Andrews McMeel Universal, the distributor of the Dilbert comic strip and publisher of the Dilbert reprint books, has issued a preliminary statement about the recent podcast by cartoonist Scott Adams where he encourages Whites to separate from Blacks. We are disturbed by the personal views recently expressed by Dilbert creator Scott Adams, and do not […]
After the way cartoons have gotten punched around this week — one in particular — First Dog on the Moon‘s take on AI and the art form is particularly solid. I often feel a little guilty featuring the whole thing, and you should realize that he does others I don’t show here and that you […]
The New York Daily News began in 1919 and it took about two years for The New York Sunday News to appear. After about another two years, on February 25, 1923, the paper began running a Sunday color comics supplement. Here is the section from 100 years ago by way of newspapers.com These days the […]
Vladimir Putin has given cartoonists a gift with his long table, which seems to be linked to germaphobia, perhaps a symptom of OCD, perhaps an indication of actual poor health and vulnerability. Rumors about his health abound but are never definitively confirmed nor definitively disputed.Man Overboard takes advantage of the iconic furniture to make a […]
Fallout from Scott Adams’ podcast a couple days ago begins.From Cleveland Plain Dealer editor Chris Quinn: Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, went on a racist rant this week on his Coffee with Scott Adams online video show, and we will no longer carry his comic strip in The Plain Dealer. This is […]
First, a bit of serendipitous timing, as Pros And Cons (KFS) manages to unintentionally comment on the decision by New Mexico authorities to drop the firearm enhancement charge in the case in which Alec Baldwin faces an involuntary manslaughter accusation for the accidental, fatal shooting on the set of a movie.Turns out that, as in […]
Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams: “… the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people.” On his Real Coffee with Scott Adams daily podcast yesterday the cartoonist took the results of a Rasmussen Poll and stretched it to farcical lengths. The Daily Beast reports on the 12 […]
More information about the new editions of the collected Calvin and Hobbes books has been released. The first set of books collecting Bill Watterson’s timeless Calvin and Hobbes comics in a compact, portable format designed to introduce the timeless adventures of a boy and his stuffed tiger to a new generation of readers. Featuring over 500 comics from the strip’s debut […]
There have been additional cartoons about the rewriting of the late Roald Dahl’s books, but, having covered the topic, I’m disinclined to feature anything that doesn’t rise above the norm.Martin Rowson did just that, blending the revisionist literature with Vladimir Putin’s absurd claim that Ukraine started the war. A pair of rubbish rewrites, indeed. There […]
From 100 years ago is an article on the then-current comics scene from the February 1923 Vanity Fair. THE largest group, dealing with married life, reaches its lowest level of painfulness in the series “For Better For Worse”, by Tad, and perhaps its highest level in Briggs’ series “Mr. and Mrs”. It includes such varied […]
In a sane world, Gary Huck‘s cartoon — perhaps transformed into bumperstickers and T-shirts — could be a game changer. They knew. They lied. They played their audience for suckers.In a sane world, the backlash would do more harm to Murdoch’s empire than any penalty handed down in the Dominion lawsuit, as furious MAGA adherents […]
Roger Rosenblatt, writing for The New York Times about the genesis of his and Jules Feiffer‘s new book Cataract Blues, reveals that Jules is suffering from macular degeneration.From Roger’s New York Times article “When an Artist Loses His Sight”: A few years ago, I began having trouble with my vision. Shapes became indistinct, colors muted. […]
Forget Roald Dahl, Dr. Seuss, even Mark Twain, now they are messing with a true classic of literature. Don Rosa’s The Life and Times of Uncle $crooge is having an entire chapter of his biography deleted. The Life and Times of $crooge McDuck according to Wikipedia: The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck (Lo$) is […]
Allan Holtz has turned his Stripper’s Guide over to Alley Oop publisher Chris Aruffo for three days allowing Chris to reveal how he went from Oop fan to Oop publisher. It’s a fascinating story. Chris takes us from reading the comic strip in his newspaper to reading it online to gathering the physical strips in […]
British political cartoonists play rough, but even those like Matt who deal in topical humor have an edge that gives their work some bite. Here he does a concise job of summing up the bowdlerization of the late Roald Dahl’s work.For those who have missed the outcry, the company that owns the rights to Dahl’s […]