The Father of Children’s Goth Edward Gorey is the doubtful guest in this fine biography: a stubbornly evasive and irreducible essence, now sprawled in a tureen, now chewing on crockery, now standing with his nose to the wall. He lived 30 years too early and 100 years too late. His solitude was significant, that’s for […]
Glenn McCoy the early years:Right out of the gates of [Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville], Glenn was brought on as the Art Director at the Belleville News-Democrat. “I always secretly wanted to be a cartoonist, and when I saw the opportunity to start doing cartoons for the News-Democrat, that was sort of my entry point,” […]
We’ll start this week with a humorous Sunday downer from Reply All. That is, it’s humorous on its own as Lizzie and Drew dicker over what to do with their basement.But it’s kind of a downer if you’ve been around the housing industry very long, because I can’t tell you how many builders told me […]
Children and Fairies and Ranchers – Oh My! The Life of Cartoonist and Illustrator Fanny Y. Cory By Emily Glassmeyer…by the turn of the century she had made the covers of several major publications such as Life, Scribner’s Century, Harper’s Bazaar, Liberty and The Saturday Evening Post, as well as illustrating for Alice in Wonderland […]
From the NCS Fest site:NCSFest’s marketplace will have it’s own unique twist – we’ll be taking our exhibitors and artists outdoors onto the main streets of Huntington Beach for the weekend. City streets around the iconic pier will be closed as the city celebrates all things comics for the first time. Cover and security will be provided and […]
I hadn’t pulled Ed Hall‘s cartoon out of the pile, despite having seen Dear Leader’s tweet in which he, yes, invoked “global warming” in the face of the Polar Vortex.First of all, I hated that movie. I don’t see much difference between the disabled person who teaches us all a lesson about life and the […]
Spider-Man and the Very Cold Day What’s a comic strip fanatic to do when record low temperatures prevent those wussy newspaper delivery kids from getting the newspaper onto your front porch?My memory is that it was still -25 the next morning when we did NOT get a newspaper. The papers had always been delivered around […]
A reader asks the Winston-Salem Journal, “Has the comic strip Marmaduke been canceled?”And the answer comes back, “Yes.”The Journal is switching out some comics and replacing them with others, resulting in no loss in the number of comics the paper is running.The Argyle Sweater is now appearing in the Marmaduke spot.…and it is the first […]
Cincinnati’s Public Radio WXVU has a piece that features 25 reasons to watch “Bench” the MLB Network documentary on the Reds’ Hall-of-Fame catcher Johnny Bench. Number six in the list cites artwork from legendary Zits creator and editorial cartoonist Jim Borgman. From the piece:6. To see Bench in his office reading scrapbooks sent to him by […]
A reader of The Bowling Green (Ohio) Daily News found the January 25th installment of Wumo to be “disgusting, crude, vulgar and very offensive.” And Betty Reneau wrote into the editors to let them know.
This could have been a much larger Juxtaposition. After ignoring the ones I didn’t like, I had 15 that I did, which I thought would be excessive.I managed to cut the list down to six, which I’m running in alphabetical order. Juxtaposition of the Covfefe(Pat Bagley) (Matt Davies) (Jack Ohman) (Mike Luckovich) (Drew Sheneman) (Tom Toles) (Bottomliners) Whoops. That last one wasn’t a […]
Senator Lamar Alexander (R – Tennessee) honored editorial cartoonist Charlie Daniel by reading a tribute to him into the Congressional Record today.As reported by the Knoxville News-Sentinel:U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Knoxville, spoke on the Senate floor Tuesday about longtime News Sentinel cartoonist Charlie Daniel. … “For over six decades, Charlie’s drawings have been the first […]
Steve Kelley has responded to accusations that a number of his recent cartoons are misogynistic through NEXTpittsburgh and Andrew Conte:Last week, Kelley had agreed to sit down with me to talk about the three recent cartoons that have drawn objections. He then opted to cancel that interview and instead sent me a seven-page letter on Monday […]
Things are quiet at the moment and, as Pat Bagley indicates, the Republican base is restoring its bearings in anticipation of new fights to come.This seems a bit harsh, but only if you are channeling moderate viewpoints.If you keep track of commentary from both sides, what you find is that some moderate conservatives are trying […]
This “Never Was” comic strip began in 1953 as a published comic book. Joe Kubert’s Tor ran for 5 issues in 1953 and 1954 (one of those issues being in a then novelty 3-D format).Joe Kubert, assisted by writer Carmine Infantino, returned to the prehistoric concept around 1959, producing two weeks of comic strips to offer […]