If you haven’t read my Daily Cartoonist partner DD Degg’s report on Gannett’s killing of editorial pages, you really must. It represents a significant blow to editorial cartooning as well as to newspapers in general. I’m opening with this 2009 Pearls Before Swine (AMS) because it sums up the actual challenge, and, if it’s oversimplifying […]
I noted the other day that the opening of the impeachment trial, and particularly the lackluster nature of Trump’s defense, didn’t seem to spark much fury in Ann Telnaes (WashPo)‘s trial coverage. But it sure didn’t stay that way, and her growing portfolio is fine stuff indeed. We’ll see her again, because there’s a second […]
I don’t normally begin a post with a Tweet — much less two — but the other day Ann Telnaes said on social media that we should come to an agreement about the difference between a meme and a political cartoon. It’s easy, until you think it over. Memes are amateur and political cartoons are […]
Clay Jones gives the best response to the decision of Israel to follow Dear Leader’s suggestion, re-casting António Moreira’s cartoon of a Netanyahu dog leading a blind Trump, for which two cartoonists who had nothing to do with it were fired. And the editor who approved it was … well, we don’t know, because the […]
Normally, a hurricane is a disaster not only for those it impacts, but for editorial cartooning as well: It’s one of those events, like the death of a celebrity or, for that matter, a kerfuffle at a tennis match, which makes everyone pick up their pens and say nothing. However, these are not normal times, […]
In the current Monty arc, he’s decided to be an author, complete with tweed jacket and pipe, and today’s not only cracked me up but resonated with an issue in children’s literature that I’ve been pondering. Inclusion matters. But you don’t gain another perspective by chatting with somebody, whether it’s bringing a woman’s perspective to […]
One of the bulwarks of Comic Strip of the Day has always been the personal take and today the Buckets provides a bit of serendipity with a clueless old gaffer stumbling over the concept of social media, just at the moment CSotD shifts to the Daily Cartoonist. CSotD has been around for about eight and […]
The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco will lose its current space in June after a lease ends. From the San Francisco Chronicle: The institution, which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary, has to vacate its home in downtown San Francisco after its longtime lease ends in June, but it has not yet found a new […]
A recent cartoon by Ann Telnaes has generated what she describes as “sexually violent and misogynistic threats”. The cartoon (see above) is actually an animated cartoon. Visit the Washington Post to see the full cartoon. From Ann’s blog: Early last week I created a cartoon about the bombings in Gaza. In editorial cartooning, there are […]
Fall in is in the air. School is back in session. And just like clockwork we have a new college campus cartoon controversy. The cartoon in question ran in Solano Community College’s paper The Tempest and depicts black women calling black men worthless and wishing they’d all “go away.” The cartoon also ran under an […]
Kurt Westergaard is on trial in absentia in Jordan. That’s not news. What I did find interesting in this Copenhagen Post article was the admission by many in Jordan that the case is nothing more than theater. Speaking to Middle-Eastern news-site The Medial Line, Jordanian attorney Usama Beitar, himself a former member of the “God’s […]
An editorial cartoon by Free Lance-Star editorial cartoonist Clay Jones was prominently discussed on a recent Rachel Maddow program discussing reaction to who gets credit for Osama Bin Laden’s death. You can see the segment below. When I contacted Clay for reaction, he mentioned the cartoon was rejected by his editor for the paper but […]
Today marks the end of Stephanie Piro’s Valentine’s Day Countdown which she started at the first of the month.
Arizona Daily Star editorial cartoonist David Fitzsimmons was interviewed by CNN on the shooting of Congressman Giffords. Daryl Cagle has quotes from the interview: The right in Arizona, and I?m speaking very broadly, has been stoking the fires of a heated anger and rage successfully in this state. It?s stunning because Congressman Giffords was a […]