Industry news for the professional cartoonist
The Jordan in this case is Jim Jordan. The Columbus Dispatch, an Ohio newspaper juuust outside of Jim Jordan’s Congressional district, noted (Newsweek used the word “mocked”) the Representative’s failed attempt at getting the Speaker’s gavel with cartoons. From The Dispatch introduction: In the end, U.S. Rep Jim Jordan did not tap out of his…
Prickly City (AMS) continues the thread cited here yesterday, on the negative perceptions people attach to politicians. Historical perspective matters: Washington is consistently ranked by historians as one of our best presidents, but he had his opponents at the time and newspaper writers in that period could be vicious. Congress tried to tame opposition voices…
The Daily Cartoonist noted Mike Thompson beginning his new role as Minneapolis Star Tribune editorial cartoonist last Saturday. A rocky start as the cartoon drew complaints from local Muslim representatives. The publisher apologized. From The Minneapolis Star Tribune: Responding to criticism from four DFL Muslim legislators about a recent Star Tribune editorial cartoon they described…
I woke up this morning feeling really refreshed, but couldn’t tell why until I began going through the political cartoons and realized I’d somehow slept through the past year and missed the mid-term elections entirely. As Steve Breen (Creators) and others have noted, it’s time to start up the 2024 presidential campaign! I’m disappointed, since…
The celebrated cartoonist of France’s Le Monde daily Plantu said Friday that he would soon leave the paper after half a century of work that has seen him mock the elite in his country and elsewhere with bitingly acerbic drawings. The departure on March 31 of Plantu — who has championed cartoons as a bastion…
A rash of newspapers are being taken to task by their readers for printing cartoons that are objectionable to some. The Roxboro Courier-Times is the latest to sever ties with a cartoonist over an editorial cartoon the newspaper freely chose to publish. We have decided to cut ties with the editorial cartoonist who provided the…
It’s a Bizarro World. As a recent Al Goodwyn cartoon is embroiled in controversy, Al has concurrently received an award for his editorial cartoons. The Washington, D.C., Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists on June 9 announced the recipients of its 2020 Dateline Awards for journalism excellence in 2019. “These awards recognize some…
The co-owners of The Missourian have apologized for a Tom Stiglich editorial cartoon that appeared in the June 10, 2020 edition. The apology, titled “We Are Sorry,” was posted on the paper’s website: A message from Susan Miller Warden and Jeanne Miller Wood, co-owners of The Missourian: On behalf of all of our employees at…
Cartoonist John McPherson’s Close to Home comic panel was cancelled by Postmedia newspapers after running a cartoon deemed offensive: Postmedia, owners of the National Post and dozens of papers across Canada, has cancelled a syndicated cartoon after an “offensive” post was published that depicted the Lone Ranger and Tonto in a bar. “Last Friday, an…
Capitol Public Radio interviews Jack Ohman of The Sacramento Bee, touching on The Impeachment, the End Times of the Staff Editorial Cartoonist, new job as Deputy Opinion Editor and prose editorials, the State of the Newspaper, and more. Oh, Jack Ohman also talks about his latest cartoon about Mike Pompeo, which brings us to Gary…
An update on our story of an editorial cartoon that made light of a measles outbreak in Samoa that is killing the young and the elderly. After an uproar and street protests the Otago Daily Times printed a mea culpa, and editor Barry Stewart publicly stated a more heartfelt apology. Cartoonist Garrick Tremain at the time…
Wiley Miller, the cartoonist behind the popular “Non Sequitur,” told an audience for the first time Monday that he almost lost his livelihood and marriage after he scrawled a vulgar note to President Donald Trump that appeared in newspapers nationwide. He and his wife lost their dream home and moved to another state following the…
It’s a Wiley Miller weekend in Spokane, Washington. Yesterday the Spokane Spokesman-Review featured a couple pages touting the return of the Non Sequitur comic to the newspaper. Today it continues with the return of the comic strip tp the newspaper’s funny pages. But there’s more. First Wiley apologizes: Remorse is an understatement. I’m gutted…
Apologies from cartoonists are coming so fast they’re stumbling over each other. After already issuing a statement apologizing for a rude suggestion aimed at President Trump, papers, this past week, began receiving “a hard-copy letter of apology” from cartoonist Wiley Miller: “Dear Editors, “I greatly appreciate your allowing me the opportunity to explain and…
From KGTV San Diego: San Diego Union Tribune cartoonist Steve Breen created a picture of authors James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, and actor Jussie Smollett, with the title “Famous African American Story Tellers,” according to Harris’ email. The image was published Friday, Harris said. “It was egregious to us all,” Harris said at his…