As two new books by Bill Watterson appear over the next two months – the all new The Mysteries and The Calvin and Hobbes Portable Compendium, a series collecting the comic strip in a new format – we are sure to see many articles about the secluded cartoonist. “Work and home were so intermingled that […]
I’m still furious with the Washington Post for running a headline last week that spoilered the World Cup game between Australia and Denmark by revealing the winner on the paper’s main page. I was avoiding sports pages, knowing I planned to watch the time-shifted game as soon as I was done here, but now there […]
Editor’s note: The Desert Sun recently welcomed freelance cartoonist Tom Deisboeck to create original ‘toons for the opinion pages. The Palm Springs (Calif) Desert Sun (Gannett) has contracted Tom Deisboeck for political cartoons. … how would you describe the tone of your work? So, I like to be edgy. The political side is on the […]
Too much doom and gloom around, so let drop by reliable laff makers Bill Whitehead and Mark Parisi. So now cartoons are throwing life in our faces? Well certainly comics about cartooning would be funnier. Let’s visit Scott Stantis: Maybe some self-deprecating cartoon humor from Jonathan Lemon going meta and Dave Whamond just going literal. […]
Matt Golding starts us off with this cheerful vision, and, while exaggeration is one of the main tools of political cartooning, this is less a case of exaggeration than it is of, as the phrase goes, “saying the silent part out loud.”While he didn’t intend a two-part comic, Golding returned to the overall theme with […]
Author Gary Grobman has passed away.Gary Marc Grobman November 11, 1952 – August 11, 2023Author, reporter, politico, advocate, consultant, professor, marathoner, musician, humorist, gagman.Gary had a life full of a wide range of activities. From the obituary: When Mr. Edgar, a progressive Democrat and anti-war activist, decided in 1974 to pursue a Congressional seat in […]
Wednesday came and went without a Wayback installment because I am easily distrac… Anyway, to paraphrase Churchy LaFemme: Wayback Whensday come on a Saturday this week. The Lost Phantom Longtime Phantom penciler George Olesen spent his summer seasons in Denmark. As a result, the Phantom strips make quite a trek, beginning as a script from […]
For those who believe in choice, and democracy, and who aren’t hoping to live under a repressive government, there’s a great deal of positive hope to be found in Bill Bramhall’s depiction of the GOP obsession with restrictive abortion laws.This isn’t just about Ohio’s recent attempt to get people to stop trying to tell them […]
The European Cartoon Award announces its 2023 Shortlist The European Press Prize and Studio Europa Maastricht, founders of the European Cartoon Award, proudly announce the 16 Nominees of the 2023 edition of the contest. This year’s Shortlist includes cartoons selected among over 400 entries from more than 25 countries. Here is the list of the […]
John Deering gives us our opening today with his Strange Brew.Been enjoying Mick and Keith checking in to Hotel UFO this week. And alway happy to see a Kinks reference.FurBabies‘ week long scavenger hunt gets a juxtaposition with UFO today. Bob Weber, Jr. threw a nod to friend and co-creator Jay Stephens this week in […]
No need for an update today: Lynn Hsu lays out my life in all the detail anyone needs, several times repeatedly as ordered.To be honest, it varies greatly from department to department, which I know because I’ve reached the fabled three score and ten years, at which point you spend more time down at the […]
The Nib magazine free! Simon and Schuster books $1.62 billion! New Bloom County comic strips! Peanuts merch! The Addams Family versus The Simpsons Family!The Nib is offering, through August 2023, free downloads of all 15 issues of The Nib magazine. The Nib is wrapping up ten years of publishing and closing down at the end […]
Prickly City (AMS) may have it right, I suppose. There were all sorts of reasons for the great thunder lizards and their ilk to give up and die: Climate change and meteoric clouds and who know what else?Besides, we needed the fossil fuels.Though, if you look around, you’ll still see alligators and snapping turtles and […]
For more than a year editorial cartoonist Brian Duffy has been battling serious medical problems. Brian hasn’t done any regular editoons since Spring of last year and, while he did get through most of 2022 continuing his monthly City View page, 2023 has only seen two City View pages-one for April and one for May. […]
Life between the ages of 15 and 20 seems purposely geared to be annoying. In my case, those years coincided with Get Smart, which Jack Davis drew here and it’s always fun to feature his work.Get Smart itself, however, began as a clever sitcom but then became repetitive and predictable, which would have been okay […]