That photo of people on Mount Everest seemed familiar, because it looked like this picture of people going over Chilkoot Pass between Alaska and the Canadian Yukon during the Klondike Gold Strike.They didn’t all make it, either, and that fellow at the lower right is apparently carrying a boat, which seems foolish but at least […]
Few editorial cartoonists updated in the past 24 and a lot of strips are kind of in a trough, having crested for Memorial Day, but there are plenty of interesting odds and ends, beginning with the resignation of Theresa May and editorial cartoonists hoping Boris Johnson will become Prime Minister because he’s so much fun […]
Hagar the Horrible for Memorial Day 2019.Quite possibly the worst timing for a comic strip ever.
It seems Comics Kingdom has ironed out a few kinks in their Sunday page. Today most (all?) Sunday strips that have half-page formats are in half-page formats. And if you right click then “view image” the strip will fill your screen vertically; click on the image again and it fills the screen horizontally.It took awhile but Comics […]
Last month Dave Coverly celebrated 25 years of Speed Bump.In 1996, he and his wife, Chris, moved their family to Ann Arbor…They bought a house on Ann Arbor’s west side with a third-floor finished attic that Coverly turned into a home studio. For the past 23 years, Coverly has spent time in the studio also […]
Lemont lays it all out in this morning’s Candorville, and it’s nice to not have to parse through metaphors and symbols for meaning.Really, if you’re not angry, and scared, and fed up with the current state of things, he’s right: You’re a sociopath.And note that he’s not complaining about how the increasing system of injustice […]
Randall Enos has something in common with most cartoonists:Over the span of my career, every now and then, I would suddenly get the urge to create and sell a syndicated comic strip. This would happen every 5 years or so. Nothing much came of it except for the Chicken Gutz strip which was a National […]
Do You Enjoy Comics? Stars and Stripes is considering changes to its Sunday Comics lineup, and they want your help. Let us know which strips you like (or don’t like), as well as comics you might like to see in the future.Stars and Stripes, a tabloid newspaper distributed to American military forces around the world, […]
If you are near Harrisonburg Virginia in the month of June be sure to stop at the Smith House Galleries where, from June 7 to June 27 will be a Barney Google and Snuffy Smith by John Rose exhibit. The cartoonist said an assortment of his comics will be represented in the new exhibit. “I […]
Stephan Pastis gave a memorable acceptance speech after he won the Reuben Award for “Cartoonist of the Year” last weekend in Huntington Beach, Calif.
Arlo and Janis so often reflect my world view that it sometimes barely registers, but this one cracked me up, because I’ve noticed that ad writers have picked up on the term and insert it into commercials in order to assure us that their product is for cool people.Which, as Arlo notes, assumes a fact […]
Last summer 15-year-old Hunter Wooldridge began his life as a newspaper comic strip creator. Now Hunter returns with a new comic strip for the Frankfort State Journal.For the past school year, Frankfort High sophomore Hunter Wooldridge has been carefully plotting storylines, sketching characters and honing his craft for Thursday’s return to The State Journal comics […]
The Cleveland Plain Dealer recently changed their format from six columns to four columns.But now they don’t know what to do with it and are asking readers to design and edit the paper.Our recent redesign made some of those questions more urgent and more obvious, and I’m writing to consult with our readers on the […]
GoComics has announced the launch of Matt Tarpley’s “Cat’s Cafe.”About the comic: Everyone is welcome at Cat’s Café! There is always a seat and someone to talk to. Follow Cat, Penguin, and Rabbit along with a variety of other special animals, form a wonderful place where everyone can feel warm, fuzzy, and accepted.Matt’s bio: Matt […]
The Paris Review has an excerpt from the book Scrawl: an A to Z of Famous Doodles by Todd Strauss-Schulson, Caren Strauss-Schulson, and Claudia Strauss-Schulson which looks into the legendary “doodle” collection of their father.From the piece:Over the course of his career, he (David Schulson) amassed arguably the most impressive private collection of drawings, scribbles, […]