Comic artist, illustrator, sculptor Cal Massey has passed away.Calvin Levi (Cal) Massey February 10, 1926 – June 10, 2019 From the Philadelphia Inquirer report:The artist Cal Massey, who created hundreds of paintings, illustrations, designs and sculptures over a career of nearly 70 years, died June 11 at Virtua Marlton Hospital. He was 93 and had lived […]
Jeff Danziger teases today’s musical Moment of Zen, and I’ll forgive him for saying “What’s that noise?” instead of “What’s that sound?” because when Buffalo Springfield released the song, he may have been on the other side of the world in Vietnam, and, even if that wasn’t the exact timing, you get my point.As someone […]
At Comics Kingdom today a number of John Rose’s stablemates joined in wishing Barney Google a Happy One Hundredth. Shoe Arctic Circle Mark Trail Pros and Cons On The Fastrack Mutts Six Chix Dennis the Menace Not the first time the Mitchell family has visited Hootin’ Holler. For the Great Comic Strip Switcheroonie (April 1, 1997) […]
Cartoonist and community activist Marian Del Vecchio has passed away. Marian Del Vecchio February 24, 1935 – June 15, 2019 From the obituary:Her memoir, “Hunger,” traces her family’s 1938 escape from Hitler, the excitement of New York, and the Freudian labyrinth of the 1960s. In 1964 Marian married former fighter pilot, now attorney, Frank Del Vecchio. His […]
Today featured a lot of good work on the funny pages, but, just to show I’m not ignoring the current crisis, I’ll start with Non Sequitur, which is good commentary on the Department of Justice.And I’d add that, while I’m not sure of Wiley’s timing on posts, it’s not easy for a comic strip to […]
Barney Google (and Snuffy Smith) June 17, 1919 – present (and beyond) We’ve mentioned the centennial celebration here and here and here. So this is just to mark the official 100th on June 17, 2019.John Rose, after a couple of weeks with birthday guests, jumped the gun by one day with the June 16, 2019 […]
Today’s Sunday Tarzan comic strip was the last by Gray Morrow (originally dated August 19, 2001).A bit over 18 years on the Sunday strip, at the end Morrow had to increasingly rely on assistants due to a progressive affliction with Parkinson’s Disease. If ERB Inc./Andrews McMeel continue with the original run, we will see 39 […]
Bruce Plante lays out the top issue of the day. As noted yesterday, the Trump Administration has a self-inflicted lack of credibility, but we’ve managed to lie our way into several wars, and the two World Wars we entered honestly, we entered late and mostly when cornered. However, not everyone has the same doubts as Plante […]
Cartoonists and Columnists continue to take the New York Times to task for banning political cartoons from both their domestic and International editions. Yesterday morning Mike Lynch produced a roundup of some of the cartoonists responses to the abhorrent action taken by “the paper of record”. Mike shows Ann Telnaes complete response (in a multi-panel format, […]
There is a wealth of political cartoon commentary at the moment, and I could do a roundup of everything said on any one of several topics, but I’m going to do more of a roundup of everything, starting with Matt Wuerker‘s summary of the departure of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, that “slightly chunky soccer mom” who […]
Hats off to cartoonistThis is just a quick opinion from a regular reader that the cartoon by Joe Heller in this week’s Herald-Independent about Bart Starr entering heaven is the best cartoon I have seen anywhere in a decade. Maybe two decades. Huzza Heller. Cartoon of Mother Goose poem sad example to useThe Gazette’s publishing of […]
Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for June 2019 release. Images and links via Amazon (though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.) Prince Valiant Vol. 19 1973-1974 by Hal Foster Berkeley Breathed’s Bloom County Artist’s Edition The Blue Day Book Illustrated Edition: A Lesson in Cheering Yourself […]
We’ll start on a relatively high intellectual plane today and then gradually glide on down to nothing at all.I was taken aback — only appropriate in a sea-faring tale — by this Rip Kirby, not because of the name “Minx,” though I associate it mostly with “Servant of Two Masters,” which is I think the […]
Newspaper illustrator/cartoonist Steve McLachlin has passed away.John Stephen (Steve) McLachlin October 6, 1936 (?) – January 2019 Daytona Beach News-Journal illustrator, cartoonist, and art director 1961 – 2000.From the obituary:Family and friends of Steve McLachlin will gather in Ormond Beach next weekend to honor the memory of The News-Journal’s longtime art director and cartoonist, who died […]
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: The powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. — Romans 13, 1-2Ann Telnaes summons the ghost of Thomas Hobbes, […]