Orthodontist and cartoonist Pete Kesling has passed away.Dr. Peter Crawford (Pete) Kesling January 1, 1932 ~ July 25, 2022 From the obituary: Peter’s professional and business experience included President/CEO of TP Orthodontics from 1958-1980, Exclusive Orthodontic Practice (Retired), and Kesling & Rocke Group from 1958 – 2005. He also had the La Porte County Historical […]
Wallace the Brave gets my, to borrow a phrase, Comic Strip of the Day endorsement.© William Wilson A week late.Wayno‘s Saturday roundup is already up for this week’s Bizarro panels but I still want to point out his entry from last Saturday. © Bizarro StudiosWayno says: I enjoy doing clown gags, and I love it when I […]
I have a degree of sympathy for cartoonists who are locked into a schedule by their publishers and can’t simply dash off a piece in response to breaking news.However, to quote Marcus Aurelius, “Id est quod est,” and you need to adjust to the terms you’re facing.I once wrote a humor feature for a monthly […]
JAMESTOWN TOWNSHIP—What started as a fight over an LGBTQ-themed graphic novel may end with the closure of a west Michigan public library. Voters in Jamestown Township, a politically conservative community in Ottawa County, rejected renewal Tuesday of a millage that would support the Patmos Library. That vote guts the library’s operating budget in 2023 — […]
NEA colorist Gretchen Grauer Vanderhoof has passed away.Gretchen deSanzi Grauer Vanderhoof August 9, 1930 – July 27, 2022 From the obituary: “Her memories of a bohemian childhood are some of her fondest. There was the Fine Arts Studio where a young Gretchen rode her tricycle up and down aisles of artists practicing their craft. And […]
Tank McNamara (AMS) is willing to keep the Saudi sportswashing effort in front of the public, though I get a strong feeling that money talks and nobody cares, which I suppose wouldn’t bother me so much if so many commentators who went ballistic over Biden’s visit to Jedda hadn’t fallen silent over the LIV golf […]
Gannett recorded a dismal second quarter financially, the company reported Thursday – important revenues sources down, costs up and a loss of $54 million on revenues of $749 million. Among the bad news: * Digital advertising fell below expectations * Both print circulation and print advertising were off * On the cost side, labor shortages […]
Cartoons Have been Grooming Kids for Decades The last 12 months has witnessed a bit of a frenzy surrounding kids’ entertainment, from bisexual Superman to the first gay dads in Sesame Street to a brief kiss from a lesbian couple in Pixar’s new animated feature Lightyear. In response, reactionaries are rehashing moral panics from previous […]
As the 100th anniversary of Charles Schulz‘s birth nears (November 26, 1922) salutes continue.2022 also marks the 20th anniversary of The Charles M. Schulz Museum. Celebrate the Schulz Museum’s 20th anniversary with some of today’s top cartoonists! Come meet your favorite cartoonists while exploring all things cartooning with drawing games, live presentations, book signings, and […]
Given that Kansas promotes itself as the “Land of Ahs” — with or without that apostrophe — it’s hardly surprising that cartoonists capitalized on the connection to Frank Baum’s book or, more accurately, the classic 1939 movie based on it, in discussing the vote to preserve reproductive rights there. Clay Jones invokes Glinda the Good in […]
Librarian and comic strip author Randy Farb has passed away. Randy Hugh Farb August 27, 1960 – July 24, 2022 From the obituary: A retired librarian with Flint Public Library, he achieved a Master of Library Science from Indiana University-Southeast. Randy led services at area synagogues in Flint, Michigan, and taught Sunday school in the […]
Lee Judge (KFS) is right, largely because the covid virus isn’t influenced by what all the other viruses are doing, and people responding to polls are. Though voters as a whole may not be as dependable as a party’s base, as profiled in today’s Bizarro (KFS).Trump candidates did pretty well last night, but Eric Greitens — […]
Cartoonist Pat Cross wrote to his followers: After much discernment and prayer, I have decided to enter St. Michael’s Abbey in Orange County California to begin religious formation. For this reason I will be retiring from political cartooning. I have not yet determined when I will publish my last cartoon. I officially enter the Abbey […]
Such a large contingent of Kentucky readers misinterpreted an editorial cartoon in The Lexington Herald Leader that cartoonist Joel Pett felt the need to respond.© Lexington Herald Leader/Joel PettJoel Pett: A number of upset readers have contacted us regarding Sunday’s piece about the flooding in Eastern Kentucky, accusing me of insensitivity toward the victims, or […]
Peter Parisi: Though former President Donald Trump has been out of the White House now for more than 18 months, he apparently still lives rent-free in the head of Mr. Trudeau, who clearly suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome. Mr. Trudeau — whose Sunday-only “Doonesbury” cartoon strips still lead the color comics section of the Trump-hating […]