So a cartoon by Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig again causes a stir.To be sure Leunig has his detractors:Oh no, Leunig is back, and he’s making cartoons again! Why won’t somebody stop him? If you’re not aware, Michael Leunig is a veteran cartoonist and Australia’s most whimsical anti-vaxxer — he also hates marriage equality! Honestly, it’s bad enough that […]
WTWO/WAWV carries the story of local cartoonist minister Paul Gray.At almost 90 years old, Paul Gray of Carlisle has been cartooning his entire life—he even still publishes a weekly cartoon for area newspapers. “In the early 1950s, I worked for the Detroit Daily News a little bit,” he said. He also worked for a number […]
Bizarro starts off our look at parenting with a dumb joke. I like dumb jokes, and particularly the kind that require you to think for about a minute and then realize you shouldn’t have had to.I also like the fact that Bizarro never softens its approach or apologizes for gags that whooshed over your head. […]
above: Boris Johnson in The Times by Peter BrookesTim Benson looks back at the cartoons of 2019 and asks, “How far can you go in making people think but not being tasteless”?In April, the international edition of The New York Times published a controversial cartoon. It showed a blind Donald Trump, wearing a skullcap, being […]
Ladies First: A Century of Women’s Innovations in Comics and Cartoon Art Nov. 2, 2019-May 3, 2020 at The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum above: the Jackie Ormes display (image via Pioneering Cartoonists of Color Facebook)Jackie Ormes, Rose O’Neill, Lynn Johnston, Edwina Dumm, Alison Bechdel. Nell Brinkley, and more.From the Columbus Alive article:A century […]
Charles M. Schulz again makes it into the top five of Forbes Top-Earning Dead Celebrities in this year of 2019. Another cartoonist comes in at #6. The other cartoonist achieved his fame as a book author.Go here for Forbes list of the 13 Top Earning Dead Celebrities of 2019.
Every fifteen years or so the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists overhauls its website. November 1, 2019 marks the latest.The old face of editorialcartoonists.com:The new face of editorialcartoonists.com (yes, the address remains the same):I guess this refurbishing explains the occasional “service unavailable” message that one got when checking in on the page the past couple […]
Jim Morin provides a good starting point and what may be Trump’s best defense: To simply scream that it’s all a hoax and a witch hunt and unfair.I particularly like that Morin does not have him pointing at his political opponents so much as the system itself. We’ve had several cartoons showing him destroying or […]
We want to open this year’s respect to those who have come before us by thanking the people who made it possible for Barbara Shermund to be given her due. (Phil May) (Wilhelm Busch) images via Find A Grave
From the Wikipedia introduction to Nero Wolfe:Nero Wolfe is a fictional character, a brilliant, oversized, eccentric armchair detective created in 1934 by American mystery writer Rex Stout. Wolfe was born in Montenegro and keeps his past murky. He lives in a luxurious brownstone on West 35th Street in New York City, and he is loath […]
Marshall Ramsey began his career at the University of Tennessee Daily Beacon (sample above).His post-college career led him first to Pope High School in Georgia, where he was a janitor who rolled around a barrel with his diploma attached. After a six-month “pity party” and a Sunday sermon about the parable of the talents, Ramsey […]
Sunday’s Barney & Clyde reminded me that one of the pleasures of going to Manitou Springs back when I lived out West was a stunt painter who was camped out on a corner.Manitou Springs was a fun place, even if you didn’t want to climb Pikes Peak, which starts there, or take in the waters, […]
MAD is the magazine that just will not die.Quentin Tarantino‘s studio and MAD have once again collaborated to create an all-new issue of MAD. This time as a bonus for a collectors’ edition of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” as a blu-ray release in December 2019. Included, among other goodies, will be an “exclusive […]
Speaking of syndicate homepages…The Andrews McMeel Syndication homepage has recently added a new comic strip to its lineup.Dark Side of the Horse by Samson (aka Samuli Lintula) is now on the page for print syndication.From what I can suss from the history of the strip it possibly first appeared in 2008. The GoComics archive of […]
For a week, since Thursday October 24, Comics Kingdom hadn’t updated Rex Morgan, M.D. Rex fans opened up the page to the same strip every day for a week:And it was only the Rex strip stuck in time, no other KFS strips. Terry Beatty even had to chime in to assure fans that he was […]