Norwegian cartoonist and illustrator Jens K Styve has been a full-time cartoonist for nearly a decade. Not that he wasn’t a cartoonist before, but only after his comic strip Dunce won a comic competition and became a daily comic strip in 2017 was he able to quit his day job. Styve calls Dunce “not quite […]
The Phantom’s cropped comic strips of Wilson McCoy, Al Stoffel’s three decades of writing Bugs Bunny, and Frank Willard’s doppelganger Moon Mullins. The Phantom – The Missing Part During World War Two restrictions were set on pulp paper usage and so newspapers were forced to squeeze their news and features into fewer pages. For syndicates […]
Looks like the Cornell 7 story is going to stick around awhile. That’s a good thing, because it’s a national conversation we need to have. And it’s a bad thing if it simply leaves the impression that Cornell is some unique hell-hole.I like Davies’ cartoon, because there’s an implication that the usual set of college […]
25 years and a few weeks ago a small group of people a couple dozen kilometers west of Calgary started a small weekly newspaper, The Rocky Mountain Outlook (RMO). The first edition was dated September 20, 2001 and included in that issue was a cartoon by Patrick LaMontagne. LaMontagne will tell us that it wasn’t […]
Believe it or not this is another post about Howie Noel, the new Dick Tracy artist, only this time we are focusing on his Ripley’s Believe It or Not cartoon panel gig which he took over earlier this year. Jordan Neese for Ripley Entertainment interviewed the new artist for the 108 year old comic panel […]
Apparently, we can take one crisis off the docket. Dear Leader has decided to stop having the taxpayers pay for his self-promoting political ads. As the articles covering it say, he got some serious pushback on the practice, some of which may have been warnings that what he was doing was illegal, but I particularly […]
AI has taken another step in stealing from cartoonists, it is adding signatures to the fraudulent fakery. Andrew Deck for NiemanLab investigates. ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons “These days, cartoon signatures are more than a byline. In an era where cartoons are regularly stripped from their original context and […]
Cartoonists Lineup: Keith Knight, Howie Noel, Jonathan Lemon, Vic Lee, Daniel Shelton, Liniers, and Carol Lay.Knight tells us in this week’s The K Chronicles that he has been at this cartooning business for 35 years (as a professional, he’s been cartooning since childhood). As Dr. Knight tells us appreciators of art, even comic art, we […]
Margulies makes an excellent connection between people exiled to countries with which they have no connection and people who are experiencing the same disorienting thing without having to move at all. He and I are of an age where we had seen this country, if only in propaganda films and, in my case, a live […]
“He puffed a fake cigarette, then sang a tune titled “Who’s Got a Gag for Me Today?”: ‘Sluggo lives by himself. Nancy’s his goil. He was feeling all alone, then in dropped a squoil!’” Emma Allen, cartoon editor of The New Yorker, reviews Tom Gammill‘s “A Morning with Ernie Bushmiller.” In 1976 Ernie Bushmiller was […]
While Bill Griffith has always bled his personal life into the Zippy comic strips I am enjoying the more frequent breaking down of the 4th wall and his giving us more behind the scenes insights since he’s begun his graphic novel autobiography. As he did this past Monday: Truth be told the “selfie” comic strips […]
Kal wrote a piece about depicting democracy in the form of strong women, the top cartoon here being from four years ago, the second being current.I like the basic concept, but prefer the second because the first seems to put three symbols into a belligerent stance that doesn’t fit their traditional roles, at least for […]
At USA Today Brian Truitt asked a number of industry people what their favorite animated movies were. “We reached out to Oscar-winning filmmakers, studio executives and iconic voice actors to find the best 100 animated movies ever. See our list.” “To celebrate animation’s rich cinematic history, USA TODAY surveyed an array of people from across […]
Sergio Aragonés and Frank Quitely, Ernie Bushmiller and Tom Gammill, Teresa Burritt and Clay Jones, Romance books and Cartoon Covers, Mo Willems and Adults, Supergirl and the U.S. Mint. Frank Quitely Wins the 2026 Sergio Aragonés International Award John Freeman (downthe tubes) reports that Frank Quitely has been named as the recipient of the 2026 […]
Thought I’d better get this Banx cartoon in before he has to change the sign over the door. though I suspect making the sign politically correct won’t change the gag.I could, of course, have run it last along with the song about signs, but that song was in heavy rotation when I worked in a […]