We are embarrassed that, until the recent news that Robert Ariail was a Rex Babin Award finalist, we were unaware that Robert was creating a weekly comic strip. And it is not some new comic strip; no, it started a year ago!Lowcountry by Robert Arial debuted thirteen months ago in The Charleston City Paper.Along with […]
As we’re discussing, debating and dissecting the current state and potential future of cartooning, Will Henry is going off in his own direction with Wallace the Brave (AMS), in which he has created a distinctive cast of characters but is not content to have them do setups and punchlines every day.Today’s strip is a good […]
As the old cliché goes, “What goes around comes around.”And Charlie Daniel is still coming around. At Bacon & Company in downtown Knoxville, what’s going around on their screen-printing machines are vintage t-shirts, gearing up Vol fans for UT’s upcoming matchup with the South Carolina Gamecocks. “We used to do game day t-shirts back in […]
For some reason comic strips are encountering extraterrestrials of late.It started last week with Zits where the teenagers engaged in a close encounter. Also last week the denizens of Sherman’s Lagoon were turned human by The Great and Powerful Kahuna, which has led to their being abducted by aliens. This week an old friend returned to Prickly […]
Betty (AMS) has never been terribly specific about what she does for a living, but her current mood matches mine, which makes this a good day to dip into the funny pages. Meanwhile, this Bliss (AMS) reminds me of Frank Zappa’s comment, “If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they’ll murder you […]
Ninety years ago cartoonist Chester Gould presented the comic strip Cigarette Sadie to the public. Being a Sunday Gould also presented a “topper” strip for that page.Plainclothes police detective Dick Tracy was created by Chester Gould and first appeared in the Detroit Sunday Mirror on October 4, 1931. A daily series was started on October […]
With Comics Kingdom currently down we recommend you go to the Comics at Arcamax Publishing where about half the King Features Syndicate strips are posted every day, including today.Arctic Circle, Baby Blues, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, Beetle Bailey Bizarro, Blondie, The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee, Carpe Diem, Crankshaft, Curtis, Daddy Daze, Dennis the […]
© Tribune Content AgencyBound and Gagged reminds me of the old comic pages where they added an extra frame to the strips. © Jenny CampbellElsewhere – not sure if Larry, of Flo and Friends, puts me more in mind of Thor or Captain America. Thor and Captain America © Marvel Comics © LiniersRegarding […]
Steve Artley, who has retired and returned to the art of political cartooning, has decided to try a new venture to satisfy his editorializing. Following a 30-year political cartooning career, Steve Artley has transitioned his satirical prowess to another form: radio. Artley continues to maintain his illustration, advertising and marketing strategy support company, saying this […]
Sage Stossel lays out the Instagram issue, which saves me a lot of exposition and linking (click here for larger version), the main point being not that Instagram is potentially harmful to young women but that Facebook did a study in which they found out that Instagram is potentially harmful to young women and did […]
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel will be replacing Doodles with Steve Breen’s Caption It. Steve Breen would like your help. The Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist is the artist behind “Caption It!”, an interactive comic strip that asks readers to supply the captions to his drawings. He thinks they’re funnier that way. “If one person had to write […]
Edison Lee (KFS) offers me another chance to feel old, and, gosh, real life doesn’t offer enough of those.I agree with his dad that there are all sorts of electronic doodads that I don’t need, but there’s always that nagging sense that maybe the kids are on to something.I’m getting over it.Most of the magical […]
Woody Woodpecker no longer exists according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Woody Woodpecker is an iconic American cartoon character. He first debuted in the early 1940s, becoming the official mascot of Universal Studios along the way. In multiple cartoons starring Woody, he’s identified as a “Campephilus principalis.” More casually known as an ivory-billed […]
Patrick Chappatte’s cartoon provides a warm-up exercise today. The latest Bond film is on the verge of release in theaters only, which may avoid some issues but why avoid controversy when, as Chappatte puts it, the mission is to resuscitate the audience?So, having previously gotten everyone riled up about Bond becoming Black, the latest rumor […]
As one of the last remaining full-time newspaper cartoonists left in the U.S., I was starting to feel like a contestant on one of those reality shows. You know, something like “Last Cartoonist Inking.” And then it’s like I was kicked off the show. After 31 years drawing award-winning cartoons for my beloved hometown newspaper, […]