Telnaes offers a State of the Union commentary at the Contrarian, one of the stronger arms of the resistance. Not only do they offer solid commentary by qualified writers, but they’ve added political cartoons. Ann Telnaes is well-positioned to address the topic, because aside from her own cartooning, she is active in the global free-press […]
As Mike noted GoComics dropped the black line from Baby Blues today. They did the same with Phoebe and Her Unicorn (and on the comic strip’s tenth anniversary no less). On the other side of the tracks Comics Kingdom put out Prince Valiant with the blacks but no color. So for the Thomas Scott Roberts […]
The return of Edith Pritchett to The WaPo; Phoebe and Her Unicorn daily replacements; the Barry Blitt CBC interview; Mr. Fish and UPenn; and Topps Baseball card cartooning.Edith Pritchett Returns to The Washington PostLast week we noted that Edith Pritchett was no longer appearing in The Washington Post.After 20 days MIA she has returned to […]
Monotonous, isn’t it? Except that this Sunday, it’s Baby Blues instead of Barney & Clyde.As I’ve suggested before, it doesn’t seem it would be that hard or expensive to have somebody run through the Sunday comics at launch to make sure they each contain both a color and a black plate, and I’ll bet you […]
The way most people interact with their favorite newspaper comics isn’t by sitting down with the funny pages or with a comic app. In fact, it’s not even with a comic at all. It’s with the merchandise and other licensed products featuring these favorite comic characters, which let them walk off the pages and into […]
Katauskas isn’t exaggerating by a whole lot, and while the current flood of insanity might make it hard for a fortuneteller to go off the rails, the resulting target-rich environment poses a different challenge for political cartoonists.There is, first of all, the question of which event to pick up on. You don’t want to avoid […]
Comic strip and comic book cartoonist Hy Eisman has passed away. Hyman (Hy) Eisman March 27, 1927 – March 27, 2025The Joe Kubert School, where Hy had been a teacher from 1976 to 2019, shared the sad news: It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of an incredibe artist, and a dear […]
“Watch your step,” says the soldier as he and a medic lead a hostage over a mound of corpses labeled “Over 40,000 Palestinians killed…” The caption reads, “Some Israeli Hostages Are Home After Years of Merciless War.” This cartoon by Jeff Danzinger (Rutland Herald, 1/20/25) was selected by editorial page editor Tony Doris to run […]
Looks like we’ll be saying good-bye to the Department of Education, which is less a matter of making our federal budget more efficient than it is a sign of how little we understand and value education. Testing is as good a starting point as any. The main problem with testing our students and comparing them […]
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 […]