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‘Editorial cartooning’ archive

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Feb. 9: Three interesting page-one visuals

Here are three interesting items I found in my daily romp through the Newseum… — STANDARD-EXAMINER Ogden, Utah Circulation: 62,603 You’re looking at a picture of a python. Playing with the owner’s ten grandkids. His name was Monty (I know, I know). Monty died last week at age 30. He spent 27 years in a classroom at Plain City Elementary [...]

Jan. 27: The final word on premature Joe Paterno death reports

You’ll recall the big story last weekend, when several web sites announced the death of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno. John Cole — editorial cartoonist of the Scranton Times-Tribune — presents the final word on that topic: Brilliant. I wrote John up two weeks ago for a great Mitt Romney cartoon. And then the next day, I wrote [...]

Jan. 24: Indy Star kicks off Super Bowl countdown with a fun page-one cartoon

The Super Bowl won’t be played until Sunday, Feb. 5. Which might seem like an eternity for Giants fans, Patriots fans or anyone living in the host city of Indianapolis. I doubt Indy is getting much tourism traffic for the game just yet — given that we didn’t even know who would be playing until two days ago. Just the [...]

Jan. 14: Superhero-style illustrations of Green Bay Packers stars by Press-Gazette cartoonist Joe Heller

Green Bay Press-Gazette editorial cartoonist Joe Heller produced a series of full-page posters this week commemorating the Packers’ run at a second consecutive Super Bowl trophy. The series of pull-out posters began on Monday with receiver Greg Jennings, at upper left.       The poster starring Clay Matthews — bottom right — ran today. The motif is kind of [...]

Jan. 12: Best take yet on the Mitt Romney “I like to fire people” comment

Politicians are always screaming that their comments have been taken out of context. They say that especially when they get in trouble for saying something stupid. Many times with folks like Sarah Palin and Herman Cain, the comments were not, in fact, edited or taken out of context. Mitt Romney took a lot of heat recently for his “I like [...]

Dec. 12, 2011: Behind the Indiana Daily Student’s coverage of a huge basketball win (2)

Indiana University’s huge, last-second 73-72 win over No. 1-ranked Kentucky Saturday couldn’t have come at a better time for the Indiana Daily Student newspaper. The IDS — which publishes only on weekdays — had all day Sunday to work on the final edition before students bolted for home. So, what did they do? Not to mix metaphors, but they knocked [...]

Nov. 15, 2011: Brilliant ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ parody in the Boston Globe

Cartoonist Ward Sutton created a full page commentary piece for Sunday’s Boston Globe, comparing the administration of President Barack Obama to the to the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series of children’s books by Jeff Kinney. The “news peg”: The latest book in the series is released today. Click for a larger view: This is a downright brilliant observation. It [...]

Nov. 14, 2011: A look at two controversial magazine covers

Let’s take a quick look at two magazine covers that have stirred up a bit of controversy. One ran and one did not. — CHARLIE HEBDO First up: Charlie Hebdo, a satirical left-wing weekly based in Paris, France. You may have heard about this a couple of weeks ago. Charlie Hebdo announced that its Nov. 2 issue would be guest-edited [...]

Nov. 13, 2011: A look at Sunday’s Penn State football front pages (3)

Saturday marked the first Penn State University football game since 1949 that Joe Paterno wasn’t on the sidelines and the first since 1966 in which he wasn’t head coach for the Nittany Lions. This was traumatic to players and Penn State fans. Others, of course, were quick to point out that this wasn’t nearly as traumatic as what happened to [...]

Nov. 1, 2011: County GOP plays with Photoshop fire… and gets burned

UPDATE: The Loudoun County Republicans didn’t actually create these images. They just pulled them off the web and used them. See the note below. Serious judgment issues on the part of somebody, however, still apply… — A cartoon in a Halloween-themed Republican e-mail set off a firestorm of protests — even among Republicans — for depicting the President of the [...]

Oct. 27, 2011: Thursday’s World Series pages… and cartoons

As expected, last night’s World Series game was a wash. A rainout. The Rangers and Cardinals will try again tonight. ________ GAME SIX Tonight, 8:05 p.m. EDT at St. Louis Rangers lead series, 3-2 — STAR-TELEGRAM Fort Worth, Texas Circulation: 151,753 The folks at the Fort Worth paper led page one today with a photo of pitcher Derek Holland gazing [...]

Oct. 6, 2011: Northern Illinois student paper offers full-page, page-one apology (1)

The Northern Star — the student paper at the Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, a school of  25,313 students an hour or so west of Chicago — published an unusual full-page, page-one apology today for a cartoon that ran in Wednesday’s edition. Here’s today’s front page. Click for a larger look: Here’s the text: To the NIU and DeKalb community: [...]

July 29, 2011: For your consideration…

Forget all the charts, graphs, timelines and analyses. Here’s the best take yet on the ongoing debate over the debt ceiling: The cartoon is by veteran Daily News illustrator Ed Murawinski. Who, in fact, took a similar approach the last time he visited this topic.   Average daily circulation for the Daily News is 530,924. That front-page image is from [...]

May 11, 2011: N.Y. Daily News cartoonist Bill Gallo passes away

Longtime New York Daily News sports cartoonist and illustrator Bill Gallo passed away last night. Filip Bondy of the Daily News reports: In recent months, while he fought off emphysema and a series of medical setbacks, Gallo continued to draw his cartoons and write columns from hospital beds and his home, surrounded by trays of colored pencils and erasers, dark [...]

March 5, 2011: Las Vegas Sun uses novel ‘graphic novel’ approach on A1 today

According to Las Vegas Sun editor, Tom Gorman — writing on the SND Region 2 Facebook page today — it was managing editor Michael Squires who uttered the words “graphic novel!” at the news meeting. And so the Sun went with a full-page cartoon biography of Las Vegas’ famous NASCAR-racing Busch brothers — Kurt and Kyle — on today’s front [...]

Dec. 29, 2010: Covering the blizzard of 2010, day three

Sorry I’m posting so late today. I zipped up to D.C. for a meeting this week and my wife, Sharon, played chauffeur. Our trip back home today featured a layover at Potomac Mills outlet mall. — Seth Mates — news art director for Newsday — writes: Not sure why it didn’t make the Newseum, but wanted to pass along today’s [...]

Sept. 2, 2010: Chicago Tribune cartoonists in action, c. 1931

Check out this incredible “documentary” — more like a promotional film, I think — called From Trees to Tribunes. It starts out with the Chicago Tribune‘s illustrators and editorial cartoonists and moves directly into the paper’s stable of comic strip artists: At the risk of stating the obvious, this film was shot 79 years ago. Just amazing. I sure hate [...]

July 16, 2010: Smile for the day?

At least I think this makes me smile: A certain segment of the blog audience will see sadness in this cartoon. And another segment will see progress. The cartoon is by “Aslin” — a.k.a. Terry Mosher of the Montreal Gazette. Another quick sample: Find a collection of his work here.