More than half a century before Aaron McGruder’s first introduced The Boondocks as a comic strip (and later television series) and decades before the biting social commentary found in Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury and Berke Breathed’s Bloom County, cartoonist and essayist Oliver W. Harrington set a standard for Black readers, combining his signature wit with incisive […]
Martyn Turner gets to lead off today on the basis of simplicity: Trump is helping Putin to raise the flag of Russia over Ukraine. Extra points for using a symbol of American heroism to mark a moment of American betrayal.You would think, if the Trump administration were going to advocate giving Russia a slice of […]
Glenn Marshall took a guided tour through Steven Appleby‘s exhibit Nothing Is Real and writes up a review for Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation website.He begins: I escaped from reality for a couple of hours last week and entered the wonderful world of Steven Appleby at Space Station Sixty Five gallery where I went on a guided […]
Letters to the Editor of The Dallas Morning News: One by one I have seen media outlets across the country bend the knee and kiss the ring of the new regime. … The paper has taken 10 steps backward by completely dropping Doonesbury on Sundays, not just every time it offends the editors’ sensibilities. This […]
Danziger tells us what we ought to already know, but “ought to” is critical, because there are way too many people — by which I mean voters — who have no idea how schools work or why we have a Department of Education in the first place.The notion that Trump/Musk are bringing an end to […]
During an email exchange (Hi Grant) it was revealed to me that the Detroit Free Press (Freep) was a part of the Gannett/USA Today Network that was not following corporate orders to run some combination of The Gannett 34. The full daily Gannett comics lineup of 33 (no Sunday only Foxtrot) below.Instead the Detroit Free […]
TCJ: In your experience, how has the role of a syndicate changed from 2008–2009 to now? TEA FOUGNER: I’d just like to set the stage a little bit for folks who aren’t familiar with how syndication works. Syndication is a way for syndication clients (usually newspapers, but increasingly websites and other digital clients) to bring […]
I’m picky when it comes to variations on the old fish-swallowing-fish concept. First, it needs to be applicable, and, in this case, it is: Trump has swallowed the Republican Party — as demonstrated by the confirmations of his unqualified cabinet — and Musk is clearly in charge of Trump, as demonstrated by that jaw-dropping spectacle […]
The first issue of The New Yorker was cover dated February 21, 1925. But as we all know periodicals are on the newsstands, and newsstands were prolific in 1925 unlike today, several days, sometimes even weeks, before the date printed on magazine covers. From Defining New Yorker Humor by Judith Yaross Lee: [T]he first issue […]
Editorial cartooning, caricaturing, graphic noveling, webcomicing, comic stripping – we cover the bases.Martin Rowson, British cartoonist for The Guardian who occasionally shows up in Mike Peterson’s columns, has deceided to celebrate his 66th birthday by reducing his output to once a week: Just so you know, from 15th February 2025 I’m cutting back to one […]
There’s plenty of politics, so we’ll do comedy instead. The woman in Batch Rejection echoes my thoughts even without the Doge Boys penetrating government sites. My computer continually pesters me to put everything up in the Cloud, and even though I don’t, I’ll occasionally start to pay for something and discover they know my credit […]
A while back a request was made (and I apologize to whoever made it for losing the message and name) to update our Prince Valiant Title Panel 2014 – 2020 post. A promise was made to do so when Thomas Yeates created a new title panel for the Prince Valiant comic strip. After 22 months […]
Unfortunate TruthsAn unfortunate truth from WuMo: Background on lorem ipsum from Jack Shepard. Not to be confused with Charles Brubaker’s Lauren Ipsum. On a related journalistic note from Susie MacNelly and Ben Lansing and Shoe: The above comes with my repeated plea for GoComics to replace the Gary Brookins credit above the comic strip with […]
The Indian weekly magazine Vikatan is allegedly been blocked by the Indian government due to a complaint filed by the Bharatiya Janata Party president after an unflattering cartoon was published on the cover. The cartoon, responding to reports that Indians deported from the US are being handcuffed, depicts Prime Minister Narendra Modi in handcuffs alongside […]
The first of three cartoons by comic journalist Joe Sacco and graphic novelist Art Spiegelman, part of a collaboration on the topic of Gaza, has been published. Last month, news broke that the two had teamed up on a major graphic novel about Gaza. However, Art later clarified that his comment was misunderstood—the work he […]