diarrhea stream down over the windows. To which RFK Jr has now said, “Hold my bear.” His daughter Kick has revealed […]
The Neurodivergent Cartoonist. Gus Walz’ moment of joy at the Democratic National Convention struck a chord with millions of people around the nation. One of the people touched by Gus’ emotional reaction to his dad Tim’s vice presidential acceptance speech was Omaha, Nebraska-based political cartoonist Jeffrey Koterba. Amelia Robinson at The Columbus Dispatch writes about […]