Current political tactics call for throwing as much against the wall as possible and hoping some sticks. A recent Steve Benson cartoon has become one such projectile.The race to fill retiring Senator Jeff Flake‘s seat in Arizona is neck and neck with Martha McSally and Kyrsten Sinema nearly tied in the polls. One or the […]
“This cartoon serves no purpose aside from spreading xenophobic rhetoric and ideas.” “Slander, racism, blatant misogyny and ignorance — all neatly wrapped in one cartoon.” “It reflects a sick, bigoted, racist, sexist mindset.” “The cartoon was appalling and offensive.” Reader response to a political cartoon by Rick McKee, as published in the Fort Worth […]
A few updates to previously mentioned items. Rube Goldberg knew how to get from A to B using all the letters in the alphabet Stephen Silver, for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, profiles Rube and reviews an exhibition.“The Art of Rube Goldberg,” an exhibition that…runs through Jan. 21 at the Philadelphia museum. The exhibit, which follows stops […]
One of the first comic strips I saw today was Frazz.Jef Mallett plays with the form as much as anyone, today the top silhouette brought a smile. And I’ve also been impressed with the Sunday art at Prickly City lately (for months really).Hat tip to Eric Allie and Scott Stantis. Tim Rickard’s Brewster Rockit was the funniest […]
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Publisher and Editor-in-Chief John Robinson Block has announced the appointment of Steve Kelley as the Post-Gazette’s new editorial cartoonist. Said Mr. Block: “Since my grandfather acquired the Post-Gazette in 1923, cartooning has been a hallowed tradition of this newspaper. It is with great pride and pleasure that I welcome Steve Kelley. I am […]
As Mike Peterson reported (and others had suspicioned) cartoonist Darrin Bell has combined the print editions of his Candorville and Rudy Park comic strips into a single project. Mike’s observation was spot on (I have a feeling he had met Darrin at the recent CXC), but now Darrin has confirmed and further clarified the reasons for […]
Cartoonist Stan Mack responded to a New York Times piece with an illustrated letter of comment or, as the N. Y. Times is calling it, a “comic strip to the editor.”
For the month leading into the US midterm elections the School of Visual Arts is hosting “Art as Witness: Political Graphics 2016 – 18,” an exhibition of over 200 satirical and politically charged illustrations, cartoons and animations from 53 artists.Ann Quito, for Quartz, reviews the exhibit. As the illustrator Victor Juhasz writes in the exhibition catalogue: “We […]
Walt Kelly and PogoIn 1977, four years after Walt’s death, The Museum of Cartoon Art issued a A Retrospective of Walt Kelly and Pogo The Cartoonist Guild of America (1936 – 1939) B. K. Munn inquires into the little known history of an attempt at a cartoonists’ union. America’s First Color Newspaper Supplement (1892)From the archives of […]
Paige Braddock has, at least for the time being, decided to end her Jane’s World comic strip. above: Jane’s World ending on a happy high note Paige earlier this year, after years with the company, was promoted to Chief Creative Officer at Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates. The added duties may have played a role in […]
Translator Anthea Bell has passed away.Anthea Bell May 10, 1936 – October 18, 2018From the above linked obituary:In 1970 Anthea Bell found herself with the tricky task of translating Asterix in Britain. The eighth adventure in the comic book series about everyone’s favourite Gaul rested on a French view of the English that was not […]
The following are some comic strip related books released or scheduled to be released in October. Links lead to the books’ Amazon page. Pearls Takes a Wrong Turn: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury Mother Is Coming: A FoxTrot Collection Adult Time: A Baby Blues Collection Dance Like Everybody’s Watching!: A Zits Treasury Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips […]
Liza Donnelly TCJ: And during this time you were submitting cartoons to other magazines and selling there? Liza: By then I had met a bunch of other cartoonists. There was a cartoonists association. I met Sam Gross and Roz Chast and George Booth around that time. Particularly from Sam you learned about the other publications. […]
This past weekend [Cedric Hohnstadt] drove down to Kansas City, MO for the Fall Cartooning Weekend sponsored by the North Central Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society. The main event was an afternoon of lectures hosted at the offices of comic book syndicate Andrews McMeel Universal, the company behind GoComics [and The Daily Cartoonist]. Cedric […]
Jungle Jim ran as a Sunday-only comic strip from 1934 to 1954. It was King Features Syndicate’s response to the Tarzan comic strip and began as the topper to King Features’ answer to Buck Rogers. above: the first Jungle Jim strip (hat tip Jim Keefe).Unlike Flash Gordon, Jungle Jim never got a daily strip.Though a […]