From the New York Times: “Funky Winkerbean,” the rare comic strip that allows its characters to grow and age, starts a 10-week story line on Monday that contains a tragedy. Fans of the long-running strip who would like to be surprised by what happens to a major character may not want to read further. Though […]
Bob Gorrell accuses Democrats of a double standard when it comes to truth and accuracy. I can’t agree.I’m not a Biden supporter, but his gaffes tend to be immaterial.And let’s remember that it was the Amazon-owned Libtard Fake News Washington Post that examined his story of the soldier and the medal and exposed its numerous […]
For 25 years, from 1983 to 2008, David Astor reported on the newspaper syndicates for Editor & Publisher. Alan Gardner, the creator of this Daily Cartoonist site, called David “the founding father of syndication reporting.”Every week David reported on comic strips and political cartooning and puzzles and columnists syndicated to newspapers, both upfront and behind […]
Kal Kallaugher opines on the mystifying Mitch McConnell, who apparently doesn’t like being called “Moscow Mitch,” but, as Kal notes, refuses to allow a vote on legislation to protect the security of our election system from Russian meddling.It is a puzzlement, indeed.I was watching the Netflix series on Bobby Kennedy yesterday. It’s very likely different […]
SEC filings are typically dense bundles of legalese and boilerplate. The 384-page prospectus for the impending merger of GateHouse and Gannett, registered Aug. 29, is no exception. But the document also includes a remarkably detailed account of negotiations that spread over seven months and dozens of meetings before terms of the deal were made final […]
Leading up to the state’s centennial a small group decided Stan Lynde‘s idea of a 60 mile Great Montana Centennial Cattle Drive, though crazy, had merit.A massive undertaking, the cattle drive involved 105 drovers, 2,812 cattle, 208 wagons, 3,337 horses for 2,397 cowboys and cowgirls, and 79 horse wranglers.Stan Lynde, famous for his Rick O’Shay […]
Last year Larry Yudelson profiled Hy Eisman for the Jewish Standard.That story won a Rockower Award: Category 11: The David Frank Award for Excellence in Personality Profiles Division A. Newspapers 15,000 circulation and over; Broadcast Second Place Jewish Standard, Teaneck, NJ “Popeye the Sailor’s man in Glen Rock” by Larry Yudelson Click here to view submission Comment: Good […]
Adam@Home provides an opportunity for me to complain about something relatively trivial and segue into something more substantive that I’ve been reluctant to bitch about.Rob Harrell and I could quarrel about what the ends of an untied bow tie look like, but floppy is floppy. On the other hand, I think he’d agree that the […]
Notice from the National Cartoonists Society:In case you’re not aware, the Great NCS Popeye Auction is underway on the Heritage Auctions website and closes this Sunday! Our NCS Popeye pieces are part of Heritage’s weekly Sunday Auction which includes many other comic art and animation pieces, but here’s a link to just the NCS Popeye pieces.Cartoonists from […]
September 5, 1994: 25 Years Later: Patrick McDonnell’s Mutts celebrates its Silver Anniversary today.The very popular comic strip has been made famous due to its glorious comic art and its gentle loving humor. From a Huffington Post item two years ago:[Patrick] explains how in the midst of the wisdom and whimsy of each “Mutts” comic […]
This past Spring Francesco Marciuliano informed us that there would be a change coming in his Sally Forth comic strip later in 2019:As Jim Keefe and I prepare to enter “Phase Two” of the “Sally Forth Comic Strip Universe” this September (or “Phase 147,” depending on how many times you think I’ve altered/ruined the strip […]
Harry Venning’s latest “Clare in the Community” forces us all to admit that we’d never heard the term either.And I’d suggest, based on the fairly common stuff my spellcheck misses, that her friend must have a damn good app on his phone.But there it is in my Shorter Oxford, with which you cannot argue: Boris […]
Vice.com is reporting:Hackers have breached the forum of the popular webcomic XKCD, stealing around 560,000 usernames, email and IP addresses, as well as hashed passwords.“The xkcd forums are currently offline. We’ve been alerted that portions of the PHPBB user table from our forums showed up in a leaked data collection. The data includes usernames, email […]
The Bradford Era gave notice to its readers today about changes on their comics page. The notice mostly dealt with the addition of a couple of popular puzzle features, “Jumble” and “Celebrity Cipher:”To make room for two additional word puzzles on the page, “Jumble” and “Celebrity Cipher,” the daily features “Horoscope” and “To Your Good […]
Ernie Bushmiller was not averse to taking it easy for his Labor Day comic strips, and letting the readers know it.Even Guy Gilchrist, on occasion, did the gag. Olivia Jaimes seems to be embracing this tradition. This Labor Day, for the second year in a row, she has decided to “take it easy.”These Labor Day strips […]