Raw Story reports on a Rolling Stone article: Former President Donald Trump is enraged about how he looks in the courtroom sketches at his Manhattan trial — and thinks that the sketch artist is trying to make him look bad on purpose. According to Rolling Stone‘s Ryan Bort, Asawin Suebsaeng, and Catherina Gioino, the former […]
“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” — Stephen DedalusAs Doonesbury concluded back in 1971, putting Kent State into the memory hole allowed us to “concentrate on fresher, more recent, tragedies.”But as Senators Hawley and Cotton call for the National Guard to be sent to quell campus protests, it’s worth remembering […]
Some more thoughts on the lovely life of Trina Robbins from Andrew Farago at The Comics Journal, John Lent of the International Journal of Comic Art, and a few dozen more short remembrances from cartoonists and friends.Andrew Farago at The Comics Journal has a wonderfully detailed (halfway between profile and biography) obituary. Andrew and TCJ […]
A couple Sundays ago we noted Bob Weber, Jr.’s use of Lucky Bucks and crediting Paul Fung. We also linked to Mark Johnson’s thoughts on the origins of such comic ephemera: If I recall it right, it was Jimmy Murphy who started the extras like comic stamps, play money and cut-out dolls in Toots & […]
If you haven’t been reading Crabgrass (AMS), you should start now, and begin here because today’s would be too much of a spoiler to start with, plus you need to catch up if you’re going to enjoy it. Yes, this is from two months ago, but Tauhid Bondia likes long story arcs and this one […]
From Radio Free Europe: PEN America, along with a group of organizations that support cartoonists and artists, has condemned the violent arrest of Atena Farghadani, an Iranian cartoonist currently being held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison for attempting to hang one of her drawings on a wall near the presidential palace. Farghadani’s lawyer, Mohammad Moghimi, […]
The National Cartoonists Society will have a booth at the Chicago Comic & Enterrtainment Expo on April 26 – 28. If you are in Chicago this weekend visit NCS member cartoonists at Booth 848. Several members of the NCS will be tabling over the weekend, including: Brian Gordon, George Gant, Harold Bucholz, Dee Fish, Johnny […]
We’ll start our search with Cathy Wilcox’s commentary on keeping young people off social media, in which she raises the question of how you would keep up with the world otherwise.She’s obviously not a big fan of Xitter, which is getting a harsh reassessment from the folks Down Under.Fiona Katauskas isn’t impressed with Musk’s efforts […]
Editorial cartoonist Bob Lynch has passed away.Robert Emery (Bob) Lynch April 15, 1933 – April 6, 2024From the obituary: He was eventually deployed to Korea and was a veteran of The Korean War. After his discharge, he attended The Cooper School of Art in Cleveland and spent the next ten years employed by various advertising […]
San Diego Comic Convention (Comic-Con) has announced that the Eisner Awards judges have chosen 16 nominees from whom voters will select 4 to be inducted into the Hall of Fame this summer. These 4 will be joining the 19 individuals that the judges have already chosen for the Hall of Fame. The 16 nominees are […]
Frazz (AMS) starts us with a reminder that some things can’t be purchased, except of course that they can. As it happens, the strip ran just after the Boston Marathon, as likely planned, but also after a local news story here mentioned that they used to put the medallions indicating that you finished on a […]
When Nancy Beiman was 65 and contemplating retirement from her job as a professor of animation, she had no clue as to how she would fill her days. “Many people take up an artistic hobby. But what was I, a professional artist, supposed to do? Take up accounting?” Before she could embark on a crash […]
The current Mary Worth makes me wonder if June Brigman ever drew Angel and the Ape. “According to my research” – No.So Tom Batiuk has moved his Komix Korner format from Funky Winkerbean to Crankshaft. Cricked necks are in the forecast. Earth Day has been cancelled. Yesterday Alley Oop and company blew up the planet. […]
Pickles (AMS) offers a lovely example of tightrope walking, with a gag that its audience will get, even if they aren’t all that computer literate, but with a wink as well to any cyberly-literate types.“According to my research” is a key phrase for identifying crap thrown together by Artificial Intelligence, the confirming step being to […]
G. B. Trudeau has gone too far! From The Oregonian: Another reader responds in The Oregonian letters section: A reader was offended by a recent Doonesbury cartoon in which Donald Trump replaced Jesus in cartoonist Garry Trudeau’s version of The Last Supper, (“Readers respond: Comic strip crossed the line,” April 14). Yet Trump has many […]