Burne Hogarth took over the Tarzan Sunday page from Harold Foster and, like Foster, became very famous drawing that feature. After eight and a half years Hogarth walked away from the strip.From a 1982 Comics Scene interview:CS: Why did you leave Tarzan after 10 years? BH: Very simply, you’re talking about United (syndicate) and Tarzan. […]
© Scott AdamsThis calendar year ends and another begins in less than a month, and calendars are selling!The Dilbert Day-to-Day Desk Calendar (above) is the best-selling comic-related calendar on the Amazon site at this writing. It is #1 in the Humor & Comic Calendars department, #2 in the all-encompassing Calendars, Planners & Organizers department, and […]
In Samoa almost 4000 people have come down with measles; 55, mostly young children, have died. The Samoan measles outbreak was turned into a gag by New Zealand cartoonist Garrick Tremain.It sparked immediate outrage and was labelled racist, heartless, and insensitive. The outcry led to the Otago Daily Times, who published the cartoon to issue an […]
Sputnik News, owned and funded by the Russian Government, is registering displeasure over a recent Mike Luckovich cartoon.Sputnik, using a lot of boldface, says:An award-winning American political cartoonist has made a habit of deploying bigoted tropes as a political weapon against Russians. His latest doodle features a nefarious “Russians” figure arbitrarily thrown into a motley […]
So Joe Biden’s campaign is done, over, finished, because he decided to use a quirky, amusing word in place of “bullshit.”I don’t know if Matt Wuerker is proclaiming this, or only observing it, but in a less hostile, divided country, it might not even be an issue.However, Politico has determined that Biden’s “No Malarkey Tour” […]
Josh Neufeld and Journalist’s Resource have partnered to present a Graphic Guide to the 2020 US Census.The seven-page handbook can be read at the Journalist’s Resource site.This piece is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For educators, editors and anyone else who would like to republish it in print, we are providing […]
above: a wonderful seasonal drawing by the wonderful Arnold RothThe NYC Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society will be hosting the 2019 Holiday Bash.When: Wed, Dec 11, 7-10pmWhere: Society of IllustratorsE 63rd between Park & Lex, NYCDetails at the NCS site.Early registration pricing ends on December 4, so book now to save a few bucks. […]
If you haven’t had quite enough Thanksgiving, I recommend a trip to Paul Berge’s blog, where you can check out Thanksgiving cartoons from roughly a century ago, including this post-WWI John McCutcheon piece noting that, while Extravagance, Unrest and the High Cost of Living were still dining at the table, War, Hunger and Hard Times […]
It has recently been pointed out to me that I have inadvertently insulted Frog Applause cartoonist Teresa Burritt with a throwaway line while discussing the possible upcoming syndication of Dark Side of the Horse.I’ll let Teresa tell it (in the comments section here): A couple things:I never said the strip was bad. The list of […]
The 125th anniversary of James Thurber’s birth arrives on Sunday, December 8, and this year fans of the legendary humorist have extra reason to celebrate. Launched earlier this fall, A Mile and a Half of Lines: The Art of James Thurber is a two-pronged presentation of Thurber’s drawings, both in an exhibition at the Columbus […]
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette journalists, already on a voluntary byline strike, are said to be contemplating walking out and starting their own newspaper.From Jekko:According to a source, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette union members secretly plan to walk off their jobs and start their own paper. This news comes days after PG Newsroom voted “No Confidence“ in their publisher Block […]
In recent comments about the influence of The Simpsons, Elfman caused quite a stir. Speaking with website Joe.ie, Elfman surprised many by saying “Well, from what I’ve heard, it is coming to end.” Elfman went on to qualify his statement, saying “I don’t know for a fact, but I’ve heard that it will be in its last […]
Given the number of narwhal references already in social media, we’re bound to get a flood of narwhal cartoons as soon as everyone gets back to work.But it wasn’t Thanksgiving in the UK and so Bob Moran gets out front with a cartoon nobody’s going to match anyway.Moran’s depiction of these everyday Superheroes is appropriate […]
Charles Schulz writing to Walt Kelly (late 1954):My book is filled with so much bad work, that I would consider it presumptuous on my part to send you one. After the first book came out, I wished that they would put out another so that my more recent work would show up. Now that the […]
Scott Stantis unintentionally wraps up how I’m feeling about social media specifically and the body politic generally.His intention is almost certainly a “What if?” by which I mean that, when he posted this at Twitter, he commentedSo this president has taken to coddling and pardoning war criminals. Just when you thought this administration couldn’t get […]