Sun-Times editorial cartoonist Jack Higgins has passed away.John Joseph (Jack) Higgins August 19, 1954 – February 10, 2024 The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting the death of Jack Higgins: Pulitzer Prize-winning Sun-Times cartoonist Jack Higgins knew the power of the pen. “Political cartoons are meant to take the mighty and the pompous and cut them down […]
When I was in college, Notre Dame had a game against Tulane. I was in the reception area of a dorm at St. Mary’s when a group of people got back from the game, including a girl who had been to Pat O’Brien’s, and brought one of the bar’s special Hurricane glasses all the way […]
GoComics serves notice of Wannabe by Luca Debus, a new comic strip that debuted a month ago. This new digital comic strip from creator Luca Debus follows McKenzie, Andy, and Margot. The daily feature follows the roommate trio through all the mayhem and mishaps that come with being a twenty-something, like crafting the perfect social […]
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum claims to house the world’s largest collection of cartoon- and comics-related materials, including a range of inked paper, artifacts, newspaper clips, magazines, scrapbooks, and even the drawing board used by Chester Gould, who created the Dick Tracy comic strip. But it is much more than an archive: it is at […]
Jeff Stahler (AMS) taps into something that occurred to me during the game. A lot of what they were advertising was of little interest to me, but I also had a sense of “been there, seen that” as creative ideas seemed replaced by celebrity cameos.Celebrity cameos were once a delightful surprise because they only appeared […]
The time honored tradition of the newsboy delivering the daily newspaper is no more. Begun long ago with boys hawking sometimes ten different editions a day on city streets. The practice began to change when home delivery became common, along with fewer extras. Though well into the 20th Century youngsters continued to deliver newspapers to […]
One of the recurring gags in Candorville (KFS) is Clyde’s continuing, deliberate ignorance. When the news comes on, he switches to reruns of Gilligan’s Island, and, as seen in this morning’s strip, he doesn’t notice monstrous storms and flooding outside his window.In moral theology, “invincible ignorance” is an excuse for sin, the theory being that […]
Got a bit of a whiplash reading the Sunday Funnies today what with cartoonists using their Sunday comics to switch between Super Bowl topics and Valentine’s Day themes. And then Dick Tracy abruptly breaks off its this year’s unfinished plot line to go to two weeks ( February 11 – 25, 2024) of a Minit […]
Original Peanuts comic strip artwork by Charles M. Schulz are highly prized by collectors. So naturally some try to profit off that attraction. Artist and original art collector Rob Stolzer makes us aware of one such attempt. Live Auctioneers carries an Andrew Auctions, who “acts solely as an agent for various owners and consignors,” item […]
Ralph Hagen comes up with a brilliant observation in this morning’s The Barn (Creators), though I guess if you enjoy texting instead of talking you might not think so. But it does seem we’ve come full circle, though there are apps that will let you talk and then convert it to text, which matters because […]
Rick Stromoski, Lynn Johnston, Raina Telgemeier, and Bob Fingerman. Rick Stromoski, the cartoonist of Soup to Nuts and Andrew’s Journal fame, returns with a second book, in what can only be called a series now, about the adventures of Schnozzer & Tatertoes, a pair of anthropomorphic dogs. Schnozzer is a level-headed, intelligent schnauzer who keeps […]
Comics writer and editor and comic strip historian Alfredo Castelli has passed away. Alfredo Castelli June 26, 1947 – February 7, 2023 Several comic sites have reported the death of Alfredo Castelli. On February 7, Aldredo Castelli died in Milan, at the age of 76. Since 1965, his name has been linked to the history […]
Jeff Danziger (Counterpoint) says that we’ve suddenly turned into a nation of legal experts, though, to be fair, he didn’t say “suddenly.” Rather, the sudden part is how we’ve focused our usual kibitzing on a particular legal question.There are only a handful of cartoonists and columnists who have been to law school, which perhaps is […]
Presenting a duke’s mixture of cartoonist and comics related news items. With Lent and a period of self-sacrifice quickly approaching we feast on a glut of funny as New Orleans cartoonist Walt Handelsman and The Times-Picayune present a selection of Fat Tuesday cartoons Walt has drawn through the years. ********** When the News-Sun announced it […]
The big news this morning is about Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin last night. It was so predictable that cartoonists weighed in days before it happened, which would normally be dangerous but, well, not always.Bill Bramhall widened his vision to take in the international significance, as Carlson’s fawning is tied into Republican refusal to […]