Earlier this week was a wonderful interview with cartoonist Jim Keefe talking about his Flash Gordon and Sally Forth comic strips, and the transition from adventure to humor. Also his admiration for John Romita, Al Williamsom, Joe Kubert, and others who preceded him in the field. It is obvious that Jim enjoys comics.About 40 enjoyable […]
Candorville sets the tone for today, and if Lemont and I share a cynical view of society, it’s at least a cynicism based on a sense that we could be a better place if we didn’t simply lack the will.I’ve seen a raft of black hole cartoons with this or that being dragged into it, […]
The new National Cartoonists Society Board of Directors has been announced.2019-2021 NCS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Jason Chatfield – President Ed Steckley – 1st Vice President John Hambrock – 2nd Vice President Teresa Logan – 3rd Vice President Joe Wos – Secretary Drew Aquilina – Treasurer Greg Cravens – Membership Chair Karen Evans – National Representative Since […]
Earlier this year Gary Varvel accepted the buyout offered by the Indianapolis Star, now he will return to drawing local politics by way of the Indianapolis Business Journal. IBJ will begin featuring editorial cartoons from award-winning cartoonist Gary Varvel, starting with the April 12 issue. Varvel will contribute a cartoon twice a month to IBJ’s op-ed […]
Non Sequitur sets the mood for our weekly retreat from politics, and not a moment too soon.Things have gotten to a point where even sober people feel the need for partisan divide. One of our grocery stores put a few tables in their deli section so people could sit and have a cup of coffee, […]
Gahan Wilson was interviewed last month.As stepson Paul Winters said then:Gahan was interviewed today for a newspaper piece that will probably go out nationwide. The people on the reporting team were very sweet and sensitive to Gahan. Gahan was on his game…speaking about his life and other things. The Arizona Republic story was posted on the […]
Doc and Raider sparks memories of my first post-divorce romance, in which two evenings a week were spent similarly lying in bed, though, in our case, we were watching Dynasty on Wednesdays and its spin-off series, the Colbys, on Thursdays.Unlike the boys, we made no attempt to sort out the nonsense playing out before us. […]
Instagram Removed Pro-Life Comic because “Hate Speech” 4/10/2019 Adam Ford — A week and a half ago I posted a comic I made about abortion to Instagram (the full comic is below). I rarely use Instagram, so after checking the post maybe once or twice that same day, I forgot about it. Well, I opened […]
The crowd funding effort for “the UnPresidented deck” has reached almost, as of this writing, 300% of its stated goal, and still has three days until the project’s call for pledges ends.As the Digital Journal explains:The UNPRESIDENTED deck, like an ancient deck, each suit has unique symbolism as Spades represents the Trump Administration that includes […]
From Ted: Against long odds, the California Supreme Court has granted my Petition for Review. We are asking the high court to vacate the LA Times’ abusive anti-SLAPP motion against me as granted by the two lower courts. The successful Petition was drafted by my attorneys Jeff Lewis and Roger Lowenstein. From Ted’s blog:Breaking precedent where newspapers are […]
Agnes has found a skull which appears to be that of a cow, but she’s convinced herself that it is a fossil and is therefore the skull of a cow dinosaur.Today, under continual questioning from a dubious Trout, she plays the traditional card of the clearly-wrong: A claim of expertise.Where else have you heard someone […]
Mark Alan Stamaty Returns to His MacDoodle St. HomeMark Alan Stamaty’s Village Voice comic MacDoodle St. is unlike anything else in print. Each installment of the weekly strip, which ran from 1978 to 1979, is packed with sight gags and digressions, the panels near to bursting with recurring characters and critters…The final strip shows Malcolm […]
There are times you’d like to just ignore it all and retreat into the funnies, but it’s getting kind of hard to pretend you don’t know what’s going on.Retail isn’t even trying to be political, but, then again, there was a time when the prevailing politics were such that these daily assaults on honesty were […]
Peg Montana, the widow of Archie comic strip creator Bob Montana, was going through Bob’s papers after his death and came on to a proposal about aliens. Peg joined with Jeff Cuddy, Bob’s Archie assistant from the early sixties until his death in 1975, to develop the idea into a comic strip.“Going through some of […]
Bizarro takes un-cluttering to a whole other level. Sort of.This un-cluttering thing has come along at a bad time for me, because I’ve reached a point where I want to live simply — I’m in a three room apartment but envy this place because it’s so much more efficient — and I’m also old enough […]