Every evening, just as many people are shutting down their computers for the day and starting to think about supper, Dan Martin is gearing up to complete his daily drawing for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: a fresh depiction of the newspaper’s Weatherbird. The artistic process gets going once the news editor sends him a […]
That last panel of Hi and Lois last week kicked off a week of comic character cameos.With barely a dozen appearances in her own strip since the new year began 100 days ago, Mary Worth has taken to appearing elsewhere. Here she’s crashing a Hootin’ Holler poker game. © King Features SyndicateMary is instantly recognizable […]
Today’s Zits (KFS) stopped me in my tracks, not because it’s funny, which it is, but because my first response after that dissolved into uncertainty: What would you — as Jeremy and his buds — play for a dance at a retirement community?First of all, not the stuff your parents always have on the radio […]
In the Spring of 1946 Ed Dodd introduced the world to the “handsome hero and outdoor man.”Mark Trail was a nature-loving he-man of the old school, and he remained in that conservative mold from Ed Dodd and Tom Hill through Jack Elrod and up to James Allen.And then, twenty years into the new millenium, the […]
Wasn’t sure where to start today, but once the headline suggested itself, it became obvious this Pearls Before Swine (AMS) was the obvious opener, since Franglais gives editors the collywobbles.Regular readers know my opinion that about 97% of people who obsess over grammatical rules cannot write their names in the dirt with a stick, and […]
Spring Break Cartooning with Mike LynchABOUT THE CLASS: Make comics with professional cartoonist Mike Lynch. In this week-long course, we will learn to create characters, animals, dinosaurs, monsters, sharks, superheroes, aliens, word balloons (BOOM! POW! CRASH!) and more, and then put these drawing skills together to make our own comic book stories together via Zoom. […]
New Orleans alternative cartoonist and music critic Bunny Matthews has decided to discontinue cancer treatment and entered hospice. His family has created a crowd funding page for final costs.From Gambit:Jude Matthews said in a statement on the Musicians Clinic’s website that his father’s life earnings from his prolific creative works have been “snapped up by […]
In 1948 Jerry Keefe, an advertising and commercial artist, decided, like so many before and since, to become a world-famous comic strip cartoonist. Jerry claimed that he was “reluctant to become entangled with the big city syndicates.” So Keefe tried self-syndicating his weekly comic strip. © the estate of Jerry KeefeThe O’Kays by “Jay Kay” […]
I don’t remember if I was in second or third grade, but just about the time this 1957 Buz Sawyer (KFS) strip ran, we had an assembly where a husband-and-wife team explained communism to us and why we didn’t want it to creep into our society. I suspect they were from the John Birch Society, […]
1940s Wonder Woman writer Joye Hummel has passed away. Joye Evelyn Murchison Kelly (neé Hummel)April 4, 1924 – April 5, 2021 Anina Bennett was among those breaking the sad news: RIP Joye Hummel Murchison Kelly, the first woman to write [Wonder Woman] comics in the 1940s. After Joye it would be nearly 40 years before […]
We’ll get to the funny pages in a minute, but here’s Ann Telnaes (WaPo)‘s take on Mitch McConnell’s latest.McConnell stating that corporations should stay out of politics, and his immediate clarification that he didn’t mean they shouldn’t donate, drew several editorial cartoons in response.Telnaes’ piece stands out because of its economy: She trusts her readers […]
© Bianca Xunise Xunise’s work is funny and thoughtful. Her linework has this playful energy, and she has a masterful talent for playing with tone in different ways, even as her work shifts from moving personal stories to deep political analysis to elegant and perfectly structured gag cartoons. She is part of the great tradition […]
Easter Monday is a bit slack, but that gives me a free space in which to indulge in picking up some things yesterday’s Georgia rant distracted me from, like Sunday’s Non Sequitur (AMS).And I’ll disagree with Wiley’s take, but only because our situations seem reversed: If my pup gets out without her cable attached, she […]
© Tribune Content Agency The most impressive comic on this Easter Sunday has nothing to do with Easter:© King Features SyndicatePrince Valiant is on the inside of my four page Sunday comics section, and when I opened it up there was no denying how Thomas Yeates‘ large joust panel dominated the other comics.Right below the third […]
Alfred E. Neuman Funky PopFunko has released a Pop figure of MAD mascot Alfred E. Neuman; this one more aligned with the current look of their collectibles rather than the 2012 edition. Though Tom Richmond, with the help of Photoshop, corrected a couple discrepancies.© EC Publications SOI Maurice Sendak Exhibit and Bake SaleThe Society of Illustrators […]