Industry news for the professional cartoonist
Joshua Benton at Nieman Lab: Gannett, America’s largest newspaper chain, should wake up each morning thankful for the existence of No. 2 Alden Global Capital. It’s the type of company that inspires debates over whether “vulturous” is too kind of an adjective. If you’re writing an Atlantic cover story on “Who Killed America’s Newspapers?” Alden…
As expected, I’m seeing a lot of SVB cartoons, some of which are entirely off target, some of which are blaming deregulation, which is a likely but not yet proven cause, a couple of which celebrate panicked withdrawals and too many of which predict a general collapse of all banks and the economy. So here’s…
We’ll start the day with a pair of cartoons about a topic I’m not going to cover yet, though I did touch on SVB’s collapse the other day. At the moment, we’ve got people who should understand this stuff saying that SVB’s fall is because of changes in the Dodd-Frank law, and Barney Frank saying…
Today’s headline is an old joke; the answer is in Ann Telnaes‘ cartoon. The stork ought to still scare them, because, as Telnaes points out, we’re heading back to the pre-Roe days when a pregnant woman’s choice was between giving birth or possible death, and I say that as someone old enough to have been…
I will confess I haven’t seen any of the movies up for Oscars tomorrow night, but I will declare Drew Sheneman’s piece to be Best Picture, not of the year but of the week, because comedies don’t get honored often enough and, after a few weeks of sorting through increasingly repetitive cartoons about drag queens…
Aislin lays out the threat Tik Tok poses: As a Chinese-owned company, there’s a strong suspicion that the Chinese government could tap into user accounts. It’s a pretty wide reach, according to Statista, though I note their chart of the top audiences doesn’t include Aislin’s native Canada. (8.3 million, out of a total population of…
It’s National Grammar Day, and Day By Dave (AMS) celebrates it by dragging fingernails across a blackboard. Using “should of” for “should have” is not a grammatical error, dammit. It’s a usage error. Or, if you really want to shut them up, point out that it’s a case of catachresis. And note, that, as it…
Chip Bok apparently went to the drawing board as soon as the election was called, but before Lightfoot responded. “Obviously, we didn’t win the election. But I stand here with my head held high and my heart full of thanks,” Lightfoot told supporters shortly before 9 p.m. That’s how it’s done on the blue side…
I’m with Lola (AMS), though, since it seems like being nice doesn’t reach across the chasm either, it’s hard to resist the temptation to least amuse ourselves. And there’s no lack of ammunition. I’ve got a pile of political cartoons ready to unleash, and thank goodness DD Degg handled and linked to the mass of…
After the way cartoons have gotten punched around this week — one in particular — First Dog on the Moon‘s take on AI and the art form is particularly solid. I often feel a little guilty featuring the whole thing, and you should realize that he does others I don’t show here and that you…
First, a bit of serendipitous timing, as Pros And Cons (KFS) manages to unintentionally comment on the decision by New Mexico authorities to drop the firearm enhancement charge in the case in which Alec Baldwin faces an involuntary manslaughter accusation for the accidental, fatal shooting on the set of a movie. Turns out that, as…
From 100 years ago is an article on the then-current comics scene from the February 1923 Vanity Fair. THE largest group, dealing with married life, reaches its lowest level of painfulness in the series “For Better For Worse”, by Tad, and perhaps its highest level in Briggs’ series “Mr. and Mrs”. It includes such varied…
I have long thought — realized — that the Internet is a sanctuary for a number of people out on the edge of the autistic spectrum, and Pat Byrnes boils it down to a cartoon. It’s an observation, not an accusation. As noted before, for several years I ran a high school Quiz Bowl with…
This first point isn’t trivial, but it is personal. Greg Kearney notes the looming cuts at UMaine Farmington, a school I had contact with when I was editing the local paper. The school impressed me because I’d lived in another college town and it was nice, for a change, that downtown merchants didn’t have to…
Ann Telnaes sums up the Dominion Voting Systems v Fox News case in a single graphic: They knew the truth but chose to lie. And before we go any farther, her collection of Fox personalities reminds me that, when Boss Tweed escaped from jail and fled to Spain, US authorities — unable in those days…