A couple newspaper editors broke down the processes of how comic strips and editorial cartoons appear in your local gazette.First up is The Oregonian explaining their Sunday Comics section. Why would The Oregonian cut the first two panels from the Feb. 14, 2021, “Doonesbury” comic? Is this a regular editorial practice? This is indeed regular […]
But Is It Op Art? Rose is Rose © UFS, Inc.; Wallace the Brave © William WilsonNot the common definition, but Don Wimmer and Will Henry present wonderful optics. Rebuttal?© Tribune Content AgencyRussell Myers offers another angle of a section of today’s CSotD column. Good Timing or Just Winter Comics?Mister Boffo © Neatly Chiseled Features; Arlo […]
Coin of the RealmForget Bitcoin and Game Stop, invest in gold – 999.9 Fine Comic Gold. Initially inspired by the simple question of a child – “What does a tickle look like?” – the Mr. Men Little Miss characters have become some of the most instantly recognisable in the world. Featured in more than 90 […]
Cartoonist Brian Turner (aka Renrut) has passed away. Brian William Turner December 15, 1949 – January 31, 2021writer, cartoonist, researcher, and educatorFrom the obituary:Brian was a prolific writer who worked diligently on his novels, articles, books, and research projects right up to the weeks before his death. One of a handful of baseball historians […]
ZED is walking, talking dryer lint. ZED by Duane Abel has been around for 25 years (last Fall) and has now gained its 25th newspaper in eastern Montana: Now the 41-year old artist has added Montana to his list of two dozen small town weekly newspapers, from as far as away California, to New York […]
© The Ashville Citizen, 1928 Reactions to cartoons about Rush Limbaugh’s death are starting to come in,including this Power Line take on the comparatively mild Steve Sack obitoon.© Star Tribune/Steve Sack The Star Tribune observed the death of Rush Limbaugh with an editorial cartoon … By editorial cartoonist Steve Sack — I think of him as […]
Cartooning the Mid-20th Century Newsroom Cartoonists and other artists, working in newsrooms, captured and caricatured their working lives, including their colleagues, in these places. What follows is a small sample of the images I have gathered in my research for my new book on the history of the American newsroom from the 1920s through the […]
Racist Cartoons Help Incite an 1898 North Carolina Massacre>> Warning: historically racist caricature and content << When a mob bent on insurrection stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, some onlookers labeled the event “unprecedented.” But the United States has witnessed coups d’etat before—both attempted and successful—within its borders. In 1898, white supremacists in […]
Later this year Ziggy will celebrate 50 years as a syndicated comic panel/strip.On 27 June 1971, a new comic made its debut in American newspapers, Ziggy. Created and drawn by cartoonist Tom Wilson, Sr., the strip chronicled the experiences of the ill-fated title character… Although the subject matter for Ziggy was the mundane, its public […]
The School of Visual Arts highlights cartoonist Ray Billingsley with an interview. Raised in Harlem, Ray Billingsley was still a kid himself when he started drawing for the magazine Kids at the age of 12 … He debuted Curtis in 1988. Distributed by King Features, Curtis—a multilayered tale of an urban African American family of […]
February 15, ’21 saw the first signed daily Shoe comic strip by Gary Brookins in five months.There is no announcement at Shoe Comics, or on Gary’s Facebook about his return to the daily comic.When Gary retired last year he kept his hand in the game by continuing to do the Sunday Shoe. Now, for this […]
Smidge and Friends by Ayla KreelakThe weekly Nunatsiaq News has introduced a new comic strip by a young local cartoonist They also introduce cartoonist Ayla Kreelak: Kreelak’s comic strip, which started as her own personal project, offers a glimpse into Inuit culture from the perspective of a young woman who aspires to be a graphic […]
A treasure trove for cartooning fans is now available!The Internet Archive has made available the run of Jud Hurd’s CARTOONIST PROfiles magazine. From issue #1 (March, 1969) to issue #146 (June, 2005) CARTOONIST PROfiles was THE insider magazine for newspaper and magazine cartoonists (and greeting cards and illustration and and animation and caricature and… ).Accessing […]
Short notice for a couple of Tuesday, February 16 events.Join cartoonist Jimmy Margulies live online tomorrow night as he talks about political cartooning the past 30 years. The nationally-syndicated cartoonist has had a ringside seat to New York City and the shenanigans of New Jersey pols, from Chris Christie to some guy named Trump. Tues, […]
Leading into Valentine’s Day the Judge Parker comic strip had two people profess love for each other:That was a moral affront to one person who let writer Francisco Marciuliano know:Marciuliano’s response earned a… Read the thread on Ces’s Twitter feed. Around the time the outraged reader started reading Judge Parker he must not have seen that […]