Giving a shout-out to Crankshaft. For shedding light on evil authoritarian figures who are trying to keep people away from the trees of knowledge. They always have been and remain an affliction on society. It does my heart good to see a kid pick up a newspaper.Young people and newspapers in Big Nate. While the […]
Yesterday was National Dog Day or some such, but I posted too early to realize it, so I’ll compensate with some canine humor today, starting with a bit of truth from The Other Coast (Creators).Indestructible dog toys are largely an issue of trial and error. I’ve seen dogs eviscerate a toy, yank out the squeaker […]
St. Petersburg Times staff artist and illustrator Joe Tonelli has passed away. Joseph Felix (Joe) Tonelli November 19, 1926 – August 12, 2023Joe was staff artist at The St. Petersburg Times from 1962-1993, at times the chief staff artist.From the obituary: Recognizing his exceptional talent, his parents allowed him to ride a city bus to […]
So yesterday I’m scrolling through Facebook when among the innumerable “suggested for you” posts comes a comic panel so I linger over it – the one below on the left. While it wasn’t a high resolution scan the cartoonist’s name seemed to be blurred even more than the rest of the image. It is of […]
We might as well begin with the silly part, though our current situation is a mix of silly and deadly. Ed Hall is hardly the only person getting a laugh out of Trump’s self-reported dimensions of 6’3″ and 215 pounds, as recorded in his Georgia booking document.A Twitter account called CalltoActivism did a comparison of […]
Political cartoonists took up their pens to offend the powerful and defend the downtrodden as soon as the first publishers began hand-cranking newspapers through their printing presses in the 18th century. Benjamin Franklin created his own political art to fire up the American Revolution. So did Paul Revere. Now, two-and-a-half centuries later, with thousands of […]
On September 13, 2022, as part of the Lee Enterprises newspaper group, the Daily Journal of Park Hill, Missouri, on orders from headquarters, switched out their long running comics for the new standard Lee half-page: Two months ago Lee sold The Daily Journal to Better Newspapers, Inc. From Editor & Publisher: Greg Hoskins’ Better Newspapers […]
The cartoons of Pulitzer Prize winning Clifford K. Berryman are featured in three free e-books issued by The National Archives (in one of them Clifford shares the spotlight with his Pulitzer Prize-winning son Jim Berryman). Each book features a high resolution cartoon per page with a sentence giving the date and the event depicted. Also […]
Harry Burton offers one of a surprisingly few cartoon takes on Donald Trump’s mugshot, but I think he gets it right: What ought to be a moment of at least reflection if not humiliation turns into another promotional opportunity.The mugshot itself has been all over the Intertubes, mostly with people thinking it will speak for […]
Felix the Cat was created by Pat Sullivan in 1919 and became the animated superstar of the 1920s. The public’s desire for all thing Felix led to lucrative licensing early on – in 1923 it led to a comic strip. William Randolph Hearst, hoping to cash in on the cat’s popularity, signed on to distribute […]
Peter Evans notes his 28th year with The (Key Biscayne) Islander News. This month marks my 28th year as the editorial cartoonist for Islander News. There’s a saying among some ink-stained wretches – “If you’re not upsetting someone, you’re not doing your job.” That’s not the point of cartoons, but it’s often a result. Editorial […]
Confession: I didn’t watch last night’s debate. There were several reasons:One was that it didn’t appear to be on television here. The listings showed some baking contest and it occurred to me that I could record that and see if it turned out to be the debates, or if it turned out to be more […]
The Phantom and The Muppets from the 1980s; Paul Bunyan from the early 20th Century, comic strip lettering from later in the 1900s; and the first Peanuts TV animation.Hermes Press, the publisher of The Complete Phantom Dailies, missed an episode between Volume 29 and Volume 30. For those who didn’t keep track of our first […]
After a continuous newspaper run of 102 years the Australian comic strip Ginger Meggs has ended.The strip began November 13, 1921 as a Sunday-only feature in The (Sydney Sunday) Sun titled Us Fellers.From the New South Wales State Library: The plot of the ‘Us Fellers’ strip had initially revolved round the activities of Gladsome Gladys, a sweet and pretty little girl whose […]
My situation with Arlo and Janis (AMS) isn’t so much that I needed to choose some particular strips from the current arc but, rather, how I needed to pick the right moment to sound the alert to what’s looking like a major shift. It looks, for sure, like it’s time now.I was pleased to see […]