Editorial cartoonist Henry Payne, who has faced criticism for a cartoon featuring U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib that implied a connection to Hezbollah, has replied by now linking her to former Dearborn mayor Orville Hubbard. From Deadline Detroit: Detroit News columnist Henry Payne responds to sharp criticism about his cartoon in the National Review showing U.S. […]
A bunch of funny stuff, today and in the past several days, and well-timed given the level of not-funny stuff we’ve all been dealing with. My definition of funny has less to do with pies in the face than with things that make you laugh because you can relate to them. (My sympathies to those […]
Thursday The Washington Post revealed a major renovation to their daily comics page. Comics DC reveals to the rest of the nation that starting Monday, September 23, 2024 the daily Washington Post comics will be in color. Decades after most major newspapers made the switch and 76 years after The St. Louis Post-Dispatch proclaimed itself […]
Israel’s attack on Hezbollah through booby-trapped pagers and phones has unleashed such a flood of political cartoons that it’s hard to choose a reasonable number and then to decide where to start.But Peter Brookes lays out something of an overview in this progression of our ability to kill one another. As it happens, he doesn’t […]
Editorial cartoonist Henry Payne is being charged with drawing a “racist” cartoon that seems to imply that U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian American, is a member of Hezbollah. From The Detroit Metro Times: A Detroit News auto industry reporter who moonlights as a political cartoonist is being criticized for appearing to imply that U.S. […]
Rounding up and settling down for a Friday free-for-all. Nick Anderson has a Gotham Gig; Andy Capp Reconsidered; Sergio Aragonés’ 2024 Award for Excellence; Bolling at Boing Boing; Bill Friday Memorial Service; BC Gets Fit; 10 With Tom Falco; and Lee Enterprises papers gets letters about their comics page change.Nick Anderson has a Gotham GigEditorial […]
Scott Stantis isn’t the only media person upset because Kamala Harris isn’t playing the game right, though it should be noted that he’s not one of the celebrity journalists who aren’t getting proper respect.Still, he’s right: She hasn’t made the usual rounds that aspiring politicians are expected to make, and as a result a large […]
At her Substack cartoonist Alex Hallatt writes about the BENEFITS of Artificial Intelligence: Earlier on in my career, I worked with a couple of publishers and I know cartoonists who worked with some really good ones. They would develop and edit your book, guiding you to make it the best work possible. Then they would […]
Editorial Cartoonist Michael de Adder is bailing on Patreon and putting all his efforts into Substack. Michael explains: I started Patreon and Substack not knowing anything about either. My wish was to do both. But Substack took off and the number of paid subscribers on Patreon is not sustainable. I would like to put all […]
“Have you seen them?”I have an appetite for dumb jokes and Matt Percival offers an excellent example, because people losing their glasses on their foreheads is a very old gag with little potential, while dogs digging up the yard searching for buried bones is ditto, but when you put them together … well, it’s not […]
Leonard Deakyn (L. D.) Warren (editorial cartoonist and Wallace Allan (Wally) Wood, comic artist.From Wikipedia: Leonard Deakyn “L.D.” Warren (December 27, 1906 Wilmington, Delaware – May 14, 1992) was an American editorial cartoonist. Warren graduated from Camden High School in Camden, New Jersey, where his family eventually moved. Warren worked at the New Jersey Courier […]
Sarah’s Scribbles has entered the world of gaming with an all-new interactive experience. From cartoonist Sarah Anderson and An Infinite Story: A new interactive storytelling game launches today as cartoonist/illustrator, and author of the webcomic Sarah’s Scribbles, Sarah Andersen, presents her latest project: Sarah Andersen Comics “After Owning a Cat,” in partnership with An Infinite […]
My initial response to this Cathy Wilcox cartoon was negative, and I still think it is politically unfair, if only because she features Biden, Harris and Walz decrying violence when it is the Democrats who have attempted to limit the problem. There’s a great deal more hypocrisy in the “thoughts and prayers” approach of those […]
Shares of Gannett Are Soaring Today Analysts at Citigroup placed Gannett on a “90-day positive catalyst watch” this morning. Shares of the large publisher Gannett (GCI 18.66%) zoomed 18% higher this morning after Citigroup analyst Jason Bazinet placed the stock on a “90-day positive catalyst watch” and upgraded his rating to neutral. Bazinet believes the […]
A Calvin and Hobbes Happy Meal? A Smithsonian History of MAD. Professor Alison Bechdel! Peanuts Library Cards. The CXC Festival. And a Calvin And Hobbes Reading Guide.A Calvin and Hobbes Happy Meal?Cartoonist Jim Engel has rediscovered a late 1980s proposal of his for a McDonalds Happy Meal set of toys featuring Bill Watterson’s Calvin and […]