… Stephan Pastis got the pig to say:Pearls Before Swine made its newspaper debut on December 30, 2001.As Stephan explains it was a premature birth: It was December 30, 2001 that Pearls Before Swine first debuted in newspapers. Well, newspaper. This strip ran in the Orlando Sentinel, which for some reason needed to start the […]
Dave Granlund offers an above-average obituary cartoon for Bishop Tutu. He doesn’t try to say too much, but points out an important factor: Tutu and Mandela fought together against apartheid with sunny good spirits that encouraged people to make common cause with them.It’s a reminder of the Biblical admonition to be wise as serpents and […]
F-Minus (AMS) offers a cartoon that took me back to the days of the Soviet Union, when people stood in long lines for groceries and other basics. This same gag was told there as part of the grim humor Russians enjoy, as well as part of a reality in which people really did get into […]
Ray Billingsley present an original tale to celebrate Kwanzaa. © KFSThe story begins today in the Curtis comic strip.
Nobody, I said, as I slid down the bannister, could call me a fussy man, but I’m not eating at a place — as demonstrated in today’s Zits (KFS) — where they go out of their way to prevent the dishwasher from cleaning the silverware.I assume putting the saucers together is to make unloading easier, […]
Realist-with-a-pop-twist painter Wayne Thiebaud has passed away.Morton Wayne Thiebaud November 15, 1920 – December 25, 2021From Acquavella Galleries: It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of a truly remarkable man, Wayne Thiebaud. An American icon, Wayne led his life with passion and determination, inspired by his love for teaching, tennis, and above […]
Sherman the overweight shark took a right at the Columbia River and ended up in Lake Pend Oreille. True story — at least on the Funnies Page. The Coeur d’Alene Press, a dozen miles from the lake, breaks the story: Starting Monday, the comic strip Sherman’s Lagoon plumbs the depths of a poorly kept Idaho […]
As Rex Morgan M.D. above shows it’s a good day to read The Funnies. The comics section Rex is reading carries what looks to be one of the many Blondie knock-offs that showed up over the years. And the purple of the other strip makes me think Terry Beatty had an itch to draw an […]
I was surprised at how many cartoons were about Christmas this morning. I’d expected some Boxing Day gags and Returning Things gags, but not so many actual Christmas gags.Maybe I compartmentalize too much, or maybe I’m dreading the dead space between now and New Years, when everyone takes off and there’s nothing to comment on.But […]
From The Globe and Mail: Cartoonist Seth presents A Garden in Winter, reflecting on a season that defines Canada. © Seth
Mike is far more industrious than I am, I’ll just link to some favorite sites that have gathered Christmas comic and cartoonist art through the years. Yesterday’s Papers posts Christmas comic art from then to now. Hogan’s Alley specializes in giving us Christmas cards from cartoonists. And here. Who’s Out There present a half […]
Wally Wood was a giant in the comics business, as explained at length, with an abundance of examples, in this Lambeik Comiclopedia profile, better than which I cannot begin to do.And much of which I dare not reproduce here, though I’ll confess that, like nearly everyone I knew in Boulder, and since my mother lived […]
Notice from the L. A. Times:After the furor 9 Chickweed Lane caused by a poor choice of words, The Los Angeles Times has filled that space with the Luann comic strip beginning December 22. (Sorry, the best I can come up with now is this December 24 PressReader shot.)While the likelihood of Greg and Karen […]
For some reason, I didn’t see a lot of “bear trap in the fireplace” gags this year. Which is a good thing, I would add.However, Monty (AMS) put a spin on that tired old chestnut, and there’s nothing I love more than watching Sedgewick try to be a real boy, while his patient butler, Jarvis, […]
The global (and massive) vertical South Korean-based webcomic site Webtoon placed a full page color ad in the Tuesday, December 21, 2021 issue of The New York Times’ Arts section.The ad appeared on the back page of the section with a teaser ad at the bottom of the section’s first page. Mike Rhode for the […]