Political cartoons in the On the Record bar catchup time

I stopped in for a drink with a friend who's never been there before. These are pictures of art that I don't remember seeing before, and at the end, Tim Walz and JD Vance coasters.

The Supreme Court nook

Matt Wuerker art for Hay-Adams' Off the Record bar's coasters

Apparently I haven't been keeping the blog updated about these. Well, I'm falling behind on my collection too. Here's 3 I had to buy on eBay. I don't know if KAL or Ann Telnaes have done any recently - time to get some drinks there.

Biden vs Trump. I imagine this one has been retired.

Hakeem Jeffries

Speaker of the House (and MAGA lickspittle) Mike Johnson

PS I have extra ones of Biden and Trump (separate, not the one above) that I could be convinced to mail to a good home.

MAGA Memes and Momala: Political Cartoonists Take on 2024 and More! Bruce Guthrie's event pics posted

My pictures from the "MAGA Memes and Momala: Political Cartoonists Take on 2024 and More!" event are finally posted!  The direct link is:

http://www.bguthriephotos.com/graphlib.nsf/keys/2024_10_21D1_MAGA_Memes

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Bruce Guthrie
Photo obsessive
http://www.bguthriephotos.com

Political Cartoonists Discuss the 2024 Election and Global Affairs [aka MAGA, Memes and Momala: Political Cartoonists take on 2024]

October 21, 2024

https://www.c-span.org/video/?539361-1/political-cartoonists-discuss-2024-election-global-affairs

Political cartoonists discussed the 2024 election and global affairs at an event hosted by the Syracuse University Institute for Democracy, Journalism, and Citizenship (IDJC) in Washington, D.C. Topics included surprises in the 2024 election, how satire is perceived as news, and cartooning during times of war. 

Margaret Talev (intro), Roslyn Mazur (mod.). 

Panelists:
Matt Wuerker, editorial cartoonist and illustrator, POLITICO
Ann Telnaes, editorial cartoonist, The Washington Post
Michael Ramirez, editorial cartoonist, Las Vegas Review- Journal
Pedro X. Molina, Counterpoint Media and Confidencial, Nicaragua

Videos:
Vladimir Kazanevsky (Ukraine) and Rachita Taneja (India) also will discuss their work and persistent threats to cartoonists around the world.

Program ID:

539361-1

Category:

Public Affairs Event

Format:

Forum

Location:

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

First Aired:

Oct 22, 2024 | 9:00pm EDT | C-SPAN 1

Airing Details

• Oct 22, 2024 | 9:00pm EDT | C-SPAN 1

MAGA, Memes and Momala: Political Cartoonists take on 2024 (updated)

Featuring

Matt Wuerker, editorial cartoonist and illustrator, POLITICO

Ann Telnaes, editorial cartoonist, The Washington Post

Michael Ramirez, editorial cartoonist, Las Vegas Review- Journal

interviewed by Roslyn Mazer

Join us as we celebrate freedom of speech and our right to satire with a freewheeling look at a wild campaign year, as seen by some of the nation's and world's best political cartoonists.

 

Cartoonists have long lived on the front lines in the fight for freedom of speech. The US Supreme Court used cartoons to codify our right to lampoon our political leaders in the seminal case, Hustler Magazine v. Falwell. Decline of local newspapers, explosion of social media, political polarization and global trends toward populism, nationalism and authoritarianism shape today's challenges.

 

Ms. Mazur

Wuerker, Telnaes, Ramirez

Wuerker cartoon

Vladimir Kazanevsky (Ukraine) in a pre-recorded video

Photographer-around-town Bruce Guthrie and webcomics expert Xavier Xerses

 

 

Oct 21: MAGA, Memes and Momala political cartoon event

Please join us for a special and very timely event.

You may rsvp to democracy@syr.edu by October 14 with the subject line: RSVP Syracuse Cartoonists Event.

MAGA, Memes and Momala: Political Cartoonists take on 2024

Join us as we celebrate freedom of speech and our right to satire with a freewheeling look at a wild campaign year, as seen by some of the nation's and world's best political cartoonists.

Cartoonists have long lived on the front lines in the fight for freedom of speech. The US Supreme Court used cartoons to codify our right to lampoon our political leaders in the seminal case, Hustler Magazine v. Falwell. Decline of local newspapers, explosion of social media, political polarization and global trends toward populism, nationalism and authoritarianism shape today's challenges.

Time: Cocktails 6pm
DATE: Monday, Oct. 21, 2024
Program begins at 6:30pm
Dress: Business casual

Panelists:
Matt Wuerker, editorial cartoonist and illustrator, POLITICO
Ann Telnaes, editorial cartoonist, The Washington Post
Michael Ramirez, editorial cartoonist, Las Vegas Review- Journal
Pedro X. Molina, Counterpoint Media and Confidencial, Nicaragua
Award-winning cartoonists
Vladimir Kazanevsky (Ukraine) and Rachita Taneja (India) also will discuss their work and persistent threats to cartoonists around the world.

Where:
Syracuse University DC Campus
1333 New Hampshire Avenue NW (at Dupont Circle)
Washington, DC 20036

Matt Wuerker has a cool job according to Washingtonian magazine

Cool Jobs - The Cartoon Pundit - Matt Wuerker 

Washingtonian 2024-03 p. 43

illustration by Jess Rotter

Matt Wuerker's first Punchline: Cartooning through coronavirus

Cartooning through coronavirus with Matt Wuerker

04/22/2020

https://www.politico.com/video/2020/04/22/cartooning-through-coronavirus-with-matt-wuerker-072871

4/24: Updated with correct link.

