The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians still looms large in cartoons around the world, with an endless flow of cartoons from Arab countries showing monster-Israel assaulting, eating, crushing or somehow decimating the poor Palestinians. The dove of peace has been killed by Israel in every imaginable cartoon - crushed, squeezed, stabbed, burned, eaten. Poor [...]

This week I’ll be traveling to Seattle for the annual Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) convention. In recent years, the convention has had the flavor of a wake, as cartoonists mourn the loss of full-time newspaper positions. Ironically, the loss of jobs hasn’t resulted in fewer political cartoons or fewer political cartoonists, [...]

I heard from Bill Day today that he just lost his job at The Memphis Commercial-Appeal.  Last week I heard from Robert Ariail at The State in South Carolina that he also lost his job, in what Robert describes as “the McClatchy Tsunami.”  Both Bill and Robert are long-time contributors to our site, and are [...]

I’ll give a speech, show a lot of cartoons and answer questions at the University of Virginia on October 22nd in Charlottesville, Virginia. It is a rare opportunity to see me, since I’m such a recluse. Here is what the University has announced …
The daily editorial cartoonist for MSNBC.com, Daryl Cagle, will discuss with words [...]

We get the same questions in the email box every day and I thought I would take some time out to respond to some of the most frequent ones.
You say you update the cartoons “every day” but I see lots of the same cartoons are up now that were there yesterday. What’s up with that?
The [...]

We just added three new cartoonists to the site. Actually, they are three old cartoonists who are coming back after some time away.
The first is Brian Duffy of the Des Moines Register. Brian is one of only two cartoonists whose color cartoons appear every day on the front page of a large metropolitcan daily newspaper [...]

I’m pleased to announce that we have added a new cartoonist to our newspaper syndication package, David Fitzsimmons of the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson. I’ve been a fan of David’s work for a long time on our site. He draws the gag cartoons that editors prefer (David is a stand-up comedian) and his cartoons [...]