The Garfield Movie, currently running on movie theaters (Rotten Tomatoes scoring much better by audiences than critics) prompted Cartoon Brew to revisit animated cartoons that were adapted from comic strips. Vincent Alexander notes: The history of adapting comic strips to animation goes all the way back to Little Nemo (1911), one of the earliest animated […]
Here sits the New York trial of Donald Trump for falsifying his campaign expenditures: The testimony is over, the jury is deliberating and, as Lisa Benson (Counterpoint) depicts it, both Republicans and Democrats are awaiting a verdict, along with the nation.She appears to suggest that, while the political parties see things in immediate, pragmatic terms, […]
Patrick McDonnell’s Mutts Comics site is promoting The Guard Dog Story for preorder. This book features the seven-week-long tale of Guard Dog’s unchaining and adoption, an illustrated history of Guard Dog (written by Patrick), real-life rescue stories, and empowering information from voices in the animal welfare community. A Patrick McDonnell signed edition is exclusive to […]
Louis M. Glackens, Benjamin Franklin, Rube Goldberg, Harvey Kurtzman, Homer Davenport. [Louis M.] Glackens was born in 1866 in Philadelphia and started drawing at an early age alongside his younger brother, William. While the latter went on to become a successful painter and prominent member of the Ashcan School, which focused on realistic portrayals of […]
I’m more than a little burned out on upside-downism in cartooning about Justice Alito’s political posturing, though the immediacy with which the examples cascaded makes it more of a coincidence than a matter of redundancy, an event cartoonists once described as a Yahtzee, though I haven’t heard the term in a while.However, I like Clay […]
Cartoonist and puzzle maker Julie Larson had passed away two years ago. Julie Christine (Harris) Larson September 20, 1959 – August 17, 2022 From the obituary: Julie Harris Larson, 62, of Lincoln, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, August 17, 2022, at The Christian Village in Lincoln. Julie began her professional career in architecture, interior and […]
Sometimes you need a dose of silliness, and Jimmy Craig is just the one to deliver. This gag requires a little cultural literacy, because, first of all, you have to know who Jackson Pollock was, which isn’t all that esoteric though his paintings are.Plus it adds another chuckle to know that the story of Sir […]
A VIP tour of The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, a look at The Nancy Show, and a report on NancyFest 2024. Jason Chatfield, The Former Guy at the National Cartoonists Society (thus inclusion as part of the NCS VIP tour), presents a travelogue of his recent trip(s) to Columbus Ohio. NancyFest 2024 was […]
Original May 25 post:From a Witney Seibold article at SlashFilm about 1991’s The Addams Family film: On Christmas 1946, the New Yorker published a notorious Addams strip wherein his Family’s home was visited by carolers. High above their heads, standing on the home’s central tower, the Addams Family is slowly tipping a cauldron, presumably full […]
John Darkow leads us off with both a reminder of what Memorial Day is about, and how it differs from Veteran’s Day. There were, understandably, a lot of days of recollection in the wake of the Civil War in which 750,000 died, and several versions of how those days were gathered into one national holiday, […]
Olivia Jaimes appeared on video as a part of the recent Nancy Fest: The New Nancy Olivia Jaimes is the pen name of the mysterious cartoonist who took over Nancy in 2018, modernizing the strip with her own unique spin, and sending shockwaves through the community of Bushmiller purists. Jaimes joins us virtually for a […]
Let’s start with three huzzahs to Comics Kingdom for including the title panels with the Sunday comics! We sincerely hope this isn’t a one-time occurrence. Now GoComics it’s time for you to do the same.But it is not all hugs and kisses for The Kingdom. The black background continues to irritate, and Friday’s The Phantom […]
I’m starting by disagreeing with Paul Berge, but I’ll soften it by linking to his essay on this cartoon where he discusses the sexist comments that have drawn the most attention, while also delving into Harrison Butker’s homophobia and transphobia as well as his defense of antiSemitism.My problem is that his objections repeat a basic […]
Cartoonist Mike Luckovich takes us through some ideas to get to his Nikki endorses Trump editorial.
We’re not doing political cartoons today, but let’s start with something blatantly political: This past Sunday’s Non Sequitur (AMS).Danae is not alone in her attitude, which is a weakness of the system. When I was going through some newspapers from 1898, I came across an opinion piece by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in which she proposed […]