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 […]

“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 […]