Showing posts with label political cartoon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label political cartoon. Show all posts

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Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "America's Favorite Fascist"

From Mike Flugennock, DC anarchist cartoonist...


"America's Favorite Fascist"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3568

So, a few days back, a follower on Mastodon (spit) posted this article from the Union Of Orthodox Journalists from May 2018, about a Ukrainian postage stamp series honoring great thugs — uhh, soldiers — of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) on its 75th anniversary. Yeah, that's right, Ukraine fought proudly on the fascist side, and venerates these filthy bastards to this day.

Then, I had to ask myself — why no stamp with Zelensky? God only knows they still loves them some Nazis over there, and I've pretty much lost track of how many times Mr. Z has been busted doing happy-snap foto ops with Azov Battalion and Right Sector thugs showing off their cool 3rd SS Panzers and Waffen SS gear.

The guy is hanging with Nazis, stomping all over the Left, beating  down the working class, walking like a duck and quacking like a duck.

If you're going to #StandWithUkraine that's your business, but at least take a good, steamy gawk at what you're standing with and own it.

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"Chaplain of SS Galicia featured on postage stamp", Union Of Orthodox Journalists, 05.03.2018
https://spzh.news/en/news/53086-kapellana-ss-galichina-izobrazili-na-pochtovoj-marke

"14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician)" via Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_(1st_Galician)

"Ukrainian Collaboration With Nazi Germany", via Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany

"Nothing unusual, just the President of #Ukraine #Zelensky publishes a selection of photographs on #VictoryDay over fascism, the first of which shows a #Ukrainian #Nazi with the chevron of the 3rd SS Panzer Division"
—Peter Pobjecky @Peterpobjecky on Twitter, 05.09.2022
https://twitter.com/peterpobjecky/status/1523654575429144576

"Ukrainian President Zelensky posts image of soldier wearing Nazi patch", Financial Assets, 05.09.2022
https://fa.news/articles/ukrainian_president_zelensky_posts_image_of_soldier_wearing_nazi_patch-185833/

"Zelensky Suspends 11 Left-Wing Political Parties", Paul Knaggs at Labour Heartlands, 03.20.2022
https://labourheartlands.com/ukraine-zelensky-suspends-11-left-wing-political-parties/

"President Zelenskyy Bans Opposition Parties in Ukraine", Juan Andrés Gallardo at Left Voice, 03.21.2022
https://www.leftvoice.org/president-zelenskyy-bans-opposition-parties-in-ukraine/

"Zelensky and NATO plan to transform post-war Ukraine into ‘a big Israel’", Alexander Rubinstein at The Grayzone, 09.17.2022
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/09/17/zelensky-nato-ukraine-big-israel/

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Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
Mike's press kit: http://sinkers.org/stage/?page_id=2

 

Monday, January 24, 2022

Steve Brodners's full spread about Biden in the Washington Post

This appeared in yesterday's paper. 
 
Online it's at 
  
All eyes on Joe Biden: The characters in the White House’s world, one year in
 
 


Friday, March 26, 2021

Michael de Adder, Canadian political cartoonist, joins The Post

de Adder was fired from his last position* one of his major customers for being too hard on Trump. It doesn't appear that he'll be moving to DC, as Toles did, nor will he have as many days as Tom.

Michael de Adder joins Washington Post Opinions as a political cartoonist

WashPost PR Blog March 26, 2021
 
*Corrected.
 
See
 

Cavna, Michael. 2019.

This Trump critic’s cartoon went viral on social media. Within hours, he no longer had a contract [Michael de Adder, Canada].

Washington Post (June 30): https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/06/30/viral-trump-critic-canadian-cartoonist-loses-his-freelance-contract-with-publisher-brunswick-news/

 

Degg, D.D. 2019.

Brunswick News Inc. Cancels Michael de Adder – Updated.

Daily Cartoonist (June 29): http://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2019/06/29/brunswick-news-inc-cancels-michael-de-adder/


Saturday, March 06, 2021

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Listen To The Science"

 From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -

"Listen To The Science"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3158

(shown: full-length and "short mix";
Washington Post clipping 02.27.2021)

Oh, sweet jeeeeeezus, where do I even start with this? What, are they 
taking a break from slagging on Maduro? It's almost breathtaking, the 
way the Post is so obviously, openly mortified that the poor are being 
vaccinated first in Mexico...

