The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer editor George Rodrigue has penned a piece on Cleveland.com that reflects on the results of a survey they’d conducted to see whether their readers wanted to bring back Non Sequitur. Seventy-seven percent of the respondents voted to bring Non Sequitur back, while 14% voted to keep its replacement “Animal Crackers.” From the […]
We all yearn to be Yossarian, but Chaplain Tappmann is probably the best we can manage on a good day: A perpetually puzzled, easily bullied, well-intentioned chaplain whose faith is continually in the balance. And let me begin by chiding that other Joe Heller, not the late author of the increasingly relevant “Catch-22,” but the cartoonist […]
The Chicago Daily News – April 24, 1929 Herbert Block, signing Herblock, begins his career as an editorial cartoonist. Herblock would continue for 72 years, until his death in 2001. During that time he would be awarded three Pulitzer Prizes. The first for a comment about Joseph Stalin. The last Pulitzer for his “body of work,” and […]
Cartoonist P. C. Vey Hampshire Life: Talk about the work you’re currently doing. What does it involve, and what are you trying to achieve?Peter Vey: Right now I’m doing a batch of cartoons, which is about 15 to 20 roughs. I actually do this every week for The New Yorker. The batch is due by 12 o’clock […]
A new fifteen day Minit Mystery will be featured in the Dick Tracy comic strip. It will start Sunday April 28, 2019 and end on Sunday May 12, 2019.The new Minit Mystery will be written by (Sgt.) Jim Doherty; no word on whether Joe Staton or a guest artist will do the art.Jim Doherty is […]
Next year will be the 50th anniversary of the infamous Kent State shootings.In Spring of 2020 John Backderf and Abrams Books will release Kent State: Four Dead In Ohio. “I’ve boiled the story down to showing how it unfolded,” Derf said. “It’s a very personal account of this shocking event that still reverberates today. I […]
The Mueller Report is not the only important issue facing us these days. For instance, if you haven’t been reading Non Sequitur, you might not have begun contemplating the issue of whether squirrels poop.So now I’ve given it some thought and I suppose they’re like mice and it just kind of falls out randomly, which […]
The Press Club of Atlantic City has announced the winners for the 85th National Headliner Awards.For editorial cartoons First Place Rob Rogers robrogers.com Judges’ comments: ?This collection of cartoons gets high marks for originality, diversity of topics, quality of artwork and clarity of message. An outstanding entry all around.Second Place Ward Sutton The Boston Globe, […]
Adam Zyglis greeted Easter with a question he might also have posed at Christmas simply by swapping the bunny for Santa.The answers range from the obvious to the somewhat profound.As a multicultural society we’re not inclined to embrace the religious underpinnings of any holiday, though, in closing schools, banks and post offices, we only acknowledge […]
Since Hilary was a child Sally has eaten the ears off her Chocolate Easter Bunny.As Francesco Marcuiliano explains, the 34 year old running gag “has evolved into a loving tale of parental mind games and ensuing childhood mental breakdowns.”The tradition had its origins on April 3, 1983, 15 months after the strip debuted: The Hilary […]
Bruce Tinsley Likes Comic Strip on Opinion Page Mallard Fillmore cartoonist responds to a local controversy:I do the Mallard Fillmore comic strip that’s always getting into trouble in your paper and across the country. Thanks to readers like Terry Ebaugh for sticking up for my sometimes controversial ideas and to this newspaper for having the […]
Mark Streeter sums up the Mueller Report rather well, including that there was plenty of circumstantial evidence but nothing that absolutely tied the President into the Russian interference, except as a beneficiary.He’s right, and, while there is sentiment for getting Mueller in front of Congress to testify, I’m not hearing a lot of credible calls […]
Gasoline Alley Of course there were (more than) a few Sunday strips about Easter today, but not many impressed me. Jim Scancarelli‘s holiday panels are always a treat for me and today’s brought Walt Kelly to mind: Six ChixConfirmation of supposition. When Maritsa Patrinos was introduced as a new contributor to Six Chix, the speculation was […]
Signe Wilkinson answers my question, which was “Where to start?”Let’s start at the very beginning; a very good place to start. When you read you begin with A-B-C, when you read the Mueller Report you begin withDOH! Oh, dear!Wilkinson is right: It’s all there. I will confess I have not read the entire thing; I’ve […]
Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum recognized as Ohio historic journalism siteThe Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum gets recognized:The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (BICLM) has been recognized as the first Ohio historic journalism site selected by the Society of Professional Journalists, Central Ohio Professional Chapter (SPJ) and the E. W. Scripps School […]