Industry news for the professional cartoonist
Several cartoonists have commented on the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony, in which the parents of murdered Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick — and some other officers’ and their families — accepted the medal, shook Sen. Charles Schumer’s hand, then walked past Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy. IMHO, John Deering got it best. Ken Sicknick, Brian’s…
I’m not sure how to comment on this Michael Ramirez (Creators) cartoon, though I lived near the US Air Force Academy and toured the mews with their falcon trainers. Apparently the Twitter falcon hunts media and the falconer carries around a package of politics. I have no idea what he’s saying, though I do know…
Tom Tomorrow reflects on the fleeting relevance of political cartoons, and he’s right that the more specific a critique, the sooner it becomes irrelevant, or, at least, we should hope it does. I bought Herblock: The Life and Work of the Great Political Cartoonist, which includes a DVD of all his cartoons, and, while he…
Baby Blues (AMS) touches on a regrettable consequence of our centralized corporate world. When I was a kid in the ’50s, there were all sorts of small amusement parks scattered throughout the country, including several designed by Arto Monaco, who created a number of those imagination-sparking parks in the years after the war, including Santa’s…
I was going to let DD Degg cover the Charles Schulz tributes today, but this Arctic Circle (KFS) deserves some separate commentary. Alex Hallatt has been doing “Grown-Up Peanuts” gags all week, but today’s strikes at her usual health/environmental themes, and pinged my receptors for a couple of reasons. We’re long seen research indicating that…
Now only is GoComics still off-line (DD Degg offers some ways to find the missing comics), but Comics Kingdom has inadvertently offered its solidarity by hanging up and delivering yesterday’s comics, except for the Vintage strips, which are decades old but as up to date as they’re supposed to be. Fortunately, I’ve been holding a…
I’ve been thinking of posting that, dammit, there are two O’s in “Mastodon,” but realized it would only result in people saying that they were opening accounts on Moostadon. And I had a lot of trouble finding this 1959 Peanuts strip because Google Images assumes — wisely — that people can’t spell and kept correcting…
Many years ago, my parents came across a recipe in the local paper that was intended to call for adding a soupçon of lemon juice, which a local editor had corrected to “add a soup can of lemon juice.” They sent it in to the New Yorker, which used to run editorial gaffes as fillers….
Non Sequitur (AMS) has it right: America’s favorite sport has become bitching and moaning and insisting that the refs are corrupt, the rules are wrong and the outcome must be challenged. I promise you that, if Josh Allen had taken a clean snap, stepped back and knelt to take an intentional safety to give the…
I particularly like this Bliss (Tribune), because my life includes taking the dog for a romp twice a day which, combined with my 35-hour work week, reduces me pretty much to being her chauffeur and, yes, I’m grateful that she gets me out of the house. Here’s the snippet I’m posting on-line today, as an…
There’s no doubt but that Kieran Meehan inked this Pros & Cons (KFS) well before Election Day, but a look at social media this morning more than justifies Lyndon’s view of things: Sociopaths seem to have a good grip on the conversation. There’s little for political commentators to analyze in the post-election chatter, but a…
I find myself scooped once again by my associate, DD Degg, who covered this large collection of political cartoons, but I had already planned to feature Clifford Berryman’s piece from October 19, 1948, as part of today’s celebration of prognostications gone awry. All the pollsters had the election in the bag for the New York…
Stephen Collins reminds us that this is Whinging, Mewling and Complaining About Clocks Weekend, because we’ll be coming off Daylight Saving Time, which is nearly as horrific a moment as going back on Daylight Saving Time. One solution is to fly to Australia, where — as reported here a month ago — they’ve already been…
Nick Anderson (Tribune) with the only hammer cartoon you need. Or, at least, the only one you’re going to see here, because they’re gaining on the corgis for numbers and for lack of new insights, though I guess if someone drew Fox News beating a dead horse with a hammer, I might buy into that,…
One of my first memes, from back when a man with a hammer declared “Mission Accomplished” before several thousand American kids, and several hundred thousand Iraqis, died to prove him wrong. This morning, we are beleaguered with cartoons featuring bloody hammers, and I’d have had a tough time sorting through them if more of them…