Sage Stossel is an award winning editorial cartoonist for The Boston Globe and other publications and is an award worthy children’s book author with her On The Loose series.Most recent in the series is On the Loose in New Orleans and Boston.com interviewed Sage about the book: Where in New Orleans do you take us, […]
Two time Pulitzer Prize Editorial Cartoonist winner (1966, 1980) and five time finalist for the Editorial Cartooning Pulitzer Prize (1982, 1984, 1988, 1993, 2005) Don Wright celebrates his 90th birthday today and in doing so becomes a member of The Daily Cartoonist’s Senior Stripper club (not quite the status symbol as is his Pulitzers). From […]
At the risk of sounding like an incompetent, unpatriotic university president, I think context matters, and Jefferson’s oft-quoted remark about government without newspapers versus newspapers without government deserves some. He was writing specifically about Shay’s Rebellion, but he might have been writing about January 6, except that, while Washington had political opponents, most hard-core Tories […]
Basil Wolverton gained fame through his strange and humorous comic book art from Spacehawk to Powerhouse Pepper to Biblical Armegeddon and a lot more. But like most comic artists of his time he tried to break into the syndicated newspaper comic strip market. Also like most comic artists of his time he failed. But he […]
The forum in Davos has just concluded, but I don’t want to talk politics today. However, here’s a cartoon from Jason Adam Katzenstein, so I’m not entirely cynical about things. Not quite. But I laughed, so I guess I’m close.Yesterday, I saw a Fareed Zakaria Davos segment in which a pair of Ukrainian combat medics […]
Those fabulous floppy funny books that were everywhere in our youth began as showcases for comic strips. Now, except for the Archie Digests, comic books are only found at select locations. And mostly star super heroes. But once in a while the old traditions return. As Newsarama/Games Radar reports: The adventures of Chester Gould’s iconic […]
Original January 20 post:Another batch of Gannett newspapers announcing their adoption of The Gannett 34 comics pages. The Austin American-Statesman takes The Gannett 34 literally, they will carry all the comics available to them.From American-Statesman Executive Editor Manny Garcia: Our refresh of the daily comics begins on Jan. 29, and we start our Sunday comics […]
Someone emailed me to complain about Thursday’s Barney & Clyde (Counterpoint), not particularly saying it should be forbidden so much as decrying the lack of taste and wondering how it got past the editors. I’ve linked to the specific piece, rather than to the comic’s overall page, in case you’d like to see the comments, […]
Bill Bramhall suggests that there may be some logical holes in Trump’s theory of presidential immunity. This cartoon demonstrates how difficult things have become for satirists lately, since Trump has been asked if the president could murder his opponents with impunity. He responded that yes, he could, unless the Senate convicted him for it in […]
And now, from the land where cigarettes never get any shorter, here are the missing Vintage Judge Parkers from Comics Kingdom:
The week started, more or less since Monday was a holiday, with a Tuesday adjacent comics synchronicity. Pearls Before Swine and Perry Bible Fellowship follow one after the other on my GoComics feed and Tuesday they both featured what birthdays represent. Thoughts while you’re blowing out those candles. Let’s lighten the mood with a really […]
Donnie Pitchford, Ralph Steadman, Paul Ackley, Jerry Craft, Clay Jones, Angelo Lopez, Liana Finck, Jim Toomey, Jack Mallette, and the new National Cartoonists Society Board of Directors (Karen Evans, Drew Aquilina, Greg Cravens, John Hambrock, Ellen Liebenthal, Jamar Nicholas, Nick Seluk, Johnny Sampson) Donnie Pitchford part of the Carthage Main Street 2024 Arts Walk of […]
I’m starting the day with Nick Anderson‘s cartoon following the release of the Justice Department’s 600-page report on the May, 2022, school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. There have been several other cartoons, but, while I don’t expect a cartoonist to read all 600 pages in time to fire off a timely commentary, I didn’t find […]
First – a little catching up from Rob Tornoe at Editor & Publisher last Fall: Over at King Features Syndicate, President CJ Kettler doesn’t see comic strips going away anytime soon. In fact, Kettle said the company launched several new comics features this year, including “Break of Day” by Nate Fakes and “Never Been Deader” […]
Tony DePaul on his, more-or-less monthly these days, blog chimed in on the just ended Wrack and Ruin: On Phantom matters (which I’m always ambivalent writing about here), the dual-timeline Wrack and Ruin series came to a close last Saturday, after seven chapters and 32 months. It ended with Jeff Weigel’s Phantom reflecting for a […]