Over at Geoff Grogan’s “Blockhead” podcast is a two-part podcast with “Stone Soup’s” Jan Eliot. Part One interview starts at the 17:15 mark.From the “Blockhead” site:Episode 42: This fall will mark 25 years in syndication for Jan Eliot’s warm and funny comic strip, “Stone Soup”, about two working-mom sisters living life and raising families just […]
Tom Tomorrow takes a crack at getting all the issues into one package. It’s a noble shot at moral accounting, adding up all the insults to logic and decency.But, at the same time, it’s also potentially a case of baffling the public with a storm of accusations: As a daily feature, Dan Perkins could have presented […]
Let’s start with a fast approaching deadline. Details at Locheraward.orgFrom the AAEC: CARTOON CONTEST UPDATE: The deadline for the John Locher Award has been extended to July 15th, 2020. Due to cancellations of this year’s convention season, the winner will be invited to attend the next available conference. Click here for complete details: http://locheraward.org Also […]
As Ron McGeary reminds us, it was 20 years ago today that the great Jeff MacNelly left us. Jeff is acclaimed as one of the finest editorial cartoonists of all time. Praise proven by his winning three Pulitzer Prizes in the years from 1972 to 1985; and winning two Reuben Awards during those years. (For 1978 […]
Long-time readers have seen this 28-year-old Jack Ohman cartoon before; it’s one of my favorites.It’s relevant today because, after a great deal of hemming and hawing and attempts to justify a truly bad decision, NYTimes Editorial Page Editor James Bennet has resigned.Or jumped or was pushed, after the NYTimes was lambasted for having given Tom […]
Rae The Doe, a comic strip by Olive Brinker, is joining the Comics Kingdom lineup beginning tomorrow, June 8, 2020.Comics Kingdom announced on Twitter that Rae the Doe will start appearing on their website on June 8:Comics Kingdom has a page that should go active late Sunday night,and there already is a spot on the […]
What did you want to do when you grew up? I was asked that question by a teacher when I was in the fifth grade. I had read the “Peanuts” 25th anniversary book (“Peanuts Jubilee”), which I’m looking at right now, and so I said, “A syndicated cartoonist.” I knew what I wanted to do. […]
Jeff Koterba trades his pencil and ink for pad and apple. For three years, artist Jeff Koterba’s new iPad and Apple pencil sat unused and unloved. “My son encouraged me to use it and I tried to, in fits and starts. I just could not get the hang of it,” said Koterba, who has been […]
First, a big congratulations to all the cartoonists who managed to participate given the tight timeline! Also thanks to the syndicates who helped, I’m sure, most of the cartoonists juggle their already scheduled strips to swap in the “Thank You” strips.Most of you have probably seen today’s strips, if not check out the June 7 […]
Matt Wuerker sums things up.I don’t suppose there are very many people who want either of these to be America, because both images suggest that there is a problem, and wouldn’t it be nice if there were not?But there always is, and the question is whether you repress discontent or hash it out openly, and […]
After putting in a mere 79 years as a professional cartoonist Al Jaffee is retiring.From Michael Cavna: Al Jaffee, officially the longest-working comic artist ever, has decided to retire at age 99. So to mark his farewell, Mad’s “Usual Gang of Idiots” will salute Jaffee with a tribute issue next week. It will be the […]
Clay Jones got caught in a bit of changing-story whiplash, which happens.New Orleans Saints Quarterback Drew Brees made a stupid statement about kneeling for the anthem, saying that protest was okay but that disrespecting the flag was not.He was immediately slapped down by most of the NFL, including teammates, and issued an apology that was […]
All of us, at one time or another, have written in the margins of our books. I continue to do it (e.g., my copy of Allan Holtz’s American Newspaper Comics). Not as many of us doodle in the margins, though at least one person has made a career of it.But centuries before Sergio Aragonés the […]
It takes courage to speak out against racism, bigotry in all its ugliness, especially if you live in regions dominated by Trump extremism. Take Greg Kearney. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas, a town he describes as “a little dot of blue in a sea of red.” Yet Kearney, a political cartoonist, uses his pen to […]
Comic Con International: San Diego has announced the nominees for this year’s Will Eisner Awards. Like most of this year’s conventions and gatherings the San Diego Comic-Con will take a different format, but some things remain – award presentations among them. Mostly comic book related this year has a number of comic strip and more […]