Occasionally cartoonist Sandra Bell-Lundy dreams of the Old Country.The Old Country is Newfoundland, the home of her mother and grandmother. Occasionally it is mentioned by name in Sandra’s Between Friends comic strip.It’s because Bell-Lundy has a strong connection — both her mother (Shirley Bell, nee Graham, age 85) and grandmother (Harriet Graham, nee Taylor, born […]
We still haven’t actually seen Eugene the Jeep in this week’s 1936 Thimble Theater, but there’s already a villain seeking to kidnap — jeepnap? — the little fellow.Wikipedia (mostly) disputes the story that Eugene inspired WWII GIs to refer to their small, go-anywhere vehicles as “Jeeps” but doesn’t explain why, or provide examples of how, […]
Humorist Larry Siegel has passed away.Lawrence Harvey (Larry) Siegel October 29, 1925 – August 20, 2019From the Larry Siegel Facebook page:It is with great sadness that I have to share the news that my father, Larry Siegel passed away last night at the age of 93 after a long battle with Parkinson’s. He was a […]
Big conventions, like those in Salt Lake City and San Diego, attract huge numbers of artists and fans. For Santa Barbara, California-based Dana Simpson, it became too much. “I’ve started doing more of these smaller conventions. I got tired of the big conventions because they’re big and loud, and it’s easy to feel lost. I […]
Jimmy Margulies explains today’s lack of any particular theme. Dear Leader has become so erratic that it’s possible to blend the political with the comical and the only real problem is that he’s got access to the launch codes.We’ve managed to bring Great Truth to that cynical National Lampoon parody of Desiderata:You are a fluke […]
Pedro X. Molina, who was presented with the 2018 Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award from the Cartoonists Rights Network International at last year’s AAEC Convention in Sacramento, and earlier this year was honored as a recipient of a 2019 Maria Moors Cabot Prize for outstanding reporting on the Americas from the Columbia Journalism School, has […]
Dan Piraro makes an announcement:A while back and for a number of years, I used to do a feature called Bizarro’s Sunday Punnies and here’s how it worked: About once a month, I’d do a Sunday cartoon with three panels, each of which was my illustrated version of a pun submitted by readers. (See example […]
Earlier this month The Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman-Review asked readers to rate the comics that currently run on their funny pages. That was part one of their comics poll. Now, they are beginning phase two:[There are] 10 artists Spokesman-Review readers will soon put through a wringer. Beginning today – when the first batch of five comic […]
The Times West Virginian of Fairfield is moving Mallard Fillmore from the comics page to the opinion page, “where we believe it is more suited.”That is opening a spot on the daily comics page, and they have given the readers a choice of one of four comic strips as a replacement. The paper has offered two […]
If Bob Gorrell hated the NYTimes special section on the impact of slavery on America’s history, he’d hate my alternative even more.I think it should have been a series, not a doorstop.We can dismiss as paranoia or snowflakery his assertion that it’s part of an attack on Trump, though it’s nice to think that the […]
As Mike Peterson mentioned the other day Gahan Wilson still draws a bit. While the GoFundMe page is no longer soliciting donations, stepson Paul Winters continues to send out updates on the cartoonist. In the latest Paul shares an illustrated letter 13-year-old Gahan sent to illustrator J. R. Neill. Read the August 19, 2019 update for […]
Some newspapers readers, and their letters to the editors. I want to thank Jeff Darcy for finally giving me the courage to say enough is enough… Jeff Darcy…with “I Really Don’t Care, Do U?” emblazoned on the the back of President Donald Trump’s jacket, in regards to the recent shootings. The Plain Dealer has become a […]
Damien Glez offers a clever variation on a too-common visual gag, proving that there’s no cliche that can’t be revitalized, and if plastic bags had a different style of handle or were more rigid, this wouldn’t work at all.Which is sort of a backhanded way of explaining why it does.Our co-op is phasing out plastic […]
By now you know The Nib got cut loose from its publisher earlier this summer — rather than fold, Matt Bors and his crew decided to go independent.The Nib runs political cartoons, journalism, essays and memoir about what is going down in the world, all in comics form — the best medium.The Comics take the […]
Famed Illustrator Charles Santore has passed away.Charles Santore March 16, 1935 – August 11, 2019 From the Philadelphia Inquirer obituary:He began his career in 1956 working as a freelance illustrator for local advertising agencies and publications such as the Saturday Evening Post, Life, Redbook, and the Ladies’ Home Journal. Starting in 1972, he illustrated magazine covers […]