Earlier last month I reported that Cyanide & Happiness co-creator Dave McElfatrick was having issues getting a visa to work inside the US with his other co-creators. I received an email from Rob DenBleyker that Dave was able to get a 0-1 Visa which is good for 3 years allowing him to come to the […]
Chic Young’s Blondie first debuted in newspapers 80 years ago today. The strip featured Blondie, a hip young flapper and Dagwood, the son of a rich industrial tycoon. Dagwood’s father disapproved of Blondie and marrying her resulted in disinheritance, banishment to suburbia and running into the mailman to catch the car-pool.Chic drew the strip until […]
I’m generally hesitant to feature a strip twice within the same story arc, but, since story arcs at Pirate Cove can run on for a year or so, that’s not a rule I can expect to apply here. And, while the twice-a-month rule doesn’t exist anyway, I’m going to waive it here because today’s strip […]
See you all back here tomorrow.
I shouldn’t laugh at today’s Lio.I mean, it’s Beetle Bailey’s 60th anniversary, after all, and, besides, I interviewed Mort Walker a few years ago and found him to be a charming and interesting guy with a lot of accomplishments under his belt.On the other hand, back around Beetle’s 40th anniversary, I wrote a column the […]
As constant readers will have figured out by now, I go for comics with deep social significance and those with none at all. This would be one of the latter. Last week, Rina Piccolo, no slouch herself, took over Rhymes With Orange for a vacationing Hilary Price, and observed on her blog, “The easy thing […]
Anyone who’s been reading “Help Wanted” ads over the past year or so will recognize the guy in the suit in today’s Mr. Boffo. And they know the answer to the question. That’s why they’re still reading the ads.
Three time Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Conrad has passed away at the age of 86 surrounded by family MSNBC reports. He was fierce in his liberalism and expressed it with a stark, unmistakable visual style. Southern California political junkies for decades would start their day either outraged or delighted at a Conrad drawing. The Times […]
In today’s Candorville, Darrin Bell explains the interface of economics and art for the benefit of those who love and care for a working artist, writer, etc.The explanation is this: Be glad we’re not running around cutting off our own ears.**(There is a book out that claims Van Gogh didn’t cut off his own ear […]
Congrats go out to Steve Moore today. His feature, In The Bleachers, is celebrating its 15th year in syndication. Steve has had an odd journey into cartooning. He started out in newspapers as a journalist and editor. He came up with In the Bleachers while working as an editor in the Maui News. He then […]
Rob Tornoe, who broke the news that Ron Rogers had lost his job as the full-time South Bend Tribune editorial carrtoonist, writes that Ron was the only African American staff editorial cartoonist . Rogers will also leave behind the mantle of being the only African American staff newspaper cartoonist in the country, a distinction he […]
MSNBC editorial cartoonist Daryl Cagle’s has managed to upset many in Mexico with a recent Mexican Flag cartoon. At least two Mexican newspapers have published it on their front page. The cartoon in question depicts the eagle featured on the Mexican flag gunned down (the whole flag is bullet ridden). Regarding the controversy, he writes: […]
Dave Blazek’s Loose Parts. Consistently funny stuff. I got nothin’ to add.
Speed Bump creator Dave Coverly will be holding two workshops on the 21st and 23rd to work with area students on creativity of the cartooning process. The classes are free for local Wisconsin students.
Reynolds Unwrapped creator Dan Reynolds was profiled by his alma mater State University of New York at Oswego. The alumni publication article can be downloaded here (pdf). They highlight Dan’s struggle with cancer and how it has affected his cartooning. Reynolds was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 2008 and underwent a particularly rough regimen of […]