“The whole world is watching” can be a bland cliché if you toss it out too casually, but the whole world really is watching to see what happens here tomorrow, and it’s not just curiosity.When students first chanted it in 1968 in the streets of Chicago, it was a call to shame, pointing out that […]
Before this week gets going we take a late look at last week. In an amazing instance of synchronicity a day or two after Obama’s Cheesecake Factory/ White House comment the Zippy the Pinhead comic strip makes the same comparison substituting Tad’s Steakhouse for the Cheescake Factory. Is Bill Griffith part of Obama’s speech writing […]
Cartoonist John Rose brings Rudy the Ostrich back to the funny pages, and, yeah, Rudy is going to need an introduction as he hasn’t been seen in the newspaper funny pages for nearly 90 years. Rudy the Ostrich first appeared in the Barney Google comic strip on January 14, 1924 in the strip that was […]
The Australian Cartoonists Association held their annual Stanley Awards banquet Saturday night and Cathy Wilcox came away with the Gold Stanley for 2026. The winners in the other categories are… Comic Strip Cartoonist: Ian Jones Comic Book Artist: Paul Mason Single Gag Cartoonist: Fiona Katauskas Animation: Paul Mason Illustration: David Pope Book Illustrator: Dean Rankine […]
Dunno how Chatfield fastened on Talarico for this gag, but his is one of a flock of Democratic campaigns I have blocked on my phone, or “stopped” at any rate. Not sure of the distinction. It’s not that I wouldn’t vote for him, if he were here or I were in Texas, any more than […]
The Saturday before the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November – 3 days before a major election that will decide the course America will take for the foreseeable future and the major newspaper in the nation’s capitol features fluff for its readers. On the right is an item by Washington Post business columnist […]
Plenty of Halloween comic strips today and this past week but we’re going to go back a bit further. “In October 1989, Garfield woke up to a chill in the house and no sign of Jon or Odie. Over the next six days, things only got weirder. We collected every strip from the week Jim […]
It’s Halloween, which I know because I saw Christmas stuff at the store yesterday. I was going to do a day of Halloween humor, but not much rang my bell. I think holiday comics are like obituary cartoons: It’s mandatory that you do them, but it’s awfully hard to come up with anything very impressive, […]
Ten months ago Caroline Cash took on the Nancy comic strip and she has been inspired by creator Ernie Bushmiller. Cash’s has been the most Bushmilleresque Nancy since Bushmiller’s assistants, who recycled old gags, were replaced with new cartoonists. Jerry Scott’s Nancy was not our Nancy while Guy Gilchrist’s Nancy certainly looked the part but […]
Zyglis is correct that Gen Z’s (18-29) vote at a lower rate than older Americans, though his comparison is problematic, since French youth arose over market basket issues and he’s comparing that with Gen Z people here facing more abstract concepts.As a Dutchman, Wolterink has a seat closer to the disturbances rocking France, and suggests […]
Danielle Corsetto is probably best known for her long-running webcomic Girls With Slingshots which she started soon after graduating college. After her first year drawing and posting GWS, she had enough of a following to work on it full-time. She self published ten GWS collections over the 11 year run. For GWS, she took home […]
Sunny with a Chance of Heat by Tim Tyler is a new comic strip that will soon be a part of the Comics Kingdom lineup. It received a bare bones page at the comics site yesterday with no date given for its debut the first strip showing up today.From the Comics Kingdom description of the […]
There are plenty of politically based “What did you get?” cartoons floating around, but Prickly City managed to be specific, which is one of the benefits of having four panels to work with, and also reflects Ramsay’s experience as a political cartoonist. I’d note, too, that the gags build towards the fourth panel, where Carmen […]
Arthur VK on The Platinum Comics group has posted pictures of his new acquisition – the first original edition of Lenardo and Blandine by Joseph Franz von Goez from 1783 Germany. Andy Bleck presents and translates an edition of the graphic novel.
For not the first time Tom Batiuk gets serious with a Crankshaft “comic” strip storyline this week.Batiuk reaches back 53 years to revisit the subject of a week of strips he did back in the day. While that week of Funky Winkerbean from 1973 was played for laughs Chris Raymond at the GoComics Blog talks […]