Speed Bump offers a heapin’ helpin’ of food for thought.It’s well-timed. Though “back to school” for most colleges was several weeks ago, and cutting the check was quite a bit earlier than that, the economy remains center stage. And this is a nice riff on the quickly-becoming-tiresome gags about recent graduates living at home.The last […]
The Latern profiles Pulitzer Prize editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson of the Houston Chronicle.He catches a lot of flack for daring to not be Republican in Texas. “There’s a lot of people here that cannot stand me, wondering why the newspaper has a staff cartoonist that’s out of step with Texas politics. It’s a lot more […]
Isabella Bannerman, Monday’s artist for Six Chix, was awarded this year’s UCS Editorial Cartoon Contest sponsored by the Union of Concerned Scientists. This year’s theme was the role science should play in American democracy. Isabella’s winning cartoon featured below.
Matt Wuerker’s cartoon reminded me of what Harry Truman said when — trailing badly in the polls — he accepted his party’s nomination at the 1948 Democratic Convention. It’s not too late for the current occupant of the White House to issue the same challenge: Now the Republicans came here a few weeks ago, and […]
Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell is paying tribute to Charles Schulz and Peanuts in a story-line that runs this week. Sparky once called Mutts “one of the best comic strips of all time” and this week Patrick tips his hat back.Here’s a sneak peak for a couple of panels to run later this week:You can read […]
Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson has won a Harvey Award in the Best Syndicated Strip category. It was a pretty solid category with Dan Piraro (Bizarro), Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury), Patrick McDonnell (Mutts), and Stephen Pastis (Pearls Before Swine) as the other nominees.In the category for best Online Comic work, Kate Beaton took the award […]
The surrender and arrest of Indian cartoonist Aseem Trivedi on charges of sedition has become a big story in many publications here in the US. Aseem was scheduled to be here in the US at The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists convention to receive The Cartoonist Rights Network International Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award but […]
Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson notes that the strip is five years old and he’s posted early – pre-syndication, pre-Washington Post versions of the strip while he was still working with the concept. He writes: Here are the first two strips I tried with the Otterloop family, and you can see just how badly […]
Steve Artley on political tone. I don’t know that we have had a lot of truly polite political campaigns, but we have had candidates who attempted to leave the mudslinging and the waving of bloody shirts to their surrogates. Good manners need to be mutual, if you don’t want to come off like Michael Dukakis, who […]
Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher, editorial cartoonist for The Economist, attended the Democratic National Convention and posted this video on the changes in presidential caricatures before and after the first term in office.
LA Times comic page readers got a bit of leggy Edda and Amos in a clothed missionary position with their breakfast earlier this month. Brooke McEldowney’s 9 Chickweed Lane is was running a story-line in which Amos climbs on stage to propose to Edda but somehow he ends up on top of Edda. The LA […]
The mother’s smile absolutely makes it in today’s Rhymes With Orange.Twenty years later, she remains oblivious to the horrors she inflicted on her poor child.No, wait: The little inset of the school picture makes it. Gaah!Wait, no, it’s the fact that the now-adult kid is still obsessing over it all.This is a very funny cartoon […]
I have to say that. As you read this, he’s sitting next to me.Christopher Baldwin and I are tabling at the Battle of Plattsburgh weekend in Plattsburgh, in support of two local history books, “Freehand,” which is set in the War of 1812 of which the battle was a decisive moment, and “Hooch,” which is […]
I have praised Scott Stantis several times here for (A) being a conservative with a sense of humor and (B) not being an ideologue.Here’s a particularly fine example, both in and of itself and in contrast to a lot of other stuff.The past couple of weeks have seen some really poor cartooning, particularly from the […]
Next week Jeff MacNelly?s Shoe will turn 35. Jeff?s wife Susie, Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins, who are producing the strip now, have created a special retrospective series that takes Skyler, one of the strip’s characters, back in time to 1977 to meet Jeff.From the press release: The week-long retrospective kicks off with Skyler traveling […]