Industry news for the professional cartoonist
Yesterday’s cartoons by Ella Baron and Guy Venables were met with surprise by several readers, the issue of record quantities of sewage being dumped into English waters having only been mentioned here in passing before. One example of that being this Ben Jennings cartoon from August, 2022, when a drought brought the dumping of sewage…
It’s only fair to point out that this Mike Lester (AMS) cartoon ran a few days before Biden suddenly racked up some significant gains in the all-important swing states that could decide the 2024 Presidential Election. If polls determined elections, Hillary Clinton would have won in 2016. Tracking polls is part of horserace coverage, and…
Rick McKee offers a bit of a puzzler, because we seem to be locked in an endless argument over what Dear Leader said and what Dear Leader meant. Is it intentional? His fault? Our fault? Trump has plenty of trouble just reading from his TelePrompter, lapsing off into incoherent approximations of what’s written in front…
Political cartoonists got a bit of a break in that they could draw cartoons about Putin’s re-election just about any time and then put things on autopilot and take a vacation when the election actually took place. But Patrick Chappatte makes a good point in that Putin himself seems to be on autopilot, neither caring…
Chance Browne, Sacred Heart Academy comic strips, Dummy magazine, Michael de Adder lecture, and Public Transport Magazine The family/funeral home notice of Chance Browne‘s passing has been published. A link is added to our obit. ********** The Reord, serving the Catholic Community of Central Kentucky, has the story of student cartoonists. ********** Welcome to dummy,…
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for March 2024 release. Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Arnold: The Complete Collection Volume 2 by Kevin McCormick After more than 30 years Arnold is back,…
I gather, from the flood of cartoons on the topic, that I’m the only person in America who doesn’t watch TikTok. It’s not that I don’t watch TikTok, but I don’t watch many videos, which I would say has something to do with being ADD except I know people with ADD who find short videos…
Jeff Koterba joins the ongoing theme of “Who cares?” with the by-now familiar message that it really doesn’t matter who wins the next election, that Trump and Biden have run against each other before and so why bother voting in November? However, the past 24 hours have seen a shift in other cartoons, following Biden’s…
“After opening in prayer at a church about 15 miles northwest of the state capital, panelists spoke of pornography in libraries, calling library board members cowards for not doing their jobs. “Then the leader of a political website remarked about book challenges in Alabama’s public libraries. “Burn the freaking books.” Little saddens me more than…
Cathy Wilcox marks International Women’s Day with a grim sense of purpose but a welcome lack of complaining: It’s a good day to recalibrate as the struggle continues. She makes a valuable list of things to challenge, and doesn’t waste a lot of time and energy on the small stuff: These are all major policies,…
I gather Joe Heller is taking no pride in the coming elections, but he seems terribly cynical. It’s true that few of our elections have united the nation, but they’re not supposed to. That sense of pride comes from our ability to hash out our differences and come up with workable solutions, and I’ll grant…
Alan Moir boils down America’s political situation to the essentials: Trump racing for the election and the chance of a self-pardon, pursued by the Keystone Kops. There’s a lot to be argued with here. I’ve said in the past that I wanted the prosecution to move carefully, not to blow the case with hasty moves….
We’ll start with today’s Non Sequitur (AMS), a relatively gentle example of the sorts of ideas that emerge from the sophomore dorm at two in the morning. But first, a definition of terms: As you may know, “sophomore” is a portmanteau of the Greek words for “wise” and “foolish.” Except that it isn’t. Here’s the…
I like cartoons that make demands on their audience, and Andertoons did a lovely job here of requiring readers to recognize a very unusual name and a key indicator of her voice. If you don’t get it, it’s completely explained in the comments, with a few people taking umbrage at not having been spoonfed but…
Paul Fell lays out one of the major issues in the upcoming elections, which is that a significant portion of the electorate is being fed a steady diet of, at best, downer takes on everything and, at worst, lies. I understand the concept of spin. When I first began teaching high school kids about editorial…