April 5, 1999 saw Grand Avenue by cartoonist Steve Breen appear in newspapers around the country. Mike Thompson began helping on the strip in 2005 and began co-signing the comic strip on January 1, 2009. In 2016 Mike Thompson took full control of Grand Avenue – April 4 for the dailies, May 1 on the […]
On April 2, cartoonist Liniers discussed his new book, “Macanudo: Optimism is for the Brave,” with English and Creative Writing department chair Peter Orner at Still North Books & Bar. Originally slated to take place on Jan. 16, the event was rescheduled due to inclement weather. Born Ricardo Liniers Siri in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the renowned […]
Before another Saturday comes around I’d best get this Wayno Blog from last month out of the way where Wayno discusses the idea of waiting for an idea to come to you rather than chasing an idea. Our colleague Mark Parisi, cartoonist of the award-winning panel Off the Mark, recently started a lively social media […]
Tom the Dancing Bug offers a bit of commentary on the Trump defense that lying in contract negotiations ought not to have legal consequences as long as you pay back the loan which you got at an interest rate based on your lies. It’s an interesting defense to claim that commercial real estate transactions are […]
Peanuts and Beetle Bailey will be celebrating their 75th anniversaries next year, so here come the articles. In the Private Scrapbook chapter dedicated to Beetle Bailey, Walker discussed how a comic strip that – for most of its history – focused exclusively on the misadventures of a U.S. Army private, could win over the hearts […]
Robb Armstrong – An Appreciation of An African American Comic Strip ArtistFrom Fisher Jack at Eurweb: I have followed Robb Armstrong creator of the comic strip series Jump Start, syndicated since 1989. … For Robb, Charles Schulz, creator of Peanuts comic strips influenced him. I grew up a fan of Peanuts and am still a […]
Yesterday was Factchecking Day, which makes me wish Steve Kelley (Creators)’s cartoon had run then, because it’s an easy one to fact-check: March 31 was established as International Transgender Day of Visibility in 2009, so there was no “blunder” in the White House issuing a proclamation saying so, as they issue proclamations for all sorts […]
Garry Trudeau, the writer and artist of Doonesbury, has dared to acknowledge a fact about the Hamas leadership that most of the mainstream news media prefer to ignore. Rafael Medoff for the Jewish Journal reports: In the latest Sunday installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Doonesbury strip, a fictional anti-terrorist fighter—known as “the Red Rascal”—bursts into […]
King Features Syndicate has released Digital Press Kits for two new comics offered to digital and print publications. Dumplings by Victor Van Acker first appeared on Comics Kingdom last Summer. The King Features (KFS) press kit says the comic strip is now/will be available to hard copy newspapers daily and Sunday. KFS describes the strip: […]
Man Martin, author and cartoonist, has made a name for himself as one of the great illustrators of the human condition as it concerns how we treat one another – with a specialty in Biblical foibles – now has a new project.Unfortunately that means a brief suspension of his Man Overboard comic strip. Today on […]
Dave Whamond began Holy Week with his Palm Sunday Reality Check page depicting The Last Supper a few days earlier than it is traditionally held and doing a pretty good job of showing the Leonardo Da Vinci painting. The past week began in earnest with Monday and Greg Cravens playing with negative art in The […]
Bizarro (KFS) strikes a nostalgic note, intentionally or not. I don’t think of Easter eggs as empty shells, but then I don’t think of them as this elaborately decorated, except in Eastern Europe where I doubt pysanky are mixed in with the candy. But it did remind me of being a tiny tot some 70 […]
In a long X/Twitter post Dilbert Reborn cartoonist Scott Adams attacks the DEI strategy: Allow me to put a stake through the heart of DEI for you. If DEI proponents wanted to achieve the kind of diversity that is good for every member of society, they would correct the Democrat/Republican imbalance in our most important […]
Mike Curtis used this holiday weekend to tell of the resurrection of Daddy Warbucks in Dick Tracy.The original Little Orphan Annie comic strip took four days, one of which was a Sunday, to tell the story between panels two and three above. Here, from May 15 to May 18, 1937 is The Death of Daddy […]
It’s always good to make your Easter duty, and so I’ll confess that I have to look twice at Ella Baron’s cartoons because her style makes me like them even when they are irrelevant to a Yank.In this case, she’s talking about Britain’s freshwater crisis, which involves raw sewage in what should be clean rivers […]