Category: Cartoons
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Jack Ziegler
Jack Ziegler is, of course, quite mad. Some may say it’s toaster mania, some may suggest worst case wonkiness, but I know, because I have a treasured copy of the long out-of print classic cartoon collection of the same name, that it’s Hamburger Madness! Jack Ziegler has been drawing cartoons for The New Yorker, and…
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Mike Luckovich
Mike Luckovich doesn’t pull his punches. Luckovich has been the editorial cartoonist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for 18 years. Sometimes his cartoons earn him vitriol and threatening letters and sometimes they earn him editorial acclaim. They often bring him both simultaneously. When he goes after a public figure he considers foolish, irresponsible or even reprehensible,…
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On the Couch: Cartoons from The New Yorker
Yesterday, May 6, 2006, marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sigmund Freud. For at least 80 of those years, since 1927, cartoonists at The New Yorker have been making fun of psychoanalysis with the familiar image of the analyst’s couch, therapist and diploma that has become more of a cartoon cliché anything except…
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Teshkeel Comics &
Rubicon multimediaIf you are anything like me, you stared in slack-jawed disbelief as you witnessed the shameful debacle of the now infamous Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. It was shameful on both sides of the “conflict”. On the side of the cartoonists involved and the Danish paper that hired them to draw the cartoons, it…
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KAL (Kevin Kallaugher)
In a distinctive pen and ink cross hatching style that sometimes seems to carry forward the tradition of the great Thomas Nast, Kevin Kallaugher, who signs his work as KAL, has been skewering the insanities, abuses and tragedies of American politics and society at large for over 17 years from his position as editorial cartoonist…
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Mort Drucker
Mort Drucker is one of the finest caricaturists and cartoonists of our age. He is often overlooked for a couple of reasons. One reason is that he is overshadowed by the attention paid to people like Al Hirschfeld and David Levine (both of whom I admire, but not as much as Drucker), along with editorial…