Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for August 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Got a few books released in August missed on the mid-August listing. So… Arnold: The Complete Collection Volume 1The Cambridge Companion to Comics […]
Glad I didn’t use this Pearls Before Swine (AMS) when it appeared Sunday, because there has been an explosion of conversations about art and ethics in the days since.Not, mind you, that this is the first time the issue of purchasing vs downloading music has come up. Doonesbury devoted a week to the topic back […]
The National Cartoonists Society Foundation is setting up a charity auction, with dozens of NCS members offering original art to benefit the foundation.The original art for 2023 NCS Reubens by Sam Viviano and for the 1987 paperback by Bil Keane are among the treasures offered. They are just two of the items. Others include comic […]
Matt Groening and Life in Hell, Bruce Petty and the Vietnam War, Etta Hulme and Comic Books, Art Evans and College Mascots, Carl Jones and The Boondocks, Tom Batiuk and Chuck Ayers and Roses in December.Before there was Homer, there was Binky Everyone knows that The Simpsons is what made Matt Groening one of the […]
Sometimes it’s easy to call out a cartoonist. In this case, given that, in his profile statement at Counterpoint, Mike Beckom boasts of deliberately insulting people and being insensitive to their feelings, and styles himself as “not politically correct” at his Twitter page, it’s not out of bounds to assume his mockery of Hawaiian culture […]
The plaintiffs (Moonbug) own the popular kids YouTube channel CoComelon. Moonbug’s videos have garnered more than 165 billion (with a “b”) views on YouTube, outstreaming Bad Bunny, Taylor Swift, and Drake combined. In 2021, Moonbug sued the defendants (Babybus), alleging that the defendants’ Super JoJo website included videos, characters and other content that infringed upon […]
Ella, Nathan Archer’s weekly comic strip for The Tallahassee Democrat, ended earlier this year. Nathan Archer had been a regular freelance cartoonist to The Tallahassee Democrat until this past Spring when Gannett decided to do away with editorial cartoons. It was also this past Spring that Nathan’s comic strip for that newspaper also ceased appearing […]
I think Jonesy is being a little hard on meaningless connective phrases, but that may be because I tend to use “so” as a connective phrase, which makes it okay. On the other hand, a connective phrase should connect two things, which makes “so” an absurd way to begin.Listening to the news will expose you […]
David Willson‘s editorial cartooning for The Palm Beach Daily News earned him another Sunshine State Award, the second in two years, from the Florida chapter of the Society for Professional Journalism. The Palm Beach Daily News has the news with a few samples from David’s submission.Editorial CartooningNathan Archer gave The Tallahassee Democrat a final parting […]
Rose Anne Prevec is about to reach 100 — cartoons sold, that is. A few years ago, the Dundas artist, who had been illustrating books and drawing cartoons for family and friends, decided to take her cartooning more seriously. “At first, I posted my cartoons directly on Instagram,” she tells me. “Once those started getting […]
There are many Prigozhin cartoons on editorial pages at the moment, but Mike Smith (KFS) manages to tie up both the Russian and American significance of the event, with only a few inexplicable loose ends.His take is witty without being funny. Editorial cartoons are only funny by happenstance, and generally only when they tackle something […]
Giving a shout-out to Crankshaft. For shedding light on evil authoritarian figures who are trying to keep people away from the trees of knowledge. They always have been and remain an affliction on society. It does my heart good to see a kid pick up a newspaper.Young people and newspapers in Big Nate. While the […]
Yesterday was National Dog Day or some such, but I posted too early to realize it, so I’ll compensate with some canine humor today, starting with a bit of truth from The Other Coast (Creators).Indestructible dog toys are largely an issue of trial and error. I’ve seen dogs eviscerate a toy, yank out the squeaker […]
St. Petersburg Times staff artist and illustrator Joe Tonelli has passed away. Joseph Felix (Joe) Tonelli November 19, 1926 – August 12, 2023Joe was staff artist at The St. Petersburg Times from 1962-1993, at times the chief staff artist.From the obituary: Recognizing his exceptional talent, his parents allowed him to ride a city bus to […]
So yesterday I’m scrolling through Facebook when among the innumerable “suggested for you” posts comes a comic panel so I linger over it – the one below on the left. While it wasn’t a high resolution scan the cartoonist’s name seemed to be blurred even more than the rest of the image. It is of […]