Drew Sheneman celebrates a bit of folly with some bite: The GOP is unwilling to admit that we’re unnecessarily slaughtering children because guns are not an issue of public safety but of political loyalty. As he notes, they are shielded by simply insisting that it’s bad policy to enact gun regulation in the wake of […]
As DD Degg reports, the Pulitzer Prize folks have awarded a medal to a group of artists and editors who produced a long-form, non-fiction, illustrated report on the suppression of Uyghurs by the Chinese government. I think that’s a good thing, though I haven’t changed in my general distain for awards. Winning a Pulitzer used […]
As we’re discussing, debating and dissecting the current state and potential future of cartooning, Will Henry is going off in his own direction with Wallace the Brave (AMS), in which he has created a distinctive cast of characters but is not content to have them do setups and punchlines every day. Today’s strip is a […]
You’re not supposed to lead off with the sports, but, when the Supreme Court goes 9-0 on anything, that qualifies as news, and their slapdown of the NCAA is a rebuke to fat cats, which counts for something beyond sports. Matt Davies (AMS) indeed points out the phognus-bolognus element of that high-toned shamateurism. Here’s a […]
I’m pleased with the recognition, but I agree with Bill Bramhall that it ought not to be the end of the process. I’ll admit my first reaction was “There’s another day the post office and the banks will be closed,” because American wage slaves don’t get many of our federal holidays off. Here’s the current […]
Rob Rogers (Counterpoint) went there, and it’s courageous and effective. But how many people know where he went? Again, it’s that darned median age: Half of Americans are under 38, and it’s been 66 years since 14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered for (allegedly) insulting a white woman. His lynching was one of the major catalysts […]
Well, I stand by yesterday’s post, and I’m glad that it — and JP Trostle’s “epic rant” — got said before Columbia University and their Pulitzer Committee delivered that stunning mean-girl snub because otherwise it might sound like sour grapes. As I wrote then The Pulitzers do reward good work. But they’re still just […]
Since I started yesterday with a cartoon about an eclipse that was over before you got here, I’ll start today’s with some thoughts about the Pulitzers, which won’t be announced until 1 p.m. by which you’ll probably have read this. JP Trostle launched a most bodacious rant about the Editorial Cartoonist category yesterday, reprinted by […]
A century ago, July 4 fell on a Sunday, which provides some long-form comics. Oddly enough, it provides only a limited amount of holiday hoopla, and I didn’t find a lot of Independence Day graphics to brighten up the place. Instead, Page Ones were covering the Democratic Convention, which, as this Boston Globe Extra explains, […]
In Candorville, Darrin Bell has been letting his alter ego, Lemont Brown, ponder the Pulitzer. It’s funny stuff, in part because I share Lemont’s previously expressed view that plaques are for haques, and also because Darrin most certainly has won his share of Lucite, including the RFK award. And if you’d like to know more […]
We all yearn to be Yossarian, but Chaplain Tappmann is probably the best we can manage on a good day: A perpetually puzzled, easily bullied, well-intentioned chaplain whose faith is continually in the balance. And let me begin by chiding that other Joe Heller, not the late author of the increasingly relevant “Catch-22,” but […]
There have been a couple of okay cartoons about the Notre Dame fire and then a raft of weeping gargoyles. I’m going to hold back for a day or so to let more cartoonists weigh in. There’s plenty more out there to comment on, starting with … I was glad to see Darrin Bell recognized […]
Last week I linked to an article on Slate.com by Farhad Manjoo who argued that the Pulitzer Prize should be opened up to other graphical commentary – such as memes, infographics, etc. mostly because he felt single panel editorial cartoons are, “an increasingly timeworn form. Even the best ones traffic in blunt, one-dimensional jokes, rarely […]
Farhad Manjoo, writing on Slate.com, isn’t impressed with the Pulitzer Prize going to editorial cartooning and argues that the award should go to really good political infographics. The backwardness of political cartoons is especially evident when you compare them to the bounty of new forms of graphical political commentary on the Web. My Facebook and […]
Matt Wuerker was not the only comic-related Pulitzer winner yesterday. Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich, former writer of the comic strip Brenda Starr, won the big prize for commentary. She wrote for the strip from 1985 until the feature retired on January 2, 2011. From the Chicago Tribune: With topics ranging from the giant Marilyn […]