"Blitt"

Alec Scott in The Globe and Mail.

Flipping through the recently released book of illustrator Barry Blitt's work for various top-tier North American magazines is like watching three decades in the life of this culture pass before your eyes.

Cartoonist Nick Anderson Laid Off from the Houston Chronicle

Houston Chronicle cartoonist Nick Anderson announced today on his Facebook page that he was the latest victim of the layoffs in the newspaper industry.

Editorial Cartooning in Canada

An update of the article published in The Canadian Encyclopedia.

The Hecklers: A History of Canadian Political Cartooning (1979), Peter Desbarats and Terry Mosher.

The art of the political cartoon as we know it in Canada today began in the 1870s when John W. Bengough (1851-1923) started publishing the satirical magazine Grip.

In its pages, Bengough pilloried Canada's first prime minister, John A. Macdonald, and since then each prime minister has had an alterego with a sketchpad:

Clay Jones declines award from Iran’s Trump cartoon contest

Michael Cavna in The Washington Post.

Virginia cartoonist Clay Jones discovered this week that a cartoon of his lampooning the president had been awarded a citation in the Trumpism Cartoon and Caricature Contest, as announced Monday by Iran’s House of Cartoon in Tehran. 

His cartoon spoofed Time magazine’s 2016 selection of Trump as “person of the year” by drawing a comparison to Hitler, whom Time named its “man of the year” in 1938.

Comic artists draw out stories from resettled Syrian refugees

From PBS Newshour.


A Vancouver comic book collective is working closely with refugees like Mohammed Alsaleh, who fled from Syria, to help them tell their stories.

Brian Gable Named to the Order of Canada

The Order of Canada is receiving 99 new members, including Globe and Mail editorial cartoonist Brian Gable.

Here is the full list of new members.

"You Might Be from Canada If..."

From Nimbus Publishing.

You Might Be From Canada If… is an examination of Canada at 150 by one of the country’s great cartoonist.

Michael de Adder draws for the Toronto Star as well as for the Hill Times and The Chronicle Herald.  His You Might Be From series of books have sold more than 50,000 copies.