Industry news for the professional cartoonist
Elon Musk is purchasing Twitter and, as Dr. MacLeod notes, social media is ablaze with outrage and, as he suggests, they’re flooding social media with furious denunciations of social media. Some of them may actually be bailing out; Mark Hamill notes that he’s felt a great disturbance in the Twitterverse, as if thousands of voices…
Visual puzzle and game creator Don Rubin has passed away. Donald Joel (Don) Rubin April 6, 1945 – April 8, 2022 From the obituary: Donald Joel Rubin, one of the world’s premier creators of games and puzzles, died of cancer at his home in Santa Rosa, California on April 8, 2022. In the late 1980’s…
I was hoping for a day of frivolity, but this Vintage Radio Patrol (KFS) brought me up short, my first reaction being that Lennie Briscoe would do the same damn thing and torpedo the State’s case against her. Next reaction being to examine that middle panel, which reveals that the strip ran in 1940, which…
Matt Davies illustrates the plight of Floridians canceled by the self-proclaimed opponents of Cancel Culture. Someone — though not Mark Twain — said that America is on a tilt and all the loose nuts slide into Southern California, but it’s getting hard to believe they’re not actually falling straight down. And, however absurd and…
Punchbooks has posted this cartoon from April 16, 1919, in which British Prime Minister David Lloyd George cheerfully presents the Paris Peace Agreement, citing the 1895 Punch cartoon which had turned an old joke into a permanent part of the culture: Parts of the agreement that ended the First World War were excellent, but it…
Cartoonist Alison Bechdel, known for her groundbreaking, richly layered depictions of queer life and family relationships, will receive the 2022 International Humanities Prize from Washington University in St. Louis. Awarded by the university’s Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, the biennial prize honors the lifetime work of a noted scholar, writer or artist…
Sorry about the tight deadline (April 20, 2022) but here’s a fun project for the cartoonist in your family. RubeGoldberg.com hosts the famous annual Rube Goldberg Machine contest where building a physical Rube Goldberg contraption is the object. Now they have added a cartoon contest! Details and rules at RubeGoldberg.com New at GoComics While…
I really wanted to decompress from political stress with some funny stuff today, but just when I thought I was out, Mike Thompson pulls me back with today’s Grand Avenue (AMS). I guess there may be some comfort in knowing that there’s nothing new in all this, and that faint-hearted school administrators have been shutting…
“I’ve always taken the attitude that an editorial cartoonist is just supposed to get people thinking, to provoke thought through either it makes you angry, or it makes you laugh.” Striking the right balance of humor and seriousness in political cartoons can be challenging, Anderson said. However, when dealing with situations such as the war…
There comes a time when each man must come to grips with the truth, though, as shown in Mr. Boffo, it may turn out that nobody was fooled in the first place. Framed here in Joe Martin’s “How dumb can you get?” style, it’s funny, but if you overthink it — and I’m a champion…
So far this century Marvel Entertainment has ruled the comics inspired film world, that is about to change as Andrews McMeel Entertainment begins its challenge for supremacy. Until now I didn’t realize there was an Andrews McMeel film division. From Cartoon Brew: Originally set to release in 2020 but delayed by COVID-19 setbacks, the new…
Our biggest recent change is, of course, the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, which has inspired a lot of cartoons, many of them formulaic and bland and others that are reprehensible and make me wish they’d just be honest and use the N-word instead of purposefully misrepresenting her record. I like…
Cartoonist Robert “Buck” Brown (1936 – 2007) will be inaugurated into the Illini Media Hall of Fame Class of 2022 this month at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Buck contributed cartoons to Dollars and Sense, The New Yorker Ebony, Ebony Jr., Jet, Esquire and others but is best remembered for his long run…
An apt mood-setter from Pros & Cons (KFS): Whether we’re entering a new Dark Age or a new Golden Age depends on your point of view. Let’s start here: One of the more deadly, underhanded techniques of reporting is to quote someone accurately. Underhanded if you simply don’t like the person, in which case, even…
A Saul Steinberg drawing from 1967 graces the cover of the new New Yorker. Françoise Mouly interviews Ian Frazier, friend of Saul and executor of his legacy. …we all see him as a major twentieth-century artist and much funnier than most of the Abstract Expressionist painters he hung out with. But, because he drew rather…