Art Spiegelman biography and career timeline As a prelude to their airing of the Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse documentary on April 15, 2025 PBS presents a “timeline [that] explores Art Spiegelman’s life and the major milestones in his career” from his birth in 1948 to 2025’s collaboration with Joe Sacco on “Never Again […]
The documentary Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse premieres tomorrow at Film Forum in New York City. Given the current political climate in the United States and abroad, the film serves not only as an educational 90-minute exploration of one of the most influential comic creators of the 20th century but also as a reminder […]
A confession: Ella Baron’s artwork appeals to me on such a level that I’m inclined to feature her cartoons even when I’m not sure of her topic. In this case, she provided both a label and a quote from MacBeth that made things easy to search for: Britain is in the throes of a scandal […]
We’ll start with the easy one. Adam Zyglis explains the gist of the matter: Kansas City Chiefs placekicker Harrison Butker spoke at Benedictine College’s commencement and told graduates, among other things, that while women might get jobs, they would find true fulfillment not in the workplace but, like his wife, as homemakers and mothers. Particularly […]
We’ll start our search with Cathy Wilcox’s commentary on keeping young people off social media, in which she raises the question of how you would keep up with the world otherwise. She’s obviously not a big fan of Xitter, which is getting a harsh reassessment from the folks Down Under. Fiona Katauskas isn’t impressed with […]
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, […]
The world is full of weighty matters, but we’re going to, in the words of Eddy Arnold, make the world go away and get it off our shoulders. And, yes, I know it was written by Hank Cochran, but this is being written by me and we’re not picking nits today. Okay, we are. But […]
To set the mood somewhat gently, an announcement: I compiled this array back when the Biden/Ice Cream meme first surfaced as a way of pointing out how foolish and unhistoric it was. In fact, I went back and documented that all but three presidents enjoyed ice cream, and those three may have liked it, too. […]
Today’s headline is an old joke; the answer is in Ann Telnaes‘ cartoon. The stork ought to still scare them, because, as Telnaes points out, we’re heading back to the pre-Roe days when a pregnant woman’s choice was between giving birth or possible death, and I say that as someone old enough to have been […]
Al Williamson The auction last month of some of Al Williamson’s pre-Manning Star Wars comic strip proposal (we featured them on our Facebook page) prompted Diamond’s Scoop to re-present a Williamson profile from 22 years ago. Rip Kirby, of course, was not the end of Williamson’s newspaper work. In addition to a run on Secret […]
Comic book and comic strip artist Neal Adams has passed away. Neal Adams June 15, 1941 – April 28, 2022 From The Hollywood Reporter: Neal Adams, the legendary comic book artist who reinvigorated Batman and other superheroes with his photorealistic stylings and championed the rights of creators, has died. He was 80. Adams died Thursday in New York […]
Comics-Con International (Comic-Con San Diego) has announced the six judges’ choice inductees into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame and 17 nominees of which four will be selected by voters. The automatic inductees are Marie Duval, Rose O’Neill, Max Gaines, Alex Nino, P. Craig Russell, and Mark Gruenwald. As is our wont here at The […]
Drew Sheneman shows the broken promise upon which the Republican members of the Senate Judicial Committee based their approach to the confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. It raises the classic question noted in Goldoni’s 1743 commedia, “The Servant of Two Masters”: Pantalone:. What are we to make of this fellow? Is he a […]
This is an installment of 2021 Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts – – part 2: Departures – – part 3: Dearly Departed – – part 4: Detours/Deviations) 2021 – The Dearly DepartedThese U. S. newspaper and magazine cartoonists died in 2021. WILLIAM BRYAN (W.B.)(BILL) PARK June 12, 1936 […]
Texas History Movies was a comic strip that first ran in The Dallas Morning News for two years from 1926 to 1928. Then the newspaper canceled it. But the cartoons about Texas history didn’t die. The originals were reprinted again and again in books and distributed to hundreds of thousands of Texas public school students […]