I Don’t Want to Say Canadian Cartoonists Are Old...

J.J. McCullough on the state of Canadian editorial cartooning in Cartoon Movement.

I don’t want to say Canadian editorial cartoonists are old, but at one of our recent gatherings someone literally had to leave early to tend to his 100-year-old mother.

Her Maj: 60 Years of Unofficial Portraits of the Queen

The Cartoon Museum celebrates the Diamond Jubilee from February 1 to April 8.

Cartoon by Gerald Scarfe, 1986

Editorial Cartoonists insulted by NYT solicitation

An editorial cartoonist tells Romenesko readers: “There’s a little tempest brewing in the cartoon teapot over an offer the NYT sent out yesterday to editorial cartoonists to submit sketches on spec. They then pick one to run in the Sunday Review section for which they’ll pay $250. A bunch of the cartoonists they solicited are taking the whole thing as an insult.”

Here’s the Times’ email

Clinton on the Tonight Show

Watch Clinton's Carson Appearance on PBS. See more from American Experience.

In 1988, Bill Clinton bungled the biggest speech of his young career during the Democratic National Convention. Harry Thomason, Arkansas-born television and film producer and longtime friend of the Clintons, remembers the ill-received speech and his wife's idea to have Clinton redeem himself by going on the Johnny Carson show. Watch Thomason's retelling of Clinton's Carson appearance and tune in for the broadcast premiere of Clinton February 20-21, featuring his appearance on the Tonight Show!

Paul Karasik on Angoulême 2012

From the Rules To Vivere By website:

The poster by Art Spiegelman was hung everywhere... and I mean EVERYwhere.

Reprint on the iPolitics website (5)

Senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu declared Wednesday that assassins should have a rope in their cell and deplored the fact that imprisonment of the Shafia family members would cost taxpayers $10M.

http://www.ipolitics.ca/cartoons/

Angoulême 2012

Reports by Matthias Wivel in The Comics Journal, Richard Thompson in Cul de Sac and Michael Cavna in Comic Riffs.