But Is It Op Art? Rose is Rose © UFS, Inc.; Wallace the Brave © William WilsonNot the common definition, but Don Wimmer and Will Henry present wonderful optics. Rebuttal?© Tribune Content AgencyRussell Myers offers another angle of a section of today’s CSotD column. Good Timing or Just Winter Comics?Mister Boffo © Neatly Chiseled Features; Arlo […]
Seems like a quiet day in the cartooning universe, but a lack of stark drama allows for some more quiet appreciation.For example, in his weekly taking-of-the-wheel at Bizarro (KFS), Dan Piraro touches on one of my pet peeves — see what I did there? — which is “Lady and the Tramp Syndrome,” a bit of […]
Coin of the RealmForget Bitcoin and Game Stop, invest in gold – 999.9 Fine Comic Gold. Initially inspired by the simple question of a child – “What does a tickle look like?” – the Mr. Men Little Miss characters have become some of the most instantly recognisable in the world. Featured in more than 90 […]
Cartoonist Brian Turner (aka Renrut) has passed away. Brian William Turner December 15, 1949 – January 31, 2021writer, cartoonist, researcher, and educatorFrom the obituary:Brian was a prolific writer who worked diligently on his novels, articles, books, and research projects right up to the weeks before his death. One of a handful of baseball historians […]
I noted yesterday that I could have done a full day of nothing but “Ted Cruz in Mexico” cartoons, and, as it turns out, I’d have still had enough left over to do it again today.Someone complained that people are forgetting the far more significant horrible things he’s done and maybe so, but I used […]
ZED is walking, talking dryer lint. ZED by Duane Abel has been around for 25 years (last Fall) and has now gained its 25th newspaper in eastern Montana: Now the 41-year old artist has added Montana to his list of two dozen small town weekly newspapers, from as far as away California, to New York […]
(Ann Telnaes — WashPo)(Matt Davies — AMS)We could have a full day of nohting but Cruisin’ Cruz cartoons, but here are two and they pretty much tell the story (nice snow shovels), though it’s important, I suppose, to note:(A) Cruz lied about having promised his daughters a vacation and simply taking them there and coming […]
Later this year Ziggy will celebrate 50 years as a syndicated comic panel/strip.On 27 June 1971, a new comic made its debut in American newspapers, Ziggy. Created and drawn by cartoonist Tom Wilson, Sr., the strip chronicled the experiences of the ill-fated title character… Although the subject matter for Ziggy was the mundane, its public […]
Francis (AMS) leads today because, for all the bonding in a hyperconnected world, we Americans are still awfully fixated on ourselves.There was a time when one of the wire services here did a “Top 10 Stories of the Year” list each January, and they finally came under fire for including US sporting events and the […]
The School of Visual Arts highlights cartoonist Ray Billingsley with an interview. Raised in Harlem, Ray Billingsley was still a kid himself when he started drawing for the magazine Kids at the age of 12 … He debuted Curtis in 1988. Distributed by King Features, Curtis—a multilayered tale of an urban African American family of […]
February 15, ’21 saw the first signed daily Shoe comic strip by Gary Brookins in five months.There is no announcement at Shoe Comics, or on Gary’s Facebook about his return to the daily comic.When Gary retired last year he kept his hand in the game by continuing to do the Sunday Shoe. Now, for this […]
Smidge and Friends by Ayla KreelakThe weekly Nunatsiaq News has introduced a new comic strip by a young local cartoonist They also introduce cartoonist Ayla Kreelak: Kreelak’s comic strip, which started as her own personal project, offers a glimpse into Inuit culture from the perspective of a young woman who aspires to be a graphic […]
(Grand Avenue – AMS)(Joe Heller)Start the day with a Juxtaposition, because tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, which starts the beginning of Lent, which used to matter to people a whole lot more than it seems to in the present day.You can go back into history and find all sorts of ways people marked Lent centuries ago, […]
A treasure trove for cartooning fans is now available!The Internet Archive has made available the run of Jud Hurd’s CARTOONIST PROfiles magazine. From issue #1 (March, 1969) to issue #146 (June, 2005) CARTOONIST PROfiles was THE insider magazine for newspaper and magazine cartoonists (and greeting cards and illustration and and animation and caricature and… ).Accessing […]
Short notice for a couple of Tuesday, February 16 events.Join cartoonist Jimmy Margulies live online tomorrow night as he talks about political cartooning the past 30 years. The nationally-syndicated cartoonist has had a ringside seat to New York City and the shenanigans of New Jersey pols, from Chris Christie to some guy named Trump. Tues, […]