Patrick Blower cites the new Civil War, in which a divided country rages around a vestige of the old Civil War. As noted here before, it was much easier when we had a geographical division based, for the most part, on a single, definable issue.Even then, there were as many quarrels over why we were […]
It’s throw it out there Thursday – a gathering of gleanings. Editoons v. Memes; Newspaper Troubles; Battling Book Banners; and what your heirs will do with all those comics. EDITORIAL CARTOONS ARE NOT MEMES! Graeme MacKay, “One of the last staff editorial cartoonists still slogging away at a daily newspaper,” discusses the difference between editorial […]
The end of August will see the end of The Nib. But you can still give some love to The Nib cartoonists. Before The Nib closes down at the end of August, we are putting our sticker packs back on sale in the store one last time. We have a 5 pack featuring a Nib […]
Paul Noth having summed up the Nov 24 election, we move on to further action, later in the game.That phrase is a bit of nostalgia for fans of the Notre Dame Football Replay that aired on Sundays and depleted attendance at the 10:30 Mass. They had to fit it into the time slot, so drives […]
Unlike the 2020s The Pulitzers had an Editorial Cartooning category in the 1920s. Rollin Kirby took three of the first seven Pulitzers awarded in that journalism division. The inaugural honor went to Rollin Kirby, who worked for an array of New York newspapers and magazines. He won the award for his depiction of the victims […]
Ann Telnaes was out of the gate quickly as the indictments were announced, largely because she’d been following the story since it began and was able to repurpose an Oldie-but-Goodie. This is not to say that she anticipated the co-conspirators: Of these, only Giuliani was indicted.But she echoes a commentary also advanced by Adam Zyglis […]
Nope, don’t like it. Don’t like it a bit. Before last month gets too far away let’s bring up the major change to a comic strip in July. On July 10 Vic Lee changed the lettering font for his Pardon My Planet panel. Above left is the July 8, 2023 issue; above right is the […]
Grand Avenue (AMS) marks a cultural change that has often sent me digging through the memory banks. I suppose the sign might have been when the streetlights came on, and it’s possible, since they were more likely set to a specific time rather than light actuated, which would have sent us straight home from the […]
The National Cartoonists Society has issued a notice for ads in their 2023 Reuben Journal and Banquet Playbill noting the deadline for booking space in the program is August 7, 2023. Your ad will be included in the official Reuben Awards Playbill Magazine – with a feature on every nominee – which will be given […]
Pros and Cons (KFS) relies on three main characters: Samuel, the incompetent attorney; Stan, the somewhat brutish but kind-hearted cop and Lyndon, the psychiatrist continuously flummoxed by the twisted egos of his patients. Today, Lyndon has inadvertently led one of his regulars down the wrong garden path, hoping to shame him into taking control and, […]
We’ll start with a small bit of news: Marvel Comics and King Features Syndicate are now rerunning the reruns. Above opening panels from left to right: November 16, 2014, March 24, 2019, and July 30, 2023. The Amazing Spider-Man comic strip is now on a four year, four month rotation. When the newspaper strip first […]
Let’s start with some nonsense. The Walt Disney Company is about to do the unthinkable: retire Mickey Mouse. Inside the Magic reports that Disney is bringing The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse animated shorts to an end with tribute to The Mouse’s first short Steamboat Willie: Since 2020, Mickey Mouse has starred in the animated […]
As is so often the case, I find myself reluctantly agreeing with Clyde’s dubious street smarts in today’s Candorville (KFS) over Lemont’s more proper sense of logic and propriety. Or perhaps with John Lennon, who also felt that life was what happens while you were making other plans. Or perhaps with myself, having watched all […]
The Society of Illustrators has announced the artists entering their class of 2023 Hall of Fame. Among the inductees is New Yorker cartoonist Helen E. Hokinson. From the Society of Illustrators profile: Cartoonist Helen Hokinson (1893 – 1949) is best known for her New Yorker cartoons depicting the daily lives and social scenes of the […]
I’m off getting a magical new hip that will allow me to leap tall buildings in a single bound. While I’m recuperating in a place of dubious connection, here’s an interview I did in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY. The cartoons were added in 2010 when I replayed the interview for Comic […]