Industry news for the professional cartoonist
Jimmy Margulies (KFS) opens today’s conversation with the plain truth, in a situation in which truth seems anything but plain. The emergence of bigotry and hate in the wake of this sort of tragedy is predictable: It was obvious as soon as the towers fell on 9/11 not only that Muslims would be targeted by…
Zapiro speaks for a large number of cartoonists as they struggle to find something that is both fair and penetrating to say about the bloodbath going on in Israel and Gaza, with the additional burden of knowing that anything of any substance will — intentionally or not — be misinterpreted by a portion of your…
For those who are time-shifting the Women’s Cup, I’ll simply offer Zapiro’s celebratory cartoon from this past week without further commentary, since Bafana Bafana’s entry into the elimination round has already been played. I’m waiting until I file this to find out how the Americans did against Sweden, which is likely wrapping up now, but…
Reuben Award nominee Jeff Smith, Reuben Award nominee Bill Griffith and Reuben Award-winner Ernie Bushmiller, Zapiro, courtroom sketch artists Bill Hennessy and Christine Cornell, Darrin Bell, Alison Bechdel, and Dale Hrabi & Kagan McLeod are among the cartoonists in the news in today’ weekend roundup. Reuben Award nominee Jeff Smith‘s college comic strip Thorn is…
Oz Black. Plus Thomas Nast, Paul Conrad, Ted Rall, Bill Bramhall, Ann Telnaes, Herblock, Zapiro, Edmund Duffy, Barry Blitt and more Here in Lincoln by Oz Oswald Ragan “Oz” Black studied art at the University of Nebraska from 1918 to 1923. He went on to document local news 365 days a year for nearly four…
The ethical issues around Clarence Thomas are rising with the revelation by Pro Publica that not only did he accept expensive vacations from a GOP activist who also supported Ginni Thomas’s efforts to overthrow the government, but he took money from him as well in the form of having the billionaire “buy” Thomas’s mother’s home,…
Mike Peters (KFS)’s cartoon has convinced me that, like the chaplain in Catch-22, I’m either in the midst of a hallucination or on the verge of sainthood, because I appear to be the only one with a vision of Herschel Walker and Donald Trump that dates from well before the present. It was neither deja…
Hurricane Ian has made landfall in Florida and there’s little funny in what this powerful storm is doing, but, then again, it is producing a lot of material for cartoonists like Clay Jones, largely because of the Republican Party’s track record, in Florida generally and on storms and climate change specifically. Several people have noted…
Perils of working too far in advance: Prickly City (AMS) doesn’t seem aware that watching gas prices has become nearly a joyous practice. Around here, they’ve gone down 30 cents since my last fill-up, which means that, instead of thinking I’d better top off before they go any higher, I’m wringing out every mile in…
Christian Adams makes use of Putin’s long table to demonstrate the current state of affairs, as, in the wake of a United Nations condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine, Russia finds itself isolated from the rest of the world. Well, somewhat isolated. Here’s the vote on that resolution, and it’s not surprising that Belarus,…
Andy Marlette (Creators) begins our Halloweeneen celebration with a reminder of what scares at least some of us. The weirdest part of this is that these people are more scared of precautions than they are of actual danger. Wait, no. The weirdest part is that they don’t want to do what experts tell them because…
Tom Toles (Ret.) has left behind a farewell to his readers after 18 years at the Washington Post, which might have called for a special edition of CSotD yesterday except that nearly every cartoonist in America promptly reposted it on Facebook and Twitter, making it pretty hard for comics fans to avoid anyway. Adam…
We’ll start with Paul Fell today, because he expresses something fundamental in both the coronavirus matter and dialogue in general. Someone observed the other day that there are a lot of people who don’t remember, or weren’t around for, “smoking” and “non-smoking” areas, but, indeed, O Best Beloved, there were sections of restaurants and airplanes…
There are many things that Dear Leader can’t seem to understand, and Jimmy Margulies captures two of them here: One is that Trump genuinely has no sense of empathy. It’s not that he ignores or downplays the suffering of others. He genuinely does not get it. So he can cheerfully toss paper towels to people…
Thanks, Greg Cravens. It’s always particularly nice when a cartoonist puts one of the things you’ve thought to yourself into graphic form, and even nicer when it’s a wise-ass observation. And even nicer than that when it’s a wise-ass observation you never get to share because it occurs to you when you are, if not…