xkcd is a dependable source for mindbending scientific concepts, but I was way ahead of them on this one. It’s the type of “I knew that” which makes you feel good, because the response is “Wouldn’t it be great if more people knew that?”Back in 2006, I wrote a newspaper series for kids called “Stories […]
Yesterday in the Cartoonist Chat editorial cartoonist Steve Breen broke the news. Today come details.From Steve Breen via X/Twitter: I’m thrilled to announce I’ve joined to team of dedicated journalists at inewsource, a nonprofit, investigative news site here in San Diego. Here’s my first cartoon. Check us out http://inewsource.org From Steve’s Facebook page: I’m thrilled […]
Dave Coverly, Jim Davis, Bill Plympton, J. C. Duffy, Trina Robbins, Georgia Higley, Peter Maresca.Bored Panda regularly features small collections of comics, today it is the syndicated Speed Bump. Bored Panda usually includes a few words from the cartoonist and in this one Dave Coverly is interviewed. “I have to turn in 7 cartoons every […]
Al Goodwyn (Creators) sets the tone for today’s conversation with what seems a damp squib — that is, a firecracker that fizzles. Contrast it to this Lisa Benson cartoon:Benson’s cartoon misfires rather that fizzles: She’s simply wrong that crime and inflation are increasing, and the polls on Biden are argumentative rather than definite. Still, her […]
Let’s start with what The Guardian got wrong – the Steve Bell cartoon was anti-Bibi, not antisemitic. The solution to Israeli’s problem, if there is one, will require a deft and diplomatic negotiator. Netanyahu is not that man, he is a warrior not known for finesse. Steve Bell shows that by picturing Netanyahu attempting a […]
It was the ranchlands of West Texas, rich in prehistoric outcroppings and an air of primeval antiquity, that had given the Iowa-born Hamlin an inspiration for “Alley Oop,” way back during the 1920s. He was based at the Star-Telegram at the time — producing a series called “The Panther Kitten,” a droll chronicle of a […]
Steve Breen, Jack Ohman, and Rob Rogers join in a live chat with Michael Smerconish at 7 pm today. The three cartoonists each provide exclusive content to the Smerconish newsletter every week.
It can’t get much simpler than Megan Herbert‘s illustration. We know what human rights are, and we claim to respect and revere them, and yet we consistently fail to provide them.It’s a bit like the way we save money: We know we should and we certainly want to, and we fully intend to and we’re […]
More missing Vintage Judge Parker strips. Incidentally, the marks at the left edge of several strips here are called “gripper marks” and happen when the paper is being drawn through the press. Glad to see that Maggi is handing Sam a mystery and that this isn’t going to simply be a public service arc about […]
Saturday morning cartoons — like payphones, video rental stores, and TV guides — are one of those cultural touchstones that meant so much to older generations, but are as meaningless as a wireless telegraph to younger ones — gone within a lifetime. The first cartoon to air on a Saturday morning was “Crusader Rabbit,” four-minute-long […]
On Friday, as the BDN news staff paused from covering the manhunt, we started to notice something happening. “I was seeing normal people, friends of mine from outside politics or journalism, sharing that cartoon. It was just poignant,” BDN politics editor Mike Shepherd said. The idea quickly came together to merge Danby’s art with a […]
If I’m going to use a New England-based Halloween pun in the headline, I should start with a New England-based comic, so here’s Wallace the Brave (AMS)‘s landscape of Snug Harbor, RI, to which I would add that social media has been full of wet blanket discussions of what candy is no good, but the […]
Can any one translate the entire message from today’s Free Range?for thing that … was … you … dying because ????? When I look out my windowMany sights to seeAnd when I look in my windowSo many different people to be They’re strange, so strange This ain’t your father’s Gil Thorp. (Must be the season […]
In 1993, the New Yorker published a cartoon featuring two dogs sitting at a computer. With a paw resting on the keyboard, one says to the other: “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”Today, the iconic image still resonates, holding the record as the most reprinted New Yorker cartoon in the magazine’s history. Earlier […]
This is going to be a grumpy day, but let’s start with Jimmy Margulies (KFS)‘s commentary on Mike Johnson’s ascension to the speakership, because at least it made me laugh. Granted, as the emperor in this Oren Bernstein cartoon notes, humor isn’t necessarily a great weapon and it’s not at all required in political cartooning, […]