On Wednesday The Quad City Times published a cartoon by Leo Kelly taking a swipe at MAGA racism, but the cartoon invoked a Simpsons character whose name has become offensive to many and so the tables were turned with the newspaper and the cartoonist being accused of racism.The cartoon came to presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s […]
This is a “Where do I begin?” day, because I have a file full of worthwhile cartoons, including a new one by Lee Judge (KFS).In his latest substack, Kareem admits that, when he was young and naive, he thought voters were eager to learn about issues and make intelligent choices. But as he grew older, […]
Continuing Heritage Auction 7340 into day two. Among those offered here was a Prince Valiant Sunday by Hal Foster (#1092, January 12, 1958) that went for #24,000.00 and a how-to-draw-the-human-body-the-Hogarth-way Tarzan Sunday page by Burne Hogarth (#868, October 26, 1947) that cost $20,400.00. Two George Herriman Krazy Kat Sundays. The March 28, 1920 one features […]
Spectickles by Bill Abbott is one example of many comics taking a beating due to large newspaper owners demanding all the papers in their group run a unified comics page. When Lee Enterprises ordered all their newspapers to run the same ten comics last September the Spectickles panel was forced out of The Buffalo News, […]
Patrick Blower isn’t the only one roped in by an international fraud.The notion that kids were “identifying” as animals began with an intentional lie in this country some years ago and, when it resurfaced last summer, it was almost immediately slapped down as transphobic propaganda. There were no kids who thought they were cats, there […]
The first stage of Heritage Auction 7340, which are lots of original comic art, has ended. The auction included a couple Calvin and Hobbes dailies by Bill Watterson, the 1986 issue went for $174,000.00 while the 1987 issue went for $156,000.00. The big piece involved was a Frank Frazetta Dark Kingdom painting that cost the […]
Dan Rosen echoes a gripe I’ve gone on about before: Don’t ask me to pay your staff. And, if you don’t pay your staff adequately, don’t ask me to believe you would distribute tips honestly. Nearly every business in town has “help wanted” signs out. Get your act together.But this cartoon hit at a different […]
Jim Davis, Shena Wolf, Bob Swaim, Jamie Smith, Barbara Dale, plus awards and books.Here’s some items about cartoonists from the last week of Spring. Garfield is celebrating his 45th birthday this week, so the GoComics crew interviewed creator Jim Davis. Do you have a favorite strip that you’ve created? If yes, what one? Yes. nearly […]
Henry Barajas and Tribune Content Agency have come to terms and Henry re-signs as Gil Thorp scripter.Henry Barajas has mentioned that last year when he took on plotting and scripting chores for the Gil Thorp comic strip he had a one year contract. It seems that has been extended as The Chicago Tribune welcomes him […]
We’ll start our discussion of priorities here, as Steve Brodner poses the question.Others have chided people for chortling over drowning billionaires, and that is a fair objection, but it’s also a bit of a red herring, at least in Brodner’s view. We ought not to chortle over anyone’s death, and, while it’s fair to ask […]
Michael P. Ramirez, award winning editorial cartoonist for The Las Vegas Review-Journal, has quietly been contributing weekly cartoons to the Washington Post since May 29, 2023. The Washington Post for years has printed cartoons from a wide variety of cartoonists and labeled them “guest editorial cartoons,” those included Michael’s Review-Journal toons. But these weekly opinions […]
I wasn’t going to do politics today, but Michael Ramirez (Creators) inspires me to share a little of my process.I get up around 3:45 each morning, let the dog out, make coffee and scroll through Reliable Sources on the days it’s available, then my Facebook and Twitter pages. If people there are going on about […]
Three court sketch artists were present in Miami on June 13 when former President Trump sat in Federal Court to hear the indictments brought against him. Most people had no problem with two of the artists. Elizabeth Williams (above) and Jane Rosenberg (below) passed the masses’ muster. But William J. Hennessy, Jr.‘s sketches brought some […]
After a decade as a struggling cartoonist, minus a couple years as a World War I doughboy, Frank Willard found his meal ticket with a “vulgar” character in the tradition of Mutt and Jeff and, more explicitly, Barney Google (which Willard had spent some time assisting on during those earlier ten years). Moon Mullins debuted […]
First today, we’ll address a political/environmental crisis of great importance. First Dog on the Moon, whom I would trust with something or other, probably, reports that Brenda reports that the attacks on boats by orcas in the North Atlantic are a case of jumping the gun on what was intended to be a wider movement.And […]