Posted on: November 6, 2012

GoComics has the must read sample of election related comic strips that ran today.Stephan Pastis’ Pearls Before Swine got an audible chuckle from me:

The Arizona Republic, which also happens to be the hometown paper for Baby Blues co-creator Rick Kirkman, interviewed him about the 20 years of Baby Blues and the new 20 year collection book BBXX: Baby Blues Decades 1 & 2. Q: How does the partnership work? A: The official titles are that Jerry is the […]

Mark Anderson, a cartoonist I consider one of the innovators in the field, has launched a subscription service for his cartoons. The service comes in two levels and offers unlimited access to his trove of cartoons. Mark contends that cartoons include in blog posts or on social media sites are more likely to be shared […]

The Better Half wins the election day cartooning nod. How depressing.Oh. Sorry, Randy. There’s probably a better way of phrasing that.But, first of all, he wasn’t up against a whole lot. I mean, jokes about “thank goodness the political ads are over”? Is that all you’ve got? That’s not so bad for a gag strip […]

As we stretch into the last day of campaigning and political debating, I want to point you to a couple of examples of left and right cartoonists dueling it out. I’m sure there are others.Liberal cartoonist Matt Bors debated with conservative cartoonist Glenn McCoy via Twitter. The event was moderated by GoComics. Matt has posted […]

How did it come to this?I’m hoping Retail is about to launch into an entire arc about the despicable lack of restraint in the “free market” that we have built for ourselves.I never resented working holidays when I was in the newspaper business, any more than I would expect my son and daughter-in-law to object […]

In a somewhat coincidental follow-up to yesterday’s post about kid-like kids in comics, we come to Baby Blues, a comic about parents for parents in which the kids are as exaggerated for comedic effect as are the situations.I say “somewhat coincidental” because I would have chosen this strip anyway, but it’s a nice match. Baby […]

In Big Nate, Nate’s soccer team has just lost 1-0 to a team that, up until this week, had lost 60 games in a row. He’s not taking it well. He’s got a legitimate gripe. The only goal came on an uncalled hand-ball into the net. His net, that is. Nate is a ‘keeper.But, still, he […]

The Norm creator Michael Jantze has started an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds to cover legal expenses due to a suit he says is “frivilous”.From his fundraising site: Here’s what happened to me in a nutshell: I worked for free for someone for a year and now he claims I owe him money. Really? That’s […]

John Lotshaw is developing a comic strip and he’ll be chronicling the progress on the National Cartoonists Society’s blog. John writes:Over the course of the next few months, I will be developing a new comic, entitled Ray Blaster in Blazin’ Phazers. My starting point for this concept was the idea of “Thimble Theater in space” […]

The Simpsons’ Mr. Burns is endorsing Governor Romney for president.

This week Bondie character Dagwood is running for President of the United States.Blondie cartoonist Dean Young:“Because everybody is having such conflicted opinions about the Presidential candidates this year, we thought we’d have some fun in the comic strip and have Dagwood run for President. As we all know, the road to the White House can […]

Boy, a rough day for granolas on the funny pages! Several cartoonists decided this was the day to take a shot:Let’s start in the snacks aisle with Glenn McCoy and the Duplex: Back when my new wife and I were ovo-lacto veggies, the idea of “organic Twinkies” would have been absurd. The only health food […]

I got a chuckle out of Dave Whamond’s Reality Check today, as I often do. But a chuckle isn’t a laff, and isn’t generally enough to get a comic featured here.And it wasn’t today, until I switched over to political cartoons and saw what Nick Anderson had posted: Where is Paul Ryan? Have they disappeared […]

The Sacramento Bee has announced that it has hired former Oregonian editorial cartoonist Jack Ohman to fill the position left by the untimely death of Rex Babin who died in March of this year. Jack tells me that the move was a “perfect storm of luck” between an employee buyout offer at the Oregonian and […]