Members of the Press and Print Foundation (Stichting Pers & Prent), a Dutch cartooning organization supporting political artists and free speech in the Netherlands, joined other media organizations to protest a proposed tax increase on newspapers and magazines. The VAT increase, from 9% to 21%, was proposed in May. It was immediately opposed by NDP […]
The Silverton, Oregon Homer Days are over, as is their 2024 Davenport International Cartoon Contest. The Homer C. Davenport cartoon contest entries are judged on 1. Artistic Skill: What is the technical skill of the artist’s work?2. Implied Message: Was the message of the cartoon clear and obvious?3. Over-All Appeal: Was the cartoon effective? Following […]
ICYMI, Rabbits Against Magic has it right: The Democratic Nominee has excellent taste in music, though Mingus is more jazz than swing. But the pun works and we’ll let it slide. My mother turned me on to swing. She was the first female disc jockey on Harvard’s Crimson Network, then one of the founders of […]
AKRON — Leader Publications editorial cartoonist Craig Marks Aug. 8 celebrated his 40th anniversary creating cartoons for the West Side Leader and the South Side News Leader.Forty years ago, Marks was drawing the comic strip, “Zippy” for The University of Akron Buchtelite.“On a whim, I visited the West Side Leader offices in Fairlawn after the paper’s […]
Cartoonist Steve Stegelin is a snarky Charleston iconoclast who makes us laugh out loud, cringe and nod at political truths. For 20 years, he’s been Charleston City Paper’s resident cartoonist, crafting award-winning drawings that got better year after year. His original gritty style morphed into colorful weekly panels on important issues that sometimes skewer, sometimes […]
Pat Moriarty, Hugh Kilpatrick III, Charlie Hall, Quino and Malfalda, Anton van Dalen (obit), and Mary Wings (obit). Cartoonist Pat Moriarty Goes Nuclear with Billboard You might have seen the disconcerting, colorful billboard while driving down 6th Avenue in Tacoma. The cartoon illustration shows what looks like a scared kid with an ice-cream cone standing […]
The answer is a lot easier than Walt Handelsman expected it to be. As noted here yesterday, the stock market is largely driven by a combination of rumors and panic, as Kal Kallaugher noted in the wake of the October 1987 crash: The good news is that Wall Street followed its worst day in two […]
Drew Friedman, Gary Varvel, KC Green, Karl Christian Krumpholz, Harvey J. Kaye and Matt Strackbein The Faces of Caricature Humans love to “make faces.” As children we learn that sad faces produce sympathy, angry faces produce fear, kind faces produce trust, and funny faces produce laughs. This quality is central to Friedman’s brand of representation, […]
Egyptian cartoonist Ashraf Omar was seized on July 22 by plainclothes officers from his home in Giza in the middle of the night. While official documents report he was arrested on July 24, Ashraf’s wife, Nada Mougheeth, and their attorney accuse Egyptian security forces of torturing Ashraf between the time he was seized from his […]
Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz has announced he has joined the CALÓ News team: I have a new job as staff editorial cartoonist for CALÓ News LA, drawing local editorial cartoons about LA & Southern California & the SouthWest and wherever else me da la gana [I feel like]. Please follow on IG @calonewsLA & yours truly […]
David Cohen comments on Louisiana’s “police buffer law,” which went into effect this month and prohibits reporters or others at the scene of an incident being within 25 feet of an officer who has ordered them back. This seems like a solution in search of a problem, unless the problem you’re attempting to solve is […]
“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.” – Raymond Chandler, Farewell My Lovely “He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full […]
David Hofstedt for Cowboys & Indians remembers Rick O’Shay and Stan Lynde. The year Rick O’Shay debuted there were more than 25 westerns on television. This was not a coincidence. “While a few of these series were very good, many were not really westerns at all,” Lynde wrote in his book Rick O’Shay, Hipshot, and […]
Peanuts and Halloween have become inextricably linked by way of The Great Pumpkin. Now… Visitors to corn mazes across the country are finding a familiar and joyous figure in the winding labyrinth of tall stalks. Snoopy. More than 80 farms in the U.S. and Canada have teamed up with Peanuts Worldwide to create “Peanuts”-themed mazes […]
Dave Whamond leads off today because he is one of the few cartoonists who made the name of the Democrats’ (purported) VP candidate into a pun that (A) works and (B) is politically relevant and (C) shows Whamond knows how the name is pronounced. I don’t think Trump paraphrases Reagan very often, but Whamond has […]