The news of The (Racine) Journal Times and the Kenosha News realigning their funny pages to present the same comics in both papers brings forth a disturbing trend in the new age of newspaper consolidation.In February 2019 Lee Enterprises, the fourth largest newspaper group in the U. S., took ownership of the Kenosha News:The Kenosha […]
Mr. Fitz has been dealing a lot of insider-baseball humor lately, which only his fellow-teachers would really get. That’s his role, but sometimes he’ll pop one that anyone should understand and here we are.This is a good comic because, on the surface, it’s a funny pun and a piercing accusation. David Finkle is a teacher […]
After more than forty years editorial cartoonist Chan Lowe has decided to retire.Chan has spent most of that time, 31 years, at the South Florida/Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, the past two years he has been contributing to the Berkshire Eagle.It was The Eagle that announced his retirement:A cartoon’s impact must happen in the reader’s mind, Lowe, […]
above: the famous B. Kliban cartoon, below: W. C. Morris from circa 1908Both the above and many more cartoonist related cartoons at Larry Rippee and Molly Rea‘s site. Here is a Cartoonists Day celebration from Richard Thompson. A couple cartoonist self-portraits: Unbelievably, not everyone loves cartoonists. Of course, when all is said and done…The above panel comes from a […]
In Wisconsin two neighboring newspapers, The (Racine) Journal Times and the Kenosha News (both Lee Enterprises publications), have finished counting the votes of their early 2019 survey and revealed their new comics page line-up.A line-up they are touting as “the Best of the Best.” Nearly 2,000 readers of The Journal Times and Kenosha News voted […]
My father used to get angry with my teenage self over “Yahbut,” which was how I too often responded to his corrections. “Yah, I hear what you’re saying, But here’s what I think.” At those moments, he hadn’t been intending to open a discussion, much less a debate.Well, there’s a lot of that going around […]
above: The Love Life of Harold Teen debuts in the Chicago Tribune May 4, 1919 As Michael Vassallo says:The strip made its debut 100 years ago today, May 4, 1919 in the pages of the Patterson family owned Chicago Tribune (run by News publisher Joseph Medill Patterson’s cousin, Robert R. McCormick) and joined Patterson’s New […]
Every year the second Saturday of May brings the Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive.To donate, just place a box or can of non-perishable food next to your mailbox before your letter carrier delivers mail on the second Saturday in May. The carrier will do the rest. The food is sorted, and delivered to […]
Matt Davies was, for a second time, awarded the Herblock Prize, and much as I dislike awards in general, I like this one for two reasons: One is that it’s kind of an inside job that consistently honors people who live up to Herblock’s traditions and standards.I mean, they don’t require Nobel laureates to be […]
Today, May 4, 2019, is Free Comic Book Day! Along with the ones shown here there are plenty of superhero comic books too. Visit your local comic book shop and get freebies for the kiddies. As for you homebodies, there is free stuff also. If haven’t read an issue of the wonderful Hogan’s Alley Magazine, Free […]
The current Dick Tracy Minit Mystery by Jim Doherty has Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz simulacra interviewing the detective about an early adventure. With writer Doherty taking the action back to 1931, Joe Staton has altered the art to fit the times.Joe has not just adapted to the styles of the day. he […]
Earlier this year the Chicago Reader began publishing a trio of comic strips.That now comes to an end as the paper announces in its current issue:Comics serials farewell (for now) The last installments of Prairie Pothole, Violet Private Eye, and P.L. Dermes We hope you’ve enjoyed the return of comics serials to the Reader. This […]
The 26th celebration of World Press Freedom Day Molina for Cartooning for Peace Foundation in Geneva Cartoons for Freedom of Expression Freedom of Press cartoons #FreeMusaKart on World Press Freedom DayMore #FreeMusaKart atComic Book Legal Defense FundandCartoonists Rights Network International
Timing is everything in humor and I often find myself laughing at a panel because it happens to hit at just the right moment. (And you greatly increase the odds of that if you subscribe to GoComics and Comics Kingdom rather than just relying on the dozen strips your local paper offers.)As it happened, yesterday’s […]
Jean Shepherd was a writer, humorist, satirist, actor, radio raconteur, TV & film personality and an American original. He was a master story teller in the league of Mark Twain, S.J. Perlman and P.G. Wodehouse. Taking bits and pieces from his own life, he weaved tales of the joys, humor, intrigue and angst of […]