Jack Crosbie, a contributing writer to Rolling Stone, Spy, and others who “primarily focuses on politics and conflict, with occasional forays into media criticism,” has a problem with Michael Ramirez‘s latest editorial cartoon for The Washington Post: I am going to link to an image of an editorial cartoon that was published today in the […]
It’s a lovely morning here in the US for those in the center or somewhat to the left of center, and who ignored the doomsayers and crepe-hangers and negative pollsters, choosing as Clay Bennett (CTFP) points out, to vote and let their voices be heard anyway.Is it “heroic”? Does it deserve a medal? Well, it […]
Seventy-five years ago, on November 7, 1948, the Sunday only Mitzi McCoy by illustrator Kreigh Collins debuted. Maurice Horn described Mitzi as “a blond heiress with a passion for adventure and a knack for getting herself into hot water, in her sentimental as well as in her adventurous life.” Ron Goulart said Mitzi “was fiercely […]
CARTOONISTS RIGHTS and Cartooning for Peace present their joint report – Cartoonists on the Line – covering the main trends in threats to the freedom of expression of editorial and political cartoonists around the world, as well as cases of note from the “post-pandemic” period, 2020 through 2022. This piece of collaborative work is supported […]
Tim Campbell (Counterpoint) may be urging voters to make good choices, but, as noted here the other day, clarity matters, and this could easily be interpreted as a variation on “Don’t vote. It only encourages them,” which was witty when Scottish comedian Billy Connolly first said it.But we had more space for cynicism a generation […]
David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek turn their Jumble puzzle over to other cartoonists once a year. The Guest Jumbler Week 11 promotion, which sort of tells us who this year’s guests are, has been posted. Guest Jumbler Week for 2023 is November 13 to November 18. And the featured cartoonists are (clockwise from upper […]
According to the Chronicle Chamber Bret Blevins began drawing The Phantom daily comic strip last week Monday (October 30, 2023) and Francesco Marciuliano says Bret took over for Mike Manley on Judge Parker that Monday. (This is much earlier than I had thought it would happen.)From the Chronicle Chamber: From the beginning of November, we’ll […]
Caulfield asks a relevant question in today’s Frazz (AMS), and he’s got the excuse of being just a little feller who hasn’t been through this often enough to recognize that the pattern pretty much works the same both ways. Once he’s done a little jet travel, pulled some all-nighters in college or simply lived through […]
Passing on various comics related items before they are deleted from the queue.A bargain at twice the price! The hardcover edition of The Complete Calvin and Hobbes box set is currently being offered for less than half MSRP at Amazon. Don’t know how long the sale will last but it seems to happen two or […]
Flash Gordon by Dan Schkade remains enjoyable. Today’s Sunday summary of what’s happening is impressive. Even keeping those of us who have been following the weekday action interested. Prince Valiant by Mark Schultz and Thomas Yeates also used today to update readers on what is going on there. Of course there is more than two […]
In this morning’s Arlo and Janis (AMS), Arlo salutes the earlier sunrise on this first day back in Standard time. It all makes me no never mind, since I get up before anybody’s notion of daylight kicks in, though it felt good to roll over for another hour this morning.Arlo has always seemed to track […]
Way too late on this but still got a couple weekends of November left. 2023 marks my fourth decade as a published cartoonist and 25 years of my comic strip It Takes a Village Idiot. To celebrate the occasion I will be presenting a retrospective of my work and offering my books, framed and unframed […]
Pat Bagley reached the same conclusion just before it apparently dawned on Congress that Tommy Tuberville’s precious stunt was providing aid and comfort to our opponents, who could become our enemies.Fortunately, even the lockstep Republicans have begun breaking ranks to begin approving the promotions Tuberville has been blocking in his one-man crusade to deny full […]
After 20 years of making readers laugh from the opinion pages of the Napanee Beaver with his award-winning Our Town comic series, cartoonist Tim Nimigan is hanging up his pencil. The Napanee (Ont.) Beaver breaks the news to its readers that Tim Nimigan‘s fortnightly humor panel Our Town will end with its November 23 appearance. […]
xkcd is a dependable source for mindbending scientific concepts, but I was way ahead of them on this one. It’s the type of “I knew that” which makes you feel good, because the response is “Wouldn’t it be great if more people knew that?”Back in 2006, I wrote a newspaper series for kids called “Stories […]