Loose Parts (AMS) hits at a good moment. I tried a hole-in-the-wall pizza place yesterday, and when I paid, got one of those screens. I don’t believe in tipping counterhelp and you’re not supposed to tip the owner, so I hit “No tip.” Again. Again. Again. Finally.“I’ll bet the 25% one goes right through,” I […]
Bob Weber, Jr., he of Slylock Fox fame, and Gary Hallgren, he of Air Pirates Funnies fame, have been friends and coworkers for going on forty years. Their latest partnership has been Hägar the Horrible for the past decade. Bob Weber, Jr. began writing gags and scripts for the Hägar comic strip in 2014 and […]
Tank McNamara cartoonist Bill Hinds to be honored.From the National Cartoonists Society: Bill Hinds will be presented with the Gold T-Square award at the 78th Annual Reuben Awards in San Diego, August 23rd. The Gold T-Square is awarded for 50 years as a professional cartoonist. So far, four have been presented: to Rube Goldberg in […]
Editor & Publisher will open the window to submit entries to their annual EPPY™ Awards on August 1, 2024.The EPPY™ Awards include two Editorial/Political Cartoon divisions. Some frequently asked questions and information about the rules: The EPPY™ Awards are open to all media and media-affiliated websites. Entries for 2024 will begin on August 1st, 2024 with […]
Steve Brodner offers an affectionate portrait and tribute to his friend and mentor, Lewis Lapham, a legendary editor at Harper’s who died last week at 89, an age at which one is permitted to die but which gave him a good, long opportunity to influence the world, though, as Brodner’s words indicate, he still left […]
E. S. (Everett Samuel) Glenn is a comic creator and a New Yorker cartoonist, and soon he will be a regular presence on Comics Kingdom with his New Tricks, subtitled Remixed New Yorker Cartoon Rejects. From the Comics Kingdom New Tricks “about” page: E. S. Glenn spent many years in New York, deeply embedded in […]
From the AP news story: Cartoonist Roz Chast will receive the [Brooklyn Book Festival’s] annual BoBi (Best of Brooklyn) award, given to those who best exemplify the spirit of the New York City borough. About Roz Chast from The Brooklyn Book Festival: Roz Chast‘s cartoons began appearing in the New Yorker in 1978, where she […]
The recent CrowdStrike debacle gives lessons for all of us in how to (and how not to) communicate in a crisis… While an extreme case, CrowdStrike illustrates some of the tensions at play in any brand crisis — trying to balance responsibility and mitigate liability with incomplete information while still trying to fix the issue. […]
Randall Munroe imagines himself in the Olympics in today’s xkcd, and I notice that the funniest places he’d expect to find an unqualified amateur are in the sports in which style is the deciding factor. Which evokes a 1959 Peanuts that has always been close to my heart and which, apart from my extensive history […]
Here’s an oddity: A Garfield Sunday where everyone is happy about everything. Just a coincidence that it is Jon Arbuckle’s (and Jim Davis‘s) birthday? Some comic strip ephemera. MIke Lynch posts a circa 1973 Courier Journal/Louisville Times comic strip promotional pamphlet featuring comic strips with creator profiles. Ten of the seventeen comics are still around […]
Lalo AlcarazTommy SiegelClay JonesAnd so on and so forth. The Internet is full of jokes about JD Vance masturbating with a sofa, and the cartoons are nearly as plentiful.It’s a lie. Or, as the Fact Check sites say, it “Originated as Satire.”We see stories from time to time about foreign governments picking up Onion satires […]
Fridays at the San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) is Eisner Award night, this year that was last night July 26, 2024. The SDCC posted the results with some introduction, but we like Comics Beat reporting ’cause they got the introductory stuff and the results like SDCC along with reminding us of the nominees in each […]
Garry B. Trudeau’s Doonesbury comic strip isn’t the powerhouse influencer it was in the mid-1970s when Trudeau won The Pulitzer Prize, made magazine covers, and was mandatory reading by The President of The United States. But it still raises the hackles of the Far Right. Particularly one Peter Parisi, who just can’t not read the […]
You’re showing your age, Barry Blitt. I, too, remember the horror we felt learning that the French considered Jerry Lewis a comic genius.It was back in the days of Richard Pryor and Firesign Theater, slightly after Shelly Berman and Lenny Bruce, back when Monty Python made skits spoofing DH Lawrence and having communist theorists answer […]
The same month that a Sydney Australia council removed a “playful” artwork of Jesus … Sydney artist Philjames’ work, Jesus Speaks to the Daughters of Jerusalem, was removed from the Blake Art Prize exhibition at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre after fierce criticism was directed at the artist and gallery on Friday, just two days […]