Even though this “New Rules” segment by Bill Maher called ‘Suck of the Draw’ initially aired back in May, from time-to-time I still see cartoons featuring Barack Obama with his name clearly labeled somewhere in the cartoon. It also happened with George W. Bush, most often represented with a ‘W’ button pinned to his jacket.
Sometimes, [...]

A guest cartoon submitted by local cartoonist Dave Horton and published on The News-Press Opinion page on Saturday, Jan. 17, generated nearly 50 emails and numerous phone calls to community conversation editor David Plazas.
“To allow such an abomination to be printed is an example of the quality of your paper and much of the liberal [...]

Here is my cartoon for my weekly feature for the newspaper trade magazine Editor & Publisher.
Let me just clear the air and get this out there: Obama is NOT Abraham Lincoln!
Aside from both hailing from Illinois, the two have very little in common. Not even their political parties.
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts called out editorial [...]

Taylor Jones is the latest cartoonist to join Daryl Cagle’s blogroll. In his first post, he describes a fantastic illustration he did that appears in the Chicago Tribune with Barack Obama surrounded by several past presidents (and you can find out how a pair of shoes were eventually replaced with John Adams).

The New Yorker becomes [...]

An angry reader of the Free Lance-Star took issue with their editorial cartoonist, Clay Jones, for holding a caption contest that made light about the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush:
Regardless of your political opinions, President Bush is the sitting president of this country, and we should all be outraged that [...]

On her blog The Beat, Heidi MacDonald posted part 2 of her annual year-end survey about the comics industry, and Daily Cross Hatch editor Brian Heater made some salient points about editorial cartoonists.
“I wish I could say that, in light of the fact that we had arguably the most important presidential election on our collective [...]

A detail from Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Joel Pett’s year-end take on the legacy of President George W. Bush done for The Herald Times (click image for full pdf).

In the age of the internet, every artist has had to deal with someone using their work without their permission.
Mad Magazine artist and prominent blogger Tom Richmond has had some unique examples of stolen artwork, ranging from his artwork appearing on postage stamps from South America to tattoos on someone’s shoulder.
But as Richmond explains on [...]