It didn’t take long for the decision by Gannett Co. to drop the conservative comic strip “Mallard Fillmore” from its newspapers to be decried by conservative websites as just one more example of “cancel culture.” USA Today runs an opinion piece about Gannett newspapers dropping the Mallard Fillmore comic strip with an emphasis on the […]
I’m with Wiley on this Non Sequitur (AMS). It’s nice and peaceful at this moment, but it seems another dose of chaos is probably just around the corner.So, yes, be grateful for peaceful moments, such as they are.“Such as they are” based on the current state of social media. I think we’ve become a nation […]
© Scott Adams, Inc.; Peanuts Worldwide; Paws Inc.Dilbert joins Snoopy (and Woodstock) and Garfield as a comic strip addition to the extremely popular Funko collectibles line. MAD Magazine’s Al Jaffee‘s 100th Birthday Celebration! © Allan HoltzDid we mention that Allan Holtz’s Stripper’s Guide returned from sabbatical a while ago? Back is Obscurity of the Day (the recent […]
It is being reported that Frank Thorne has passed away. Benjamin Franklin (Frank) Thorne June 16, 1930 – March 7, 2021 Social media is reporting that cartoonist Frank Thorne has died and Marilyn, his wife of 70 years, joined him only a few hours later. Mark Evanier relates some highlights of Frank’s career. Frank’s big break […]
Dan Perkins was born in Wichita, Kan., in 1961, back in the days when the future still existed. Like most good artists, Perkins, who cartoons under the pen name Tom Tomorrow, has never completely let go of his childhood and continues to be nurtured by the wellspring of creativity that comes with our first awareness […]
[Mike] Smith’s cartoon for the Sun on the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial was syndicated in the Los Angeles Times, and caught the eye of one of the people in the drawing — Judge Lance Ito. His office reached out saying Ito wanted a copy. Smith mentioned the phone call to executive editor Mike O’Callaghan, who […]
On March 1 we noted that the McClatchy group of newspapers had standardized their daily comics pages (see below). Today, with the help of Jimmy Delach, we can report that the Sunday McClatchy newspaper Funnies are also uniform across the nation.Jimmy sent me a copy of the Bradenton (Florida) Herald comics section of March 7, […]
The Frontier, an Oklahoma-centric nonprofit news website, has announced that Tulsa based editorial cartoonist Bruce Plante will become a contributor.© Bruce Plante Opinion sections in newspapers have long been a way to present important viewpoints to readers from a diverse set of perspectives. With that being said, The Frontier will soon have an increased focus […]
Real Life Adventures (AMS) is more of an “Ain’t it the truth?” strip than a “Fall on the Floor” laugh-a-thon, and here Wise and Aldrich tap into something universal in the pandemic.My own pup, Suzi — seen here at the right in a conference with two of her friends from the park — knows exactly what […]
Dr. Seuss Enterprises (DSE) issued a statement: We are committed to action. To that end, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, working with a panel of experts, including educators, reviewed our catalog of titles and made the decision last year to cease publication and licensing of the following titles: And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry […]
Gannett responded to The Washington Times article about Gannett cancelling Mallard Fillmore. Amalie Nash, senior vice president of local news at USA Today Network, the Gannett newspaper brand, said the decision to stop running the 27-year-old cartoon was based on a recent review. “We made a decision last month to discontinue the Mallard Fillmore comic […]
Stuart Carlson (AMS) leads off today with a commentary on the Republicans who are dropping mask mandates around the country.The weakness in his examples being that it took a lot of effort on the part of liberals to get companies to stop dumping toxins in our water and to even recognize the dangers of smoking, […]
Johnny Sampson began his comics career with a sideways tribute to Al Jaffee. In Tru-ly MAD-ly, the Chicago illustrator gets an assignment in 2013 from the editors of Pitchfork’s new magazine, The Pitchfork Review, to duplicate MAD‘s secret weapon: the Fold-In, an intricately designed transformer painting invented by MAD‘s scientist of cartooning, Al Jaffee. Like […]
Archie Andrews first appeared 80 years ago in a couple comic books dated December 1941. promo from Top Notch Comics #22 and first Archie page from Pep Comics #22The feature was an instant hit and before the next year was over Archie had his own comic magazine. But it would take five years for his […]
I’m pretty much aligned with the grandfather in Barney & Clyde (WPWG) these days.It’s getting good in that we’ve nearly passed the “Oh, god, what’s he done this time?” factor, though CPAC provided a warning that we shouldn’t turn our backs entirely.But I don’t feel I have to tend the news constantly anymore. I watched […]