Self portrait © by Stephan DoncheComics journalist and author Chris Arrrant askedComic industry people: What’s something about your job that you wish more people understood? Chris got quite a response from cartoonists in various genres. A sampling:Making comics is HARD work. Just how labor intensive it is. (drawing, penciling/inking) Or how long it takes […]
David Fitzsimmons riffs on the 1893 bronze by German sculptor Hugo Rheinhold, in which an ape contemplates a human skull, while sitting on a stack of books, one of which is by Darwin, the other identifiable text being Genesis 3.5, “Ye shall be as God.”I particularly like it because of the cobwebs on this ape’s […]
Marc Murphy salutes the new Census data, which shows an actual decrease in the number of non-Hispanic white folks in the US, with a reminder that both apples and their pie are immigrants. Yes, I fact-checked an attorney: Apples originated in what is now Kazakhstan and the pie in England.I’m a non-Hispanic white person, but […]
New Illustrator on Ripley’s Believe It or Not For the second time this year John Graziano has been replaced on Ripley’s Believe It or Not. The August 8, 2021 Sunday page was unsigned (and not Graziano art), then beginning Monday August 9, 2021 the dailies were by another artist. Unlike that May substitute this artist […]
(Clay Bennett – CTFP) (Michael Ramirez – Creators) (Gary Varvel – Creators)Clay Bennett best sums up yesterday’s unexpected resignation of Andrew Cuomo, though I got a chuckle out of Michael Ramirez’s take.Political cartoons aren’t required to be funny, but it’s a nice bonus if you can slip in a laugh without distracting from your point, which is […]
Did we mention that the Buffalo Newspaper Guild contract negotiations have been settled and with the byline strike now over The Buffalo News blacklisted editorial cartoonist Adam Zyglis has returned to the pages and website of the paper?You may remember that the newspaper and the union were having differences related to a new contract. That […]
Peter Schrank comments on the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, specifically noting the wildfires raging in Greece (in case you thought only we here had them). And David Pope echoes the concern, with a slightly less grim cartoon overall but adding some lightning-bolt-hurling on the part of a god depicted not as angry […]
Bill Ruehlmann‘s column about Cathy Guisewite‘s last book is the only excuse needed to let all know that Cathy Guisewite’s next book is on the schedule. Previews at GoComics.© Cathy Guisewite © Oconee Enterprise/Chuck CunninghamThe Georgia Press Association honored the winners of the 2021 Better Newspaper Contest on Friday, July 30 at the Jekyll Island Club […]
I’ve criticized Steve Kelley (Creators) enough times for views I don’t share that it’s only fair I give him the lead-off position when he does one that nails the issue squarely.I’ve seen no defenses of Andrew Cuomo except, as Kelley suggests, from Andrew Cuomo, and I’m more than a little surprised that he hasn’t stepped […]
Ricardo Caté Receives 2021 Governor Award for Excellence in Arts Ricardo Caté, whose cartoons have offered a laugh and penetrating insight to readers of The New Mexican for 15 years, was one of seven recipients of the 2021 Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts. Ricardo Caté: The only Native American cartoonist in a […]
I would likely have placed this Jimmy Margulies (KFS) cartoon lower in the blog today, had events not likely had him tearing out his hair.I’m playing with timing myself.It’s a very good piece, because, while the infrastructure bill matters, the eviction issue was more pressing, and it would have led to a whole discussion of […]
The joke being that, while some of us ran as fast as we could, some of us didn’t run at all, and so here we are in the same place as we started.I’d laugh, if I didn’t have a niece in Florida who tested positive despite being vaccinated. She’s okay; For nearly all vaccinated people […]
Rabbits Against Magic (AMS) establishes today’s theme with a joke that should make you weep rather than laugh.Facts are facts and opinions are opinions, but truth seems to waver somewhere in the middle, and saying “seems” only emphasizes the uncertainty.There are limits: When George Berkeley wrote that reality was only what our minds perceived it […]
Timing is part of context, at least to the extent that, had this Rubes (Creators) run in December, it wouldn’t have taken me so long to get the joke.Not saying that’s a bad thing or a good thing. There’s nothing wrong with making an extra demand or two of your audience, and I probably laughed […]
When the Pulitzer Prize Board announced in June that no one would receive its annual award for excellence in editorial cartooning, many political artists were outraged. The decision seemingly made no sense, especially since so many cartoonists thought they produced great work throughout a hectic year. The finalists themselves felt insulted. But elsewhere, there were […]