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Steve Breen (Creators) seems to have the best take on what just happened: A crisis was averted, and both sides can take some kudos for having swallowed a bit of pride for the common good, but, then again, the matter has only been set aside and not permanently addressed.As noted here yesterday, the media was […]
As was mentioned regarding Mike’s column today Arlo and Janis heard a little-known factoid the other day. Obituaries for Newton Minow, who passed away last month, mentioned that the boat from the Gilligan’s Island TV show was named after the former FCC Chairman as a sly dig. From Reuters: Television producer Sherwood Schwartz still did […]
I wish I thought this Arlo & Janis (AMS) were the sign of a coming revolution, but I’m not that naive.I’m also not sure whose fault it is, and perhaps the answer to that is that it’s been a group effort. Looking back, it seems that every major invention in communications — radio, TV, the […]
Alison Bechdel informs us that it was 40 years ago this month that the July/August 1983 issue of WomaNews was released. That issue was where her Dykes to Watch Out For first appeared. …or forty years ago this month, anyway, that I published my first Dykes To Watch Out For cartoon in the Pride issue […]
When I saw this morning’s Prickly City (AMS), I thought it was going to win the “Bad Timing” award, dropping, as it did, the morning after the House preserved the nation’s credit rating, pending Senate approval which seems a lead pipe cinch.Of course, we still have to see how Wall Street responds to the deal […]
Vincent D. Faletti began cartooning while serving in the Armed Forces during World War 2. Returning home to Michigan he continued cartooning for the Saginaw News by creating the weekly Saga of Saginaw from 1946-47. He continued as a freelance cartoonist contributing to The New Yorker, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, American Redbook, Ladies’ Home […]
Jack Ohman (Tribune) scores what I guess you could call a “pen drop” with this summation of the deal struck between Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy. While the President and the Speaker reached what used to be considered a sensible compromise on the debt ceiling and coming budget, they’re both surrounded by problems.And Ohman offers […]
Going down a wormhole chasing something unrelated I stumbled onto today’s Aspen Times editorial-opinion page where I found Frank Hansen who was new to me. But I liked his style so…That led me to Cagle Cartoons, like it says in that there cartoon, where I found that Frank has been drawing occasional editorial cartoons for […]
A follow-up from yesterday: Paul Berge’s page is always an excellent place to learn about the past in editorial cartooning, and he offers this William Ceperley cartoon from 1923 as proof that we aren’t the first generation to turn Memorial Day into a picnic rather than a solemn observation. Which only scratches the surface, given […]
The Washington Post Writers Group syndicate is down to two cartoonists and three comics, none of which are widely seen in print. Of the trio Fort Knox by Paul Jon Boscacci seems to be the comic with the largest print circulation. A search at newspapers.com brings up 10 newspapers in March and April of 2023 […]
Frazz (AMS) got it right, amid a flood of more traditional Memorial Day cartoons. We aren’t required to mourn throughout the full three days, and, as Caulfield says, it’s a weekend full of distractions as it marks the beginning of summer.As Frazz himself observes, it still works. A lot of people will, at some point, […]
MIssed it last Sunday so here, a week late, is the historic anniversary of Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World printing that paper’s first color comic Sunday supplement. The first Sunday Funnies?From American Comics: A History by Jeremy Dauber: The first color comic supplement appeared in the World on May 21, 1893, available on newsprint for […]
Candorville (KFS) often blurs the lines between its main character, Lemont Brown, and its creator, Darrin Bell, but Bell’s latest book, “The Talk,” is indeed being published by a traditional publishing house. That link also lists his tour stops, and it’s good to have your publisher send you out on tour. An author friend of […]
Steve Breen of The San Diego Union-Tribune took first, second, and third place for 2022 editorial cartoons from the California News Publishers Association in the Dailies (50,001 & over) category. George Russell also took 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in the Dailies(15,000 and under), while Ben Fishel ran all three places in the Dailies (15,001-50,000) category. […]