“Founded in 1934 by the Press Club of Atlantic City, the National Headliner Awards program is one of the oldest and largest annual contests recognizing journalistic merit in the communications industry.”The National Headliner Awards have announced the winners for 2023. Clay Bennett was chosen as The Award winner for editorial cartoon material appearing in 2022. […]
John Hart Studio gag writer-colorist-letterer Perri Hart has passed away.From the obituary: Perri Hart, 65, photographer, comedy writer, artist, painter, beer drinker, world traveler, wannabe stand-up comic, die-hard life-long New York Yankee fan, and friend to everyone she met, passed away peacefully on April 8th at Mercy House in Endicott. Perri was predeceased by her […]
Lady Justice is getting a workout on editorial pages in the wake of the E. Jean Carroll verdict, and I particularly like Bill Bramhall’s take, because he repeats Trump’s claim in a new context. He is obviously, clearly lying when he continues to claim not knowing Carroll, and he’s certainly getting to know Justice, if […]
Rex Morgan, M.D. by Nick Dallis (as Dal Curtis) and Marvin Bradley & Frank Edgington debuted May 10, 1948. Below is the first week of dailies (the Sunday page would begin a month later on June 13, 1948). The original creators would stay on the strip for around 30 years. The last half of the […]
featuring Ted Richards, Nate Neal, Duane Abel, Jenny Campbell, Tony Husband, and Ben Oda.The Comics Journal has a Ted Richards obituary by John Kelly with a lengthy detour into the Air Pirates cooperative. It is post scripted by a number of remembrances about Ted. From Gilbert Shelton: Ted Richards was an outstanding underground cartoonist. We […]
This week, Frazz (AMS) reminds me that I spent most of the summer of 1958 having my fighter plane shot down. There was a huge swing set in our neighborhood — three swings built on a majestic steel frame — and so Bobby and Keith and I would declare what planes we were flying (I […]
In the 1990s Dave Blazek and John Gilpin were working for the Philadelphia Inquirer when they thought it would be a good idea to combine their talents, Gilpin as artist and Blazek as humorist, and try out a comic panel. According to sources the panel began 25 years and a couple weeks ago. I couldn’t […]
The 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalists and winners were announced today. For the category of Illustrated Reporting and Commentary the finalists were Matt Davies, of Newsday, Long Island, N.Y. Mona Chalabi, Contributor, The New York Times Pia Guerra, contributor, The Washington Postand the winner is Mona Chalabi, contributor, The New York TimesFor striking illustrations that combine […]
Cartoonist Sam Gross has passed away. Saturday Review, Argosy, True, Good Housekeeping, Rogue, Gent, Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, Playboy, Penthouse, Punch, Harvard Business Review, Parenting Magazine, Smokers Magazine, The American Bystander, Comopolitan, and so on. And, of course, The New Yorker. Jason Chatfield in his paean to Sam: I’m devastated to hear that today, one […]
Discussion in the comments section the other day revealed quite a bit of confusion around the term “pun” and the term “shaggy dog story.” I promised to try to straighten it out today, and, by sheer luck, Pearls Before Swine (AMS) offered not only a festival of puns on Sunday but skipped its usual last-panel […]
A number of Lee Enterprises newspapers have published a boilerplate statement informing their readers that, come June 6, the print edition of the paper will change its publication and delivery schedules while expanding its content. From The McDowell News: … With all of that in mind, and in an effort to preserve the excellent local […]
The Dunkirk (NY) Observer began carrying a new weekly comic strip on Sunday May 7, 2023. Caleb Spell, creator of Little Mice comics is a 13-year-old homeschool student and resident of Dunkirk … and has loved comics ever since he was first introduced to Mutts by Patrick McDonnell around age 8. He started drawing his […]
Walt Handelsman pings a continuing annoyance here. It’s not a “pet peeve.” A pet peeve is people who write “if it was” when they mean “if it were.” It’s wrong and it’s ignorant, but it’s harmless.Equating national budget issues with family budgets is generally wrong and ignorant, but it’s far from harmless because it misleads […]
Writer-illustrator-humorist Bruce McCall has passed away. William Grimes at The New York Times reported the loss: Bruce McCall, whose satirical illustrations for National Lampoon and The New Yorker conjured up a plutocratic dream world of luxury zeppelin travel, indoor golf courses and cars like the Bulgemobile Airdreme, died on Friday in the Bronx. He was […]
Bruce MacKinnon, of the Halifax Chronicle Herald, was awarded the National Newspaper Award for 2022 in the Editorial Cartooning category. The National Newspaper Awards celebrate “the best in Canadian journalism.” It is Bruce’s eighth win. Michael de Adder (Halifax Chronicle Herald/Toronto) and Serge Chapleau (La Presse) were finalists.