After almost 45 year years of editorial cartooning Steve Benson is retiring.Jim Small, Editor In Chief of The Arizona Mirror, announced Steve’s decision today: Since the 1980s, he’s been skewering Arizona leaders and politicos on a regular basis, in between reminding us exactly how amazing our state is and how we need to protect both […]
Dave Whamond raises a fundamental issue with regard to Pope Francis’s statement condemning surrogacy. The Pope was addressing a situation in which poor women are paid to bear children for the wealthy, and he might have made a more narrow comment specific to that aspect of surrogacy, condemning the practice of turning pregnancy into a […]
The peerless “pre-comic strip” comic strip historian David Kunzle has passed away. David Mark Kunzle April 17, 1936 – January 1, 2024 The Center for the Study of Political Graphics reported on David’s death and his more “radical” disposition: David Kunzle died Monday, January 1, after a three-year struggle with Amyloidosis. CSPG’s Poster of the […]
About the time I file today’s posting, Donald Trump will be appearing in federal court attempting to claim immunity for soliciting fraudulent election results in Georgia. He has another appeal pending in Georgia, seeking immunity on state charges in the case.Jimmy Margulies (KFS) comments here on a separate attempt by the former president to get […]
In what is turning into an annual event The Anchorage Daily News (ADN) has changed the make up of the comics it carries. This time its only their Sunday comics and this time it only involves cuts, not replacements. The paper is reducing the the number of Sunday sections from four to two and moving […]
After catching some grief over an Adam Zyglis cartoon two week’s ago and calling for letters of comment that were published in the Sunday December 31, 2023 edition, today The Buffalo News apologized for running the cartoon. From Buffalo’s WGRZ-TV: BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Buffalo News apologized to the Chabad Center for Jewish Life and […]
Joy of Tech takes a shot at Facebook, which has launched a new way of tracking your activity in order to show you more ads, or, as they explain it, better ads. Which brings to mind the famous Monty Python sketch in which the woman protests, “But I don’t want any Spam!”Here’s an article from […]
As part of the Gannett/USA TODAY Network The Providence Journal is implementing the corporate imperative to switch their comics page(s) to conform to some grouping of The Gannett 34. Like all Gannett editors Lynne Sullivan, regional executive editor of The Providence Journal and Newport Daily News, is “thrilled” about the forthcoming changes: For this reason, […]
That “a while back” was 90 years ago today. On January 7, 1934 King Features Syndicate introduced two new comics pages to the Hearst and other subscribing newspapers. One of the pages was by an established cartoonist with over twenty years of experience. The other page was drawn by an unknown artist who had spent […]
Chip Bok (Creators) starts us off with a “Say what?” in which he contends that justices are not placed on the Supreme Court in order to decide how to interpret the Constitution.Article III, Section 2 says that that is precisely what they’re there for, and shortly after ratification, Marbury v Madison affirmed that SCOTUS has […]
Big Nate began the new year by spending an enjoyable (for readers) week with his grandparents at an old folks home (aka: an assisted living facility). I particularly liked Friday’s (Jan. 5) joke – not a new joke but well staged. Speaking of well set up and carried out … yesterday’s Brewster Rockit. Y’all are […]
The nice lady in this Joel Pett (Tribune) cartoon is speaking specifically about the release of Jeffrey Epstein’s client list, so we’ll begin there. We live, after all, in a world of subjective reality.Juxtaposition of the Pitiful AirplanesGlen LeLievreChris Britt — CreatorsThe nice thing about Al Capone and Dutch Schultz was that there was no […]
Michael Maslin, Sandra Boynton, Dishonest John, and others. Michael Maslin has a fun, short essay about Fridays for New Yorker cartoonists and those same Fridays when The New Yorker hits a two week double holiday issue (Christmas/New Year’s in this case) and the routine is disrupted. Fridays for New Yorker cartoonists is usually the day […]
Under the headline “Clarion Ledger refreshes comic lineup based on reader input, changing tastes” the Mississippi newspaper informed readers that their funnies will be changing as the paper finally conforms to Gannett’s company-wide overhaul of their comics pages. After reminiscing about the old days of meeting with syndicate salesmen to discuss comics changes to his […]
In today’s Between Friends (KFS), Maeve has been awarded the Cardboard Box and ambitious suck-up Jim is feigning surprise. But, to repeat something I’ve said before, I never lost a job I still wanted, which is relevant since Maeve was on the brink of resigning.I was fired twice, which isn’t bad over 40-some years, and […]