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dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→04→18→Caricature→Comic strips→Editorial cartooning→Illustration→Interviews→Obituary→Profiles→Obit Updates: Holland, Kirschen, McGinnis Brad Holland, an artist whose conceptual work and iconoclastic ways delighted — and often maddened — generations of art directors, died on March 27. He was an early bloomer.
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dailycartoonist.com | Hector Cantu |Carlos Castellanos |D. D. Degg
Baldo By Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos debuted 25 years ago on April 17, 2000. On Tuesday morning, the Dallas County Commissioners Court honored North Texan Hector Cantú for co-creating the nationally syndicated comic strip Baldo. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the comic, which follows the life of the titular character “Baldo,” a Latino teenager and his family. This month Elizabeth Myong for KERA News visited Hector Cantú.
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dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→04→17→Gag cartooning→Magazine cartoons→New Yorker Holy Week Cartoon – “It is Downright Offensive” The New Yorker magazine has just managed to insult Christians and Jews alike with a cartoon depicting the Last Supper in its April 14, 2025, issue. It’s tone-deaf. It’s outrageous. It probably earned Sacks a pretty penny. It’s not funny.
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dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→04→16→Comic history→Comic strips→Syndicates→Rarities: The Cartoon Factory Ltd, A Comic Strip Syndicate – Part 1 In 1980 John Michael Pugh, Susanne M. Pugh, and David K. Batsche, all of Mason, Ohio, joined together to form a syndicate to distribute comic strips to weekly and semi-weekly newspapers. In pursuit of that goal they began soliciting comic strip and panel submissions from cartoonists. By mid-1981 The Cartoon Factory, Ltd.
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dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→04→15→Editorial cartooning→Events→newspapers→Speaking Engagements→Ann Telnaes: Press Freedom Talk ‘I believe that editorial cartoonists are vital for civic debate and have an essential role in journalism’Political cartoonist Ann Telnaes was the featured speaker at the annual Press Freedom Lecture in The Hague on April 14. The Press Freedom Lecture is an initiative of the Press Freedom Day Committee.
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dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→04→14→Books→Cartoonist's Cartoonists→Comic Art→Comic Books→Comic history→Comic strips→Graphic Novels→Illustration→Monday with Miss Cellany Heritage Auctions will be putting up for bid a very early Calvin and Hobbes comic strip “inscribed to artist Jim Borgman and his family” by cartoonist Bill Watterson, who also hand-colored it, in a June 26, 2025 event.
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dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→04→14→Comic strips→Editorial cartooning→International→Obituary→Yaakov Kirschen – RIP Israeli cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen has passed away. Yaakov (né Jerry) Kirschen March 8, 1938 – April 14, 2025From the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS): (April 14, 2025 / JNS)Israeli cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen, whose iconic daily cartoons were published by JNS for the last several years, died at Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba on Monday after a lengthy illness, aged 87.
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dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→04→13→Books→Comic Books→Comic history→Comic strips→Editorial cartooning→International→Wayback Weekend: Comic History First, a brief reminder of what’s what: New Yorker “Spot” drawings are not New Yorker cartoons. Once upon a time, pre-Tina Brown era, Spots were those unrelated, uncaptioned drawings by various artists, placed here and there throughout the magazine. They could be humorous, but they could also be simply a drawing of, say, a shovel, or a pineapple.
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dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→04→13→Editorial cartooning→Obituary→Edward Medina – RIP The Latin Times photographer and cartoonist Edward Medina has passed away. Edward (Ed) Medina (aka Anidem) October 13, 1929 – April 6, 2025From the obituary: Edward “Eddie” Medina of Indianapolis, Indiana, passed away peacefully in his home on Sunday, April 6, 2025, surrounded by his loving family.
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dailycartoonist.com | D. D. Degg
Skip to content →2025→04→12→Editorial cartooning→Events→Panel: Cartooning Would-Be Kings A World Press Freedom Day Event Journalists and editorial cartoonists around the world are facing unprecedented attacks. Please join us May 5, in Washington, DC, to celebrate World Press Freedom Day with a panel of legendary cartoonists out on the front lines of free speech — and for the announcement of the 2025 Robert Russell Courage in Cartooning Award by Cartoonists Rights [emphasis added].
