In a few days (April 1, 2025) the new GoComics website will present itself to the world at large, and while we don’t have any details as to most of what will be new and improved we have an idea of what it may look like.Yeah the new (top) page is going to look snazzier […]
Being a Duke’s Mixture of various comics and cartoon items. Alison Bechdel – Fun Home/Packed House Bechdel, who is releasing a new graphic novel, “Spent,” this spring, first came to prominence in the 1980s with her comic strip “Dykes to Watch Out For.” Running until 2008, it charted the daily lives, love lives and political […]
I never noticed until just now that slaughter is just laughter with an S at the front end. There’s probably a clever aphorism somewhere in there, but I can’t think of one. Perhaps the woman in this cartoon can tell us, since I think she’s about to get smarter.I recently mentioned the Re-education Camps that […]
The successful launch of the the Herblock-designed Bill of Rights stamp in 1966 is detailed by Belmont Faries for the Society of Philatic Americans in the S.P.A. Journal V30 #3 of November 1967.The article describes the process of Herbert Block creating the dozens of designs and revisions. Mike Rhode at ComicsDC posts all nine pages […]
I don’t like to repeat a topic, operating largely on a “You snooze, you lose” basis with political cartoonists and expecting them to leap to their drawing boards when something major happens.But I awoke this morning to a plethora of new cartoons about the security breach, and not just a metric plethora but a good […]
Liana Finck on parenting, patriarchy + brevity What is your process for writing a cartoon? How many drafts does it take to get to the perfect, pithy final? Do you think there’s some inherent brilliance in brevity? I do think there’s an inherent brilliance in brevity. That said, my cartoons tend to be better when […]
Cartoonist and Illustrator Kate Charlesworth has been named one of this year’s Royal Society of Edinburgh’s cohort of Fellows. The Fellowship recognizes “outstanding individuals whose contributions are shaping society in Scotland and beyond.” Kate has producing comics, illustrations, and graphic novels since the 1970s. From the announcement: Cartoonist and illustrator Kate Charlesworth is also part […]
Tom Toles played on Trump’s call for Russia to hack into Hillary Clinton’s computer, a 2016 campaign ruckus that began when it turned out she’d set up a computer at home on which she did some State Department work that should have been confined to government servers.Although it was a private server and not just […]
Some marginal items related to comics and cartooning. Johnny Hart Enters the Binghamton Hockey Hall of FameCartoonist Johnny Hart has been inducted into the Binghamton Hockey Hall of Fame. From WICZ: The latest inductees to the Binghamton Hockey Hall of Fame have been announced as three new members will be inducted into the Hall of […]
Paul Burke, father of cartoonist R.E. “Becky” Burke, is speaking out about the treatment his daughter received in the ICE detention system after being detained over a question about her VISA. Becky, with no criminal record, was detained for 19 days. On a Facebook post, he explained what happened and provided a FAQ on the […]
For two years cartoonist Edith Pritchett has been a controversial opinion page regular at The Washington Post due to her non-political cartoons that are more about cultural/social affairs than about affairs of state.Now it seems that she has been left behind as part of the upheaval currently going on at The WaPo. Mike Rhode at […]
We’ll start off easy with a familiar rant: There was a study, IIRC in Sweden, some years ago that showed kids who grew up on farms had fewer allergies than kids who grew up in cities because they were constantly exposed not just to animal dander but to dust that contained feces and other nasty-sounding […]
TributesLalo Alcaraz thanks Jules Feiffer for his service to cartoonists and humanity in today’s La Cucaracha. While cartoonist John Hambrock riffs on Rube Goldberg in The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee.Then Greg and Karen Evans recall a famous Philippe Halsman photo shoot from 1952 in Luann. Prince(ss) Val(entina) and The AdventurersIt seems Prince Valiant has […]
There’s a lot of rebranding going around these days, as various organizations and individuals decide if they’re going to resist or surrender. Columbia has decided to behave itself and let the government dictate what they teach and what rules they set for their students, which is kind of funny given how well the fellow now […]
Days after the Trump Administration froze $175 million in federal funding the University of Pennsylvania has terminated the employment of progressive Lecturer (and Cartoonist) Dwayne Booth, aka Mr. Fish.From the Mr. Fish Patreon page: I was informed that the reason for the termination was budgetary, which I think is the same reason they gave to […]