Matt Wuerker comes in second for the "formerly known as Thomas Nast" Award CORRECTED

Matt Wuerker  actually was cited for SECOND PLACE from the Overseas Press Club. Adam Zuglis won first place.  ComicsDC regrets the error.

Cartoons

THE BEST CARTOON AWARD

Best print or digital graphic journalism, including cartoons, on international affairs.

Sponsor: Daimler

Adam Zyglis

The Buffalo News

Judges:  An impressive caricaturist, Zyglis is the kind of cartoonist who would have to be jailed immediately if he lived abroad. That’s the standard by which all great political cartoonists should be judged.

From the Overseas Press Club citation page

Cartoons
THE BEST CARTOON AWARD
Best print or digital graphic journalism, including cartoons, on international affairs.
Sponsor: Daimler
Matt Wuerker
Politico

(thanks to Michael Cavna for the tip)

Off the Record bar has new coasters and artwork

I stopped briefly into the Hay-Adams Hotel bar yesterday and saw a new Trump caricature by Matt Wuerker on the wall of the stairway coming down from the main hotel. I also got a new coaster of Kamala Harris , so I checked with Matt to see what else he'd done with Kevin KAL Kalllaugher and Ann Telnaes.

 

",,,you missed the new Supreme Court!  In the booth behind the bar we've done the current bench. I also did some new coasters-- Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and a new Bernie Sanders. It was just me for this round of coasters.  They needed a quick turn around. The Supremes were evenly divided between the three of us."

Meet a Local Book Designer: A Chat with Barbara Sutliff

by Mike Rhode

Barbara Sutliff is a book and magazine designer and art director  who recently worked on an editorial cartoon book for the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC). On a tip from her husband, cartoonist Joe Sutliff, Barbara and I got together for an informal email interview.

I heard that local editorial cartoonist Matt Wueker was doing a book for a Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum exhibit in Columbus, OH? They have an editorial cartoon show that's only up for another month. Is that what it's for?

Yes it is based on the show, the AAEC has their conference there this coming weekend. The AAEC will have the book for sale. It was a very small print run for the conference, and the association plans to show it to some of the large book publishers that will be there in hopes of interesting them in publishing it on a larger scale, perhaps even an expanded version.

What's the title, and who's the author?

The title is Front Lines: Political Cartooning and the Battle for Freedom of Speech by The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. This is similar to the title of the exhibition, which was Front Line: Editorial Cartoonists and the First Amendment.

The editor of the book is Matt Wuerker, award winning political cartoonist from Politico and former president of the AAEC, and a friend of ours (Joe and I).

Back and front covers

How did you get involved? What did you do for them?

Matt saw Joe at an event and mentioned the project and asked whether I might be interested in designing the book. We talked and I was very excited to work on such a fun and important project. Matt was terrific to work with. After hearing his ideas for the look of the book, we talked  back and forth as I showed different options for the chapter design treatments, Once chosen, it was a really smooth collaboration—Matt was just finishing up getting the essays edited and finalized, while collecting hi-res versions of the many cartoons that he was organizing to go with each chapter/essay. 

Liz Donnelly drawing and table of contents

In the meantime I roughed out the book to get a firmer idea on page count for each chapter and for the overall book, including many cartoons chosen to go with each chapter. As I have designed and produced hundreds of publications over the years—this project was a great fit—Matt and I had a smooth back and forth with emails including pdfs of pages with notes attached with my questions, suggestions as well as his corrections, answers and suggestions. We also had periodic phone calls to go over the status chapter by chapter. I worked in InDesign and sent pdf proofs which as I mentioned, we added electronic sticky notes to for specific questions and to provide me with credit info for each piece etc. When everything was approved I made hi-res print quality pdfs for the printer. Matt already had this idea in mind for the cover—he provided my with his mockup in InDesign which I tweaked (I am a stickler when it comes to kerning and typography and Matt was thrilled with that attention to detail on my part!) It was a great experience, I loved designing and producing the book. Matt just told me he is putting a printed copy in the mail for me and I am so glad to hear that he is very happy with the printed edition.

How many images are in the book? Is everything from the exhibit in it? Was there anything tricky or difficult about the layout?

Pillars by Jimmy Margulies. August 16, 2018 from the exhibit

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I counted 100 cartoons in the book not counting Matt’s cover cartoon. It also has essays by Joel Pett, Lucy Caswell, Roslyn Mazer, Rob Rogers, Ann Telnaes and Matt. 

I didn’t know whether the book included everything from the exhibit, since I didn't see the show, but Matt says, "No....  And many of the cartoons in the book are not in the show. It's by no means a catalog of the show.  We just used that as a jumping off point.”

The tricky thing for me was incorporating many horizontal cartoons into the design without having the option of going across the gutter of a perfect bound book like I might when designing with photographs, which can have impact across a spread—but obviously that doesn’t work with cartoons with words. I created a grid with an appropriate width for type, on a square page which allowed for a narrow outside column to be used for pull quotes and to have the flexibility to use the full width including the narrow column for cartoons to jut out beyond the type column. It works as many of the cartoons are horizontal and allows for variety in the design of each spread with varying sized art along with the text and pull quotes drawing the reader to important ideas from the chapter and that act as design elements on the page as well. I guess the other tricky thing that comes to mind is that the chapters were mostly cartoons with an essay flowing through them as opposed to a text-heavy book punctuated by spot illustrations. So the challenge was to keep the continuity of the words flowing around the cartoons which meant jumping the words around a spread or two of just art so that the cartoons and words complemented one another.

Barbara Sutliff is available for full-time or freelance work. Contact her via https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbarasutliff/