The Great Trump Tax Mysteries

The complete article in Vanity Fair.

Illustration by Edward Sorel

Why won’t Donald Trump release his taxes? An investigation into the G.O.P. candidate’s finances—the extensive deductions he could claim, the F.E.C. filings from his Scottish and Irish golf resorts, and his declarations to the British government—reveals a disturbing pattern of mistakes, hype, and contradictions.

Boris joins Aislin at the Montreal Gazette

From the Montreal Gazette.

Regular readers will notice some new faces on our editorial page over the course of this summer.

Aislin, aka Terry Mosher, is the Gazette’s regular cartoonist — and, of course, one of the most celebrated editorial cartoonists in Canadian history. But over the past decade and a half, readers have also enjoyed regular freelance contributions by Pascal Élie, whose nom de plume is Pascal.

"Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream" Exhibition at Ohio State

From the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum.

Little Nemo tribute by Yuko Shimizu

In 2014, Locust Moon published Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream, a huge, full-color anthology featuring work by 100 comic artists and illustrators. Each of these artists was asked to create a new version of McCay’s famous strip, resulting in a rich and diverse collection of homages to a remarkable man.

This exhibit presents original artwork from the book, and featured artists include Peter Bagge, David Mack, Paul Pope, Carla Speed McNeil, Farel Dalrymple, and more. Ohio State’s iteration of this traveling exhibit, curated by Josh O’Neill, Andrew Carl and Chris Stevens, will also include McCay originals from The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum collection.

Steve Brodner: Drawing Trump and Clinton

From YouTube.



In this week's State of the Cartooning, renowned political cartoonist Steve Brodner talks about the complexities of drawing the presidential candidates.

Jailed Iranian Cartoonist Returns to Facebook

Matilda Battersby in The Independent

Iranian cartoonist, Atena Farghadani, has already posted a new cartoon on Facebook.

“I would rather go to jail than succumb to the regime”: these are the defiant words of Iranian satirical cartoonist Atena Farghadani, who is just the latest in a long history of extremely brave creative people to prove that brutal subjugation cannot subdue political protest through art.

Fired Cartoonist Returns to Farm News

From KCCI Des Moines.

Rick Friday, a newspaper cartoonist fired after a company pulled their advertisements over a cartoon slamming big business, is back drawing cartoons for the very newspaper that fired him.

Canadian Editorial Cartoonists Discuss the Profession

From left to right: Susan Dewar (The Ottawa Sun), cohost Conrad Black, Terry Mosher aka Aislin (The Montreal Gazette), host Faith Goldy, Wes Tyrell (president of the ACC), Michael deAdder (The Chronicle-Herald, Halifax), Andy Donato (The Toronto Sun) and Malcolm Mayes (The Edmonton Journal)

The Association of Canadian Cartoonists held its' quasi annual convention in Toronto last month. While there we taped a segment at the studios of Zoomer to discuss our motivations, challenges and the future of the profession. The full segment can be seen here.