The Rotary Cartoon Awards (Australia)
And the award goes to….. Cartoon of the Year to David Rowe for Nuts Open Category winner Jason Chatfield for Coronavirus Diary 1- 3 Merit Award to Jed Dunstan for Kangaroo looking for a date Sports Category winner is Harry Bruce for Faster, higher, stronger with Merit Award to Lindsay Foyle for Excitement […]
Posted on: Mar 7, 2022, Section: Awards, Caricature, Cartoons, Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, International, Comments: Comments Off on The Rotary Cartoon Awards (Australia)
CSotD: Clear View from the Peanut Gallery
Pat Bagley gets the lead-off position today for having illustrated the theory that no two nations with McDonald’s have ever gone to war. The literalists have just gone scrambling off to find out how many McDonald’s are in Ukraine and Russia, but we’re not going to wait for them to get back. The point isn’t […]
Posted on: Feb 26, 2022, Section: Cartoons, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 2 Comments
Saturday Night Funnies
Every once in a while we like to recommend some sites featuring funnies. Bored Panda frequently presents panel cartoons and comic strips from various creators. Here we show a couple cartoons of their Jules Burton Suits compilation. Check in daily. Every other week at CartoonStock Cartoon critics Phil Witte and Rex Hesner look behind […]
Posted on: Jan 8, 2022, Section: Cartoons, Comic strips, Magazine cartoons, web comics, Comments: Comments Off on Saturday Night Funnies
The Shetland Islands and 40 Years of Smirk
Since we are celebrating 40 year anniversaries today let’s go to Scotland where… “Births, Deaths, Marriages and Smirk, but not necessarily in that order”, is how someone once told me they read The Shetland Times – probably apocryphal – then of course there are the back pages. A cartoon is a form of expression that […]
Posted on: Jan 4, 2022, Section: Caricature, Cartoons, Editorial cartooning, International, Comments: Comments Off on The Shetland Islands and 40 Years of Smirk
CSotD: Without a Trace
(Dr. Macleod) (Jeremy Banx) Two threads in this particular Juxtaposition: The backgrounder is the current dustup in the UK about Boris Johnson locking everyone down and then allowing his own staff to hold a Christmas party last year at 10 Downing Street. It was revealed, apparently, in a wonderfully foolish cock-up when the Prime […]
Posted on: Dec 10, 2021, Section: Cartoons, Comic history, Controversies, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 13 Comments
Cartoonists/Editors Jon Adams & Ellis Rosen Interviewed
Jon Adams and Ellis Rosen are cartoonists and illustrators who separately have contributed to The New Yorker, MAD, McSweeney’s and many other outlets. Together they’ve teamed up to edit the new book Send Help!: A Collection of Marooned Cartoons. More than just a collection of comics, it includes a forward by Emma Allen, an afterward […]
Posted on: Nov 21, 2021, Section: Books, Cartoons, Magazine cartoons, Comments: Comments Off on Cartoonists/Editors Jon Adams & Ellis Rosen Interviewed
Hey Kids! Comics! Pure Treat
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for October 2021 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Korean War Comic Books Our Artists At War Unicorn Playlist Inked Scenes from Isolation Definitely Nat: The Nat […]
Posted on: Oct 14, 2021, Section: Animation, Books, Cartoons, Comic Books, Comic history, Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Magazine cartoons, Comments: Comments Off on Hey Kids! Comics! Pure Treat
CSotD: Funny triggers
xkcd starts us off with a cartoon that is funny but that then sends me off on a tangent. Obviously, what she proposes is not what anyone means by “putting the toothpaste back in the tube,” but I think that, if you squirted toothpaste out on the sink, you could probably get it back in […]
Posted on: Sep 29, 2021, Section: Cartoons, Comic strips, Comments: 18 Comments
David Simonson – RIP
Publisher, journalist, and cartoonist David Simonson has passed away. David C. Simonson May 9, 1927 – August 27, 2021 Cartoonist, journalist, editor, publisher From the obituary: A life-long artist and journalist, at the age of 12, he and his political artwork were featured in LIFE magazine. As a teenager, one of his oil paintings […]
Posted on: Sep 10, 2021, Section: Cartoons, Magazine cartoons, Obituary, Comments: Comments Off on David Simonson – RIP
CSotD: Artists’ insights
While we await further development on things that aren’t funny, here’s a look at something that really is. Or will be when it releases in October, but you’ll have forgotten by then, so pre-order it now, from the publisher or at your local bookstore. Joe Dator is a frequent New Yorker contributor, but even […]
Posted on: Aug 19, 2021, Section: Books, Cartoons, Comments: 1 Comment
This Week’s Whatnots
Dennis the Menace Gets Royal Stamp Treatment The Beano comic is celebrating its 70th anniversary and to mark the milestone Royal Mail has released 10 special stamps using pictures from the comic strip. Dennis was first brought to life in a pencil sketch in January 1951 by Scottish illustrator and cartoonist David Law along with […]
Posted on: Jul 1, 2021, Section: Animation, Cartoons, Children's Books, Comic strips, International, Obituary, Comments: Comments Off on This Week’s Whatnots
Cartoon Chronicles – Days of Yore
Female Phantom and Female Phantom Writers Folklore has that Lee Falk’s widow finished some scripts when the creator passed away. That would be, if true, the only known instance of a woman writing The Phantom comic strip. But there was a time when a woman wrote for The Phantom comic book in the U.S. Long […]
Posted on: Jun 3, 2021, Section: Animation, Cartoons, Comic Books, Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 1 Comment
1921 Beginning of the End for Cartoons Magazine
These days we have Funny Times and Humor Times for regular magazines featuring political, social, and gag cartoons. 100 years ago our grand- and great-grand parents had Cartoons Magazine. above: covers from Robert Beerbohm and his Platinum Age Facebook page It was one hundred years ago this month that sadly saw the end of […]
Posted on: May 8, 2021, Section: AAEC-feed, Blogs, Cartoons, Comic history, Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Comments: Comments Off on 1921 Beginning of the End for Cartoons Magazine
Hey Kids! Comics! – Earth Day Pulp
BC © John Hart Studios; Paperback cologne from Demeter Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for April 2021 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Trots and Bonnie If You’re Cracked, You’re Happy: The History of […]
Posted on: Apr 16, 2021, Section: Books, Cartoons, Children's Books, Comic history, Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Comments: 1 Comment
Mort Gerberg and The Big 9-0 (and 6-0)
Mort Gerberg is celebrating a 90th birthday, born March 11, 1931 (yeah, we’re a day late). Also this year he will be celebrating his 60th year as a cartoonist. In Mort Gerberg On the Scene Mort explains the he did cartoon for his high school newspaper but put that aside for the Army and a […]
Posted on: Mar 12, 2021, Section: Anniversaries, Cartoonist's Cartoonists, Cartoons, Comic strips, Magazine cartoons, Comments: Comments Off on Mort Gerberg and The Big 9-0 (and 6-0)