Let’s start with a timely Juxtaposition:(Darrin Bell)(Jeff Danziger)Bell is specifically referring to the Iowa Caucus, while Danziger seems more to be looking towards tomorrow’s NH Primary, but they’re both casting the remainder of the race as being between Pete and Bernie.It’s part of the horserace style of reporting that is the bane of small-d democratic […]
Cartoonist Jim Rose has passed away.James A. (Jim) Rose August 7, 1932 – January 24, 2020 From the obituary:Savannah political cartoonist and artist JIM ROSE passed on January 24, 2020. He was 87. His cartoon, “Phrogg,” ran in the Sunday edition of the Savannah Morning News for many years commenting on local and national news and […]
Archie artist and editor Victor Gorelick has passed away.Archie Comics announced on Twitter: Victor Gorelick April 5, 1941 – February 8, 2020 From the CBR (aka Comic Book Resources) notice:Gorelick joined Archie Comics at 16 and served in a variety of roles at the company. He became Archie Comics’ editor-in-chief in 2007. The next year, in […]
Peter Brookes gets to do a “torn speech” cartoon here for a couple of reasons, the first being that I admire his artwork.Another is that I’m willing to forgive a furriner for not realizing that the Democrats never expected to remove Trump from office, and I’m also willing to accept that Dear Leader is treating […]
Career women was not a new concept in 1961, but those shown on the comic pages were rather old-fashioned. Nick Dallis, creator of Rex Morgan and Judge Parker, decided to update the concept for a modern audience – within reason. Three independent, liberated women in the big city, who would not pass The Bechdel Test. […]
Tom Tomorrow scores in a time when it’s hard to make more than one valid argument, never mind popping off nine of them.Most of the multi-panel commentators at the moment seem to start well and then either fade to pointlessness or wander off into delusional conspiracy theories. Granted, there are prolific one-panel cartoonists who drop […]
To celebrate the last decade of PBF, Dark Horse is releasing a special and comprehensive Almanack collection of Nicholas’s comics. In addition to placing all of his work in one place, the book also contains scrapped panels that never made the main website.On the occasion of The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack (10th Anniversary Edition) being […]
Bette Banjack sits down with Loose Parts’ Dave Blazek and gets a recipe.Moving through the newspaper world he landed at the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News. Being a creative person, Dave has done it all. Graphic arts, writing, plus creating and directly some 500 radio commercials plus around 100 TV commercials. He retired as Inquirer […]
Wiley gets to lead off today because this Non Sequitur sparked two — count them, two! — personal memories of no particular significance.The first involves names, because everyone named “Peterson” gets called “Pete”at some point. My son was Pete in the Navy in his day, his son-in-law is Pete in the Navy now because he […]
The National Cartoonists Society is noting that Garry B. Trudeau will be presented the Society’s the Gold T-Square.From NCS President Jason Chatfield:On behalf of the board of directors of the National Cartoonists Society, It is my great pleasure to announce that Garry Trudeau will be awarded the Gold T-Square award at the 74th Annual Reuben […]
In the first cartoon Elizabeth Montague published in the New Yorker, two black women stand on a rooftop that overlooks a darkened cityscape. Above them, a Batman-inspired spotlight beams a message into the night sky: PER MY LAST EMAIL. Beneath them, the caption reads: “We’ve done all we can. It’s out of our hands now.” […]
Well, perhaps not so much of a bang as a whimper, but I like David Horsey’s take on the Iowa Caucus tech failure because the donkey has a full cloud of balloons in hand but is focusing on the one that burst, or fizzled, or whatever.There’s been a lot of chatter over the failure of […]
Awwww.Avery’s Pikmin Adventure is a comic by cartoonist Chris Furniss. The Pikmin story is a “daily procedural comic, written and drawn on the fly”, with Chris’ son starring as the main character in the Pikmin universe. It’s actually made up of little note cards which are left for his [seven-year-old] son to read over lunchtime, […]
Cartoonist David Sipress recently had one of his New Yorker cartoons co opted for use in a conceptual art exhibit. Or as David says, “I wuz robbed.”David, in The New Yorker, tells of the appropriation:This is my original drawing of the cartoon. Haendel took my cartoon and reproduced it exactly in a different medium: graphite, […]
Twenty years ago the bootlegged decal was ubiquitous, and illegal (still is).First things first—Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson says he has nothing to do with the lewd caricature of his beloved Calvin. Watterson was vehemently against licensing his creation for merchandising, and that includes the stickers that “cheapened and corrupted” the comics. Watterson never gave […]