The problem with creative people is they get more ideas than they can use in their regular line of work. Cartoonists are no exception. It was seven years ago this month when Leigh Rubin got the initial idea. Now, most of Rubin’s ideas get channeled into “Rubes,” the cartoon panel he creates that appears daily […]
The mirror-polished, stainless steel’s gleam is impossible to miss in Encore Boston Harbor’s garden esplanade. The Popeye sculpture bought by former Wynn Resorts CEO Steve Wynn in 2014 has made it to its intended home five years later. The 6-foot-5, 2,000-pound sculpture was installed earlier this [month] by the garden esplanade and will remain wrapped […]
I recently likened Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to the middle-school bully who repeatedly pokes his finger in someone’s chest, hoping to get a response so he can say “He swung first.”Darrin Bell reverses things, and I don’t disagree. Can you imagine if Iran flew a drone off our Atlantic Coast and then tried to argue over […]
Michael Maslin celebrates 50 years of George Booth contributing to the New Yorker, from June 1969 to June 2019, with some history and a bunch of visual treats.
I thought, since Mike mostly foregoes politics on Fridays, today would be a good time to update the reaction to the New York Times cartoon ban. But the AAEC beat me with their roundup earlier today. Though I think I can find a few cartoons if not editorials..It’s easy when Keith Knight puts out The […]
Hogan’s Alley magazine has released their annual photo album of the Reuben Awards.Along with The Dinner they also cover the NCSFest weekend, and add a Sergio Aragonés display.Almost 200 photos of cartoonists having fun.
I’ll start by not directing you to a particularly silly article by an academic type who explains why we’re all wrong to think political cartoons still matter, in the middle of which she mentioned political cartoons in the New Yorker, which made me guffaw and post a tweet about how ridiculous it was that she […]
Your life is extremely busy these days, with the production of both editorial cartoons and two daily comic strips. Which is more difficult—the editorial work or the strips? I’d have to say the editorial cartoons. It’s almost performance art—something breaks on the news, and you only have a few hours to respond, to make deadline. I […]
Here’s a selection of 53 comics from the funny pages of June 20, 1953. (Click on the strips to get a bigger, better look.) Adventures of Patsy Alley Oop All In A Lifetime Bo Bobby Sox Boots And Her Buddies Brick Bradford Bringing Up Father Buck Rogers Captain Easy Chris Welkin Crosstown Cuties Dickie Dare Dragnet […]
Jen Sorensen points out an unintended consequence of a generational oddity, and I like it for a couple of reasons, but mostly because complaining about the differences between generations triggers a rant that is dear to my heart.Except that she doesn’t use fictional Madison Avenue marketing terms to pigeonhole her characters: She says “older” and […]
above: Wayne celebrates 40 years with the paper and announces his retirement in 2029.below: Wayne announces he has been let go ten years earlier than planned. Wayne Wright has been sketching the daily cartoons for Summerside, [Prince Edward Island]-based newspaper the Journal Pioneer for the past 40 years, but last week that came to an […]
Happy 90th Birthday Dick Rogers!Born June 19, 1929 today Dick joins the Senior Strippers Club. Dick began his cartooning career assisting George Crenshaw in the early 1960s. Crenshaw had been doing the Nubbin comic strip, and then created the Belvedere panel in 1962. Around that time he took on Dick as an assistant.In 1970 Dick started […]
Last month Jennifer Grygiel advocated that the ease of creating and distributing political memes made it a superior editorial single-shot image than the pen and ink cartoon. With the New York Times canceling the use of one panel editorial cartoons, Jennifer returns to say – so what? Again championing the meme over the cartoon.As a […]
Pretty sure Chip Bok was not intending to make an argument in favor of cutting Iran a break, but he provides a good stepping-off spot.What actually happened in the Gulf of Hormuz remains undefined, and grainy video of a Revolutionary Guard boat crew removing an unexploded mine from the side of a ship is hardly […]
Reaction from the international cartooning community via Cagle Cartoons. Nikola Listes Michael Kountouris Hajo de Reijger Jos Collignon Emad Hajjaj Yaakov Kirschen Dale Cummings Robert Rousso And since we’re using his site, here’s one from The Man himself. Daryl Cagle