Mr. Smith Goes to The Big CityIn a 180 of the usual, Snuffy Smith and Loweezy are going to visit Barney Google. From the Comics Kingdom blog:This week, Snuffy Smith is going to the big city to visit Barney Google. That’s right, the tables have turned and the Hootin’ Holler Mountaineer is leaving the Kentucky […]
Zippy © Bill Griffith; Gnome and Hitchhiker © King Features SyndicateToday’s Zippy, featuring The Pinhead visiting Paul Bunyan and The Little Hitchhiker in Foozland (or are they meeting Zippy on Earth-Z?), may need some explaining.The confusing Foozland was created by Gene Ahern in his weird and fascinating comic strip The Squirrel Cage. Paul Bunyan was […]
As today’s Non Sequitur (AMS) points out, there isn’t any going back to normal anymore.To start with, as seen here, if you relax all the rules because the curve has peaked and is receding, you will guarantee that the curve has not peaked after all. Unless you are in a church or synagogue, in which […]
We open with a couple of cheats. Everyone knows there were Superman and Batman comic strips, but these Jacob Edgar Sunday pages, drawn in Jacob’s own version of the Bruce Timm animated style, were never syndicated to newspapers; rather just Jacob having fun and passing it on to us. Batman and Superman © DC ComicsJacob […]
Cartoonist Ed Colley has redesigned the Ipswich Local News logo. Editor/publisher John P. Muldoon explains:Astute readers — and I am fully confident that is each and every one of you — will have noticed a small change to the Ipswich Local News logo recently. The clam has been replaced with a new version drawn by […]
Trudeau: The legendary Mary McGrory told me that in all her years of writing columns, she wasn’t sure a single one of them had changed anything. That’s not a bar that cartoonists generally set for themselves, but in the case of my story arc about racist Palm Beach pass cards, the strip did have an […]
The student newspaper of the University of Nebraska Omaha talks to editorial cartoonist Jeff Koterba about his past, present, and future. In 1983, Jeffrey Koterba, then a staffer for The Gateway, was named the nation’s outstanding collegiate cartoonist by the Society of Professional Journalists. Koterba, his cartoons and his creativity traveled from The Gateway office […]
Thank you, Monty (AMS), that will be all for now.Today marks the end of cartoons in which turkeys pretend to be other kinds of birds and brings us to Beartrap in the Fireplace season. It’s possible to do good holiday cartoons, as Edison Lee (KRP) demonstrates, with a Black Friday gag that marks the day with […]
More history (or nostalgia, depending on your age) than commentary today. These are the cartoons you’d have seen in your papers a half century ago, specifically on November 26, 1970, which was Thanksgiving that year, too.Kent State was a few months in the past, the Draft Lottery a few weeks in the future. The big […]
Anne Morse Hambrock (Ind) asks a troubling question in “Anne and God,” one that we should all ponder.Okay, that was long enough.Thing is, once something is established as a holiday dish, it doesn’t matter what it tastes like or how it’s made.Many a young bride (well, one I know of) has made green bean casserole […]
[Jules] Rivera says that as she researched the strip to prepare her audition portfolio she realized that despite their age differences she and Mark Trail had some key similarities. “I really liked that at its core Mark Trail was about something very pure that I can get behind,” Rivera says. “It’s about a dude who […]
Humor writer and copywriter John Brinkerhoff has passed away. John Scott Brinkerhoff August 16, 1944 – November 23, 2020 From the obituary:After graduating from Newbury High School in 1962, he went to Ohio University to study journalism. In his junior year, he was the recipient of a William Randolph Hearst National Journalism Award for his eyewitness […]
In the Spring of 1954 newspaper readers were offered, for the price of a self-addressed stamped envelope, “The Peanuts Album.” a twelve page booklet featuring the then stars of Charles M. Schulz‘s comic strip. As the promo above notes there were 10,000 of the items printed, now a rarity.But now the original art for the […]
From NBCWashington: A man who was known throughout the D.C. area for his satirical comics was struck and killed by a car in Old Town Alexandria Friday. Justin Benedict, 55, was crossing South Washington Street at the intersection of Wilkes Street about 4 p.m. when a car struck him, police said. Justin Cascaden Benedict1965 – […]