Shary Flenniken ran away from Seattle and became a cartooning star. In her free time, she started illustrating covers and comics for the fleet of underground newspapers that were springing up around Seattle in those days: the Helix, the Seattle Simpleton and the Seattle Liberation Front’s flagship title, Sabot. After a few false starts, Flenniken […]
One of the advantages for a newspaper of employing a local cartoonist is that, when someone in your congressional delegation says something really stupid, he can quickly bring it to the attention of your readers.I don’t know how well this Andy Marlette (Creators) cartoon is going to go over with readers of the Pensacola News […]
© Andrews McMeel SyndicationSteenz celebrates a year on Heart of the City with a nice promo poster. © Tristan Bancks and Jason Chatfield; Ginger Meggs ™ Winslow Investments Pty LtdJason Chatfield‘s continuing celebration of Ginger Meggs‘ 100th sees a new book on May 4. © Ghazal QadriGoComics celebrates signing Ghazal Qadri’s Salt n Pepper by interviewing the […]
Loss of advertising, loss of readers, loss of jobs. What else?Wood pulp prices increased in January 2021 with further increases announced for March.The price of pulp paper (and ink) will continue to rise.Periodic and moderate changes in the prices of raw materials are expected in the normal course of doing business. Year-long, global pandemics having […]
Military.com is reporting: A movement is gaining steam to recognize a heroic Black sailor from World War II, who towed a raftload of wounded shipmates through shark-infested waters after their ship was sunk in 1942. Social media posts over the weekend began highlighting the story of Petty Officer 1st Class Charles Jackson French of Foreman, […]
There’s a full docket today, but let’s start with something specifically timely: Marc Murphy’s commentary on the start of the Kentucky Derby, which will be run Saturday in Louisville, where Murphy is cartoonist for the local paper.In posting the cartoon, he explained, “It’s almost time to sing just the good parts of the old slavery […]
Steve Bell’s If …, the Monday through Thursday comic strip for The Guardian, will end on Thursday, April 29, 2021 after nearly 40 years. From The Press Gazette: Monday’s column teased the impending end to the long-standing political cartoon, which began in November 1981, with the final edition to be published on Thursday. Bell, whose […]
Oh, thank you thank you thank you, Deb Milbrath, for commenting on this ridiculous GOP talking point, which is based on misreading a story in a sleazy British tabloid, in which the writer conflates an almost entirely unrelated study with the Green New Deal with Biden’s acceptance of some GND concepts.I was hoping for the […]
Some selected comic art from current Russ Cochran and Heritage Auctions lots. (click once to embiggen, click twice to supersize)From Heritage Auctions: Gluyas Williams panel (1943) Unfinished promo piece for an unsold comic strip proposal by Wally Wood. Red Ryder and Little Beaver by Fred Harman (1941) Flash Gordon, Dale Arden, and Zarkov by Dan […]
Maria Scrivan is a pretty upbeat person, which makes today’s Half Full (AMS) particularly striking, because behind those lovely doughnuts she packs an exasperated punch.Having worked in both advertising and commentary, I’m aware that there is nothing you can say, however plain, however obvious, that someone won’t misinterpret or, as in her cartoon, completely miss […]
Not sure if this should be shown in “comic strips” or “editorial cartoons.”art © Tom Stiglich; characters © Wm. Hoest EnterprisesCharles Schulz and Bill Watterson characters are frequent icons used in political cartoons – The Lockhorns not so much, but Tom Stiglich used ’em yesterday and did a good likeness. Soon after Tarzan ends its print […]
Carpe Diem (KFS) inadvertently captures my mood. Or perhaps I’m just not the only one who feels there is way too much doom in doom-scrolling these days.Three days after the invention of the wheel, somebody scrawled a picture on the cave wall of a man with that wheel just outside the doorway, and children representing […]
A recent editorial cartoon by local [Jacksonville] artist Ed Hall visualizes an argument that’s long been made by supporters of renaming Robert E. Lee High School. Supporters of changing the name of Robert E. Lee High School have adopted an editorial cartoon by Ed Hall as a striking visual part of their signs urging change.© […]
Pros & Cons (KFS) sets the mood for the day.Between what’s actually going on and what people are griping about, it’s getting tiresome out there. Maybe Lyndon avoids political talk out of patient privacy and maybe he avoids it because after eight hours, he’s had enough.But I’m not getting $75 an hour to listen to […]
In 1971, for the second year in a row, Walt Kelly helped publicize Earth Day with special art:Most seem to think that the two-panel comic strip was the regular comic strip for April 22, 1971, it was not. The Pogo comic syndicated to newspapers for April 22 was a continuation of that week’s satire. The […]