Henry Martin A little drawing appeared around Reunions in 1983. It showed a smiling tiger strolling into Murray-Dodge Hall to the new AA Haven, set up to support alumni during Princeton’s annual alcohol-laden bash. “It was just a little vignette, but it was lighthearted and it made the whole thing seem unthreatening. And thoroughly Princetonian,” […]
Bill Holbrook has a new graphic novel coming soon, so Hogan’s Alley sat down with Bill and his collaborator daughter Haviland to discuss how the original book, as opposed to comic strip reprints, came about. HA: Can you talk about the genesis of Dethany in “On the Fastrack? You’ve never struck me […]
Comics and cartoons are finding new life outside of the Sunday funnies. As the art form becomes more accessible from artists posting their work online, offering artistic and creative breaks in people’s feeds, Pittsburgh cartoon artist Joe Wos wants to teach anyone, regardless of age, how to get started drawing, too. Cartoonist Joe Wos will […]
There are some good cartoons on the impending impeachment trial, and we’ll start with Dan Wasserman (Tribune) because he sets the scene: It’s going to require at least 17 Republicans to vote guilty in order to convict.Watergate was different in that the actions being investigated were contained within the Executive and there was little Congressional […]
According to Michael Ramirez (Creators), the fact that Marjorie Taylor Greene lost her committee assignments means that declaring an anti-semitic belief in space lasers, thinking that mass murders of school children were staged and advocating the assassination of legislators is “nutty.”And equally as “nutty” as believing that people who work two jobs should be able […]
The Right Wing Media Research Center was apoplectic over a recent NBC Today show where Left Wing hosts praised Garry Trudeau and his Doonesbury comic strip. After [Al Roker] noted some newspapers placed Doonesbury on the editorial page, [Harry] Smith added: “And sometimes when the subject was particularly volatile, these papers would just black out […]
Who?Now let’s get up-to-date. Last week:Bringing us to February 7, 2021 and #500.From June 5, 2011 – the first strip:© Chester Lauck, Jr. & Donnie PitchfordIf you don’t subscribe to The Mena Star, which runs the weekly strip, you will find Lum and Abner at Webtoons where the latest episodes can be read along with […]
I realize it’s Super Bowl Eve and we’ll get into that later, but it’s also the 11th anniversary of the start of this blog, which, as you see, began with a favorite strip and a single sentence inviting people to enjoy it.Comic Strip of the Day has evolved quite a bit since then, but the […]
One hundred and twenty years after the original Queen Victoria’s reign passed into history, The New Adventures of Queen Victoria comes to an end.February 14, 2021 will be the last installment.Shutting down the strip is the choice of creator Pab Sungenis and not part of the GoComics culling, as explained by Pab in a November […]
There has been a persistent myth that Napoleon was a short man, when in fact he was 5 feet 7 inches tall which was above average height at the time. James Gillray, a British cartoonist helped directly influence this myth, consistently drawing the French leader as a short figure surrounded by tall British adversaries. R.K. […]
In 1939 V. T Hamlin brought Neanderthal Man into the Present.Now cartoonist R. L. Crabb is rescripting some of those Alley Oop comic strips to focus on the efforts of the Republican Party to find their next Leader.The satire started on February 1, 2021 and has continued through at least today:Below – more original Alley […]
Gary Varvel and Creators Syndicate are offering a new feature beginning February 6, 2021.Humor Me is a caption contest offered weekly (intended for Saturdays, but editors being editors… ). The twist here is that each local newspaper will pick the winning gag lines from local submissions. That makes for a quicker turn around than other […]
Cartoonist (and now multimedia creator) Keith Knight has been nominated!The complete list of NAACP Image Award nominees. In other Keef news, he has a new address on the internet.© Keith KnightSupport a cartoonist
Which of The Usual Gang of Idiots Do You Most Admire? That’s almost impossible to answer … Mort Drucker was the master of caricature and literally defined the movie/TV parody. Jack Davis was the greatest action/movement/physical cartoonist maybe ever. Wally Wood was a virtuoso of ink, light, and shadow, and could draw virtually anything from […]
I’ll be sending you off to some good stuff today, but let’s lead with a cartoon I absolutely cannot understand.I almost always disagree with AF Branco (Creators) but it’s not hard to figure out his rightwing fringe take on things.This one makes no sense, though, unless he preferred the succession of liars, obstructionists and bullshit […]