Bill Griffith’s Fancy for Nancy Bill Griffith‘s graphic biography of Ernie Bushmiller Three Rocks will be released next month. So it is a fine time for The New Yorker to review and preview the book and interview the author. My first exposure to Nancy was in the funny pages of the Sunday newspaper delivered to […]
Constant Readers know how strongly I identify with Arlo and Janis (AMS), and certainly I do on this strip. It’s been not just years but decades since I’ve gone to a fireworks display, though they were important back when I had young kids with whom to ooh and aah. Even then, we were happy to […]
Ithaca N.Y.—“My country is under a dictatorship, so even if you don’t want to talk about politics — politics is everywhere.” Pedro X. Molina, renowned Nicaraguan cartoonist, has been awarded the Vaclav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent for his work as a political cartoonist. That work has continued since Molina fled his home during a […]
This Doonesbury ran on May 30, 1973, not July 4, but it’s an important intro to the political cartoons that ran a half century ago today, because, like most historical moments, Watergate is shrouded in half-remembered stories and outright myths. Trudeau may have been a little pessimistic about how much people were paying attention at […]
Thirty years ago, mid-1993, a Flash Gordon story comes to an end. And with the end of the story comes the end of the daily syndicated Flash Gordon comic strip. So on July 3, 1993 the daily Flash Gordon by Thomas Warkentin and an Argentina Art Studio ended: (note: Argentina Art Studio = Andrés Klacik; […]
John Deering offers a familiar take on a folk tale, though with a twist. Variations of the story exist in several cultures, but the most familiar involves a young girl who is aided by a frog (or other animal) that then wants a kiss or, more often, to sleep in her bed. Either way, when […]
Cartoonist Clay Butler has passed away. From the obituary: Clay [David Butler] was diagnosed with Ocular Melanoma, a rare aggressive eye cancer in January 2022. It metastasized to his liver in September. He died on June 13th 2023 at home with the support of hospice, 17 ½ months after the original diagnosis. Clay became a […]
Rob Harrell in Adam @ Home reminds some of us that we have a daily duty to perform, and my duty to The Daily Cartoonist is getting later in the day than usual. Lincoln Peirce’s Big Nate explains why. Summer has arrived in The Big Valley and errands are being run in the morning while […]
Dr. MacLeod takes advantage of the smoke from the Canadian wildfires to comment on the Supreme Court session just ended. He may be overstating things a bit, since the court’s decisions weren’t universally awful. After all, they included the slapdown of the independent state legislative authority theory as well as turning away an example of […]
Linda Walter, cartoonist for the Susie Q. Smith comic panel and strip among others, died 14 years ago and since then she had been kept at a funeral home without getting a proper burial. From WTEN-TV: WOODSTOCK, N.Y. (NEWS10) — After going unclaimed for many years, the cremated remains of 1950s comic strip illustrator Linda […]
Reuben Award nominee Jeff Smith, Reuben Award nominee Bill Griffith and Reuben Award-winner Ernie Bushmiller, Zapiro, courtroom sketch artists Bill Hennessy and Christine Cornell, Darrin Bell, Alison Bechdel, and Dale Hrabi & Kagan McLeod are among the cartoonists in the news in today’ weekend roundup.Reuben Award nominee Jeff Smith‘s college comic strip Thorn is being […]
Today’s theme being comic strips you may not find funny, we’ll start out with a La Cucaracha (AMS) that explores areas I probably shouldn’t try to comment on.Spanish-speaking people are not a single ethnic group, and are barely a single linguistic group, and yet they are treated as a single group. I don’t think Cubanos […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced the nominees for their 77th annual Reuben Award which celebrates and honors The Cartoonist of the Year for 2022. The nominees are: Bill Griffith (Zippy the Pinhead) Will Henry (Wallace the Brave) Hilary B. Price (Rhymes With Orange) Jeff Smith (Bone) Mark Tatulli (Liò) Henry and Smith are freshman […]
Sorting through the responses to yesterday’s SCOTUS decision raised a number of questions, starting with whether I should wait for the slowpokes, which I decided against because the weekend approaches and not only would they be that much slower, but my readership declines on Saturdays and Sundays and I wanted to strike while the iron […]
The Minnesota History Center will host a year-long exhibit of Peanuts and Charles M. Schulz. The event is covered by local and national news. KSTP-TV: A museum exhibit set to open next month aims to teach visitors something new about Minnesota’s most famous cartoonist. The Minnesota History Center is celebrating St. Paul native Charles Schulz, […]