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The jury, composed of the members of World Press Freedom Canada, met on April 13 to select the winners of the 21th World Press Freedom International Editorial Cartoon Competition. © Anne Derenne Bado’s blog showcases the winners and honorable mentions. We all had our heroes when we were young. Some of mine were Johnny…
Comic-Con International: San Diego has announced the Judges Inductees who are automatically entered into their Will Eisner Hall of Fame; and 16 nominees, four of which will be voted into the Hall by comics people across a variety of professions (cartoonists, editors, comic store owners, historians, etc.). As is usual a number of inductees and…
Paul Fell offers what I consider the most thoughtful take on the Pope’s declaration that the Church cannot bless same-sex marriages. I capitalize “the Church” because there used to only be one and that’s at the heart of our discussion today. I don’t know that there are a lot of RC churches in America…
Rob Rogers offers a response to the “Cancel Culture” kerfuffle, but in these times, it’s really hard to tell a joke without reflecting something real. Donald Trump has begun issuing position papers and people on social media argue that nobody should post or share them because it gives him the attention he craves. There’s some…
© Scott Adams, Inc.; Peanuts Worldwide; Paws Inc. Dilbert joins Snoopy (and Woodstock) and Garfield as a comic strip addition to the extremely popular Funko collectibles line. MAD Magazine’s Al Jaffee‘s 100th Birthday Celebration! © Allan Holtz Did we mention that Allan Holtz’s Stripper’s Guide returned from sabbatical a while ago? Back is…
I’m often impatient with Gary Markstein (Creators). He keeps up his partnership with Tony Rubino at their daily strip, “Daddy’s Home” consistently, but posts his own political commentary so rarely that I’m sometimes tempted to drop him from my GoComics lineup. However, it’s paid off this time around, because he posted this one January 12,…
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has announced its new officers. AAEC Officers 2021-2022 President: Jen Sorensen, The Nib Vice President: Ed Hall, freelance Secretary-Treasurer: Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons Immediate Past President: Kevin Siers, The Charlotte Observer Director: Tim Campbell, Washington Post News Service & Syndication (2nd year) Director: Liza Donnelly, The New Yorker (2nd year) Director: Gretchen Koch (1st…
We’ll let Jen Sorensen (Ind) set the stage for what is going to be an extensive and incomplete look at WTF is going on and, as she says, how we got here. As she also says, it’s just a partial cast. And yet to say “We all played a role” is both incorrect and inane….
Existential Comics gave me a laugh this morning when most quasi-political attempts at humor have failed, and I suspect this one was in the works before last week’s upheaval anyway. We read “Das Kapital” in college, but I don’t remember much about Marx’s personal life. On the other hand, I have encountered this monomoniacal True…
I was almost tempted to simply post Marco De Angelis (Cartoon Movement)‘s cartoon and leave it at that. But I can’t demand cartoonists step up if I fail to. Cartoonists faced a challenge yesterday. The riots called for a quick response and the quick response was “stunned,” which is not an answer. The standard…
On Friday, December 18 The Washington Post took up most of a page printing an Ann Telnaes editorial cartoon naming Republican officials who she claims are guilty of sedition by openly calling for an overturning of a constitutional election. Conservative media found a talking point to express their displeasure with the cartoon when Fox contributor…
Yes, Jim Keefe is the artist of the Sally Forth comic strip, but he was (1996-2003), and occasionally still is, the writer/artist of Flash Gordon. Sally Forth and Flash Gordon © King Features Syndicate With King Features Syndicate bringing back Flash Gordon as a limited edition Sunday webcomic Edgar, for KFS, talked to Jim…
original November 7 post: The Eighth Annual Guest Jumbler Week begin November 16, 2020. (h/t Darryl H) Jumble © Tribune Content Agency Can you guess the guest cartoonists? updated November 16: Above is the November 16, 2020 Guest Jumble featuring Joe Wos. Here is the full week of 2020 Guest Jumblers: Monday (11/16):…
So apparently Trump is bookending Photoshopped pictures of an inaugural crowd that never showed up with Photoshopped pictures of a million protesters who likewise and ain’t that appropriate and while it doesn’t quite close out the fiasco, it’s a good reason to stop obsessing and have some fun. Not that this precludes political cartoons. It…
The classic political cartoon from the disputed election of 1876 is this Joseph Keppler piece in which NY Senator Roscoe Conking is seen blessing, in a Satanic sense, the union of Rutherford B. Hayes with Columbia, the symbol of the nation. Since I’m working the polls today and don’t have time to post a contemporary…