Tuesday night saw the New York premiere of Laura Nix’s Democracy Under Siege, episode six of Draw For Change, featuring editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes. Acclaimed editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes (Washington Post) offers a razor sharp critique of political hypocrisy as top American political commentators confront viewers with urgent questions about the future of American governance. […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman will headline Rice University’s upcoming conference, “Comics Sans Frontières: Border Defiance in Graphic Narratives.” The four-day event will explore how comics challenge artistic, national, and cultural boundaries. Art, often credited with raising the graphic novel as a serious literary work, will deliver the keynote address on March 20. He will […]
… Or writes anyway.Tony DePaul, writer of The Phantom, was supposed to join the daily and Sunday artists Mike Manley and Jeff Weigel, on the 300th broadcast of The Phantom Podcast. That didn’t happen due to health issues.But Tony did promise to respond in writing to questions from Phans if the Chronicle Chamber would send […]
I’m pretty well done with talking about the State of the Union Address, and Horsey sums it up fairly well. Commentators have referred to it as more of a campaign speech than anything addressing the state of the union or proposing any major policies, or at least any new ones.It did likely help Trump rally […]
The first and last weeks of Ted Shearer’s Quincy, the first Happy Hooligan strip, the death of Alex Raymond, a brief history of American newspaper comic strips by Jules Feiffer, Stefan Kanter, Arthur Asa Berger, Kurt Vonnegut, Roz Chast, and others, remembering Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds’ Tank McNamara of a half century ago, and […]
Darrin Bell has returned to his Disobey in Advance Substack with a multi-panel vertical political comic. The Trump Intervention begins? is an eleven panel comic strip which may be a continuing plot line as it ends with the teaser: “Will the Intervention work? Will it ever even get off the ground? Stay tuned to find […]
I could, if I wanted to, do an entire posting of nothing but cartoons showing Vladimir Putin either giving the State of the Union speech or employing a Trump puppet to give the speech. I don’t want to do that, so I’ll let John Deering’s example represent them all, because he included JD’s “Boycott Vermont” […]
Walt Handelsman in New Orleans at Mardi Gras time, Hearst 2024 celebrates Hilary B. Price and Popeye, The New Yorker cartoonists party at the Centoonial, Tom Tomorrow accepts the Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award, and a passle of Smercomics by Rob Rogers, Steve Breen, Jack Ohman, and Scott Stantis. Some Favorite Walt Handelsman […]
The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) officially (it has been an open secret since last year’s gathering) announces the the time and place for 2025’s Reuben Awards and NCS Conference. The NCS Board is thrilled to announce that the 2025 NCS Conference and 79th Annual Reuben Awards will be held AUGUST 14-16th in BOSTON, MA. We […]
Stahler’s right. It’s not a matter of not caring or doing nothing. We need a little R&R, and a little bit of sleep, if we’re going to be worth anything as an army of resistance. For those who prefer to pay attention and speculate about what’s coming next, Wiley has a cynical but not necessarily […]
Joel Englehardt at Stet News broke the story yesterday: The owners of The Palm Beach Post fired Editorial Page Editor Tony Doris last month after the paper published a syndicated cartoon condemned as antisemitic. Executives with Gannett, the nation’s largest daily news publisher with more than 200 newspapers and 19 in Florida, fired Doris on […]
We have had a couple Advance Locals (MLive Media and The Post-Standard) inform us of their coming revisions to the comics pages with Jim Glick, Director of Enterprise Content & Design for Print at Advance Local, giving further details in comments at both items linked above.Now The Cleveland Plain Dealer/cleveland.com has given their readers a […]
As Herbert suggests, we’ve got a full plate, in keeping with Steve Bannon’s advice to flood the zone with shit so that the opposition has no time to deal with any of it. As Dan Perkins (“Tom Tomorrow”) told the Irish Times in Trump’s first administration,[It’s] like waking up and saying ‘I’d like a glass […]
Jules Feiffer got his start in newspaper comics, though they were a strange sort of newspaper comics. A young teenage Feiffer was hired by Will Eisner to work in the Eisner Studio as an assistant – erasing pencil lines, filling in spotted blacks, ruling borders, etc. The Grand Comics Database’s (GCD) first credit for Feiffer […]
One of those cases where the timing is fortuitous but accurate. A few more editorial cartoonists have stepped up with commentary on the Oval Office Ambush and we’ll get to them, but they’ll keep and, as Royston’s announcer says, things are depressing enough that we’ll go right to the weather (which has been good here) […]