Robb Armstrong – An Appreciation of An African American Comic Strip ArtistFrom Fisher Jack at Eurweb: I have followed Robb Armstrong creator of the comic strip series Jump Start, syndicated since 1989. … For Robb, Charles Schulz, creator of Peanuts comic strips influenced him. I grew up a fan of Peanuts and am still a […]
Yesterday was Factchecking Day, which makes me wish Steve Kelley (Creators)’s cartoon had run then, because it’s an easy one to fact-check: March 31 was established as International Transgender Day of Visibility in 2009, so there was no “blunder” in the White House issuing a proclamation saying so, as they issue proclamations for all sorts […]
Garry Trudeau, the writer and artist of Doonesbury, has dared to acknowledge a fact about the Hamas leadership that most of the mainstream news media prefer to ignore. Rafael Medoff for the Jewish Journal reports: In the latest Sunday installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Doonesbury strip, a fictional anti-terrorist fighter—known as “the Red Rascal”—bursts into […]
King Features Syndicate has released Digital Press Kits for two new comics offered to digital and print publications. Dumplings by Victor Van Acker first appeared on Comics Kingdom last Summer. The King Features (KFS) press kit says the comic strip is now/will be available to hard copy newspapers daily and Sunday. KFS describes the strip: […]
Most Easter and April Fools Day cartoons were mayflies, good for a moment but with no real shelf life.But Harry Burton‘s, while intended as a general comment about Israel’s blocking of aid to Gaza, gained significance Easter Monday, when Israeli Defense Forces attacked vehicles of the World Central Kitchen, which has been providing food to […]
From Times Now Digtal via MSN: New Delhi: A “racist” cartoon by a US-based webcomic over the Baltimore bridge collapse incident sparked outrage on social media. The cartoon shows unkempt men dressed only in loincloths and preparing for the impending crash. Foxford Comics posted the cartoon on its X handle. The webcomic also played a […]
Man Martin, author and cartoonist, has made a name for himself as one of the great illustrators of the human condition as it concerns how we treat one another – with a specialty in Biblical foibles – now has a new project.Unfortunately that means a brief suspension of his Man Overboard comic strip. Today on […]
In case you hadn’t heard, John Auchter reminds us that there is an election coming up, and he provides a summary of what is at stake. As Mose Allison explained, “All I want is plenty, but I will take more.” Maybe we should swap that out to replace “E Pluribus Unam,” given that we’re a […]
Dave Whamond began Holy Week with his Palm Sunday Reality Check page depicting The Last Supper a few days earlier than it is traditionally held and doing a pretty good job of showing the Leonardo Da Vinci painting. The past week began in earnest with Monday and Greg Cravens playing with negative art in The […]
Bizarro (KFS) strikes a nostalgic note, intentionally or not. I don’t think of Easter eggs as empty shells, but then I don’t think of them as this elaborately decorated, except in Eastern Europe where I doubt pysanky are mixed in with the candy. But it did remind me of being a tiny tot some 70 […]
In a long X/Twitter post Dilbert Reborn cartoonist Scott Adams attacks the DEI strategy: Allow me to put a stake through the heart of DEI for you. If DEI proponents wanted to achieve the kind of diversity that is good for every member of society, they would correct the Democrat/Republican imbalance in our most important […]
Comics historian Bob Beerbohm has passed away. Robert Lee (Bob) Beerbohm June 17, 1952 – March 27, 2024 Bob was an early reader of comic books in Saudi Arabia where his father was working. When he returned to the United States (Nebraska) he became involved in comic book fandom and entrepreneurship as a teenager, buying, […]
Christian tradition is that, during the three days Christ was dead, he visited Hell, defeated the Devil (seen crushed under the door in Fra Angelico‘s painting) and brought forth the righteous of the Old Testament from their confinement. I say “tradition” because it’s necessary to differentiate between pious traditions and the things you are actually […]
Mike Curtis used this holiday weekend to tell of the resurrection of Daddy Warbucks in Dick Tracy.The original Little Orphan Annie comic strip took four days, one of which was a Sunday, to tell the story between panels two and three above. Here, from May 15 to May 18, 1937 is The Death of Daddy […]
Crain Communications editorial cartoonist and illustrator Rich Williams is retiring after 40+ years. From Plastic News: With Rich retiring Plastic News interviews him on his career: I went to Ohio University to major in journalism, became the editorial cartoonist for The Post, the school’s student-run newspaper, and soon realized it was my visual skill that […]