Not to mention that they're basically taking this whole article to 
simply bleat "Listen to the science!" like everybody and their 
freakin' dog who's trying to shoehorn their goddamn agenda into 
someplace where it doesn't belong (usually people trying to whip the 
kids back to school so they can whip their parents back to work). 
"Listen To The Science" hit my Top Ten Bullshit Alarm List even faster 
than "Existential Threat". Why am I not the least surprised to see 
that clunker so quickly and clumsily weaponized?

I see absolutely jack in the Post about China doing their part in the 
WHO's cooperative vaccination program all over Africa and the Global 
South, but ZOMFG, LĂ³pez Obrador is vaccinating the poor first...! No 
big surprise here, either, as it seems Obrador is "the new Maduro" at 
the Post these days.

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"Mexico's Poor Go First Despite Science", Washington Post 02.26.2021
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/mexico-coronavirus-vaccine-lopez-obrador/2021/02/25/81c28c50-76ad-11eb-9537-496158cc5fd9_story.html

"China joins WHO-backed vaccine programme COVAX rejected by Trump", 
Reuters 10.08.2020
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-covax-idUKKBN26U027

"Venezuela Receives 500,000 COVID-19 Vaccines From China", TeleSur 03.02.2021
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Receives-500000-COVID-19-Vaccines-From-China-20210302-0002.html



Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
and follow me on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@flugennock




Friday, December 25, 2020

That darn Telnaes


Ann Telnaes's Sunday Opinion editorial cartoon, "All the Republican rats."

Anne C. Stalfort, Easton, Md.

Aaron Rubin, Rockville

Jack LichtensteinAlexandria

Katherine Murphy, Falls Church

Thursday, June 11, 2020

Al Goodwyn wins DC Society of Professional Journalists' Dateline Awards for editorial cartooning

While being excoriated in South Carolina for his cartoons, Al Goodwyn was winning a Washington, D.C., Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists's Dateline Award for journalism excellence.

Editorial Cartoon
Winner: Al Goodwyn,The Free Lance-Star of Fredericksburg, Goodwyn editorial cartoons
Finalist: Alexander Hunter, The Washington Times, Hunter editorial cartoons

Fredericksburg's Free Lance-Star is one of his clients that published the three cartoons in his submission in 2019.

Al Goodwyn becomes the latest editorial cartoonist to upset a newspaper

Al's a personal friend of ComicsDC, and while I personally may not agree with his politics and cartoons,* he's a good guy, not a troll, and was doing a cartoonist's job in raising issues via a comic. I think the newspaper should have had the courage of its convictions to stand by him since the editors knew they hired a conservative cartoonist, and this cartoon isn't any more extreme than others they've run from Al.

I've included the note that he sent to the Daily Cartoonist too.

Newspaper Apologizes For Divisive Cartoon

Thursday, April 02, 2020

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)

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Meet a Visiting Cartoonist: Spain's TomĂ¡s Serrano


by Mike Rhode

TomĂ¡s Serrano visited Washington recently just as the city was shutting down from the coronavirus. We were still able to meet and chat about his work with local cartoonists Matt Wuerker and Mike Jenkins, although this interview was done by email later. TomĂ¡s is temporarily living in America and cartooning via long distance.

What type of comic work or cartooning do you do?

Several types. At 25, I got my paid to start doing caricatures for a local newspaper in Salamanca, Spain. Years later I got into political and gag cartoons, and one of them won me the Mingote Award in 1995. Six years later, my first children´s book was published. In 2013, I made an animated musical video. In 2014, I began to work for the Spanish newspaper ABC drawing caricatures and editorial illustrations. Since 2015, I´ve been the political cartoonist of the online newspaper El Español and also sometimes I illustrate the editorials of the newspaper. In recent years, I did caricatures for the Magazine of the University of Chicago.

