“The art editor asked if I would try to develop an animal character that would be distinctively Canadian,” illustrator James Simpkins told Maclean’s magazine in the July 6, 1963, issue. The editor added one condition at that time in 1948. No beavers. The artist accepted the challenge. A bear would fit the bill. A bear […]
Prickly City (AMS) offers an intelligent view of our current dilemma, and offers a hope that there are more than a handful of intelligent conservatives out there observing this mess.But Winslow is right in that, while elections are the traditional and obvious correction in a democracy, the Treason Caucus encourages its Deplorable Army to distrust […]
With the release of the poster and the buttons for the 2021 Saranac CarnivalThe Adirondack Daily Enterprise interviewed Garry Trudeau by way of email. Q. Can you walk me through your thought process on coming up with this year’s poster and button design? A. I had just finished another project in which I had used […]
Cartoonist Dan Gola has passed away.Daniel Brian (Dan) GolaSeptember 27, 1944 – January 25, 2021 From the obituary: Professionally, he worked as a Marketing Director before retiring and moving to NC and as cartoonist of “Claude & Ernie”, a recurring strip he created in 1992 for the Echo Journal in Pequot Lakes, MN. The cartoon ran […]
The Portland (Maine) Press Herald may add Non Sequitur and Curtis to their comics page. In order to do that they need to remove two comic strips. By popular demand, we are considering bringing back Non Sequitur, and we plan to introduce Curtis, a highly regarded strip featuring a predominantly African-American cast. To make room […]
Tain’t Funny McGee McPherson © John McPhersonA New Castle News reader finds no humor in a Close to Home comic:I no longer “read” The News but scan for something of local or personal interest, such as Dr. Roach’s “Your Health.” As on Saturday when a “cartoon” of God’s chosen man, Moses, was right beside it. […]
Morten Morland (Times) offers this commentary tying in the coronavirus vaccine with the heroic but somewhat inexplicable return of Victor (ed. No, Alexei) Navalny to Russia, which — in case you hadn’t heard — has touched off massive, nationwide demonstrations in support of him and against Putin’s oligarchy.“Inexplicable” in the first place because Putin already […]
The 2020 Reuben Awards were delayed until September last year, and now the winners are finally getting their awards in the mail. Above: Hy Eisman and his Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award With the mail comes another round of recognition, in this case Dave Blazek.In 2019, Blazek, an Erie native, won the [Divisional] Reuben Award [for […]
I find it perversely comforting that, having praised Popeye the Sailor Mensch on Saturday for giving away a million dollars, I find in Monday’s Thimble Theater (KFS) that he’s having trouble doing it.“Perversely comforting” in that, while I wish it were otherwise, it’s clear that even back in 1937, we had plenty of cynics amongst […]
Cartoonist David Aja creates a new comic strip featuring The Batman of 1949.From Comic Book Resources:Writer/artist David Aja’s story for Batman: Black and White #2 is done in the style of the daily Batman newspaper comic strip from 1946 to 1949. DC Comics publicist Clark Bull tweeted Friday, “I’ve been hoping for the revival of DC’s […]
© Baldo PartnershipToday’s Sunday Baldo reminds me of the old Grin and Bear It Sundays.© King Features Syndicate © Maria ScrivanSomeone at GoComics (temporarily) dropped the “K” from today’s Half Full,giving an excuse to link to this history of comic’s color. © Bizarro StudiosLooks like Dan Piraro’s Bizarro is taking a cue from Dan Piraro’s other graphic […]
Dog Eats Doug (Creators) has a sweet story arc just starting on weekdays. Since the death of the original Sophie who inspired the cartoon version (but was much older), I understand Brian Anderson has been fostering adoptable dogs, and, even if he hasn’t, the family in the strip has.“Fostering” means giving a dog a place […]
The Oatmeal has it right: Enough already with the Bernie memes.Timing is everything and you had your chance and if you haven’t placed Bernie somewhere and posted it on social media, it’s too late now. We’re fixated now on the horror of Joe Biden owning an expensive watch and a Peloton exercise system, which is such […]
I don’t think squirrels are crepuscular, but apparently Harry Bliss and Steve Martin — teaming on this Bliss (Tribune) — do, and who am I to argue with them?I’ve never charted squirrels to see what they do around noon, and perhaps they aren’t diurnal, but then nobody’s out at noon, at least not in the […]
© EC ComicsHundreds of years before The Impossible Trident there was …William Hogarth’s Satire on False Perspective, engraved by Luke Sullivan, offers an Escher-like array of impossible lines and vanishing points: a man lights his pipe from a distant candle; a flock of sheep grow bigger as they recede round a corner; a foreground flag […]