Ninety years ago, on November 12, 1932, Madeline Mezz was born. So today we celebrate her inauguration into The Daily Cartoonist’s Senior Strippers club.“Madeline Mezz?” you ask. Well, she is better known as Bunny Hoest.Bunny and John Reiner join us in the birthday bash with today’s The Lockhorns. © Wm. Hoest EnterprisesBunny has been working […]
Political or editorial cartoons were once the primary source for visual political satire, humor and commentary. There are fewer outlets for the traditional form … but life still breathes in many venues—like The Boston Globe, where award winner Ward Sutton publishes biting cartoons on a regular basis. On this day after the election deluge, he […]
“[A] comic Larson once presented as a ridiculous sight is closer to reality than one might realize.” As detailed by Wired, dog barks actually serve a purpose, one likely tied into their domestication and relationship with humans. © Gary LarsonThe Nexus compares Wired’s theory to a The Far Side cartoon panel. On the surface, perhaps […]
In the Great News category is The Minneapolis Star Tribune looking to replace retired editorial cartoonist Steve Sack. When Steve retired in February 2022 The Star Tribune said no decision had been made on whether to replace the paper’s staff cartoonist.Well a decision has now been made and it is the correct one. The Star […]
Amy Lago was the UFS/United Media editor of Peanuts for the last 12 years of the comic strip. With the upcoming celebration of the centennial of cartoonist Charles M. Schulz‘s birth she looks back with fond memories of the man.Via The Daily Independent: Despite his introverted bent, Schulz was fiercely competitive. […]
Ferd’nand by Henning Dahl Mikkelsen (signing “Mik”) first appeared in Holland during the year 1937. Ten years later the pantomime comic strip made its United States debut on November 10, 1947, distributed by United Feature Syndicate.Here is the first week of U.S. dailies. “Mik” signed the strip until 1970 though it is known Frank Thomas ghosted […]
Cartoons have long caught the public’s attention, capturing social or political sentiments and highlighting pressing issues. The nature of these cartoons has changed over the years and decades, even the centuries, accommodating a widespread appetite for vitriolic humor and propaganda. To commemorate the important role of political cartoons in American history and culture, Stacker went […]
The other day Mike Peterson featured “a well-crafted homage” cartoon by Daniel Boris in his column. An unfamiliar name to me – but it was a great cartoon for old Warner Bros. animation fans.© Daniel BorisThose of us wanting to know more about the cartoonist are rewarded with an auto-profile by Daniel supplied to Mike […]
George grew up on a farm in Fairfax, on the north end of town, but his extraordinary artistic talent led him east, where he made a name for himself in New York as a famous cartoonist. The Atchison County Mail reports the death of famous favorite son George Booth. George Booth, who made a name […]
When Christopher Weyant ’89 studied at Gettysburg College, he did not anticipate that he would end up publishing cartoons in The New Yorker and The Boston Globe. Weyant grew up in New Jersey. When he studied at Gettysburg College, he majored in political science and economics. The Gettysburgian Magazine profiles alumni Christopher Weyant,cartoonist for The […]
A number of new content comic strips that Creators Syndicate holds the copyright to have not been updated to GoComics since Sunday November 6.Diamond Lil, Dogs of C Kennel, Heathcliff, Scary Gary, Strange Brew, The Barn, and Zack Hill are among the comics not updated to the GoComics site for the past two days. They […]
Jeff Stahler tribute The Marine Corps Times (and The Navy Times and The Army Times and The Air Force Times) ran the Associated Press obituary:“George Booth was a remarkable artist who sold his first drawing to The New Yorker in 1969 and filled the magazine with a kind of wild delight for decades thereafter,” New Yorker […]
Ed Wexler and Jeff Koterba ExplainBut first Daryl Cagle explains: We had two lovely exhibitions at the “International Center“, Press Cartoons museum in St Just le Martel, France this year. One of the shows was about Donkeys and Elephants. American donkey and elephant cartoons make no sense to foreign audiences. Our exhibit in France was […]
As Steve Smith tells us: Clare Briggs (1874-1930) was among the best known, best-paid, and beloved of American cartoonists in the 1910s and 1920s. Historians often remember him as a master of the nostalgic slice-of-life panels of small town childhood (The Days of Real Sport, When a Feller Needs a Friend, Aint’ It a Grand […]
Frank and Ernest celebrate their 50th anniversary, having first appeared on November 6, 1972.Frank and Ernest was created by magazine cartoonist and psychologist Bob Thaves. It was Bob’s first attempt at a comic “strip” and, in a rare occurance in the syndication world, it was accepted on the first submission.Here are the first six “strips” […]