GoComics has high hopes for its newest feature.Currently online-only, Ask A Portly Syndicate Person will, no doubt, soon be syndicated to thousands of newspapers and church bulletins around the world, and quickly shame the circulation numbers of Garfield, Blondie, and Peanuts. This will feature is expected to reach the pinochle of success. Below: the second (July […]
A sure sign of the Apocalypse.The Orlando Sentinel published black-and-white comics Wednesday morning.I wish I had a simple explanation for why our comics appeared in black and white today. The simple answer is it was a mistake. The complicated one that that the page was set “as full color enhanced black, meaning all the text […]
Joe Shuster was born on this day in 1914, and while he probably didn’t sit up in the Toronto hospital to read the newspaper that day, his father may have had a chance to do so in those pacing and chain-smoking days..Couldn’t find any Toronto papers on-line, and there weren’t a whole lot of comic […]
More letters to editors ’bout comics and cartoons. God is just. KAL is not.KAL has sunk to a new low with his Sunday cartoon. Not only does he continually disrespect President Donald Trump, but now he disrespects Almighty God himself.Diane of Freeland accuses KAL of blasphemy. 100% off basePrejudging the president’s Fourth speech leads to a cartoon […]
The Toronto Star and a Halifax artist are being criticized over the publication of an editorial cartoon depicting Tourism, Culture and Sport Minister Lisa MacLeod.The drawing comes after MacLeod was in the news due to vulgar language she reportedly directed towards Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk at a Rolling Stones concert near Barrie over the […]
(Pat Bagley) (Jim Morin)We’ll start today with two cartoons l like because they get it.There are all sorts of “America is the Greatest” and “Girls Rule, Boys Drool” cartoons making the rounds, several of them demanding equal pay, though pay isn’t based on win/loss records but on revenue.Well, the women are bringing in the revenue, but, […]
Every two years about this time King Features releases their Syndicate Directory.They have recently released the 2019 Directory edition (in pdf). Some notes:Maritsa Patrinos gets credit in the Six Chix entry, and Wayno gets same with the Bizarro listing. Maritsa took on duties this year, Wayno last year. Rina Piccolo gets Rhymes With Orange credit. Rina […]
I have a number of links where I find cartoons and I tend to link back to those places, my intention being to help my readers find cartoonists to follow and to build traffic for those cartoonists.But if linking you back to your syndicate or your Facebook or Twitter page isn’t helpful — particularly if […]
There are several editorial cartoons about the US women’s World Cup win; I like Mo because it’s joyful and then comes back to The Point.It’s important to point out that the women, for the most part at least, recognize that they can’t get the same number of dollars as the men because they don’t yet […]
After 10 years as full-time editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune, Scott Stantis is taking a step back from the drawing board by shifting to freelance status.From Chicago media reporter Robert Feder:Under the new arrangement, his work will continue to appear in the Tribune but less frequently than it does now. Stantis said the voluntary […]
This is who I feel sorry for.Joel Pett works in Kentucky and so has a front-row seat to the result of the betrayal of the coal miners.In the margin of the Lexington Herald-Leader page where this cartoon appears is a headline for another story: “Paychecks bounce, leaving Kentucky coal miners at bankrupt Blackjewel in a […]
above: the invitationPresident Trump has invited editorial cartoonist Ben Garrison to the White House.From Fortune:President Donald Trump is hosting conservative social media personalities at a White House summit on July 11 to air their grievances about Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. The guest list includes a who’s who of conservative groups. PragerU, an online video platform […]
Eulogies for MAD magazine. Clay Bennett [Peter Kuper has] been drawing the Spy vs Spy cartoons in the magazine for the past 23 years. [Shortly after the bad MAD news broke] he spoke with As It Happens guest host Susan Bonner about what Mad means to him.In one form or another, as you said, because it’s been […]
Bado posted the news about the Association of Canadian Cartoonists and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists joint convention for 2020.Per Bado:We are happy to announce that Ottawa will be hosting, next May 14-17, the 2020 conventions of both the Association of Canadian Cartoonists and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.I had a few reactions.1. […]
I expect there will be more cartoons about Trump’s bizarre rendition of the history of the US Army, but Clay Jones and Ed Hall are out front early, which is the only place to be on this one.For those of us who are self-employed, a “holiday” mostly means that we can work without phone calls […]