Bob Gorrell last November announced he was retiring after a half century of cartooning. For almost 50 years, I’ve had the incredible privilege of foisting my personal opinions on the innocent public through my editorial cartoons. Now is the perfect time to retire from that and move on to other interests and passions in my […]
As Gary Varvel (Creators) points out, the terrorist attack in New Orleans has every American praying, or, at least, it has every American who prays praying.And Clay Bennett (CTFP) says that the ISIS attack has taken the happiness out of the New Year. While Walt Handelsman, who lives in the Crescent City, rallies his fellow […]
My opinion is to stand foursquare behind Michael Cavna, who closed out 2024 with a five part Warped statement, starts here, on the dangers we face without political cartoonists and the dangers political cartoonists face from authoritarian governments.My other opinion is that Andrews McMeel should collect this series and submit it to the Pulitzer board. […]
Got distracted by the changing of the year stuff. Now we’ll catch up on some recent comic strip news. Here’s something that is news to me. Apparently The Arizona Daily Star prints an extra page of comic strips as a bonus to the Lee Enterprises regular half page. I had assumed the extras were relegated […]
Dave Whamond offers a thought-provoker that would make a good prompt for a government seminar.The Founders took steps to prevent an immigrant from heading the government, but they assumed a nation guided by the votes of responsible citizens. They made no law about race, gender, age or wealth of voters, though individual states subsequently did. […]
Missed a day so here’s a bucket load of 2024 in review cartoons. Al.com and JD Crowe has six dozen Alabama-centric, but nationwide extremist, Drawing 2024 to a close. Here it is: The full, final list of the Top Ten Tom the Dancing Bugs of 2024. The top ten were determined by a rigorous, scientific, […]
This is an installment of 2024 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: the Dearly Departed)2024 – THE DEARLY DEPARTED These U. S. newspaper and magazine cartoonists, and selected others, died in 2024. DAVID MARK KUNZLE April 17, […]
Jeremy Banx’s old couple welcomes in the New Year with the same attitude I did, having seen it several times. I just went to bed at my usual time and the calendar managed to do its thing without my assistance, as it often has.So no cartoons today about people falling asleep before the ball drops, […]
This is an installment of 2024 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: the Dearly Departed)2024 DETOURS & DEVIATIONS Some changes to U. S. newspaper comic strips and panels in 2024. But first a missed 2023 change: On […]
This is an installment of 2024 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed. (part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: the Dearly Departed)2024 DEBUTS These comic strips and panels began appearing in U. S. newspapers in 2024. BREAK OF DAY by Nate Fakes January […]
Not sure either event is particularly “inspiring” except to the wrong people, but Brewster Rockit (Tribune) does a good job of choosing the finalists and summing up the year, and I think he made the right choice.The election was like finding out your lover has been cheating on you. On the one hand, you’re suddenly […]
Roundups of the best editorial cartoons of 2024 will be coming quickly as the New Year closes in. The Chattanooga Times Free Press offers a gallery of 2024 Clay Bennett cartoons of the year. The Guardian collects The best of: First Dog on the Moon cartoons 2024. Earlier it was local subjects, now The Times-Picayune/The […]
Prince Valiant was full of ships yesterday. The Tom Yeates title panel and the big shipping out panel in yesterday’s Prince Valiant was matched by the December 16, 1984 Vintage Prince Valiant page by John Cullen Murphy that Comics Kingdom also issued yesterday. We can only hope, for Arn’s sake, that Val’s ship doesn’t make […]
Dave GranlundMarc MurphyI’m okaying Granlund and Murphy for the hardhats because, while their cartoons salute his post-presidency Habitat for Humanity work, they do so while praising his other accomplishments, marking his whole life, not just one aspect of it.I won’t, however, feature cartoons that portray him entirely as a carpenter or that show him being […]
More newspapers and websites roll out the best of editorial cartoonists’ commentary from the past year. Who What Why presents Ted Rall. Michael Ramirez at The Las Vegas Review-Journal offers up CARTOONS: A look back. For Voxeurop it was: a real challenge to sum up 2024 with a selection of press cartoons, as we do […]