In today’s Art & Design section, The New York Times talks with six syndicated cartoonist about their approach to using Covid-19 in their work.Reporter Gavin Edwards spoke with Mark Tatulli, Ray Billingsley, Bill Hinds, Tony Carrillo, Lalo Alcaraz and Stephan Pastis.From the piece:Unlike internet cartoonists, who can respond immediately to current events, creators of daily newspaper […]
Signe Wilkinson offers commentary on Joe Biden’s current silence, which reminds me of an old piece of cowboy wisdom, “Never miss a good chance to shut up.”As her cartoon suggests, Trump’s nonsensical comments about disinfectants and his general mishandling of the Covid-19 issue are doing more for Biden’s chances than anything Joe could be doing […]
The Chic Young Estate is offering, via Nate D. Sanders, over 80 early Blondie comic strips and some of the toppers associated with it. The strips range from 1931, the second year of the strip, to 1951.This is some comic strip history! During these years Blondie became the most widely syndicated comic strip. (Blondie would […]
Bill Bramhall offers a devastatingly accurate appraisal of our current situation, as our president seemingly competes with himself to see what foolishness he can come up with next.It is as if he were trying to gauge the loyalty of his Deplorables by seeing how clear he can make his incapacity before they finally break away.Over […]
Today we say goodbye to Mark Tatulli’s Heart of the City: Tomorrow we welcome the Steenz Heart of the City: Not quite ‘All-New” as proclaimed in the headline. Oh, the style and gags will be different, but Heart will remain the star.Over on Twitter cartoonist Steenz tells us how she adapted to the Heart comic strip and […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced the nominees for this year’s The Reuben.Congratulations to the 2019 NCS Cartoonist Of The Year nominees for the 74th Annual NCS Reuben Awards! Lynda Barry Terri Libenson Hilary B. Price Mark Tatulli Raina TelgemeierCongratulations to all!Earlier this month the NCS sent out the ballots to their members; details for awarding […]
Kevin Siers marks a promising moment: President Trump declared that the Washington Post and CNN had misquoted CDC Director Robert Redfield and called up on him for backup.And Redfield said they had quoted him accurately.Apparently, there are people in the Trump circle who will choose the welfare of the public over loyalty to the president. […]
Spring is the season for picking favorites, so let’s look at some choices.The Phantom is a popular comic character around the world, and in Sweden the publishers of Fantomen choose their favorite stories that ran in the comic book in the year of 2019. The Chronicle Chamber reports:As we saw in the Frew best adventure […]
In July 1960, at the age of 26, Jane Goodall traveled from England to what is now Tanzania and ventured into the little-known world of wild chimpanzees.With the 60th anniversary of Jane Goodall entering the forest of Gombe coming, stories of Jane are starting to appear. One of those stories is Jane developing a friendship […]
The Cartoon Art Museum is continuing its “A Boy and His Tiger” fundraising auction with two sought-after items.A Bill Watterson signed print of the last Calvin and Hobbes … And original art from Patrick “Mutts” McDonnell …
I try to avoid politics on Friday, but when La Cucaracha, working in advance, manages to hit the timing jackpot, it’s worth a mention.The latest bit of presidential quackery seems almost as if someone at Fox & Friends was working for the opposition: “I know! Let’s say shooting up bleach will cure it!”Sure enough, Ruprecht […]
While Cathy hasn’t returned to syndicated comics, she has returned.Cathy Guisewite features the cartoon Cathy in her book Fifty Things That Aren’t My Fault, Guisewite also features cartoon Cathy in a series of panels on her Instagram account. And these days the topic is “sheltering in place.”As Heather Schwedel at Slate explains:Though the syndicated newspaper […]
Jason Chatfield the National Cartoonist Society President (as well as the cartoonist for syndicated comic Ginger Meggs, The New Yorker, others) has published a comic journal detailing his journey with Coronavirus (and his better half Sophie).Check it out here.
The National Cartoonists Society has announced the cancellation of the 2020 Reuben Awards Dinner and Convention and Festival.From NCS President Jason Chatfield:It is with a heavy heart that we must announce the official cancellation of this year’s NCS Reuben Awards and conference weekend in Kansas City. Those wanting any additional detail on our difficult and […]
I often identify with Arlo, but I don’t have to get water down my windpipe to do this. I have a scratchy throat, plugged sinuses and random coughs every spring.It used to be hay fever. Now, of course, it is Impending Death.The advantage of living alone is that I don’t have a Janis freaking out […]