Ruben Bolling, Georgia Dunn, Keith Knight, and dozens of more cartoonists; plus Dogs of C-Kennel, Lola, Shifts, Crabgrass, and the missing Vintage Apartment 3-G. Ruben Bolling, who has drawn and written his intricate, incisive, shape-shifting weekly cartoon “Tom the Dancing Bug” for more than three decades, works best under the pressure of a deadline. “Years […]
Sometimes the view from a distance is clearer. David Rowe, watching the latest scandalous behavior from Dear Leader and his disciple, declares them to be digging their own political grave while Harris and Walz need only watch them self-destruct.There’s plenty of reason to assume it, and to assume that, if nothing else, they’d obey the […]
The Galway Cartoon Festival has announced their line-up for this year’s event. The annual festival in Galway Ireland will feature Lucie Arnoux, Dave Coverly, Ben Jennings, Malak Mattar, Will McPhail, and Dean Patterson.The Galway Cartoon Festival was established in 2017 with the objective to “nurture, promote, and develop the art of the cartoon in Ireland, […]
Douglas is an artist and political cartoonist from New Orleans who has lived in Baton Rouge for 24 years. He’s done work for the Baton Rouge Business Report, The Times-Picayune and more. Douglas said he’s taught art for about 40 years, including classes at McKinley High School and summer programs at LSU. Torie Bovie for […]
Ben (MWAM) raises the issue of comic sands, albeit imperfectly. Assuming he dug holes deep enough so only the boys’ shoulders and heads were out, and only wide enough to fit them exactly, they could indeed be stuck.However, comic strips often feature people buried lying down who are then unable to get out from under […]
But we’ll start with someone not so enamored of the golden oldies. A letter writer to The (Boulder, Colo.) Daily Camera argues against legacy/zombie strips: Quantity isn’t the same as quality. The camera editor, John Vahlenkamp, on Sunday, Aug. 18, explained and attempted to justify the changes in the Sunday comics with a, “more is […]
Jack Ohman — TribuneBill BramhallI remember when a candidate would be mocked for something as simple as sticking his dog in a crate on top of his car and having terrified canine diarrhea stream down over the windows. To which RFK Jr has now said, “Hold my bear.” His daughter Kick has revealed that he […]
The Neurodivergent Cartoonist. Gus Walz’ moment of joy at the Democratic National Convention struck a chord with millions of people around the nation.One of the people touched by Gus’ emotional reaction to his dad Tim’s vice presidential acceptance speech was Omaha, Nebraska-based political cartoonist Jeffrey Koterba. Amelia Robinson at The Columbus Dispatch writes about Jeff […]
The South African Film and Publication Board gave The Showerhead documentary a “16 LNPSV” rating (suitable for over 16, containing language, nudity, prejudice, sex, violence). The film focuses on Jonathan Shapiro’s (AKA Zapiro) controversial cartoons during the Jacob Zuma presidential term, challenging the boundaries of freedom of expression. Producers of the film are appealing the […]
Michael de Adder won the Divisional Reuben for Editorial Cartooning: Thank you, National Cartoonist Society. First, sorry I wasn’t there in person to receive this storied award. Last minute personal issues made it impossible to attend. I almost had the ticket in my hand before fate snatched it from my grasp. Second, thanks for naming […]
I borrowed today’s headline from an old website run by the late Bill Bickel in which he used to mock comic strips for not coming up to his standards. It was one of a couple of similar sites that motivated me to launch Comic Strip of the Day in 2010, because I thought it better […]
The premiere online destination for aficionados of American newspaper comic strip history has a new home: Hi and welcome to the new home of Stripper’s Guide, here at ComicStripHistory.com. Don’t forget to bookmark it! All new posts will appear here, not at the old Blogger site (that is, assuming no horrible bugs are found in […]
Last Friday’s editorial in The Washington Post highlighted Saudi Arabia’s suppression of expression among its Saudi citizens (even if living abroad) including a U.S.-Saudi citizen filmmaker, Abdulaziz al-Muzaini who created the hit animation series Masameer.Abdulaziz and his production company was charged with sponsoring and supporting terrorism and homosexuality. Additionally, the language used in Masameer includes […]
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Deon Parson announced on social media that King Features Syndicate will soon make his Rosebuds comic strip available for your print newspaper’s Sunday Funnies. From Dee’s Facebook page: Rosebuds first appeared four years ago when The Anderson (Ind.) Herald Bulletin started running it on a weekly basis and GoComics carried it twice weekly. Earlier this […]