Slate has posted what they view as the 200 Greatest Moments of Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of G.B. Trudeau’s Doonesbury, Slate and Doonesbury.com invite you to enter the feature’s 14,600-strip archive and wander to your heart’s content. For the next two weeks this vast labyrinth of storytelling and interconnected lives, […]
New Yorker cartoonist Leo Cullum has passed away last Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 68. The New York Times’ obituary notes that for most of his career, Leo was a TWA pilot but he will be remembered for his cartoons – some 819 of them. The magazine rejected his early submissions but bought some […]
As I’ve noted before, Arlo & Janis’s cat, Ludwig, is a realistic feline. I’d go so far as to say that he is the most realistic pet in all of comicdom, and part of that is evident in his facial expressions today. Cats have an innocent ability to live in the moment that dogs do […]
Last Sunday’s editorial cartoon by Mike Thompson stirred the ire of Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly. Mike’s cartoon was in response to NPR firing long-time analyst Juan Williams for comments he made on the Fox Network about fearing Muslims. The cartoon depicted several Fox News personalities in various garb – O’Reilly in a “Obama=Hitler” shirt, […]
With today’s anniversary of Garry Trudeau’s Doonebury, I’ll be posting items that I think are of interest. Doonebury is hitting an impressive milestone and it is my opinion that he’s been remarkably good at keeping the strip fresh after so many years. Here is a sample from a Slate.com interview with Garry. Visit the full […]
Today marks the 40th anniversary of Garry Trudeau’s Doonsbury strip. Here is the first strip:The Guardian reports that Garry’s career was somewhat an accident: The strip had come about almost by chance. Trudeau had been having a bit of fun as a third-year Yale student, dabbling with a sports cartoon called Bull Tales based on […]
Sure, why not?Madam & Eve doesn’t need to exaggerate a whole lot today to make me laff.I still don’t get Twitter. I find Facebook very handy, and, for instance, I follow news of my favorite football team as much there as on the AFC South blog, because Paul Kuharsky announces his updates there via […]
Bill Hinds, the creator of Cleats, has decided to bring his comic strip to a close citing the need to focus on other projects that are more economically profitable. The last strip will run this Sunday. Cleats was created back in 2000 at the request of Lee Salem at Universal Press. Bill had a successful […]
You might recall news stories back in 2006 of Jose Varela, a freelanced editorial cartoonist of 13 years for El Nuevo Herald, who stormed the Miami Herald offices with a toy gun start a three hour stand-off with police. He was booked into Miami-Dade jail last week for battery and resisting arrest. According to NBCMiami.com […]
Alexander Anderson, best known for his creation of the 1959 animated program Rocky and His Friends and its 1961 spin-off The Bullwinkle Show, known collectively as The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, has passed away at the age of 90. After the war, Anderson went to work full-time for Terrytoons, in New Rochelle, N.Y. Movie attendance […]
This year’s “Cartoons and Cocktails” will be held this Thursday. The annual event auctions off editorial cartoons donated by the top cartoonists in the country. The proceeds go to Young D.C. the independent newspaper by and for teenagers in the Washington Metropolitan area and the Cartoonists Rights Network International. This year the auction will include […]
Unfortunately, he won’t keep it up into next month. Cleats, one of my favorite strips, is ending this week, which explains the recent poke Bill Hinds took at unscientific “reader polls.” Follow along as a talented cartoonist wraps up what has been a really good family strip.
A small on-line contretemps last week reminded me of this classic 1930s Fred Pegram cartoon from Punch. Pegram was an illustrator in the first third of the 20th century who did some cartooning but apparently paid most of his bills with book illustrations and advertising work. His style was not breakthrough but it was excellent, […]
After yesterday’s strip touched off such a long rant, it’s kind of a relief that today’s Piranha Club simply dropped me to the floor in a giggling fit.I often cite the (classic, “real”) Bob Newhart Show for its ability to tease the audience with absolutely predictable jokes, often featuring Howard Borden, where half the fun […]
Frequent Daily Cartoonist commentator Mike Peterson looks at the reasons why comic polls are so popular. It’s also important to realize that, as much as today’s editor is a stickler for proper grammar and follows rules in a way that would make the most tightly-buttoned librarian look like Oscar Madison, journalism majors don’t study a […]