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Miss Cellany Running With the Cartoonists

Dave Coverly, Jim Davis, Bill Plympton, J. C. Duffy, Trina Robbins, Georgia Higley, Peter Maresca.Bored Panda regularly features small collections of comics, today it is the syndicated Speed Bump. Bored Panda usually includes a few words from the cartoonist and in this one Dave Coverly is interviewed. “I have to turn in 7 cartoons every […]

CSotD: With Best Intentions

Al Goodwyn (Creators) sets the tone for today’s conversation with what seems a damp squib — that is, a firecracker that fizzles. Contrast it to this Lisa Benson cartoon:Benson’s cartoon misfires rather that fizzles: She’s simply wrong that crime and inflation are increasing, and the polls on Biden are argumentative rather than definite. Still, her […]

Wayback Whensday: Ally, Alley, Buz & Bois

It was the ranchlands of West Texas, rich in prehistoric outcroppings and an air of primeval antiquity, that had given the Iowa-born Hamlin an inspiration for “Alley Oop,” way back during the 1920s. He was based at the Star-Telegram at the time — producing a series called “The Panther Kitten,” a droll chronicle of a […]

CSotD: Human Rights, and Wrongs

It can’t get much simpler than Megan Herbert‘s illustration. We know what human rights are, and we claim to respect and revere them, and yet we consistently fail to provide them.It’s a bit like the way we save money: We know we should and we certainly want to, and we fully intend to and we’re […]

Judge Parker or Judge Crater?

More missing Vintage Judge Parker strips. Incidentally, the marks at the left edge of several strips here are called “gripper marks” and happen when the paper is being drawn through the press. Glad to see that Maggi is handing Sam a mystery and that this isn’t going to simply be a public service arc about […]

The Day Saturday Morning Cartoons Died*

Saturday morning cartoons — like payphones, video rental stores, and TV guides — are one of those cultural touchstones that meant so much to older generations, but are as meaningless as a wireless telegraph to younger ones — gone within a lifetime. The first cartoon to air on a Saturday morning was “Crusader Rabbit,” four-minute-long […]

Editoonist George Danby Supports Lewiston

On Friday, as the BDN news staff paused from covering the manhunt, we started to notice something happening. “I was seeing normal people, friends of mine from outside politics or journalism, sharing that cartoon. It was just poignant,” BDN politics editor Mike Shepherd said. The idea quickly came together to merge Danby’s art with a […]

CSotD: Wicked Funny

If I’m going to use a New England-based Halloween pun in the headline, I should start with a New England-based comic, so here’s Wallace the Brave (AMS)‘s landscape of Snug Harbor, RI, to which I would add that social media has been full of wet blanket discussions of what candy is no good, but the […]

The Funnies, Yesterday and Today

Can any one translate the entire message from today’s Free Range?for thing that … was … you … dying because ????? When I look out my windowMany sights to seeAnd when I look in my windowSo many different people to be They’re strange, so strange This ain’t your father’s Gil Thorp. (Must be the season […]

Cartoonists Around the World Roundup

In 1993, the New Yorker published a cartoon featuring two dogs sitting at a computer. With a paw resting on the keyboard, one says to the other: “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”Today, the iconic image still resonates, holding the record as the most reprinted New Yorker cartoon in the magazine’s history. Earlier […]

CSotD: Monday Mental Workout

This is going to be a grumpy day, but let’s start with Jimmy Margulies (KFS)‘s commentary on Mike Johnson’s ascension to the speakership, because at least it made me laugh. Granted, as the emperor in this Oren Bernstein cartoon notes, humor isn’t necessarily a great weapon and it’s not at all required in political cartooning, […]

David Rowe Wins Record 9th Gold Stanley

The Australian Cartoonists Association celebrated their 39th Annual Stanley Awards Saturday evening.The Australian Financial Review reports on one of its own taking the top prize: The Australian Financial Review’s editorial cartoonist David Rowe [link added] has won the Australian Cartoonists Association’s Gold Stanley for best cartoonist of the year. This is the ninth time Rowe […]

CSotD: Sunday Funnies

Arlo and Janis (AMS) make sensible preparations for Tuesday night. My apartment is at the back of the landlords’ house and so I don’t get trick-or-treaters, which is good because my current dog is not used to knocks on the door. But in days of larger dogs and a place with heavier traffic, I had […]

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