politics

Click on the image to check out Wiley Miller's full Non Sequitur comic strip from Thursday about Tuesday night's presidential debate.

The campaign of U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Loveland) responded to an ad being run by opponent Dr. Victoria Wulsin (D-Indian Hill) by saying that the Wulsin campaign is "imploding."

Schmidt spokesperson Bruce Pfaff responed to an attack ad from the Wulsin campaign hitting Schmidt for comments made during a debate on the economic crisis.

"Another day another Wulsin lie, she just can't seem to tell the truth," Pfaff said. "She even lies about telling the truth. Ms. Wulsin's campaign is imploding, she can't seem to run ads on network T.V. and her nonsensical ramblings at the first debate did more to ensure Congresswoman Schmidt's re-election than anything we could have done. It's a good thing she has her job in Kenya to fall back on after November."

During the Monday debate for Ohio's 2nd Congressional District, U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Loveland) said that the economic crisis hit America two weeks ago.

Businessman David Krikorian (I-Madeira) jumped on the comment from Schmidt, saying that she may have noticed the struggling economy two weeks ago, but he had seen it coming two years ago.

After the debate, the campaign of Dr. Victoria Wulsin (D-Indian Hill) piled on with a press release hitting Schmidt for the remark. Now Wulsin is out with a new campaign ad hitting Schmidt for the remark.

Bill Leak's cartoon from Saturday's Australian criticizing photographer Bill Henson's methods.: (click to enlarge)"As one who defines 'photographer' as 'a person who owns a camera', I've always been suspicious of people who take photographs and call them art," said Bill Leak, the editorial cartoonist for Australia's largest newspaper, The Australian.

Leak filed a cartoon in Saturday's Australian that has many people up in arms, including journalist David Marr, author of Herald, which covers the work of controversial photographer Bill Henson.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is out with a new ad in the race for Ohio's 1st Congressional District.

The ad hits U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Westwood) for having what it says are the same policy posiitions he held when he first entered office.

Chabot is being challenged by state Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-Price Hill).

Alan Gardner at the Daily Cartoonist is reporting that Mike Peters, the Pulitzer prize-winning cartoonist of the Dayton Daily News and creator of the popular Mother Goose & Grimm comic strip, is taking a step back from editorial cartooning and reducing his workload down to two to three cartoons a week.

Peters becomes the second major Ohio cartoonist to reduce his workload by limiting his editorial cartoons. Jim Borgman, the Pulitzer prize-winning cartoonist for the Cincinnati Enquirer, recently accepted a buyout from his staff cartooning job to be able to enjoy his weekends for the first time in over twelve years.

Click on the image to read about Sunday Times (U.K.) cartoonist Gerald Scarfe, who has been skewering British politicians for the better part of 50

It also says that Scarfe put some cartoons in a Sotheby's sale as an experiment and they fetched between £10,000 and £15,000 each.

Time to move to England!

Tom Spurgeon, the writer behind the popular The Comics Reporter blog, has taken syndicated cartoonist and new American Association of Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) president Ted Rall to task for what he perceives to be some generality in Ted's argument against newspapers laying off their editorial cartoonists.

"No one needs to hear the same broad assertions again. We need to hear about specific examples of newspapers benefiting by adding cartoonists or featuring them differently," Spurgeon says about editorial cartooning as part of his 24-part plan of what he would do if he were the "emperor of comics."

Click on the image to view questions and comments about Andrea Levy's visual commentary 'A Bridge to Somewhere' that appeared in Sunday's Cleveland Plain Dealer.

There is also audio of a chat Levy had with some of the newspaper's readers.