Bill Ruehlmann‘s column about Cathy Guisewite‘s last book is the only excuse needed to let all know that Cathy Guisewite’s next book is on the schedule. Previews at GoComics.© Cathy Guisewite © Oconee Enterprise/Chuck CunninghamThe Georgia Press Association honored the winners of the 2021 Better Newspaper Contest on Friday, July 30 at the Jekyll Island Club […]
I’ve criticized Steve Kelley (Creators) enough times for views I don’t share that it’s only fair I give him the lead-off position when he does one that nails the issue squarely.I’ve seen no defenses of Andrew Cuomo except, as Kelley suggests, from Andrew Cuomo, and I’m more than a little surprised that he hasn’t stepped […]
David Finkle has decided to end his Mr. Fitz comic strip next year. Mr. Fitz, which chronicles the world of a high-school teacher, has been written and drawn since 2000 by David Finkle, who extensively uses his own career as a teacher as inspiration for the comic. The strip debuted March 28, 2000 — running […]
A bunch of Andrew Cuomo cartoons have dropped in the past 24 hours. Some are pretty good, some are predictable, at least one was an argument in favor of my advice to pencil your idea but then check to see if someone else already did it, because someone else absolutely had.In any case, my other […]
From the National Cartoonists Society: We are excited to share that we have put together a fantastic schedule of virtual events alongside our awarding of the 2020 Divisional Reuben Awards to be held online on NCSFest.com on October 15 & 16. Mark your calendars and stay tuned to this NCS blog, email and social media […]
A viral comic strip shows what would happen if Calvin and Hobbes were to test their worthiness at wielding Thor’s mighty hammer. Cartoonist Lar DeSouza took advantage of a recent viral question that had been all over social media last week about the relative worthiness of other fictional characters to wield Thor’s hammer, Mjolnir, by […]
Sculptor and comic book cartoonist Louis Trakis has passed away. Louis James (Lou) Trakis June 22, 1927 – July 7, 2021 Sculptor, professor, printmaker, cartoonist who sought through art to “center the self via creation.” Taught at Manhattanville College, The New School, and in Greece. Designed iconic Marino’s Italian Ice and House of Weenies logos. […]
The joke being that, while some of us ran as fast as we could, some of us didn’t run at all, and so here we are in the same place as we started.I’d laugh, if I didn’t have a niece in Florida who tested positive despite being vaccinated. She’s okay; For nearly all vaccinated people […]
Rabbits Against Magic (AMS) establishes today’s theme with a joke that should make you weep rather than laugh.Facts are facts and opinions are opinions, but truth seems to waver somewhere in the middle, and saying “seems” only emphasizes the uncertainty.There are limits: When George Berkeley wrote that reality was only what our minds perceived it […]
Does a comic strip belong on a museum wall?Dmitry Samarov wonders about that as he wanders around the Chicago Comics exhibit.I ask this not to question the value of cartooning, but because I wonder whether a wall is the best place to experience what comics are designed to do. A comic strip is read as […]
Timing is part of context, at least to the extent that, had this Rubes (Creators) run in December, it wouldn’t have taken me so long to get the joke.Not saying that’s a bad thing or a good thing. There’s nothing wrong with making an extra demand or two of your audience, and I probably laughed […]
June Brigman, former Brenda Starr and Power Pack cartoonist, is the current cartoonist of Mary Worth, and also, it seems, the current cartoonist of Power Pack:Power Pack creators Louise Simonson and June Brigman are working together on a new limited series for the adolescent team at Marvel Comics. Although not officially announced by Marvel, the […]
Clay Bennett (CTFP) starts our discussion of health issues.We’re awash in misinformation and disinformation, and this was quite the week, even for poor Baby Tuckoo, who specializes in purposefully spreading it. Not only did he get called a bad human being, but one of the few people willing to advertise on his show no longer […]
While we were joining Mike in reading The Funny Pages, behind the scenes…Moved from front window display to the back shelves. © Copley News ServiceAfter a year of sitting on the last Nest Heads syndicated to newspapers, Creators Syndicate has moved the comic strip from their page of active syndicated comics to their archived strips. […]
The political stuff today is mostly awful, so we’ll deal with that tomorrow and just go for silliness, starting with Bizarro (KFS), an exploration of the wonderful world of poop signs.I don’t know what there is about dog poop that makes sign painters become so illiterate, but, besides this, there are also a number of […]