A number of new content comic strips that Creators Syndicate holds the copyright to have not been updated to GoComics since Sunday November 6.Diamond Lil, Dogs of C Kennel, Heathcliff, Scary Gary, Strange Brew, The Barn, and Zack Hill are among the comics not updated to the GoComics site for the past two days. They […]
Ann Telnaes lays out today’s danger, both in terms of what happens in the case of an authentic Red Wave, and in a case in which apathy and pessimism cause people who value small-d democracy to stay home.Granted, even if the GOP were to take both houses of Congress, we’d have two years of Presidential […]
Jeff Stahler tribute The Marine Corps Times (and The Navy Times and The Army Times and The Air Force Times) ran the Associated Press obituary:“George Booth was a remarkable artist who sold his first drawing to The New Yorker in 1969 and filled the magazine with a kind of wild delight for decades thereafter,” New Yorker […]
Ed Wexler and Jeff Koterba ExplainBut first Daryl Cagle explains: We had two lovely exhibitions at the “International Center“, Press Cartoons museum in St Just le Martel, France this year. One of the shows was about Donkeys and Elephants. American donkey and elephant cartoons make no sense to foreign audiences. Our exhibit in France was […]
Horrified hilarity continues to build over at Twitter, and Joy of Tech confirms the ongoing disaster while sarcastically wondering if Himself is learning anything from it.The conspiracy theory is that Elon Musk decided to piss away $44 billion to acquire a platform worth, perhaps, $25 billion, and then drive it into the ground in order […]
As Steve Smith tells us: Clare Briggs (1874-1930) was among the best known, best-paid, and beloved of American cartoonists in the 1910s and 1920s. Historians often remember him as a master of the nostalgic slice-of-life panels of small town childhood (The Days of Real Sport, When a Feller Needs a Friend, Aint’ It a Grand […]
Frank and Ernest celebrate their 50th anniversary, having first appeared on November 6, 1972.Frank and Ernest was created by magazine cartoonist and psychologist Bob Thaves. It was Bob’s first attempt at a comic “strip” and, in a rare occurance in the syndication world, it was accepted on the first submission.Here are the first six “strips” […]
Mike Peters (KFS)’s cartoon has convinced me that, like the chaplain in Catch-22, I’m either in the midst of a hallucination or on the verge of sainthood, because I appear to be the only one with a vision of Herschel Walker and Donald Trump that dates from well before the present.It was neither deja vu, […]
Comic book artist Danny Bulanadi has passed away. Danilo P. (Danny) Bulanadi February 9, 1946 – November 3, 2022 From The Art of Danny Bulanadi Facebook page: Danny Bulanadi has passed away on November 3, 2022 at 12:40 a.m. due to chronic heart failure. From the CBR obituary: Danny Bulanadi, longtime Marvel comic book inker who […]
Theft In Delaware is a politician, running for an office to verify accuracy and maintain laws, who stole the property of Ann Telnaes and The Washington Post, photoshopped out the original meaning, chopped off Ann’s name, and, without permission, used it as a campaign ad. © The Washington Post/Ann TelnaesJ.P. at the Association of […]
Teresa Burns Parkhurst sets today’s mood, combining pointless carping about clocks with meaningful fear of Tuesday’s outcome.Most of the clocks will reset themselves in the wee hours of tomorrow morning and we’ll adjust, but it’s not clear the country, or its people, ever will, if the midterms go off the rails. Prickly City (AMS) offers this […]
The Alabama Media Group has announced that it will no longer publish newspaper hard copies.front pages via NewseumAfter February 26, 2023 the three largest newspapers in Alabama will go digital only.Announcement from the Alabama Media Group: Alabama Media Group will shift to all-digital delivery, ending publication in 2023 of its four newspapers in Alabama and […]
Stephen Collins reminds us that this is Whinging, Mewling and Complaining About Clocks Weekend, because we’ll be coming off Daylight Saving Time, which is nearly as horrific a moment as going back on Daylight Saving Time.One solution is to fly to Australia, where — as reported here a month ago — they’ve already been through […]
Graphika, a network analysis firm, has released a report on foreign actors, specifically Russian, trying to influence the United States midterm elections that includes the use of political cartoons.From the Graphika report: Key Findings Suspected Russian actors are engaged in a renewed effort to target far-right audiences in the U.S. with politically divisive messaging ahead […]
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to […]