Having outlined a major problem yesterday, I’m going to retreat into personal matters today, starting with this cartoon from Adam Zyglis’s forthcoming book, “You Know You’re from Buffalo If …” It’s hardly a new concept — there have long been Internet jokes about local identity and other cartoonists have turned the idea into books — but […]
Go Fish © Tribune Content AgencyThat’s a screenshot of my GoComics reel this morning.Bottom Liners and Bound and Gagged came alphabetically one after the other. Uno © Vic LeeIn this case Vic Lee decided to run the above as a Saturday panel and as the following Sunday panel this weekend. (hat tip Mark Jackson) He might […]
(Rob Rogers – Counterpoint)A manhunt is underway after a Dunkin’ Donuts manager was shot to death during a pre-dawn robbery early Saturday morning in Philadelphia. Three people were killed and five were shot during a graduation party in Kendall, Florida, early Sunday, according to the Miami-Dade Police Department. A 14-year-old boy was shot and killed […]
Howdy. I’m Emma Allen, and I take it you want to be a New Yorker cartoonist. Before you uncap that pen or dip your quill in the blood of your frenemies, you might want to take these cartooning tips and tricks into account. Or not! Who am I to tell you what to do? Oh, […]
Let’s start with Arlo and Janis (AMS) so we can have an easy explanation: Your thermometer is right there and the weather app is taking information from wherever your town reports weather.In our case, we suspect it’s the airport, which is on a hilltop and therefore never in agreement with temperatures anywhere else. So I […]
A century ago, Sydney artist Jimmy Bancks created an iconic Aussie character, a red-headed boy called Ginger Meggs. Part battler, part larrikin, part philosopher, Ginger Meggs is one of Australia’s most successful cultural figures, ranking alongside Dame Edna, Crocodile Dundee and Blinky Bill. When Sydney artist Jimmy Bancks created a newspaper cartoon strip in 1921, […]
Are you a young cartoonist who draws commentary on social topics? Do you know a cartoonist who’s doing work with a political tinge? Enter today! http://locheraward.org/The John Locher Memorial Award is a contest for aspiring cartoonists, ages 18-25, whose work demonstrates both clear opinions and strong artistry on political and social topics. Single panel, multi-panel, […]
The past is never dead. It’s not even past. — Gowan Stevens (“Requiem for a Nun,” William Faulkner) Let’s lead with an amended quote and a brilliant but distant example.William Faulkner is repeatedly cited for something he never said; He wrote it as a statement by one of his characters.He likely agreed with it, but he […]
Editorial cartoonist and columnist Rick Kollinger has passed away. Richard F. (Rick) Kollinger December 30, 1949 – May 31, 2021From the obituary: Rick Kollinger passed away at his home in Easton on Monday, May 31, following a long illness. Rick was a proud Eastern Shore native and a nationally acclaimed, award-winning political cartoonist and […]
Mike Smith (KFS) nails both the duality of our country at the moment and the hypocrisy of cursing China for its lack of transparency while hiding our own flaws.Unless we believe that the Chinese are continuing to release viruses into the world, these are two different issues, because what we do about Covid is separate […]
Female Phantom and Female Phantom Writers Folklore has that Lee Falk’s widow finished some scripts when the creator passed away. That would be, if true, the only known instance of a woman writing The Phantom comic strip. But there was a time when a woman wrote for The Phantom comic book in the U.S. Long […]
In/Vulnerable: Inequity in the Time of PandemicFrom the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Journalism Awards:In her @reveal series, cartoonist Thi Bui captured the devastation of COVID-19 and laid bare the stark disparities that shape our lives. Congrats to this year’s Cartoon winner for her riveting work “In/Vulnerable: Inequality in the Time of the Pandemic.” INVULNERABLE […]
Paul Fell comments on an extremely toxic part of the world we’ve built.I, too, liked it better when you could believe that false, hateful rhetoric was perhaps a misunderstanding, a difference of interpretation. What I really liked was the world referenced in this 2005 Jeff Danziger cartoon that I’ve run many times, a world in which […]
A number of memorials to the memory of Tom Inge have appeared. A few of them have listed May 15th as the date of Tom’s death so, though we haven’t seen the family obituary, we have added that date to our own obituary. From the Popular Culture Association (you may have to scroll down to find […]
In 1905 twenty-year-old Harry Conway (Bud) Fisher left Chicago for San Francisco where he got a job working for de Young’s Chronicle newspaper. It seems his theatrical portraits began appearing in the paper in November of 1905, with his sports cartooning splash coming on November 15, 1905.His caricature of Bob Fitzsimmons, an aging, freckled, knock-kneed […]