In 1926 Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) began a series of stories about American heroes.These were brief one week (six daily comic strips) biographies about famous historical figures such as Nathan Hale, Molly Pitcher, George Custer, Betsy Ross, and others. Then they broke the mold by doing a two week (12 day) life story of Edgar […]
So far this century Marvel Entertainment has ruled the comics inspired film world, that is about to change as Andrews McMeel Entertainment begins its challenge for supremacy.Until now I didn’t realize there was an Andrews McMeel film division.From Cartoon Brew: Originally set to release in 2020 but delayed by COVID-19 setbacks, the new animated Marmaduke […]
Our biggest recent change is, of course, the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, which has inspired a lot of cartoons, many of them formulaic and bland and others that are reprehensible and make me wish they’d just be honest and use the N-word instead of purposefully misrepresenting her record.I like David […]
Cartoonist Shel Silverstein, who also dabbled in a few other creative efforts, was honored with a stamp from the United States Postal Service yesterday. From Linn’s Stamp News: Beloved children’s author and illustrator Shel Silverstein will be honored on a United States commemorative stamp to be issued April 8 at a Chicago elementary school that […]
Our comment feature appears to be broken beyond repair, at least for our current platform, which inspires (finally!) a redesign, which will take a while. In the meantime, we hope you’ll give us feedback on the social media where we announce our new postings. (Illo by Henry Justice Ford) There’s a lot of political commentary in […]
One of the feature panels at last weekend’s MoCCA Art Fest was Derf Backderf discussing researching his non-fiction graphic novel Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio. Research was the reigning topic of discussion during the talk. The Kent State shooting carries such an overwhelming amount of trauma, politics, culture, and activistic identity in its narrative that […]
Cartoonist Robert “Buck” Brown (1936 – 2007) will be inaugurated into the Illini Media Hall of Fame Class of 2022 this month at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Buck contributed cartoons to Dollars and Sense, The New Yorker Ebony, Ebony Jr., Jet, Esquire and others but is best remembered for his long run […]
The American Newspaper Publishers Association Convention in 1926 was naturally covered by Editor & Publisher. E&P previewed it in their April 17, 1926 edition. Included with that issue was a comic supplement which featured original comic strips by a number of syndicated cartoonists all concerning publishers, editors, and the convention.It is proper that it was […]
An apt mood-setter from Pros & Cons (KFS): Whether we’re entering a new Dark Age or a new Golden Age depends on your point of view.Let’s start here: One of the more deadly, underhanded techniques of reporting is to quote someone accurately.Underhanded if you simply don’t like the person, in which case, even if what […]
Keith Knight lives just outside of Chapel Hill, NC, these days, but from 1990-2008, he resided in San Francisco where he created his instantly recognizable comic strip “The K Chronicles,” the basis for Hulu comedy series “Woke.” Back in the city recently for a red-carpet event at the Cartoon Art Museum, celebrating both the exhibition […]
It’s appropriate for Tank McNamara (AMS) to lead off today, because sports coverage tends to drift between entertainment and politics, and the choice of whether to require vaccines for Broadway and sports is a bit of both.Start by saying that I’m not convinced I could catch much from the seats I could afford, but the […]
Forum Communications, an upper mid-west media company with a score of newspapers that can trace its publishing roots to 1878, has partnered with Comics Kingdom to bring their on-line readership the King Features Syndicate and Tribune Content Agency line of comic strips and panels.From DL-Online, the Detroit Lakes Tribune website: LOOK: DL-Online now features dozens […]
Steve Bell starts today’s discussion with a demand, backed with a depiction of the atrocities left in the streets of Bucha by the retreating Russian army.A simple depiction, for which he is to be commended, but not at all a simple demand, though it’s hard to disagree with on principle, even in Bell’s British homebase, […]
A Saul Steinberg drawing from 1967 graces the cover of the new New Yorker.Françoise Mouly interviews Ian Frazier, friend of Saul and executor of his legacy. …we all see him as a major twentieth-century artist and much funnier than most of the Abstract Expressionist painters he hung out with. But, because he drew rather than […]
You’ve likely already seen Sunday’s Doonesbury (AMS), which has not only been posted by a lot of editorial cartoonists but was featured here by my colleague, DD Degg.Now you get to hear what I think.Kim notes in that last panel that newspapers themselves are endangered, which — wit all doo respeck — seems the more […]