Updating some items that were posted here earlier.photo via Doug GilfordThe New York Times has printed their obituary for Frank Jacobs. Frank Jacobs, an inventive satirist who in his 57 years at Mad magazine mocked popular culture and politics, often in pitch-perfect verse and lyrics, died on April 5 in Tarzana, Calif… Mr. Jacobs brought […]
I’m hanging up my hat. Or perhaps it would be more appropriate to say, I’m putting down my pen. Either way, I have decided to retire. But not from this column. Don’t worry about that. I still plan on contributing rants, musings, guidance and advice on the topic of writing for the foreseeable future. No, […]
Comic-Con International: San Diego has announced the Judges Inductees who are automatically entered into their Will Eisner Hall of Fame; and 16 nominees, four of which will be voted into the Hall by comics people across a variety of professions (cartoonists, editors, comic store owners, historians, etc.).As is usual a number of inductees and nominees […]
This Steve Kelley (Creators) comic provoked some back-and-forth on Facebook, and let me start off by giving Kelley props for responding. Too many cartoonists set up Facebook and Twitter pages and then leave them untended.Either join the conversation or, if all you want is publicity, buy an ad.But here’s what matters, and it is that […]
The Bottom Ten Warner Bros. Cartoons © Warner Bros.Instead of listing his Top Ten animation expert Jerry Beck lists his least favorite.Of the over 1000 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts – I honestly could find something of value in 990 of them. Yes, even the ones pre-1936 and the ones post-1964. That said, there […]
This K Chronicles brought me back to my (second) senior year in college, when my wife and I canceled our Chicago paper because it was such a downer. We still got the South Bend Tribune, whose editorial page was also depressing but which at least was not a compendium of murders.Ignoring problems doesn’t make them […]
Pop artist and cartoonist Chris Yambar has passed away.Rev. Christopher David (Chris) Yambar July 4, 1961 – March 27, 2021 From the obituary: Chris was called to the ministry at age 19 to work with inner-city youth … he published Manna Underground Press / The Activist, a newspaper specializing in arts, music, and social commentary, from […]
Suddenly, there’s a lot going on, so we’ll let Tom Tomorrow start us off with the equivalent of the five-minute NPR news wrap-up at the top of the hour before we dig into any details.The bland-restatement format used in This Modern World and some other altie comics tends to fall flat in good times but […]
Young Liza had succeeded in fulfilling a lifelong dream.In 1979 Liza Donnelly joined three other women as the female force of New Yorker cartoonists; there were more than ten times that many male cartoonists contributing to the magazine then.Not long before that she was made aware that she was a “woman cartoonist,” prior to that […]
Content syndicates are businesses that syndicate content to businesses that need content for their platforms— newspapers, magazines, tv and radio stations, websites, etc. King Features Syndicate Editorial Director for Comics Tea Fougner has tweeted a short essay on current syndication practices with a bit of history. The way syndication works today is that we are […]
I can counter-quote Mr. Boffo: You coulda had class. You coulda been a political commentator. You coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what you are, let’s face it.Being a grown up ruins everything.Juxtaposition of the Day(The Argyle Sweater – AMS)(Too Much Coffee Man – AMS)F’rinstance, I’ll admit to suffering from Holden Caulfield […]
A year ago conservative cartoonist Ben Garrison created an editorial cartoon illustrating a conspiracy theory involving Bill Gates and Covid-19 and vaccines.© GrrrGraphicsThat was in March of 2020, now a year later an altered form of the cartoon has appeared.According to Business Insider Elon Musk tweeted out the altered comic. Tesla CEO Elon Musk used […]
Every evening, just as many people are shutting down their computers for the day and starting to think about supper, Dan Martin is gearing up to complete his daily drawing for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: a fresh depiction of the newspaper’s Weatherbird. The artistic process gets going once the news editor sends him a […]
That last panel of Hi and Lois last week kicked off a week of comic character cameos.With barely a dozen appearances in her own strip since the new year began 100 days ago, Mary Worth has taken to appearing elsewhere. Here she’s crashing a Hootin’ Holler poker game. © King Features SyndicateMary is instantly recognizable […]
Today’s Zits (KFS) stopped me in my tracks, not because it’s funny, which it is, but because my first response after that dissolved into uncertainty: What would you — as Jeremy and his buds — play for a dance at a retirement community?First of all, not the stuff your parents always have on the radio […]