Over the course of Spring 2024 The Santa Maria Times print comics page has been slowly switching to a King Features Syndicate-only page. Above is March 26, 2024; below is the June 26, 2024. Yesterday The Santa Maria Times announced that they have signed onto the Comics Kingdom digital program: For decades the Santa Maria […]
An example of why they call it “Breaking News” as this Prickly City (AMS) gag gets smashed to bits by its lead time being overtaken by developments. Ah, well. At least Oprah hasn’t endorsed Harris (yet).But even political cartoonists, working on 24-hour lead times, have to consider timing. There’s nothing wrong with Glen LeLievre’s current […]
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson has made a career drawing images that reflect contemporary American life. Wilkinson says she is now mostly retired, but her cartoons appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News for 35 years. Now, about 30 pieces of her work are on view at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. […]
Some cartoonist news. “I do oil paintings of horses,” “A friend I’ve done Super-Pet commissions for asked if I’d do an oil painting of Comet. So I gave it a try and he was happy with the result.” The cartoonist who had no fear – walking the line between art and trash. The Pompidou Centre […]
Dave Whamond sets the table for today’s discussion. On first look, you might well think he is contrasting the left (blue) with the right (red), but if he had that in mind, it’s secondary to the main point, which is an accusation of the Mainstream Media looking for false balance by airing both truth and […]
August Froehlich, Bill Watterson, Lynn Johnston, Elkanah Tisdale, Charles Schulz, Garry Trudeau.Nazi Death ParadeFrom The Smithsonian Magazine of 2022: In early January 1945, just before the liberation of Auschwitz, a small group of journalists and artists, many of them European immigrants, published a roughly 50-page pamphlet titled The Bloody Record of Nazi Atrocities. Printed byArco […]
A month ago Gene Weingarten, co-producer, co-creator, and co-writer of the Barney & Clyde comic strip, invited participants of his Invitational Week at his Substack to contribute scripts for the comic strip: “Barney & Clyde” is a 14-year-old comic strip written by Gene and Horace LaBadie and illustrated by David Clark. It involves a relationship […]
We’re skipping politics for the day, but first … Rabbits Against MagicBarney & Clyde — CounterpointI’m all in favor of comic strips commenting on politics, but lead time can trip you up and both these strips were caught off-guard by Biden’s withdrawal. Granted, however, that there are still some political cartoons up on the GoComics […]
King Features made a splash at the Spring 2024 Licensing Expo and now, thanks to the Chronicle Chamber, we are getting some idea of the “Trend Guides” for some of their syndicated comic strip characters. Brands Untapped interviewed King Features’ Brand Marketing Director Beth Nock: Beth, it’s great to chat. We’re here to explore King’s […]
Given the sudden disruption of the 2024 Presidential Election, I thought it only fair to present takes in opposition to my normally progressive point-of-view. Christian Adams gets to lead off because several overseas views have been unclear, perhaps because they’re not getting a full spectrum of the chatter here. It’s true that Harris represents a […]
The news of the day is Caroline Cash beginning her turn on the Nancy comic strip. For whatever reason my first thought on seeing the first panel was The Captain and the Kids by late Rudy-John Dirks and/or The Katzenjammer Kids by late H. H. Knerr-Doc Winner. Again, I don’t know why. It’s inexplicable. This […]
When Joe Biden announced his decision to step aside yesterday, I posted on Facebook “Political cartoonists to your drawing boards. I’ll be looking for material in 12 hours.” I needn’t have prodded them, because at 3 a.m. I found far more material available than I could use, and not nearly as many repeats of the […]
Clay Jones informed fans and supporters last night that his CNN engagement has come to an end: … One of the assistant editors, Jane, informed me last Friday (July 12) that after five years, I no longer had a freelance gig with CNN. The editor of the opinion section, Rich, gave me a courtesy call […]
Eric Allie (Counterpoint) promotes “they,” the imaginary political scapegoat currently being used to exploit the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. It might have been a reasonable guess in the early going, but it’s increasingly obvious that there is no “they” and that Thomas Crook was no more a political operative than Lynnette Fromme.In fact, he […]
Among the comic strips that became public domain this year was Tim Tyler’s Luck by Lyman Young. From Don Markstein: Tim Tyler’s Luck, the most famous comic strip created by cartoonist Lyman Young, was well established at King Features Syndicate by the time his brother, Chic, also a cartoonist, got his own prominent King Features […]