David Rowe on the conviction, in an Australian court, of George Cardinal Pell for sexually assaulting choir boys.Rowe has a well-earned reputation for amusingly ghastly depictions of people, but I think he wisely recognized that there’s no need for it this time, and that linked article, though a model of objective reporting, is horrific enough […]
The Story of Earl Musick, OCJ CartoonistSo how exactly does someone get the job of drawing the comic strip for Ohio’s Country Journal? Believe it or not, it started with the FBI.It was 14 years ago when he started doing cartoons for Ohio’s Country Journal. Musick made up for his limited agricultural background by talking […]
From KGTV San Diego:San Diego Union Tribune cartoonist Steve Breen created a picture of authors James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, and actor Jussie Smollett, with the title “Famous African American Story Tellers,” according to Harris’ email. The image was published Friday, Harris said. “It was egregious to us all,” Harris said at his news conference.From […]
I’m in the mood to pick nits and perhaps fights this morning, and Drew Litton has the misfortune to serve up a slow, underhand ball with what is a frequent complaint: “Outrageous Player Salaries.”My usual response when football fans rant about this is to suggest they check with the 67,042 people who pay to watch […]
Don Asmussen has updated his status.On Twitter:Update: I’ve got cancer. My S.F. Chronicle bosses have been great and very supportive as I work my way back. It has spread to my organs, including my brain (my very worst organ, as most of you know). I had brain surgery last November, and now have some new […]
Join us in wishing Arnold Roth a Happy Birthday! Born February 25, 1929 he becomes a member of our Senior Strippers Club (90+).The Reuben Award winner (and about a dozen other National Cartoonists Society divisional awards) and Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame member is a giant of the craft. Here, from Lambiek, is only […]
The Mark Knight cartoon that showed Serena Williams throwing a temper tantrum on her way to losing last September’s U. S. Open has been determined to be “non-racist.” The cartoon had garnered international outrage and condemnation.After complaints that the cartoon was offensive, showing a “prejudicial racial stereotype” and “sexist representation,” the watchdog Australian Press Council […]
J. R. Williams was a jack-of-all-trades before he settled down as a cartoonist, one of those was ranch hand. As the cartoonist of the Out Our Way panel Williams portrayed several different settings, one of those was the ranch. These were not rough and tumble adventures as seen in Fred Harman’s Red Ryder nor the […]
We’ll lead off today with snippets of things you should go check out, starting with Ann Telnaes’s longer piece on the conference about sexual abuse at the Vatican. Or the conference at the Vatican about sexual abuse.Whichever. It is well-worth the click.Signe Wilkinson takes up a piece of that argument, agreeing with Telnaes that it’s […]
The early Little Orphan Annie original art up for auction I had mentioned elsewhere has sold. August 26, 1924 Little Orphan Annie = $12,000 + $1200 for the buyers premium. For comparison, here’s some other original art sold at the same Heritage Auctions lot, the following prices all include the buyer’s premium in the totals. October […]
Comics Related OscarsThe Oscars are tomorrow night.So Torsten Adair, at The Beat, has assembled past Oscars that went to comics related projects that originated in print (that leaves out almost all of the animated shorts and films). More of The BoondocksAaron MacGruder (and Seung Kim) have returned with more of The Boondocks.SOHH carries the strips. Game Time […]
Kal Kallaugher describes a central issue in the campaign to “Make America Great Again” that goes beyond border walls and is at the heart of a whole lot of issues we’re dealing with.America as a “Melting Pot” derives from a 1908 play by Israel Zangwill, an immigrant from Britain who was, himself, the son of […]
How better to kick off a Friday Funnies than with a Juxtaposition screen shot to show exactly how it fell on my page?I had already given Arctic Circle a superior chuckle, because my boy Vaska is quite the opposite and does not want to go out at all in foul weather.Fortunately, ridgebacks have iron bladders […]
Cartooning children’s show host ‘Sailor Bob’ Griggs has passed away.Robert Thomas (Bob) Griggs (aka Sailor Bob) November 21, 1933 – February 20, 2019 A generation of Virginians living within reception distance of WRVA-TV in Richmond grew up on Popeye cartoons presented by Sailor Bob.The character was created in 1959 for the sole purpose of introducing Popeye […]
I’m sure most of you, like me, regularly check the various print syndication homepages to see what, if anything, is new. So I naturally got excited when I checked in on the Andrews McMeel Syndication site and noticed a new listing: Lucas Turnbloom’s “How to Cat.” So I sent a request to the syndicate asking when […]