In a recent interview with the New York Public Library, Amy Kurzweil described her cartoons as studies in “erudite silliness.” Well, Kurzweil is certainly erudite—just check out those pencil-nub ...
You might think that all cartoons come from thoughts, and you might not be wrong. Jason Adam Katzenstein, however, specializes in drawing certain kinds of thought—the ones that wake you up at 2 ...
Political cartoons are a reaction to the news of the day or recent events. Therefore you have to know what is going on. You must be well read. You also have to have an opinion on things. The cartoon ...
First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. Editorial cartoons have long held those in power to account, knocking kings and dictators (if not literally, then at least figuratively) off ...
New Yorker cartoonist Jason Adam Katzenstein taught you how to draw what you see. Then he taught you how to draw faces. In the new video above, he shows how he turns all these principles into ...
For years, I've struggled with political cartoons that seemed to forget that people of color exist. Cartoonists just didn't get it. I complained at conferences, wrote letters, you name it.