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  • Jack Ohman and Garry Trudeau Updates D. D. Degg
    Jack Ohman at The Herblock Prize PresentationFrom Bruce Guthrie comes 150+ still photos of Jack Ohman receiving The Herblock Prize at the Library of Congress event from May 26, 2026. Mr. Guthrie has a photographic archive of Herblock Prize presentations going back 12 years featuring Jen Sorensen, Kevin Kallagher, Mark Fiore, Ruben Bolling, Ward Sutton, […]
     

Jack Ohman and Garry Trudeau Updates

29 May 2026 at 11:17
Jack Ohman at The Herblock Prize PresentationFrom Bruce Guthrie comes 150+ still photos of Jack Ohman receiving The Herblock Prize at the Library of Congress event from May 26, 2026. Mr. Guthrie has a photographic archive of Herblock Prize presentations going back 12 years featuring Jen Sorensen, Kevin Kallagher, Mark Fiore, Ruben Bolling, Ward Sutton, […]

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  • No Laughing Matter? Part 2 D. D. Degg
    What happens to satire when press freedom shrinks? Why has satire increasingly become something institutions fear rather than defend? Those are questions Daniel Warner at CounterPunch asks as he notes that the United States has fallen to its lowest score on Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Index. Major U.S. media institutions are scaling back […]
     

No Laughing Matter? Part 2

23 May 2026 at 03:27
What happens to satire when press freedom shrinks? Why has satire increasingly become something institutions fear rather than defend? Those are questions Daniel Warner at CounterPunch asks as he notes that the United States has fallen to its lowest score on Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Index. Major U.S. media institutions are scaling back […]

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  • Garry Trudeau on Sparky and Snoopy Alan Gardner
    Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau has an opinion piece in today’s issue of Rolling Stone (non-paywall version) on his relationship with Charles Schulz and more so on why Snoopy is an enduring and endearing comic character. It was this haiku-perfect character humor that dazzled Schulz’s peers. In Snoopy, he had created an American archetype – the […]
     

Garry Trudeau on Sparky and Snoopy

19 May 2026 at 20:34
Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau has an opinion piece in today’s issue of Rolling Stone (non-paywall version) on his relationship with Charles Schulz and more so on why Snoopy is an enduring and endearing comic character. It was this haiku-perfect character humor that dazzled Schulz’s peers. In Snoopy, he had created an American archetype – the […]

A List: “11 of the Most Famous Political Cartoons in US History” (Our Mileage Varies)

25 May 2026 at 21:56
For whatever reason this list from the Freedom Forum of seven months ago popped up in my feed recently. The headline says “most famous” while the body of the article merely says “famous political cartoons.”Scott A Leadingham puts his list in chronological order and it is hard to argue with his first and last choices. […]

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  • Cartoonists On Parade D. D. Degg
    Drew Litton gets more play time, Walden passes the baton to Steve Bissette, that G. B. Trudeau biography, and the question burning in me goes unasked in a Man Martin interview. Drew Litton Steps Up His Game Sports cartoonist Drew Litton started a non-sports three-times-a-week comic strip last December for The Vail Daily. This week […]
     

Cartoonists On Parade

27 May 2026 at 21:27
Drew Litton gets more play time, Walden passes the baton to Steve Bissette, that G. B. Trudeau biography, and the question burning in me goes unasked in a Man Martin interview. Drew Litton Steps Up His Game Sports cartoonist Drew Litton started a non-sports three-times-a-week comic strip last December for The Vail Daily. This week […]

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  • The 10 Artists Who Influenced Garry Trudeau Alan Gardner
    Garry Trudeau didn’t plan on being a cartoonist. But he quickly became one of the most influential cartoonists in modern cartooning with his comic Doonesbury. Launched in 1970, Doonesbury quickly became a must-read for fans, politicians, and journalists. In the new Trudeau biography, Joshua Kendall writes, “at the annual dinner of the Radio and Television […]
     

The 10 Artists Who Influenced Garry Trudeau

10 June 2026 at 14:14
Garry Trudeau didn’t plan on being a cartoonist. But he quickly became one of the most influential cartoonists in modern cartooning with his comic Doonesbury. Launched in 1970, Doonesbury quickly became a must-read for fans, politicians, and journalists. In the new Trudeau biography, Joshua Kendall writes, “at the annual dinner of the Radio and Television […]

Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau Make Their Red Carpet Debut as a Couple

9 June 2026 at 02:07
Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau attend the 2026 Tribeca Film FestivalKaty Perry is lighting up like a firework. Nearly one year after confirming her breakup with Orlando Bloom, the “Dark Horse” singer and her boyfriend Justin Trudeau made their red carpet debut as...

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  • Rolling Stone Excerpt of Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography Alan Gardner
    Rolling Stone has published an excerpt of the upcoming biography Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography (non-paywall link). The subtitle of the article would make me read it, even if I wasn’t already interested: “How cartoonist Garry Trudeau embraced the counter-culture, became a Rolling Stone writer, and pissed off Hunter S. Thompson so much that the gonzo journalist mailed […]
     

Rolling Stone Excerpt of Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography

19 May 2026 at 20:53
Rolling Stone has published an excerpt of the upcoming biography Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography (non-paywall link). The subtitle of the article would make me read it, even if I wasn’t already interested: “How cartoonist Garry Trudeau embraced the counter-culture, became a Rolling Stone writer, and pissed off Hunter S. Thompson so much that the gonzo journalist mailed […]

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