Al Jaffee, the cartoonist responsible for you not being able to find a mint condition copy of MAD Magazine, celebrates his 99th birthday on March 13, 2020. Happy Birthday Al! Thanks for the laughs.The Official Al Jaffee Website.Al Jaffee’s Twitter Feed. Al Jaffee’s comic book credits from 1942 up. A selection of Al Jaffee Tall […]
REMINDER: Four weeks to deadline for the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists’ The Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning submissions. As conventions are being cancelled or delayed the AAEC discloses their current plans:At this point we are 10 weeks out from the gathering in Ottawa, and one month from the hotel and registration deadline. That’s still […]
Columbian cartoonist Andrés J. Colmenares’ heartwarming panel has made its debut on GoComics. Click here to see a collection of his work or here to see his GoComics page. Andres’ Instagram page is here.
Greg Kearney, cartooning for the Atchison (Kansas) Globe, offers a bit of nostalgia and regret for the days when world events happened “out there.”A whole lot has changed, much of it in the past half century but much of that has been a sudden acceleration of a developing trend.One of the things I used to […]
The March 10, 2020 edition of Jeopardy had Comics as a Double Jeopardy category.They seemed to be really easy “answers,” but we’re fans. (not the art used)The contestants pretty much avoided the category, and the last “answer” was left on the board.According to The Jeopardy Fan website apparently that last one was:THE COMICS: This comic […]
An informal poll of cartoonists taken in the early 1930s named Frederick Burr Opper the funniest man who ever worked for the American press.That is how The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum began their biography of F. Opper. It was backed up with over 50 years of hilarious cartoons, from the late 19th Century […]
Matt Wuerker suggests what we have to fear, though not only do we have to fear fear itself, but we also have to fear not fearing enough.It’s a particular challenge for cartoonists because commenting on the fear shouldn’t negate the need to be reasonably and sensibly cautious. It doesn’t help that Dear Leader has chosen not […]
The Wall Street Journal bought a cartoon from Pat Byrnes but changed the caption on publication.From Pat Byrnes Facebook posting: Last Friday, the Wall Street Journal ran the cartoon below on the right. On the left is the original caption. They bought it in November, 2017. I wrote it months before that. And I acknowledge […]
The student newspaper of University of Maryland, The Diamondback, has published its last print edition after 110 years. It will continue as online-only.From The Diamondback:After 110 years in circulation, The Diamondback will cease its weekly print publication in March, the newspaper’s parent company announced Monday… According to Tom Madigan — board president of Maryland Media […]
Comic book artist Allen Bellman has passed away.Isadore Allen Bellman June 5, 1924 – March 9, 2020comic book artist, graphic designerAllen Bellman was one of the few remaining comic artists of the “Golden Age” of comic books. He contributed from the World War II years through the Korean War years, mostly with the Timely/Atlas (now […]
David Horsey does a nice job of addressing the way things boiled down for young voters without whining or pointing too many fingers.In fact, in his accompanying remarks, he even concedes that Biden and Sanders are not Boomers but part of the Silent Generation that came earlier.The cartoon hits me while I’m still processing a […]
Norma Martin, widow of famed cartoonist Don Martin, is asking for help. Norma is fighting to retain the trademark on “Don Martin.” Norma Martin has opened a gofundme account to raise money for legal fees in a fight to keep “Don Martin” a part of their family.He made other people rich. But he was only […]
Half Full is one of several cartoons about the switch from Good Ol’ Reggaler Time to Daylight Saving Not “Savings” Time, but it’s my favorite.Maria Scrivan is more iconic than gag-oriented and this is a topic well-worn enough that there aren’t a lot of good gags left, but an illustrator with a sense of humor […]
The inspiration struck Mike Luckovich in the middle of the night with a rare clarity. Hours earlier, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution political cartoonist had been watching the Super Tuesday results roll in, as former vice president Joe Biden took the delegate lead in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Mike Luckovich talks to Michael Cavna […]
As Mike Marland puts it, we got quite a surprise Tuesday, at least the “we” who were basing our expectations on the horse-race coverage and the polls.So, pretty much all of us.But that includes the people who were complaining that letting Iowa and New Hampshire go first wasn’t fair because they’re not ethnically and racially […]