How do you do it? Traditional pen and ink, computer or a combination?

In the beginning, I used traditional tools like color pencils, gouache or watercolors. At this moment, I do sketches with a red pencil and mark the lines with a 5B pencil then scanning and adding color with a Tablet and Photoshop. It´s the fast way because, usually, I have only a couple of hours to send the cartoon.

When (within a decade is fine) and where were you born?

I was born in LeĂ³n, Spain, in 1960.

Where are you living now? Why?

Since July 2019, I moved to Lexington, Kentucky because Heminia, my wife, is working as a middle school teacher. For me, living in the US is a great experience. I love it. The American culture was always present in my life since I was a child: old TV series, movies, illustrated books, music…

Is it hard being an editorial cartoonist from a different continent and with 5 time zones changes?

Not at all. It´s so easy now. The only difference is the time: There, I drew after lunch; here, before. I´m following the current Spanish trends through the radio, podcasts, streaming live TV and the online newspapers.

What is your training and/or education in cartooning?  Why did you leave architecture?

My training is in architecture. This helped so much in staging my ideas and composing the images. I use to draw realistic architectural backgrounds because it emphasized the nonsense of the conduct of politicians. The strong crisis for architects in Spain from 2008 helped me to recover my passion for cartooning.

Who are your influences?

When I was young, my principal influence was Francisco Ibañez´s comics, Mortadelo y FilemĂ³n author. Visually, Disney´s artists were my favorites so far. Uderzo, Jean Giraud… Back then I didn´t like the UPA artists that I love now. Over time, I realized the influence of the freshness of my brother Carlos “badly done” drawings. Regarding humor, the movies of Charles Chaplin, the Marx Brothers, Bob Hope, Billy Wilder and Woody Allen. My favorite cartoonists are Jean Jacques SempĂ©, Ronald Searle, Charles Addams and the caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.


If you could, what in your career would you do-over or change?

I think I´ve been very lucky in my cartoonist career. In Spain, I was awarded with the best prize you can get. I feel recognized by my the heads of my newspaper… I wouldn´t change anything.

What work are you best-known for?

Maybe for my current cartoons in El Español, the number one in the top ranking of the Spanish native online newspapers.

What work are you most proud of?

For my first published children´s book SalfĂ³n el limpiador de tejados, by the unforgettable moment when I told and drew it to my son Guillermo, improvising the characters and the story.  I would be happy if it was published in the States.

I´m so proud too of my Mingote Award and my first illustration in the US for the Magazine of the University of Chicago.

What would you like to do  or work on in the future?

I would like to design characters for the movies, or have orders for advertising campaigns, or covers of books… And yes, I would like to work for US publishers.

What do you do when you're in a rut or have writer's block?

I take it easy. It happens sometimes, but experience makes last minute ideas to come…  That´s what I always say to my daughter Paula. For drawing and for everything.


What do you think will be the future of your field?

These are bad times for the press, and there are a lot of people doing funny things for free on the net. Many online newspapers have no cartoonist. Maybe the brilliant ones will survive because an image has still a high value.
Mike Jenkins and Seranno share a caricature moment

What's your favorite thing about DC?

You know I was in DC only for a weekend. As a big fan of the movies, I liked to be in the places I´ve seen there: the White House, the Capitol, the Memorials… and The Exorcist steps! In addition, I would recommend the Blues Alley Club and the Off the Record Bar.

Least favorite?

There are outstanding buildings in DC (e.g. the Old Post Office), but some mixes of styles in the streets didn´t convince me. Anyway I´ll remember the beautiful houses in Capitol Hill and Georgetown.

What monument or museum do you enjoy? What did you hope to see, but missed due to the coronavirus shutdowns?


I loved the Lincoln Memorial and the National Portrait Gallery. I enjoyed the fantastic exhibition of John Singer Sargent portraits in charcoal. I missed, among others, the National Gallery of Art. I hope to come back.

How about a favorite local restaurant when you visited?

I enjoyed the Indian food of Rasika and The Smith's burger.

Do you have a website or blog?

I recently renewed my website: www.tomasserrano.com