From Vice.com comes an article about The Woman Behind Nancy [who] Has Made an 80-Year-Old Comic Funny Again.The long-running comic was recently taken over by Olivia Jaimes, who’s shifted the focus from boomer humor to jokes about Snapchat, apps, and Twitter bots.Author Grant Pardee, for Vice, says Nancy isfor the first time since the Eisenhower […]
Cartoonist Jim Keefe recently revealed how he released some pressure 20 years ago when he was being laid off from the King Features art department – by way of the Flash Gordon comic strip. Meantime Jake Rossen at Mental Floss has been collecting Things You Might Not Know about various comic strips. These include:11 Fun […]
Waiting for Hogan’s Alley magazine’s fantastic photo feature of the 2018 Reuben Weekend which, if past practice is any indication of future results, will present hundreds of pictures of hundreds of cartoonists; until then here’s a few others from the gala. Lynn Johnston has posted about receiving the NCS Medal of Honor. Can Lynn see the […]
This blank panel represents several cartoons that got the Supreme Court’s decision in Masterpiece Cake Shop v Colorado Civil Rights Commission wrong.As said here yesterday, the decision was only about the hearing before that commission, not about whether the baker had the right to refuse service, though the confusion is not unprecedented.In the 1966 landmark […]