Wimpy is not the only thing that shrunkThe Sunday Popeye on Comics Kingdom is down to two tiers for some reason (permanent reduction?). So here’s the missing top tier to the March 28, 2021 half page:© King Features SyndicateDigression – Can we still call the full strip a half page, since the half page formats, […]
That cargo ship wedged in the Suez Canal may be a disaster for international trade, but it’s been a boon for political cartoonists.Don Landgren isn’t the only one who has used it to comment on Republican efforts to stop voters from voting.The blockage of the Canal only impacts about 10 percent of shipping and the […]
Artist and illustrator Gerald Lazare has passed away. Gerald John (Jerry) Lazare September 25, 1927 – March 23, 2021painter, illustrator, comic artistGerald Lazare began his professional art career creating comic books for Canada’s Bell Features during World War II after U.S. comic books were banned.From the Comic Book Daily entry:He was still 15 and he […]
New Award Contest from The National Society for Newspaper ColumnistsThe NSNC has added new categories for their contest this year, editorial cartooning is a new one.The NSNC notes that This category is for entries from all printed periodicals, including weeklies, magazines and specialty publications, regardless of circulation as well as all online publications (including multimedia […]
I’m rising to a point of personal privilege today, because my father was born March 28, 1921, in Ironwood, Michigan, which deserves some fanfare at least at my house, and so here’s the local paper his father might have read in the waiting room at the hospital.The Supreme Court had just ruled that money made […]
Magazine cartoonist Rod McKie has passed away. Roderick (Rod) McKieNovember 28, 195?/196? – March 26(?), 2021 From the McKie family: I am so sorry to tell you all that Rod passed away last night. We are all heartbroken. We have been together for 46 years and life without him will be duller, darker and very […]
Ginger Meggs Punchline ContestAbove is the opening panel to the page Jimmy Bancks was working on when he died in 1952. The page was laid out and mostly inked, and the script was lettered except for the last panel.Ginger Meggs ™ Winslow Investments Pty LtdFrom Bancks family members and Ginger Meggs cartoonist Jason Chatfield: Now […]
This Pearls Before Swine (AMS) starts us off with something silly.But silly isn’t stupid. After all, Isaac Asimov wrote silly limericks, and nobody would call him stupid. And speaking of limericks, Oliver St. John Gogarty, James Joyce’s roommate in that Martello Tower, wrote very clever, dirty limericks — including the one ending “they argued all […]
The other day we mentioned this year’s Reuben Award weekend: [T]his year’s 75th Annual festivities are still being finalized. When and where have not been made public other than “late summer 2021.” It is hoped that by that time the pandemic will have eased enough to allow the usual gathering rather than a virtual gala […]
The Washington Post this morning announced Michael de Adder will be joining the newspaper as part of its editorial cartooning team. Washington Post Opinions today announced Michael de Adder will join Ann Telnaes as a political cartoonist. Beginning March 31, de Adder will draw three cartoons a week for The Washington Post in print and […]
I don’t know which is worse, that Ann Telnaes (WashPost) has so well critiqued yesterday’s press conference, or that her colleagues Margaret Sullivan and Jen Ruben called it before it happened.I quoted Sullivan in yesterday’s CSotD as saying that, first of all, the White House press corps know more about political jousting than about the […]
Autobiographical comic strips are appearing at the moment. We mentioned Lennie Peterson winding down his The Big Picture with a history. And The Daily Cartoonist Facebook page recently showcased the 1948 series of comic strip creators doing graphic autobiographies for Collier’s magazine. Meanwhile last Saturday (Friday prologue?) saw Bill Griffith sit down with Bill Griffith […]
It seems Bruce Tinsley rushed a Mallard Fillmore comic strip in response to Gannett ordering its newspapers to drop the conservative comic. On Monday March 22 the syndicated newspaper strip issued what was an obvious acknowledgement of Gannett’s actions.© King Features SyndicateIt should be noted that soon after Bruce’s return in September of 2020 a […]
Matt Wuerker (Politico) starts us off with the Big Lie, which is that the 2020 election was fixed. However, that central lie is, like the cloud of smoke he draws, a form of pollution that spreads everywhere.That is, it’s obviously bad that people believe the election was fixed, but the metastasizing evil is all the […]
The redesigned homepage of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists website looks good.Clicked on it this morning and was pleasantly surprised.The site is a regular stop, along with their Twitter feed.