Fred Basset by Alex Graham debuted in The Daily Mail on July 9, 1963.* From that Daily Mail newspaper celebrating the birthday: There’s a big birthday ambling our way this week — and it belongs to someone with long floppy ears, short waddly legs and a tail wagging in anticipation. Not that Fred Basset, 60 […]
I’m surprised and a bit disappointed that more political cartoonists in Britain haven’t jumped on Robert Jenrick’s heartless order to paint over and remove welcoming cartoons for refugee kids at processing centers. It’s not simply that Jenrick has no pity on children. He’s apparently not even able to pick them out of the crowd.So good […]
A cease-and-desist order has been issued to a cartoonist over his drawing of a Denver landmark.From Westword: Denver cartoonist Karl Christian Krumpholz [link added] on Monday said he had received a cease-and-desist email from Etsy prompted by his attempts to sell an illustration of Casa Bonita on the online marketplace. “Casa Bonita LLC reported that […]
The Australian Financial Review is being scolded for running what some see as a racist cartoon advertisement. From The Guardian: The no campaign has been accused of using a “racist trope” in a newspaper ad which included a cartoon figure of an Indigenous voice campaigner appearing to dance for money. Matt Kean, a New South […]
No politics today. For instance, in this Bizarro (KFS), the judge has gray hair and Aileen Cannon has black hair. Also, Jack Smith hasn’t asked to move the trial out of West Palm Beach.Jack Smith, rather, seems to be relying on the same principle demonstrated by Samuel in this Pros and Cons (KFS).But no politics […]
Press Watch, “devoted to encouraging political journalists to fulfill their essential mission of creating an informed electorate,” is not happy with the current state of affairs as far as political cartoons featured on The Washington Post’s opinion pages (or the written opinion pieces either for that matter). After praising The Post’s past (Herblock, Toles) Dan […]
The National Cartoonist Society is finalizing plans for its Reuben Award events being held September 6 – 8, 2023 in Jersey City, New Jersey and has released the schedule (subject to change) for the annual convention. Nominees for the Reuben Award and Divisional Awards had been announced, as had Brian Walker receiving the Silver T-Square, […]
We’ll let Joy of Tech introduce today’s topic, which is about a new app that millions of people have signed up for and that nobody likes.I can be neutral about Threads for the moment, since I’m a desktop guy and it’s only available for telephone people, and preferably those with Instagram accounts, which lets me […]
Seven Days presents their 11th Annual Cartoon Issue!From Seven Days editor Dan Bolles: Seven Days prides itself on being a writers’ newspaper. That is, a publication that devotes as much energy and resources into the craft of writing as it does into sourcing, reporting and all other aspects of news gathering. How we tell stories […]
Prickly City (AMS) continues the thread cited here yesterday, on the negative perceptions people attach to politicians. Historical perspective matters: Washington is consistently ranked by historians as one of our best presidents, but he had his opponents at the time and newspaper writers in that period could be vicious.Congress tried to tame opposition voices through […]
Dale Messick and Brenda Starr, J.C. Leyendecker and the Arrow Collar, Rudolphe Töpffer and the first comic book. [F]or a strip that famously broke a major gender barrier, Brenda Starr spends an inordinate amount of time policing the boundaries of traditional femininity … However pioneering Brenda’s careerism may have been, it would be a mistake […]
Original July 3rd post –This is a really late addition to our 2022 Departures list. Agnes by Tony Cochran has been in rerun status all this year, since January 1, 2023. Fans of the comic strip became aware of the lack of new material early this year and when “pschearer” inquired about the circumstances he […]
Bill Griffith’s Fancy for Nancy Bill Griffith‘s graphic biography of Ernie Bushmiller Three Rocks will be released next month. So it is a fine time for The New Yorker to review and preview the book and interview the author. My first exposure to Nancy was in the funny pages of the Sunday newspaper delivered to […]
Constant Readers know how strongly I identify with Arlo and Janis (AMS), and certainly I do on this strip. It’s been not just years but decades since I’ve gone to a fireworks display, though they were important back when I had young kids with whom to ooh and aah. Even then, we were happy to […]
Ithaca N.Y.—“My country is under a dictatorship, so even if you don’t want to talk about politics — politics is everywhere.” Pedro X. Molina, renowned Nicaraguan cartoonist, has been awarded the Vaclav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent for his work as a political cartoonist. That work has continued since Molina fled his home during a […]