As the Rock Man told Oblio, “You see what you want to see, and you hear what you want to hear.” The point — no pun intended — is that “You got to open your mind as well as your eyes. But first you got to get yourself together; Dig yourself.”Pett is right about the […]
Featuring Hägar the Horrible, Dick Tracy, Prince Valiant, The Amazing Spider-Man, Caspar Milquetoast, and Milt Gross; with a special appearance by Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Hägar the Horrible debuts above: A rare look at the Sunday color debut of Dik Browne’s Hägar the Horrible courtesy of Larry Levine. Dick Tracy Deaths Rare on the […]
With John “Front Page” Rose, New Yorker cartoonists Lynn Hsu and Brendan Loper, Ed Fischer, Jeff Koterba, Zander Cannon in Minneapolis, and Ron Coleman on pricing cartoons.John Rose is Up to SnuffSnuffy Smith and Barney Google cartoonist John Rose gets a page one, above the fold article in his local Ogden newspaper! John is profiled […]
Massive layoffs at The Washington Post, not so massive but still substantial layoffs at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the improving digital footprint at The New York Times and with print papers dying (see AJC) we have the top 25 digital local newspaper websites.From David Bauder of The Associated Press: The Washington Post laid off one-third of […]
Mike Mike Mike knows what day it is. And now so do you!I agree with Parisi: The distance and anonymity of the Internet lets people say things they’d never say face-to-face. You have to be a close relative or somewhat pitiable to get away with such behavior in person.The solution might be to do away […]
Jamar Nicholas, in his role as National Cartoonists Society vice-president, interviewed a trio of NCS members: Andrew Farago, Bill Hinds, and Milburn Taylor. Though the interviews were recorded a year and a half ago they were just recently uploaded to the NCS YouTube channel.NCS Studio Visits: Member Spotlight on Andrew Farago Andrew Farago is the […]
Before Nancy Beiman found worldwide fame and fortune with her FurBabies comic strip she had a brief (40 years) but renowned career in animation and as a teacher of same.It is for that last profession that Nancy is among a group being inducted into the Animation Educators’ Forum Hall of Fame for 2026. Jerry Beck […]
Original February 1 post:Cartoonist Terry Beatty, who both writes and draws the Rex Morgan, M.D. comic strip has had the good doctor and Rex and June’s son Johnny in for surgery these days. Now it is Terry Beatty himself headed for the operating room. From Terry’s Facebook page: Well, folks, I suppose it’s time to […]
I think I’ve seen just about enough cartoons that play upon the I.C.E./ice coincidence. We’re having an exceptionally tough winter and facing an exceptionally draconian private army. But neither will be resolved by a pun. But here’s an exception to my word-weariness: Wolterink gets excellent mileage out of the two meanings, since the US announced […]
UK’s Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation (PCO) handed out their annual Splats Awards a few days ago. The only place I’m finding the results of The Splats Awards is on the PCO Bluesky account where they also post photos of the event. The winners are… Kevin Wells for Best Caricature Grizelda for Best Current Affairs Grizelda again […]
Jeff Kinney and his Wimpy Kid rule; Detroit is now a kinda, sorta a one newspaper town with two newspapers; some real life inspirations behind some animated characters. 300,000,000 Above are the Amazon Best Sellers in Children’s Humorous Comics & Graphic Novels as of this posting. Jeff Kinney and Dav Pilkey rule. Especially Kinney. From […]
Today is a sort of cartoonists’ holiday. Nobody takes Groundhog Day seriously, except the Chamber of Commerce in Punxsutawney, obviously, but there it is and gag cartoonists can pop out something and enjoy a short day.Editorial cartoonists can get their compensation sometime later in the year by showing Bill Murray waking up to another round […]
Title PanelsA new Sunday Phantom story, “1536” (four hundred years before the February 1936 start of The Phantom comic strip), means a new Sunday Phantom title panel by Jeff Weigel. Speaking of title panels…I’m enjoying the new weekly title panels Caroline Cash is creating for the Sunday Nancy comic strip. The Olivia Jaimes era only […]
Danziger explained it all back in 2018, but it’s a much older story than that. For Americans, as everyone who paid attention in high school social studies knows, the issue of press freedom was raised when we were still a British colony. In 1734, New York’s royal governor charged John Peter Zenger‘s newspaper, The New […]
Hearst editorial page editor John Breunig asks, “Why are editorial cartoonists drawn to Donald Trump?” (or here). How would Dr. Seuss have drawn President Donald Trump? This is what I’m thinking as we launch a new feature showcasing political cartoons of the previous month. Satirists seem to be competing to see who can sketch the […]