Alex Dueben, at The Comics Journal, has a nice interview with Jim Scancarelli about his 40 years on Gasoline Alley.I have to ask, are Walt and Skeezix ever going to die? I’ve been asked that. In the back of my head, I have a scenario that would work. I have told Bob Harvey, but I […]
I’m as distracted as Mo — this has been quite a weekend, and if the worst outcome is a chunk of pineapple in your martini, you got away with a better taste in your mouth than the rest of us.It’s even worse than this. Ann Telnaes apparently drew this one before Trump first failed to […]
Little Man on Campus by Dick BiblerAnd then there was Richard “Dick” Bibler, whom Richard E. Freiburg remembered as “easily the best known Oread Hall resident” of the late 1940s. Not for any hard-court or gridiron glories, mind you, but rather for his popular “Little Man on Campus” cartoon that appeared in the University Daily […]
The Barn pretty well summarizes the day. As an excuse to get blind drunk, it’s not bad. As a holiday saluting a nation, well, it’s only one day out of 365 and tomorrow all those fools will be at work hungover.That should be punishment enough, but feel free to cheerfully ask them if they’ve got […]
When The Amazing Spider-Man artist Alex Saviuk acknowledged the end of his and Roy Thomas‘s run on the comic strip he mentioned that “March 23 will be the last Daily and March 17 will be the last Sunday as we close out the current storyline.”And today’s March 17 Sunday strip certainly reads like an ending, […]
I’m going to start with an encouraging word from Mark Anderson at Andertoons, in these days of shutdowns and cutbacks and layoffs.There’s something worse than getting fired.Not getting fired.I’ve popped around a fair amount and I’m very familiar with the job that is fun until your boss leaves or until the place is sold and […]
above: Macanudo by LiniersHere are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for March 2019 release. Images and links via Amazon (though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.) Laptops Are So Warm: An Ask a Cat Collection Just Like Rube Goldberg: The Incredible True Story of the Man Behind the […]
What type of content seems to go over well in Madison? People really like it when I make fun of Donald Trump. It’s a pretty liberal community here in Madison, so people always really love that. People always loved it when I when I would make fun of Scott Walker, the old governor of Wisconsin, […]
King Features has noted the passing of Tom K. Ryan. Tom’s Tumbleweeds collections were some of my most favored comic books. Ger Apeldoorn has a few Tumbleweeds comic strips at his site, including some of the first ones. Here’s the beginning of a site dedicated to Tom and Tumbleweeds. And here’s Tom’s Tumbleweeds site. A proper obituary as details emerge.
Not to worry, Pig. It’s Friday Funnies! And you don’t have to actually turn it off, as Clyde demonstrates. You can just blow it off. People like Winslow and Carmen will take care of everything for you. Hope you like their plans, by the way.The difference between Pig and Clyde being that Pig will eventually complain about […]
Only two months left to get your plans in order to attend the first NCSFest. Join thousands as they enjoy a Comics and Cartoonist Carnival. Here are a few that have already made plans to attend: All the information you need at the NCSFest website.The NCSFest Facebook page will keep you up-to-date.
An Unapologetic Political CartoonistWELLS: I saw on Twitter, I mean I just saw a bit of it, but he apologized and then he sort of apologized for the apology. But people started giving a hard time for apologizing. MACKAY: I think the big difference there is that he’s a freelancer so he doesn’t answer to […]
Congrats to Dave Granlund, mostly in contrast to those cartoonists who did cartoons about the Max8s still being in the air, only to have Dear Leader come sliding in, spikes high, at deadline time to announce he was grounding them.Trump could really mess with the press by doing that more often — serve up an […]
The dust-up with Mehgan McCain has raised Eli Valley‘s visibility.In an interview at Popula Eli establishes his Jewish bona fides vis-a-vis Mehgan and dicusses the politics of Israel in the U.S.First of all, I had no idea that Meghan McCain is Jewish. What’s the story behind that? It’s been fascinating just from the point of […]
I know it goes against the rules of editorial cartooning, but let’s start with what Nancy Pelosi actually said:While Pelosi’s statement has drawn condemnation from several cartoonists at the left end of the spectrum, their outrage seems more idealistic than practical, little more than the same chants that MAGA crowds aimed at Clinton, with the […]