[W]hen Pulitzer Prize-winner Steve Sack decided to retire last year after four decades at [The Minneapolis Star Tribune], Opinion Editor Scott Gillespie decided to buck industry trends and announced he had an opinion position to fill: editorial cartoonist. “I would see some job postings at our newspaper, and I would think, ‘That’s important, and I […]
Mike Rhode is a general comics scholar with a particular interest in Washington, D. C. cartoonists as revealed through his Comics DC blog (and, full disclosure, is a friend of The Daily Cartoonist). Yesterday Mike went on a three part self-described “rant” about The Washington Post’s recent treatment of comics and cartoons appearing in the […]
Ed Wexler poses the question of whether Dianne Feinstein learned anything from the results of Ruth Bader Ginsburg lingering on the court so long that Donald Trump got to choose her successor. The answer is “Apparently not,” because Ginsburg was mentally sharp right to the end, while Feinstein has reportedly been less so, needing prompts […]
A belated Happy Birthday to cartoonist Sidney Harris who turned 90 years old last Monday. Having been born on May 8, 1933 Sidney is now entitled to be part of The Daily Cartoonist’s Senior Strippers society.Magazine cartoonist Sidney Harris has had his cartoons appear in Playboy, The New Yorker, The Magazine of Science Fiction and […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for May 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Absent from the April accounting: Now to the May releases… Another absentee from the April annals: A highlight of the May releases:
Might as well start with the one for which I have no answer. Patrick Blower explores the future of the British Museum, assuming they give in to demands that looted artefacts be returned.My immediate reaction is that important artefacts should, indeed, be returned, but there’s nothing wrong with exhibiting a coin or a pot, which, […]
Following are a few items saved for a rainy day – though here in California, except for the higher altitudes and latitudes, rainy days are pretty much gone for a couple seasons. Thomas Yeates‘ new title panel for Prince Valiant‘s new adventure appeared April 16, 2023. It was announced Ann Telnaes had won the 2023 […]
Scott Stantis seems to be catching up on some hostility for ex-Mayor Lori Lightfoot, in a cartoon that ran shortly after Chicago’s recent elections but well after she was primaried out in February. However, he’s commenting on a long-term problem and I’m catching up on some slightly wilting political events, so we’ll call it even.Stantis […]
Weeks after finding out that Counterpoint Media had taken on Rudy Park we now discover, again months late, that Counterpoint has taken on distributing Barney & Clyde to newspapers. The switch from the Washington Post Writers Group happened in February. The daily strip first ran with the Counterpoint imprint on February 6, 2023; the Sundays […]
Ed Hall points out the need to not look away. I appreciate, on one hand, the people who said of the CNN Town Hall that they had to turn it off, but I hope that meant they were going to make sure to vote and to speak up even in groups that don’t echo their […]
Every second Saturday in May, letter carriers in more than 10,000 cities and towns across America collect the goodness and compassion of their postal customers, who participate in the NALC Stamp Out Hunger National Food Drive — the largest one-day food drive in the nation. The National Association of Letter Carriers and the National Rural […]
Wednesday’s CNN Town Hall wasn’t quite as transformative as Chip Bok (Creators) paints it, but it certainly demonstrated the media shakeup in progress. But note the “How could you?” look on Fox’s face and the “Dear Lord” look on CNN’s. Rightwingers have been excoriating Fox for its recent failure to promote Dear Leader incessantly, faithfully […]
Dick Tracy Hall of Famer Profiled HAMPTON — Local police officer Haley Magee, who was honored last year for rescuing a trapped driver from a burning vehicle, just made the Dick Tracy Hall of Fame. …As part of the comic, [Lt. Walter] Reimer nominates real-life police officers to be featured at the beginning of the […]
The Laconia Daily Sun celebrated the addition of a “new” comic strip to their paper with a banner headline on the front page right below the masthead. While the article touts the local ties of the comic strip’s creator it never mentions the “current” creators of the comic strip that appears on the paper’s comics […]
Arlo and Janis (AMS) have spent a delightful week or so griping about modern times, and this one hit a particular nerve, because I see cars with touchscreens on the dashboard and wonder if that’s any more or less a hazard than a hand-held phone, the use of which is illegal here and in quite […]