Crankshaft Leadtime (again). Last week I implied that Crankshaft was at least a year ahead on its deadline. This week has me rethinking that. Today’s Crankshaft uses an actual Jumble puzzle from April 13, 2024 putting it four months ahead.Now I’m thinking Tom Batiuk has the plots and scripts further ahead than Dan Davis has […]
We’re going to take a little break from politics today, while I recover from having spent the past week banging my head on the desk. Like the grandfather in The Buckets (AMS), I’ve been sparring with my computer and various online entities.Both the motherboard and hard drive on my desktop are in hospice, but I […]
Profiles of and interviews with Walt Handelsman, Brian Box Brown, Crockett Johnson, R. Alan Brooks, Jeff Smith, and Phil Hands. And Jud Hurd.When Walt Handelsman Went Marching in to New OrleansThe Advocate and The New Orleans Times-Picayune celebrate the 35th anniversary of the arrival of editorial cartoonist Walt Handelsman as he left Scranton PA for […]
Roy Carlson has a column at Sports Collectors Daily specializing in Topps Baseball cards. Like many, I grew up watching cartoons on TV for hours on end every Saturday morning. When programming eventually shifted to adult content, I marched from living room to bedroom and submersed myself into yet another batch of cartoons – the […]
Guy Parsons is being somewhat cynical here, but that’s not to say he’s wrong. There was a time, O Best Beloved, when people who loved the Earth recoiled from milk in plastic jugs, preferring to pick up the glass bottles that had to be brought back to the store. In fact, we were going to […]
A visit to Edward Sorel to deliver his Reuben Award sets Jason Chatfield thinking about how to cartoon. Sorel is, without question, one of the most iconic satirical illustrators in America… I was nervous to finally get an opportunity to meet him. My friend Karen Green, Curator for Comics and Cartoons at Columbia University, had […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for August 2024 release. Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Arnold, The Complete Collection is now available! Arnold: The Complete Collection Volume 1 by Kevin McCormick On […]
Pat Byrnes criticizes the press with an imaginary Page One, accusing them of seeking to find faults with the Harris/Walz ticket while giving Trump a free ride. It’s a troubling accusation, because he seems to run afoul of Hanlon’s Razor, which states “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”That, in turn, […]
‘Midwest nice’ cartoonist for The New Yorker is ready for Chicago and the DNC Paul Noth [link added], who contributes regularly to the magazine, has his pencil poised for the Democratic National Convention. He produces some of the nation’s sharpest political satire. Most recently, Noth, 51, found himself wrestling with an idea after watching Donald […]
Russell Myers, by unanimous vote of the National Cartoonists Society (NCS) Board of Directors, will be the recipient of their Gold Key Award which enters him into the NCS Hall of Fame. From the National Cartoonists Society announcement: Russell Myers will be honored with the Gold Key award at the 78th Annual Reuben Awards [link […]
A substantial portion of the public really likes Kamala Harris, but, as Phil Hands notes, the press is losing patience. Having posed the question of how she can make up for lost time with the elections so close, they aren’t very happy with her answer of taking her message directly to the public instead of […]
The profession of editorial cartooning isn’t so much dying as it is simply entering a new phase in the circle of life — the phase where the corpse is eaten by maggots and turned into dirt. True, cartoonists are just above mimes and poets in social significance; is the nation really losing anything? From 2009 […]
Note: This schedule has been superseded by an updated schedule.Expected Special Guests and Emcees: Christian Vachon, Wes Tyrell, Jack Ohman, Aislin, Boris, Graeme McKay, Ward Sutton, Mr. Fish, Serge Chapleau, Kal, Barry Blitt. And maybe Patrick Chappette, Matt Wuerker, Joel Pett, and Ann Telnaes. Bonus: an appearance by The Daily Cartoonist’s own Mike Peterson.From the […]
Day by Dave (AMS) reminds us that today is National Tattoo Removal Day, and I suppose the way you react to that information could be an indication of your age. Whamond’s gag assumes a relationship between alcohol consumption, getting a tattoo and regret. The question isn’t whether that pattern exists. Of course it does. The […]
Nancy, Li’l Abner, Ziggy, Crankshaft, Barney Google, Mallard Fillmore, The Shadow, Pearls Before Swine, Working Cats, Rosebuds, Goomer, Suburban Fairy Tales, and, believe it or not, even more.Rick Kogan of The Chicago Tribune was surprised to come across an old man (no, not me) reading the funny pages in a print format on a recent […]