The Round-up
Kevin Siers, editorial cartoonist for The Charlotte Observer, has found his name on a list of hostiles kept by the National Rifle Association. Read Siers’ response here. Mike Lynch tells an amusing story – through the medium of cartoons, naturally – about his early attempts to sell gags to that most notoriously esoteric of markets, […]
The Round-up
A recent New Yorker cartoon by Mick Stevens, above, led to a temporary ban on the magazine’s Facebook page this week, because it apparently broke the social network’s decency rules. Bob Mankoff, the New Yorker’s cartoon editor, looks in detail at the supposed offence on his blog. The latest collection of Punch artwork focuses on […]
Remember the first time?
Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor at The New Yorker, has invited several established cartoonists to talk about their first gags that hit the mark at the magazine. First up was Mick Stevens, followed by Jack Ziegler. Both are now considered to be part of the “old or at least oldish guard now”, says Mankoff on his […]
Osama jokes: The laughter of being alive
Over at the New Yorker blog, cartoon editor Bob Mankoff notes that Osama bin Laden had disappeared off their humour radar for a while, the 2007 cartoon above being his last appearance. He takes a look at Bin Laden cartoons down the years and notes that in the age of terrorism – and this is […]
Copyright concerns as cartoons go West
“Hangover’s ain’t good man… hangover’s ain’t good” The re-captioning of existing New Yorker cartoons, using verbatim ramblings from the Twitter feed of Kanye West, have been raising laughs on various websites. The trend was started by a pair of US comedians and has been taken up by others. From a cartoonist’s point of view there […]
The Cartoonists' Olympics
Bored with the Beijing Olympics already? Don’t worry, there’s always the Cartoonists’ Olympics. At least there is in the mind of the New Yorker cartoonist Mick Stevens. He imagines what the 2008 Magazine Cartoonists’ Olympic Games would be like on his aptly named blog I really should be drawing. Events include: The Reject-Toss (see above) […]