Radical Socialist Cartoonist William Gropper Since 1920 Cartoonist William Gropper has been busy as a beaver, trying to gnaw down the capitalist system. One day that year Manhattan’s Tribune rashly sent Gropper to caricature an I. W. W. rally. Instead,he became a convert. This week Manhattanites from Red to pink and some who just like […]
I own a lot of comics history books, most list the details of who created the comics and when they were published and the characters in those comic books and strips. And while I am always happy to see another well done comics history book being published, I am overjoyed when someone gives us a […]
I gather Joe Heller is taking no pride in the coming elections, but he seems terribly cynical. It’s true that few of our elections have united the nation, but they’re not supposed to. That sense of pride comes from our ability to hash out our differences and come up with workable solutions, and I’ll grant […]
Miss Cellany calls on Bryn Durgin and Navied Mahdavian, Jonathan Lemon, Barbara Brandon-Croft, Drew Dernavich, Chuck Asay, and Terry (‘Aislin’) Mosher.Miss Cellany gets unstuck in time and pulls up this, what The Pulitzer Board would call Illustrated Reporting and Commentary. The Los Angeles Times calls it an “Op-Comic.” It’s a multi-panel opinion comic from two […]
Editorial cartoonist Steve Benson is under medical care after suffering a stroke last month. The Pulitzer Prize winner, who retired late last year after 44 years, was admitted to a hospital in Arizona.Steve’s wife Claire noted on Facebook: I thought you’d like to know Steve had a stroke on 21 February and is now recovering […]
Alan Moir boils down America’s political situation to the essentials: Trump racing for the election and the chance of a self-pardon, pursued by the Keystone Kops.There’s a lot to be argued with here. I’ve said in the past that I wanted the prosecution to move carefully, not to blow the case with hasty moves. And […]
As the Breaking Cat News comic strip approaches its 10th anniversary the comic’s creator Georgia Dunn sits down on March 5, 2024 (1pm eastern/10am pacific) for a live interview with Glenn Fleishman to discuss How Comics Are Made and Watercolors in the Age of Digital Reproduction. Glenn’s interviews with current cartoonists are part of his […]
Is it murder in Milford? Will there be sports at the Spencer Spread? Amalgam Comics was a blending of DC and Marvel heroes in the 1990s and that was the feeling I got when I saw the early access look at the March 11, 2024 Judge Parker. Having seen Rod Whigham art on Gil Thorp […]
Remember that graffito that read “We are the people our parents warned us about?”Well, as Non Sequitur (AMS) points out, we are now the people we warned ourselves about.I miss the old days, but when I really think back, I realize that most of the fun things I did then fall under the heading of […]
San Diego Comic Convention (Comic-Con) has announced that the Eisner Awards judges have selected 19 individuals to automatically be inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame for 2024. These inductees include 12 deceased comics pioneers and 7 living creators. The deceased greats are Creig Flessel, A. B. Frost, Billy Graham, Albert Kanter, […]
Some thoughts on scrolling through The Sunday Funnies on the new revised Comics Kingdom site. That gawdawful black background has gotta go. Or at the very least surround every comic with an eight inch (preferably a quarter inch) of white space a la The Saga of Brann Bjornson. Too much clicking. To start my look […]
We’ll start with today’s Non Sequitur (AMS), a relatively gentle example of the sorts of ideas that emerge from the sophomore dorm at two in the morning. But first, a definition of terms: As you may know, “sophomore” is a portmanteau of the Greek words for “wise” and “foolish.” Except that it isn’t. Here’s the […]
A cartoonist who thought his comic strip about a town’s ducks would last a month has retired after 51 years. Mere Quacks was first featured in the Diss Express in 1973 after Mike Webb was approached by a journalist friend. His first editor suggested the theme because the Norfolk town has a six-acre (2.5 hectares) […]
The Reply All comic strip by Donna A. Lewis has switched syndicates this past week. above: Reply All for February 29, 2024; below: Reply All for March 1, 2024On March 1, 2024 Reply All began carrying a Counterpoint Media notice replacing the WPWG notice. And with the new syndicate Reply All dailies return to new […]
The Internets are full of cartoons marking the planned retirement of Mitch McConnell as Republican Senate Leader, many of them using the “My work here is done” phrase, few of them putting it in as colorful a setting as Drew Sheneman has here.Sheneman does a nice job of showing general destruction, with burned-out buildings, parched […]