The Dogs of C Kennel (Creators) are experiencing a temporary lull, but we’re not. However, St. Stephen’s Day is, granted, not as exciting as Christmas and the dopamine hit is more subtle. We’ll get to the wren in a minute, but there’s no park. I just liked the headline, because if you are of the […]
The end of the year always brings editorial cartoonists and newspapers selecting cartoons from the past year to present as some of their best. With 2023 ending on a Sunday that would seem the perfect day to publish such reviews. Some have already presented their cartoon choices for 2023. Unfortunately some, like The Baltimore Sun’s […]
It’s always nice to get the family together for the holidays, and here they are before they went Hollywood.As for the current holiday, Greg Kearney noted the downpour in Maine, which was worse than we had it next door, but we also had some power failures and erasure of snow-making on the ski hills and […]
Yesterday was the 200th anniversary of “A Visit from St. Nicholas” and today, the day before Christmas 2023, a number of cartoonists used the “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” poem, one way or another, in their Sunday pages. (Which is common on Christmas Eve but this year it landed on a Sunday and could be […]
The Washington Post recently published a few letters about some cartoons from mid-December. Editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez came in for some praise: Michael Ramirez’s marvelous Dec. 12 editorial cartoon, “Medal of dishonor,” should be copied and posted on the office door of every member of Congress who has cravenly linked further Ukraine aid to the […]
Ivan Turgenev’s On the Eve is one of my favorite novels, but it bombed in Russia when it was published in 1859, in large part because it was dismissive of effete student idealists who talked reform and accomplished nothing, as one of them admitted:Plus ca change, baby, though I’d suggest that Jeff Danziger (Counterpoint) needs […]
St. Nicholas visits George Scarbo, Walt Kelly, Bill Elder, Jim Davis, and, because you were nice, Walt Kelly again.‘Twas a couple nights before Christmas when an Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas by someone or other was first published 200 years ago in the December 23, 1823 edition of The Troy Sentinel. With a […]
Jack Ohman plays with the Nativity story to illustrate the plight of the poor and homeless in San Francisco. It’s nicely played, though, of course, he’s hardly the first cartoonist to make the comparison. But his multi-panel approach really pays off, adding detail and frustration to a common plaint.One way to differentiate among these parallels […]
In its online edition of the Indiana Prairie Farmer section Farm Progress ran a story by Tom J. Bechman about a cartoon that ran in earlier issues of the Prairie Farmer magazine: Thumb through issues of Indiana Prairie Farmer from the late 1970s and 1980s and you will find Bug Scout, a cartoon featuring a […]
The Cartoonist Rights organization has joined a growing list of groups and people boycotting X/Twitter: Effective immediately, CARTOONISTS RIGHTS will cease posting content to Twitter, now known as “X”, until such time as there is a change in ownership and a marked improvement in the website’s policies and functionality. Following recent changes in policy and […]
We’ll start the day with a serious piece of folly before we get into the fun stuff. Guy Badeaux reports that Gary Varvel (Creators) got himself into a jam in Canada after the Toronto Sun ran this anti-Ukraine cartoon in a nation with a very large Ukrainian population. {There are places on the prairies where […]
“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life” – Oscar Wilde Today’s Barney & Clyde: From yesterday’s Rudy Guiliani podcast (36 minutes, 12 seconds in): From Uproxx: That’s a pretty quick turn around for The Weingartens and Clark w/ LaBadie. (Yeah, we know the Barney & Clyde comic strip was created at least four […]
As we reported last month Bunny Hoest with John Reiner are switching distributors, taking The Lockhorns panel to Andrews McMeel Syndication (AMS) beginning January 1, 2024 after 55 years with King Features Syndicate. Further confirmation is that AMS has added The Lockhorns to its list of comics available to newspapers… and created a The Lockhorns […]
The whole world is watching, and, as Cathy Wilcox notes, they’ve stopped laughing. I can’t speak for Australians, but, from here, it was always a kind of horrified laugh or sometimes, given that we’d elected him, an embarrassed laugh. But the laughter is dying down, as she notes, because he’s gone from being a buffoon […]
This week’s Wayback Whensday was put in motion by a Bob Harris comment to TDC earlier this week. The Wallace the Brave strip spurs my obligatory reminder that the Family Circus didn’t invent the footprints gag. Clare Dwiggins (“Dwig”) was using it at least as early as 1919. Tom Heintjes informs us that Bil Keane […]