(Jack Ohman — Pulitzer Prize, 2016)(Joel Pett — Pulitzer Prize, 2000)(Kevin Siers — Pulitzer Prize, 2014)This is, alas, a Juxtaposition of the Fired. The McClatchy chain of newspapers, which has been struggling in bankruptcy for more than three years, has decided to cut costs by eliminating three of the nation’s leading editorial cartoonists. You can […]
Graham Harrop has a new comic strip on GoComics.The Ten Cats creator and editorial cartoonist premiered UFO on July 11, 2023. From a GoComics introductory post: “UFO” by Graham Harrop follows two duck brothers, Quagmire and Melrose, who were abducted from Earth and whisked away to Planet UFO. There, they run a two-star hotel for […]
If we’re going to talk about subjective reality, we might as well begin where the term was hatched, in the world of recreational drugs. The term was a joke, not a theory, and Joe Heller addresses the objective reality, which is that less-than-recreational drugs have fully permeated our society such that having a small bag […]
When it comes to current continuity comic strips it sometimes becomes difficult to keep track of the plot and story development. That is where Joseph Nebus’ What’s Going On In… series becomes a valuable resource. When the Prince Valiant plot takes a detour (not unusual) or The Phantom adventure goes on for months and months […]
Comics and illustration historian and publisher Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. has passed away. “Jim was one of those rare figures in the history of comics, an amateur in the best and most noble sense of the word, a scholar with discriminating taste, a selfless researcher before the internet existed, an historian who helped create a foundation […]
Scott Stantis (Counterpoint) notes another rate hike at the post office, but I’m not fretting over it. I don’t like how the USPS is being kicked around by the privatizers who would love to turn it over to their pals at UPS and Fedex, but the rise in postal rates doesn’t bother me.Well, at least […]
Scott Adams, Mario DeMarco, Jack Lindstrom, Jim Keefe, George Herriman, and the Warner Bros. cartoon studio of Chuck Jones, Michael Maltese, Maurice Noble, Ken Harris, Ben Washam, Lloyd Vaughn, et al.That Other Scott Adams Comic StripA Butler Eagle reader advocates for the return of Scott Adams. While we can’t help with that we can, with […]
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 […]