While not every writer or artist requires seclusion for focus and/or inspiration, it seems award-winning cartoonist and children’s book author Berkeley Breathed has benefitted well from the relative (if luxurious) isolation afforded him at his long-time mountaintop estate on the outskirts of Santa Barbara, California. Squirreled away at the end of narrow road that makes […]
The Reader is thrilled to announce that we are now carrying the work of award-winning cartoonist and South O. native Jeff Koterba online and in print. Last year Jeff Koterba was laid off from the Omaha World-Herald, now he returns to Omaha in the pages of the area’s alternative newspaper The Reader. The Reader welcomes […]
I’m headed out to Logan Airport so I can fly to Minnesota and explain things to my grandchildren, so, in lieu of my usual posting which would cause me to miss the plane, here are some old favorites, starting with a Cul de Sac.I miss Cul de Sac, but I miss Richard Thompson more. Aside […]
Seems it is the season of Peanuts. Yeah , all those TV specials – but also…Well, other special videos.Beyond The Scenes is a Daily Show extra, and this one discusses Franklin as the Black representative in the Peanuts. Host Roy Wood Jr. talks with Daily Show writer Josh Johnson and comics creator Robb (“JumpStart”) Armstrong […]
Clockwise from top left: Jackie Ormes, Tom Floyd, Jay Jackson, panels from Tom Floyd’s book “Integration is a Bitch!,” “Southern Inconsistency” by Leslie Rogers, “Spotty” by Daniel Day. Leslie Rogers created the Bungleton Green comic in 1920, which ran into the 1960s—and still holds the record as the longest-running Black comic strip in U.S. history. […]
“We’ve all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.” — Robert WilenskyJuxtaposition of the Day(Jen Sorensen)(Tom Tomorrow)A simple start: Sorensen mourns what we tried to have, but which failed, while Tom Tomorrow lays […]
Tom Gauld comicBelow are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for November 2021 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. American Comics: A History Pearls Awaits the Tide Graphic Witness (second edition, expanded) Rubes Twisted Pop Culture Rube Goldberg and His Amazing Machines (review) Comics and the Origins […]
Tim Campbell (WPWG)‘s joke notwithstanding, one of the first things we learned in business law is that a price tag is not binding and that both parties are free to bargain until some kind of consideration changes hands.That’s obvious with the sticker on an automobile window, less so with a tag on a can of […]
Neil Gaiman Calls Out MoMA for Not Giving Cartoonist Credit From MoMA, crediting the publisher but not the artist:The source for his painting, Drowning Girl, is “Run for Love!,” the melodramatic lead story of Secret Love #83, a DC Comics comic book from 1962.Follow Neil’s Twitter thread where other comics people comment. Museum Uses Art After […]
Coming up is 2021’s installment of the Annual Guest Jumbler Week (November 15 – 20).Jeff Knurek and David L. Hoyt have lined up a stellar list of guest cartoonists to create the Jumble puzzle for this week’s 9th Annual Guest Jumbler event.SPOILERALERTFor those who don’t recognize all the characters, here is the list and the […]
© AMSI’m always fascinated by cartoonists cartooning about cartoonists. Got a three-fer this week with In The Bleachers by Benz Thursday and JumpStart by Robb Armstrong today. © Ruff Sketch Inc.And Ralph Hagen’s Rory’s The Barn.© Ralph Hagen © G. B. Trudeau“Zonk, since you don’t age…”Filed under Stuff I Never Knew/Realized. Though G. B. Trudeau did […]
In today’s Non Sequitur (AMS), Wiley Miller explains how to avoid popularity.It’s a simple formula, though it varies depending on how much people have invested in beliefs that don’t jibe with the truth.Not to be confused with beliefs that don’t jive with the truth. Jiving with the truth is our topic today. Joel Pett lays out […]
Ginger Meggs has joined an elite club – one that only a handful of comic strips have attained* – Ginger Meggs has regularly run new material for 100 years.When introduced Ginge’s Us Fellers comic strip wasn’t anticipated as the main attraction. Ginger Meggs first showed up in the premiere issue of Us Fellers by Jimmy Bancks […]
I had some deep thoughts today but realized I’ve shared enough deep thoughts lately and I’m not in the mood.So here is our deepest thought of the day, from Red and Rover (AMS), and it fits my mood that it comes from a dog.Nothing against dogs, mind you. I appreciate their ability to live in […]
Ashville, North Carolina has a claim on three editorial cartoonists as residents. David Cohen (Asheville Citizen Times), Randy Molton (Mountain Xpress), and Brent Brown (Mountain Xpress) talked to station WLOS about the challenges.From larger-than-life politicians to protests and a global pandemic, at times over the last two years, we’ve probably all taken a step back […]