‘I won the Pulitzer Prize and I’m busking on a corner’: 3 top artists on the uncertain future of political cartooning

Barry Blitt, Jack Ohman, and Jen Sorensen discuss the promise and many perils of their chosen artform. Editorial cartoons and illustration are fairly niche topics—or so I once thought. On Jan. 3, cartoonist Ann Telnaes published Why I’m quitting the Washington Post on her Substack. It detailed how the paper—owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, who will be attending Donald Trump’s second inauguration—rejected her cartoon of Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Los Angeles Times publisher Patrick Soon-Shiong and Mickey Mouse worshipping at the president-elect’s feet with bags of money. The next day, the story was international news. Continue reading at 'Fast Company'

[ Fast Company | 2025-01-21 11:00:00 UTC ]

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