Yesterday’s cartoons by Ella Baron and Guy Venables were met with surprise by several readers, the issue of record quantities of sewage being dumped into English waters having only been mentioned here in passing before. One example of that being this Ben Jennings cartoon from August, 2022, when a drought brought the dumping of sewage […]
Featuring the cartooning talents of Jason Yungbluth, Michael de Adder, Mike Beckom, Ralph Steadman, Kyle Bravo, Kate Lacour, Walt Handelsman, and Michael Tisserand.Cartoonists cut up at New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University It was standing room only at The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University’s “Louisiana: The Cartoonist’s Paradise” panel discussion on March […]
It’s always good to make your Easter duty, and so I’ll confess that I have to look twice at Ella Baron’s cartoons because her style makes me like them even when they are irrelevant to a Yank.In this case, she’s talking about Britain’s freshwater crisis, which involves raw sewage in what should be clean rivers […]
Cartoonist Elena Steier has passed away. Elena (née: Vira) Steier February 14, 1958 – March 1, 2024From the obituary: Elena Vira Steier passed away peacefully, surrounded by loving family, in the early hours of March 1, 2024 after a valiantly fought battle with cancer. Back to the obituary: An accomplished illustrator, author, and cartoonist, Steier […]
One of the most important moments for baby boomers growing up were the Sunday newspaper comic strips. Even as new technology arrived introducing new toys, there was just something special about the Sunday morning comics. David Beren for History Computer lists 8 Newspaper Comics That Everyone Loved. There were plenty of favorite comics to enjoy […]
It’s only fair to point out that this Mike Lester (AMS) cartoon ran a few days before Biden suddenly racked up some significant gains in the all-important swing states that could decide the 2024 Presidential Election.If polls determined elections, Hillary Clinton would have won in 2016. Tracking polls is part of horserace coverage, and is […]
Speaking of adventure comic strips with humor… Steve Conley has issued episode 300 of his The Middle Age webcomic. I think my preferred solution for writer’s block is to switch gears and work on something else. It clears my head, keeps me working, lets the main story percolate, and allows me to return to the […]
Adventure strips seem to be hitting high points these days with a few going for belated origin stories. The Legend of Bill is currently reliving how Bill became a legend. Apparently Bill and Frank, his little blue dragon buddy, have been together for much longer than we thought and it has been mutually beneficial. Middle […]
Gonna start off with this one because, first of all, the garish colors are not only appropriate given the subject matter but also because the lack of specificity adds to its appeal.It’s by Steve Bright, aka Brighty, who is a Scot. That’s not relevant to the point of the cartoon except to provide a little […]
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The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) has set their 2024 NCS Conference and Reuben Awards for August 22-24 (Thursday-Saturday) in San Diego, California. This year we will co-host some of our conference programming with the awesome team at the Comic Con Museum, located in San Diego’s beautiful Balboa Park. The NCS board used feedback from the […]
Indeed it is, They Can Talk. The bears got up a little early this year and started getting into the bird feeders, which is their equivalent of socializing. We always get warned to take down our bird feeders this time of year, which I gather is because we don’t want to encourage the bears to […]
From the Jackson Hole News & Guide: This Lift Lines cartoon by Ryan Stolp ignited a firestorm on Instagram from commenters accusing the author of intentionally revealing flaws in the parking gate software at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. The loophole was removed the next day. Stolp said he had no idea how the cartoon would […]
This past week La Presse put a Serge Chapleau cartoon on its website depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the 1922 film vampire Nosferatu, and then almost immediately took it down and apologized as accusations of antisemitism began appearing. Just as quickly the Association of Canadian Cartoonists (ACC) responded by backing their brother. … […]
Ted Rall (Counterpoint)’s cartoon sent me scurrying to find whatever blog/podcast/column went with it, because it made no sense to blame Millennials. Turns out he saw a Millennial tell a homeless person “I don’t carry cash” and he feels the cashless society is a government plot.Well, possibly, but I don’t carry cash and I’m too […]