The “best” of The New Yorker and Roll Call and Editorial Cartoons (Eppys) and a failure. If the algorithm is to be believed, what I want to see on Instagram are videos of people falling off horses, photos of celebrities before and after alleged plastic surgery (or did her nose lose weight?), and endless reels […]
Several comic strips have been anticipating Christmas with gags about kids trying to clean up their acts for Santa and people decorating their trees, but now we’re getting right down to the real nitty gritty, and Monty (AMS) brings up the topic of Christmas cards as we enter the home stretch.I used to get a […]
‘Tis the season. ‘Tis the season to be jolly, and Comics Kingdom is decking the halls with a special Holiday Collection that’ll make your spirits zing faster than sleigh bells on Christmas Eve! The Comics Kingdom Shop has an assortment of ornaments, mugs, posters, and clothing with Holiday themes.**********It is also the season for the […]
The September 25 issue of The New Yorker saw Kyle Bravo debut as one of two new cartoonists to the magazine. Michael Maslin at the time noted: Two newbies: Amelia Cossentino, and Kyle Bravo. They are the 12th and 13th cartoonists brought into the magazine’s cartoonist stadium this year, and the 138th and 139th cartoonists […]
Clay Bennett (CTFP)‘s cartoon introduces today’s theme by happenstance, because we all know that Ukraine needs our continued help, and that time is running out as fast as their ammunition.The happenstance is that the cartoon appears at the same time as David Frum’s article in the Atlantic, “Why the GOP Doesn’t Really Want a Deal […]
Signe Wilkinson is widely acclaimed and celebrated for her remarkable contributions as an editorial cartoonist at The Inquirer and the Daily News. With an illustrious career spanning over 35 years, Wilkinson has established herself as a prominent figure in the world of cartooning, garnering numerous accolades, including the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. Despite the adjectives the […]
British comic artist Ian Gibson has passed away. Ian Gibson February 20, 1946 – December 11, 2023As Rich Johnston informed us a couple days ago Ian’s passing was not unexpected: Ian Gibson has been ill for some time. And in July, he told his fans, “This is difficult – I barely have the energy to […]
The best way to start today is with Paul Fell’s cartoon, which should please people who dislike sports.You don’t have to like sports, BTW, just like you don’t have to like opera or Shakespeare or raisin-oatmeal cookies. But there’s a difference between saying you don’t like ballet and wondering aloud why they don’t just hire […]
Everyone was delighted about the original announcement this past September so Gannett newspapers are reminding people that the final group of The USA TODAY Network will soon implement the standardization of their comics pages. The Nashville Tennessean via The Coloradoan: Classic newspaper comic strip legends like Dennis the Menace, Blondie and Beetle Bailey are here […]
We’ll lead off with a strange choice of little current relevance, just to kind of ease into the grimmer ones. It wasn’t far into the Vintage Ben Bolt (KFS) story arc that I began to fear that he’d end up adopting this plucky little guttersnipe, but I hoped it wouldn’t happen.Big Ben Bolt launched in […]
Has J. C. Duffy given up the daily grind? After four weeks of daily reruns The Fusco Brothers Sunday edition has caught up and is a rerun today.To paraphrase what I said when I noted Mother Goose and Grimm had gone rerun a couple months ago: Of course I fully expect new Fusco Brothers tomorrow […]
Today’s Cornered (AMS) reminded me of my favorite Christmas tree. As I said the other day, I’ve stopped decorating now that I’m an empty-nester, but one Christmas when I had kids at home, one of my sons and I went to the hardware store to get rope so we could go buy a tree and […]
G. B. Trudeau revisits an earlier Doonesbury (or two) on Sunday December 10, 2023. The “previous strip about Balance of Nature” referred to above is from June 4 of this year. At that time Arnold Zwicky did some background for us on the supplements: … (#1) The capsule regimen is overly complex (6 capsules a […]
Editorial cartoonist John Yardley-Jones has passed away. John William Yardley-JonesMay 1, 1930 – December 6, 2023 From The Edmonton Journal: John, or Yardley as he was known to many, was an editorial cartoonist, watercolourist, marathon runner, cross-country skier, honorary mayor of New Sarepta, and larger-than-life character. above: early Edmonton Journal cartoons from 1962 and 1963From […]
Today we welcome two cartoonists to our Senior Strippers Club, both Ashleigh Brilliant and Jose Delbo turn 90. Ashleigh Brilliant, born December 9, 1933, came to prominence during San Francisco’s 1967 Summer of Love where he had joined the Haight Ashbury scene. From the April 7, 1967 San Francisco Examiner: Sometime between 1967 and 1972 […]