Life between the ages of 15 and 20 seems purposely geared to be annoying. In my case, those years coincided with Get Smart, which Jack Davis drew here and it’s always fun to feature his work.Get Smart itself, however, began as a clever sitcom but then became repetitive and predictable, which would have been okay […]
For ten days, until August 17, 2023, the University Press of Mississippi is putting its books on sale at 40% off! This is the time to fill in any gaps in your UPM library of comics related books. The brand new Jack Kent biography – 40% off ($59.40 hardcover, $15.00 paperback).The almost brand new Blockheads, […]
Brewster Rockit (Tribune) surprised me the other day, because there’s nothing wrong, or particularly odd, about mixing peanut butter and jalapenos. Elder son used to scoop out the seeds, stuff the raw pepper with peanut butter and choff it on down, and I’ll admit it’s a tasty snack, though I’ve got a rule about only […]
David Harper from 2019: I’ve discovered many comics I love through the Anchorage Public Library’s incredible comic collection, as they have an immense assortment of manga, hugely popular titles like Saga and The Walking Dead, comics from the wider European continent like Blacksad and The Incal, indie fare like Duncan the Wonder Dog and Giant Days, […]
Candorville (KFS) offered this portrait of fact-free criticism Sunday, and not only did the familiarity bring a chuckle, but it happened to coincide with both a discussion here about conservative cartoonists and an email exchange with two other cartoonists, who pondered the question of whether conservative commentators have bothered to read the indictments against Donald […]
Because of my contrary nature I get giddy when I see cartoonists screw with the people laying out The Sunday Funnies. Any number of Sunday comic strips are reliably laid out in a nine panel grid making it possible for certain strips to be run vertically down the side of a page. Like Blondie, The […]
The National Society of Newspaper Columnists has announced the winners of their 2023 Columnist Contest for work published in 2022. They named Sage Stossel, of The Boston Globe, as the winner in the Editorial Cartooning category. Submissions consisted of five cartoons, below is the one the NSNC highlighted on their presentation video: Honorable Mention went […]
For those who are time-shifting the Women’s Cup, I’ll simply offer Zapiro’s celebratory cartoon from this past week without further commentary, since Bafana Bafana’s entry into the elimination round has already been played. I’m waiting until I file this to find out how the Americans did against Sweden, which is likely wrapping up now, but […]
Based on your social media feeds, you might think that political cartoonists are exclusively wild-eyed, merciless critics of former President Donald Trump. But you’d be wrong. Not wrong about political cartoonists being a bunch of wild-eyed, merciless critics, but off-base about political cartoonists being unanimous in their condemnation of Trump. Liberal cartoonist Mike Thompson talks […]
Bob Staake, Mick Stevens, Paul Karasik, Max Fleischer, Peanuts, and The Nib.********** Staake has publicly rejected the idea that he has a “style” — his works are too different, he says, his way too experimental. But every piece in the show, he admits, looks like a Bob Staake. “There’s something hiding in the background,” he […]
My hip replacement has had the pleasant timing to have occurred during the Women’s World Cup. While I’m still pushing my walker around the apartment, I have had the chance to watch a lot of soccer, or, as Stephen Collins and three-quarters of the rest of the world would call it, football.Unlike Brian, I like […]
Bill Messner-Loebs’s work in comics was beloved by fans for many years, but the circumstances of his life—illness and injuries—have conspired to make things financially quite difficult. Recently out of the hospital, Bill and his wife are now facing eviction. You can read the brutal details of his medical and legal situation in his own […]
Publisher, cartoonist, artist Jim Adcock has passed away. James Bentley (Jim) Adcock June 12, 1948 – July 19, 2023From the obituary: Jim said he could not remember a time when he didn’t want to be an artist. Though he had the brains and heart to conquer any discipline, he had scores of stories about the […]
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 […]