Flo’s Diner in Non Sequitur (AMS) had a new customer this past week, one who could rival Captain Eddie in the slinging of entertaining baloney. The arc concluded Saturday with, as Eddie said, a chilling bit of reality.It’s no secret that the Orwellian-named “Freedom Caucus” has control of the House, but it helps to have […]
Joshua Benton at Nieman Lab: Gannett, America’s largest newspaper chain, should wake up each morning thankful for the existence of No. 2 Alden Global Capital. It’s the type of company that inspires debates over whether “vulturous” is too kind of an adjective. If you’re writing an Atlantic cover story on “Who Killed America’s Newspapers?” Alden […]
M.D. and cartoonist Robert Moncrieff has passed away. From the obituary: Robert (Bob) Moncrieff of Monte Sereno, California, passed away peacefully on February 27, 2023 at the age of 97. Bob will be remembered for his kind nature and rare sense of humor, his dedication to family and friends, his love of the natural world, […]
I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising that Kal Kallaugher, who cartoons for the Economist among other clients, should demonstrate some financial literacy and get the SVB/Signature situation right.Call me political, but the people who whined while the Fed was raising interest rates to battle inflation weren’t offering an alternative plan. You can’t have an argument […]
When Joe Wos heard that his MazeToon runs side-by-side with Jeff Keane’s The Family Circus in Victoria he devised a panel that works everywhere but really stands out on the comics page of The Times Colonist. When Joe told Jeff of his intention Jeff informed Joe that Bil Keane had done something similar almost 80 […]
Let’s start at the mellow end of the scale for a change. Joe Heller makes a March Madness joke, and, by the by, “March Madness” is trademarked and you’re not supposed to say it without permission. Well, you can say it, or write it, as I just did, but, as this lawyer points out, you […]
A Look at the Future from the 200 Years Ago What did the future look like in 1820s Britain? Poking fun at liberal ambitions for education reform, the rapid pace of industrialization, and a fashionable interest in applied knowledge, William Heath’s March of Intellect series offered a satirical vision of the wonders and potential cost […]
Ann Telnaes lays out the real situation for anyone who thought Dobbs was a single movement. People who predicted that it was only the first shot of a war on women were neither paranoid nor hysterical. They were right, as subsequent tightening of the laws against women’s personal autonomy has shown.Clay Bennett (CTFP) is barely […]
King Features regularly issues a directory for its syndicated offerings, but this week they surprised us by putting up a directory for their King Features Weekly Service (KFWS) branch. Let’s take a look at the KFWS listing for comic offerings (not in alphabetical order): Tiger Flash Gordon Stan Smith Tennis (aka Stan Smith’s Tennis Class) […]
Well, Arlo (AMS), the problem is that you’re celebrating the wrong saint. If you wait two days, you can have corned beef and cabbage on your St. Joseph’s Table at a heavily discounted price.Best of all, Festa di San Giuseppe falls on a Sunday this year, so you don’t need a dispensation to have meat […]
News with Monte Wolverton, Brian Fies, Roy Lichtenstein, George Herriman, Lucy Shelton Caswell, and Shantell Martin. When Cartoonists are No Longer Supported by Newspapers Monte Wolverton is asking for a little help. From Daryl at CagleCartoons: We’ve put up a crowd funding campaign for our beloved and brilliant, progressive cartoonist, Monte Wolverton at Cagle.com/Wolverton –come […]
Percy Crosby was born in 1891 and was working and cartooning for newspapers before he was out of his teens. His twenties saw him succeed in contributing cartoons and comic strips to magazines and newspapers. WWI interrupted the career. After The War to End All Wars Crosby reestablished himself as a cartoonist and illustrator. One […]
As expected, I’m seeing a lot of SVB cartoons, some of which are entirely off target, some of which are blaming deregulation, which is a likely but not yet proven cause, a couple of which celebrate panicked withdrawals and too many of which predict a general collapse of all banks and the economy.So here’s a […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for March 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. We begin our March list of books with one we missed in February. UVA Press is happy to announce the publication of a […]
Fourteen months after Joe Wos switched his MazeToons from Creators to King Features the panel has finally been added to Comics Kingdom. (Will it take as long for Andrews McMeel to add Mike Peters’ editoons to GoComics?) The feature was added Monday but the archive goes back to January 2022 when Joe switched syndicates. Set […]