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Al Goodwyn (Creators) sets the tone for today’s conversation with what seems a damp squib — that is, a firecracker that fizzles. Contrast it to this Lisa Benson cartoon: Benson’s cartoon misfires rather that fizzles: She’s simply wrong that crime and inflation are increasing, and the polls on Biden are argumentative rather than definite. Still,…
The world is full of weighty matters, but we’re going to, in the words of Eddy Arnold, make the world go away and get it off our shoulders. And, yes, I know it was written by Hank Cochran, but this is being written by me and we’re not picking nits today. Okay, we are. But…
To set the mood somewhat gently, an announcement: I compiled this array back when the Biden/Ice Cream meme first surfaced as a way of pointing out how foolish and unhistoric it was. In fact, I went back and documented that all but three presidents enjoyed ice cream, and those three may have liked it, too….
Today’s headline is an old joke; the answer is in Ann Telnaes‘ cartoon. The stork ought to still scare them, because, as Telnaes points out, we’re heading back to the pre-Roe days when a pregnant woman’s choice was between giving birth or possible death, and I say that as someone old enough to have been…
Al Williamson The auction last month of some of Al Williamson’s pre-Manning Star Wars comic strip proposal (we featured them on our Facebook page) prompted Diamond’s Scoop to re-present a Williamson profile from 22 years ago. Rip Kirby, of course, was not the end of Williamson’s newspaper work. In addition to a run on Secret…
Comic book and comic strip artist Neal Adams has passed away. Neal Adams June 15, 1941 – April 28, 2022 From The Hollywood Reporter: Neal Adams, the legendary comic book artist who reinvigorated Batman and other superheroes with his photorealistic stylings and championed the rights of creators, has died. He was 80. Adams died Thursday in New York…
Comics-Con International (Comic-Con San Diego) has announced the six judges’ choice inductees into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame and 17 nominees of which four will be selected by voters. The automatic inductees are Marie Duval, Rose O’Neill, Max Gaines, Alex Nino, P. Craig Russell, and Mark Gruenwald. As is our wont here at The…
Drew Sheneman shows the broken promise upon which the Republican members of the Senate Judicial Committee based their approach to the confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. It raises the classic question noted in Goldoni’s 1743 commedia, “The Servant of Two Masters”: Pantalone:. What are we to make of this fellow? Is he a…
This is an installment of 2021 Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts – – part 2: Departures – – part 3: Dearly Departed – – part 4: Detours/Deviations) 2021 – The Dearly DepartedThese U. S. newspaper and magazine cartoonists died in 2021. WILLIAM BRYAN (W.B.)(BILL) PARK June 12, 1936…
Texas History Movies was a comic strip that first ran in The Dallas Morning News for two years from 1926 to 1928. Then the newspaper canceled it. But the cartoons about Texas history didn’t die. The originals were reprinted again and again in books and distributed to hundreds of thousands of Texas public school students…
Mike Luckovich takes only a small bit of artistic liberty in depicting one of the battlefields of the New Civil War. We haven’t put on uniforms and I knock wood in saying that we haven’t had anyone shot at a school board meeting. Yet. But there has been gunplay in this New Civil War, and…
The winners of the 2021 Eisner Awards were announced Friday night at the San Diego Comic-Con. A mostly comic book affair here are the winners in some categories we regularly cover here at TDC. Best Reality-Based Work WINNER: Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio, by Derf Backderf (Abrams) Big Black: Stand at Attica, by Frank “Big…
The annual Eisner Awards, in association with the San Diego Comic-Con, have announced the nominees in their various groupings. While there is no exact comic strip or editorial cartoon categories, there are some divisions and nominees to which we can relate among the mostly comic book awards. The most direct comic strip category is…
I can counter-quote Mr. Boffo: You coulda had class. You coulda been a political commentator. You coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what you are, let’s face it. Being a grown up ruins everything. Juxtaposition of the Day (The Argyle Sweater – AMS) (Too Much Coffee Man – AMS) F’rinstance, I’ll admit…
Historical looks at The Ungentlemanly Art from the past week. Illustrating Propaganda During World War I If the echoes of fascism have brought the 1930s and ‘40s troublingly to mind, it’s worth recalling that modern propaganda became a global enterprise during the First World War, rather than the second. For the US, that conflict was…