Industry news for the professional cartoonist
Steve Sack lays it out in unmistakable, inarguable terms. The excuses simply don’t stand up to any even half-serious inspection. You can quibble a little over the video game panel, which I’d expand to our vulgar, violent media culture generally. There are some countries that don’t let it in, though a list of those cautious…
This Robert Cenedella poster seems like a kind of Grinchy way to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, but stick with me here, because the topic today is spin, lies and professionalism. I’m seeing a lot of political cartoons based on the idea that the Apollo landing united a fractured nation, which it…
Nick Anderson leads us off with a base for today’s discussion, politely translating “E pluribus unum” for those who don’t know what it means. But, then again, what does it mean? That’s a key to the American experience, because for all that we’ve fallen short of “all men are created equal” over the past 243…
Stephen Collins on the perils of shopping in a strange supermarket, and thoughts on that topic could be a book, and an interesting one. I had the great good fortune to be a biz writer in a small city when a fourth grocery chain came in, and they were not only willing to talk to…
I expect there will be more cartoons about Trump’s bizarre rendition of the history of the US Army, but Clay Jones and Ed Hall are out front early, which is the only place to be on this one. For those of us who are self-employed, a “holiday” mostly means that we can work without phone…
One of the news stories getting attention from cartoonists this week has been the race for the Democratic nomination for president, and I’m giving Jeff Stahler honors not only for pointing out the actual stakes but for, I think, reflecting the opinion of thoughtful voters. It’s easy, even for relatively progressive cartoonists, to slip into…
When Dan Piraro handed over the Mon-Sat Bizarros to Wayno, it was so he could concentrate on Sundays, and this one shows the value of that. You can, if you wish, start with the detail on the parrot and the pigeons, but I’d direct your attention to the variation in coloring on the sky, on…
As expected political cartoonists are registering their disgust with the New York Times’ response to a New York Times International editor picking a cartoon that produced some blowback. Above Clay Jones draws his reaction, but also uses his column to explain the good editorial cartoons do for newspapers and society. Below Joep…
Lemont lays it all out in this morning’s Candorville, and it’s nice to not have to parse through metaphors and symbols for meaning. Really, if you’re not angry, and scared, and fed up with the current state of things, he’s right: You’re a sociopath. And note that he’s not complaining about how the increasing system…
Ben Jennings looks across the Atlantic and offers us the gift of seeing ourselves as others see us. You can parse it and explain it and run polls showing otherwise, but it really is just Robert Burns’s proud lady primping and taking pride in her lovely bonnet and her nice clothes while those behind her…
There have been a couple of okay cartoons about the Notre Dame fire and then a raft of weeping gargoyles. I’m going to hold back for a day or so to let more cartoonists weigh in. There’s plenty more out there to comment on, starting with … I was glad to see Darrin Bell recognized…
Candorville sets the tone for today, and if Lemont and I share a cynical view of society, it’s at least a cynicism based on a sense that we could be a better place if we didn’t simply lack the will. I’ve seen a raft of black hole cartoons with this or that being dragged into…
There are times you’d like to just ignore it all and retreat into the funnies, but it’s getting kind of hard to pretend you don’t know what’s going on. Retail isn’t even trying to be political, but, then again, there was a time when the prevailing politics were such that these daily assaults on honesty…
Congrats to Dave Granlund, mostly in contrast to those cartoonists who did cartoons about the Max8s still being in the air, only to have Dear Leader come sliding in, spikes high, at deadline time to announce he was grounding them. Trump could really mess with the press by doing that more often — serve up…
(I don’t mind the time change, but I’m surely about to get tired of two weeks of people bitching about it on social media.) And on a related rant: Meanwhile, I went ahead and did my taxes yesterday, because I also am tired of the bitching about refunds vs. tax cuts, as laid out in…