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) […]
A Stan Mack interview; a Milton Caniff profile; a Tim Jackson appreciation; a John Rose video interview; a visit with Rob Moreland; and a Colin Whittock obituary.Funny Friends: an interview with Stan Mack Funny TimGreg Lynch for The Dayton Daily Newses’ Mia Beach presents a short interview with cartoonist Stan Mack. You originally had a […]
Advance Publication newspapers are revising their comics pages this month.The other day we noted that MLive Media, an Advance group, would add more comics in mid-March 2025. Jeff Glick, Director of Enterprise Content & Design for Print at Advance Local, informed us that it wasn’t just the Michigan group revising and adding to their comics […]
Sometimes it’s easier to be a gag cartoonist than a political cartoonist, but this is not one of those times. I had, briefly, planned to run humorous pieces today while I waited for the editorialists to catch up, but fortunately they leapt to their drawing boards, because, like Sipress, I don’t find anything very funny […]
Billy Ireland’s New Yorker Centennial Celebration! New Yorker Centennial Celebration! Join us on Saturday, March 1 for a special program celebrating the centennial of The New Yorker magazine and a reception for our new exhibit, See Anyone You Know? The New Yorker Cartoons and Covers of Edward Koren. This event is FREE and open to the public. No […]
Breaking Cat People NewsTaking a break from breaking cat news is Breaking Cat News getting into breaking people news this week. People news involves those in control of our lives and governments, and Georgia Dunn goes there: Georgia leads off the comments by telling her readers why: For folks not loving a strip touching on […]
I’m tempted to invite you to read Joel Pett’s cartoon, thank you for coming and remind you to tip your waitress, because he manages to pack an awful lot of current events into his piece, with greedy billionaires and without a lot of exaggeration or irony to puzzle the reader.Obviously, they’re not this direct, but […]
The MLive Media Group has announced it is adding comic strips to their print editions. Two new comics to their Sunday Funnies and 12(!) to their daily comics pages: Starting March 18, our eight Michigan newspaper titles are adding 8 new comic strips to our Sunday newspaper lineup – 6 will be available in our […]
I hadn’t planned on featuring any more “list of accomplishment” cartoons, since, as said the other day, they were fairly identical and uninspired, but Matson has broken through with this piece, since we’ve entered a moment when the oligarchs seem to be losing their grip.Specifically, Republican lawmakers have been advised by their leadership to stop […]
Report on 2024 Newspaper Circulation The combined average daily circulation of the 25 largest audited newspapers in the US dropped 12.7% in the year to the end of September 2024, new data shows. The figures, supplied to Press Gazette by the Alliance for Audited Media, show that none of the top US titles increased their […]
This is as political as I plan to get today. I’m awash in political cartoons with sarcastic responses to Musk’s demand that people tell five things they accomplished last week, mostly showing Trump filling out the form and varying from okay to more than okay but only a couple reaching brilliant.Ali Solomon, however, frames it […]
A panel of judges have chosen 21 (21!) cartoonists and related people to be automatically inducted into the Eisner Hall of Fame for 2025 with another six (out of 18 nominee) cartoonists to be voted on by fans for inclusion in the class of 2025 for a total of 27 entries this year joining the […]
Given the tumult we’ve been going through since Inauguration Day, the flow of political cartoons has been steady but has ranged from nuanced to absurd, sometimes out of extreme views one way or the other, other times because of the complexity of subject matter.It definitely makes me hope that, when GoComics unveils their new website […]