Friday Funnies come just in time this week, because the firehose of serious stuff is making a mockery of that saying, “Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.”The long-form graphic commentators, plus the every-other-Wednesday part-time cartoonists, are just catching up on the college admissions scandal while the daily reactors are showing Trump […]
Born March 22, 1929 is one of the greatest caricaturists of all time.Mort Drucker becomes a Senior Stripper on the occasion of his 90th birthday. World famous for his decades for satirizing movie and tv stars’ shows for MAD magazine, he was much more that that. For example he is an amazing illustrator. Before becoming world famous […]
From John Rose and the Daily News-RecordAlso: R. C. Harvey on T. K. Ryan and Tumbleweeds. Cartoon County at the Bruce Museum Brian Walker, Neal Walker, Chance Browne, Greg Walker and Cullen MurphyThe comics page has been a delight for generations of readers around the world. In southern Connecticut, its production was a combination of a […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced the nominees for this year’s Reuben Award.National Cartoonists Society members have nominated the top five finalists for the 2018 NCS Reuben Award for “Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year”. Ballots have been sent out to all voting NCS members this week, and the Reuben Award will be presented to the […]
Carmen and Winslow have begun sorting through the candidates over at Prickly City, and today’s episode brought a couple of things to mind.First, to set my disclaimers, I’ve lived next door to Vermont for 30 of the last 32 years, in New York for most of those years, in New Hampshire for the past decade […]
A talented illustrator and painter, Bob Fujitani rode the comics craze from the 1930s into the ’90s, illustrating such popular strips as “Uncle Sam,” “Flying Dutchman,” “Rip Kirby,” “Dr. Solar,” “Crime Does Not Pay,” “Turok” and “Son of Stone.” He also drew “Prince Valiant” for comic books… Fujitani also drew the terrifying vigilante Hangman (a […]
So, having wearied of chasing Hillary Clinton around the Capitol over Benghazi, Devin Nunes is trying for an easier target.He’s suing his cow.He’s also suing his mother. That’s one cold-blooded dude.But perhaps he should read this article from 1988:Note the term “unanimous.” In Hustler v Falwell, even Scalia and Rehnquist agreed, not just Brennan, White, […]
As everyone knows King Features Syndicate is celebrating the 90th year of Popeye and the 100th year of Thimble Theatre by producing the new comic strip Popeye’s Cartoon Club.The March 17, 2019 edition (below) was by cartoonist Tom Neely.Tom has treated us with the original art for his installment.And quite a treat it is!Check out […]
A new edition of the 1980 collection MacDoodle St. by Mark Alan Stamaty is being released with an added 24 pages including a brand-new, twenty-page autobiographical comic by Stamaty explaining what happened next and why MacDoodle St. never returned, in a unique, funny, and poignant look at the struggles and joys of being an artist. […]
The first “Cathy” comic strip ran on November 22, 1976. Guisewite remembers the day well; she hid in the bathroom at work for most of it. She was 26 years old and working at an advertising agency in Detroit as a copywriter, and she was terrified that she would be laughed out of the office […]
We’ll start with Pooch Cafe, which is based on a question I’ve never asked a dog, not for fear of getting Poncho’s response but because I don’t expect any response at all.But I keep asking the question of politicians and I have no idea why, except that every once in awhile one of them does give […]
The National Newspaper Awards is the trade name of the Canadian Daily Newspaper Awards Programme Administration Corporation, a not-for-profit body which governs the awards program. Finalists for Editorial Cartooning: • Michael de Adder, Halifax Chronicle-Herald/Brunswick News/Toronto Star. • Brian Gable, Globe and Mail. • Garnotte (Michel Garneau), Le Devoir. A couple National Newspaper Awards notes: Brian Gable […]
The 2018 National Cartoonists Society Divisional Award nominees for the 73rd Annual NCS Reuben Awards! The winners will be announced on May 18th, 2019 in Huntington Beach, CA. The National Cartoonists Society
This post has been updated on March 18, 2019 to include, below the original post, the final thoughts on the strip from Sunday inker Joe Sinnott and Stan Lee’s comic strip assistant and editor Mike Kelly. Today Reed Brennan posted an announcement about the future of The Amazing Spider-Man comic strip: Attention Spider-Man clients: You’ll be […]
The Erie Times-News, after tallying their comics survey, has cut 10 comic strips and panels from their daily line-up.Gone are “Wallace The Brave,” “Mr. Boffo,” “Mary Worth,” “Lio” “Herman,” “Moderately Confused,” “Wumo,” “The Buckets,” “Shoe” and “Get Fuzzy.” Though I suspect not everyone will be amused by today’s comics pages, I hope you will feel […]