Matt Bors has been named this year’s John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon competition winner given by the Columbia College Chicago.From the announcement: Bors’ winning image portrays two men sitting outside a trailer listening to a radio account reporting that for the first time in the United States, children of color will be the majority. “Second,” says […]
Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac became an instant classic when it was introduced in 2007. When he announced he was retiring the strip in 2012 due to his battle with Parkinson’s Disease, it was was met with sadness by fans and admirers of his work. Luckily it was soon announced that a complete collection was […]
Stone Soup has been addressing the issue of civilized behavior this week, as Val attempts to take her daughters to a restaurant at which food is served on plates instead of wrapped in paper.This sets off one of my pet rants, which (A) is that we are allowing our children to be raised Tarzan-like, by […]
You can have a star named after you for $30, but if you want an astroid named after you, it has to be approved by the International Astronomical Union. xkcd webcomic creator Randall Monroe’s name was nominated and approved for an asteroid that orbits between Mars and Jupiter. From Robot6: “The first thing I did […]
Peter Tonguette profiles the new Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum for The Columbus Dispatch. In 1990, a roomier space was procured in the basement of the newly opened Wexner Center for the Arts on N. High Street, but the ballooning collection would outgrow its 6,800 square feet there, too. This year, at last, the […]
Al Jaffee, perhaps best known for his three-panel fold-ins for MAD Magazine, is donating the vast majority of his cartoon originals and personal archives to Columbia University. From the New York Times: Karen Green, a Columbia librarian, approached Mr. Jaffee at last year’s New York Comic Con, a gathering place for popular-culture fans, and asked […]
Bill McGraw reports that Detroit News editorial cartoonist Henry Payne will no longer be drawing editorial cartoons for the paper. He will remain on staff as a writer for the editorial page.From Deadline Detroit:Payne was a victim of the ongoing cutbacks at Detroit’s two daily newspapers as they continue to lose print circulation in an […]
No heavy lifting today. Tank McNamara on the topic of college sports and amateurism. I’m not sure where Bill Hinds is taking this, but it’s a worthwhile issue, particularly as we prepare for a round of (yawn) Winter Olympics.The Olympics once had an elitist, often racist, amateurism requirement that needed to go. But the combination […]
Okay, it’s always stuff I like. That’s the format.But here’s #4000 for Prince Valiant, which is not only an impressive record for a Sunday-only strip but a good example of a re-invigorated zombie strip as well as a strip that happens to be a foundation for my love of comics and a very fine piece […]
One of my favorite sources of stupid humor is Monty, who continues to make the tired old “hapless guy looks just like the killer” gag even more ridiculous than usual, and thus justifies dragging it out in the first place.It either takes a lot of confidence or a lot of gall. Today’s installment speaks for […]
This gig would be a lot easier at the moment if I weren’t constrained by the Prime Directive, which is to feature good work and not snark at the bad. Without stooping to examples, there are a lot of commentaries on the current shutdown that range from clueless to contemptible, and I’m not sure which […]
Here’s today’s Candorville, in honor of the fact that it’s been five years since I took on a job that lasted about six months. Before I accepted the job, I asked my prospective boss how the then-new recession was hitting the paper and he assured me that things were just fine, that a community with […]
I’m not getting as much blogging time as I had anticipated, but I’m having fun here in London.The food has been excellent with perhaps the exception of the “Full English Breakfast” which includes a boiled tomato, beans, eggs, bacon (ham) and a couple of sausage links.
This is like being stuck at the airport. Not like being stuck in an elevator. We’ve got access to bathrooms. That makes a big difference, but we’re still not going anywhere for awhile. And I’d rather sit here than have Capt. Obama feel pressured to take off into a blizzard so I could be part of a […]