Dave Granlund has drawn both amusement and ire on these pages for years. The local cartoonist’s works are published on the opinion pages of this newspaper and others nationwide each week. Dave Granlund is profiled in his local newspaper, The Waconia (Minn) Patriot. The feature article celebrates Dave having three cartoons in Cagle Cartoons’ Top […]
I might have saved this Non Sequitur (AMS) for a day of political cartooning, but, instead, I’m using it to introduce a comedy/editorial mashup.We’ve always had “alternative facts,” but we’ve only weaponized them recently. There were people who believed fluoride was a communist plot and that Elvis was alive, but they were dismissed as cranks. […]
It is no longer a question “Is Artificial Intelligence stealing your art?” It is now a statement “AI is stealing your art.”The National Cartoonists Society and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists are sharing Twitter threads about the theft of intellectual property, specifically tied to cartoonists and artists. We kick things off with Ted Rall‘s […]
Animator (Sita Sings the Blues), comic strip creator (The Hots), and all-round cartoonist Nina Paley had her most recent effort to self-publish foiled by IndieGoGo. From Post Millennial: On Friday, the crowdfunding site IndieGoGo canceled a campaign by cartoonist, comic creator, and gender-critical radical feminist Nina Paley after the project had exceeded full funding. IndieGoGo […]
10 Years of This is Fine, Marvel Covers Disney, Snoopy’s Moon Mission, Gannett Gonna Gannett, Remembering Jack Bender. You’ve probably seen it: A smiling cartoon dog sits at a table, coffee mug on hand, as a room goes up in flames. “This is fine,” the dog assures himself. It’s been a decade since its creator […]
(Frazz — AMS)(Marc Murphy)Like most American holidays, today will be marked by schools, banks and the post office being closed and everyone else going about their business as usual. We don’t have as many holidays as other countries, and we barely keep the ones we have.Caulfield is young enough to be puzzled by how long […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for January 2023 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. A couple late listings from last month: Back to New Year new books. top image Peanuts by Charles Schulz © Peanuts […]
The Cleveland Plain Dealer replaced the defunct Funky Winkerbean comic strip with Beetle Bailey which led to some complaints. We went with Beetle Bailey, and nary a day has gone by since without someone writing me to question that decision. They say Beetle Bailey is a sexist, violent cartoon that was rightly removed from our […]
Stephen Collins reflects on the death of water cooler TV, a combination of too many things to watch, too many ways to watch and too many choices of when to watch. (Larger version here)It comes hard on the heels of a whole lot of Festivus references, which reminds us of the days when we all […]
There was a duet of sorts in today’s comics between Over the Hedge and Macanudo. Excerpt above is Over the Hedge © by Michael Fry and T. Lewis Excerpt below is Macanudo © by Liniers
It is a rare thing to stumble across a syndicated comic strip that isn’t in Allan Holtz’s book, but that’s what I did the other day. Mrs. Contrary by Marion Farley ran for about 14 months from 1922 to 1923. And Marion Farley is as rare as her comic strip in the history books, not […]
So John McPherson just bops us in the face with it in today’s Close to Home. “It” being the fourth wall. But others were more subtle today. Francesco Marciuliano and Jim Keefe, in today’s Sally Forth, has Hilary recognize a certain rhyme and reason to her cartoonish life. Even deeper in the trenches is Joey […]
We’ll start today with a Free Range (Creators) that doesn’t inspire any Great Thoughts beyond my memories of setting up trade show exhibits. There was a (thankfully brief) time when trade show booths were stretchy nylon over aluminum frames that, with practice, broke down into components that fit into custom-made rollaway trash bins. After you’d […]
You may have to watch sports to know this, but Progressive Insurance is running a series of commercials in which people in normal disagreements get to throw a red challenge flag and see a replay to determine what really happened. The appeal, of course, is how much we wish we could, despite the fact that […]
Or should it be running “amok?”Writing Explained pulls a Garner’s Modern English Usage (GMEU) estimate “that amok is used three times for every use of amuck, which is corroborated by the graph below.” Writing Expalined continued: “amuck was preferred up until the 1940s, but since that time, amok has overtaken it as the standard form.” […]