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Tom Racine and Lucas Turnbloom celebrate 10 years of podcasts and interview the new creative team behind “Alley Oop.”http://www.talltaleradio.com/episode-275-alley-oop/

Just because Friday Funnies is a no-politics zone doesn’t mean we can’t be a little thoughtful, and the menopause arc in this week’s Pajama Diaries set me to thinking about women and cartooning and progress and such.This isn’t the first time Terri Libenson has been more frank than most, but let’s start with the idea […]

 Speaking of Social Media Standards… (see Matt Bors)Rachita Taneja had one of her Sanitary Panels comic strips removed from Facebook.Facebook on Tuesday morning took down a comic strip criticising the alleged inconsistent application of its community standards, the framework within which the social media giant takes action against comments and other material reported as offensive. […]

 At the moment, Steve Artley may have the best perspective on the elections.  There were hopes, as there are always hopes, on both sides, but what was predicted is pretty much what happened.IMHO, Trump’s pretending he pulled some great victory is no more inaccurate than cartoons suggesting that the influx of women is going to […]

 Next week David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek will present the 6th Annual Jumble Guest Week.As is their custom they have issued a promotional piece featuring images from the special guest cartoonists but not identifying them.Now the trick is to identify who will be next week’s creators on the Jumble feature.#1 is Crankshaft by Tom […]

I was going to skip politics entirely today, given that some races remain up in the air as I’m writing this and most of the editorial cartoons are either wrong, damned lucky or lukewarm expressions of “Isn’t voting wonderful?” or “And now on to 2020.”There are things we do know, including that a whole load […]

Pogo by Doyle and Sternecky   Steve Breen   Joe Heller   Curtis by Ray Billingsley   Peanuts by Charles Schulz   Dwane Powell   Captain America by Jack Kirby and Syd Shores  Shouldn’t the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November be a national holiday?    

Non Sequitur lays it out, and I have no argument with Wiley’s analysis.Because, yeah, I have a lot of arguments. Nick Anderson says much the same as Wiley, though in a slightly different tone: Trump never got his wall on the southern border, but he’s managed to build one through the heart of the country.I’ve said […]

 After hiring Steve Kelley as its editorial cartoonist a couple weeks ago, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has decided to increase Steve’s P-G income by carrying his syndicated comic strip Dustin.  Dustin, syndicated by King Features Syndicate, is a joint effort by Steve Kelley and Jeff Parker.Mr. Kelley, who has performed as a stand-up comedian on stage and […]

 A few years ago, I tried an experiment where I made sure not to check social media before starting the blog each morning.I wish I’d kept it up. Starting the day reading posts from sophisticates who advocate not voting because “there’s no difference between the candidates,” to use Satchel Paige’s apt expression, “angries up the […]

 Almost ten years after the death of Bruce Lee the Los Angeles Times Syndicate tried distributing The Legend of Bruce Lee comic strip. (Comic strip syndicates have never been renowned for quickly latching onto pop culture phenomena.) The strip was written by Sharman DiVono and drawn by Fran Matera and Dick Kulpa, and lasted a […]

If I’m going to connect comics with the past, I should start with today’s Bizarro, which riffs on the Reality TV notion of pampered, catty women in big houses, comparing them to housewives of earlier days.The 19th Century was about when things began to turn around for “housewives,” which, up to the end of the […]

 Hilary B. PriceHilary opens her studio! A new Rhymes With Orange collection! Hilary’s Mom! Hilary visits Rina Piccolo! Hilary and Rina jam on a King Kong comic! And more at Hilary’s infrequently updated blog!  Bob Mankoff Bob Mankoff picks his 10 All-Time Favorite Cartoons for Parade magazine.  Asterix and Obelix and Political CorrectnessSections of the French press […]

  above: Sunday November 4, 2018 Pearls Before Swine Creative Loafing Charlotte Ceases Print, Staff Let Go Alt-weekly newspaper Creative Loafing Charlotte in North Carolina has ceased print production with its October 31st 2018 edition.Creative Loafing, received an email Tuesday night from the paper’s publisher, Charles Womack III. Wednesdays are production days for the paper, which […]

So it’s come to this: Rob Rogers lays out the new rationale for canceling someone’s vote.Because he’s lost his mind. Because he believes a man who lies so often that his greatest success as a “job creator” has been in the area of fact checking.But, of course, that’s part of Trump’s game.By constantly accusing the […]