Dean Wormer may have been a humorless bureaucrat, but the man had a point, and, by the way, Animal House hasn’t really aged very well. Perhaps we’ve become — horrors! — woke to the racist, sexist humor at its core, or maybe we’ve simply outgrown identifying with rich preppies who can afford to spend four […]
More comic strip stuff. Teaser Tuesday Curtis, Crabgrass, and Dick Tracy leave us on tenterhooks as to what will follow this week. As regular readers of Mike Curtis’s Dick Tracy know the Diet Smith resolution may take months. Also waiting to be resolved is the decision of what comic strip The Canberra Times will keep […]
Man Overboard provides our only semi-political observation of the day, and I’m sure there will be more to come after Trump has faced Cannon fire. But let’s have a day of silly things while we wait. Though silly is as silly does (or something) and Mr Boffo reminds me of the lessons I learned at […]
Pearls Before Swine comic strip creator Stephan Pastis is returning to Spokane, Wash. and The Spokesman-Review is celebrating the imminent arrival with a series of article highlighting the cartoonist. Ed Condran speaks to Stephen: It’s about the past, present and future when Stephen Pastis returns Tuesday for a Northwest Passages Book Club event at the […]
Crowden Satz outlines Trump’s approach so far to his indictments. He really hasn’t responded to them so much as insisted that he did nothing wrong — though there’s plenty of evidence that he knows he was breaking the law — and played a game of whataboutism, heavily larded with false accusations about others who have […]
As we reported a month ago Lee Enterprises newspapers are reducing their publication schedule to three days a week. We then didn’t know if other Lee papers would follow suit and jump in. Well, it seems the publisher is going into the pool one toe at a time. A few days after that first group […]
Cartoonist Ellen Keefe-Derby has passed away. From the obituary: Before Ellen moved to California from Marblehead, Massachusetts in 1952 … she worked as a cartoonist for the Elizabeth Woodward column of the Boston Globe and continued doing so for awhile after moving. From 1946 to 1957 Ellen provided header illustrations/cartoons for Elizabeth Woodward’s Column for […]
A few years ago, I was about 10 miles from Camp Lord O’ The Flies on another mission and decided to go have a look at the place to see if anything had changed. It was off-season and all but deserted, but I did get to see one large change, which is that they had […]
Darrin Bell plays with three of his young children as the family heads to the dinner table. As they sit to eat, though, Bell’s 6-year-old son looks up and asks out of curiosity: “Who’s George Floyd?” It is 2020, and Bell and his wife, Makeda, have wondered for several years when to have “the talk” […]
Juxtaposition The Grizzwells follows Grand Avenue in my GoComics feed. Non Sequitur started this week with Petey digging a hole, sequed into defining Occam’s Razor….with Saturday’s denouement going with the exception to the rule: Funny(?) because it’s true. Shoe earlier this week. Pluggers are getting younger. Today’s Pluggers features a song far too recent. Should […]
Gotta give Daniel Boris credit for honesty, though his pre-indictment take is something of a mayfly, posted in the brief period after Trump announced that he was expecting to be charged but before Jack Smith released the actual document a day later.There were plenty of other cartoonists who responded to the rumor of an indictment […]
A memorial will be held for cartoonist Ted Richards tomorrow, June 10, at the S.F. Cartoon Art Museum. Details and registration here. 37½ Year in Private Eye: A Tony Husband Exhibit and Profile. “When I was a hippy I was beaten up by a gang of skinheads,” explained Tony Husband, sat in the bar of […]
In a genuinely post-Civil-War nation, Dennis Draughon’s cartoon wouldn’t be particularly relevant, as we await details of Donald Trump’s indictments and the reaction thereto.But we are currently involved in a Civil War, which makes the removal of Confederate leaders’ names from US military bases relevant overall, and particularly so in the case of General Braxton […]
Editorial Cartoonist David G. Brown and The Los Angeles Sentinel are celebrating a 20 year partnership. For the last 20 years, award-winning artist David G. Brown has enlightened and educated L.A. Sentinel readers with creative political cartoons. His humorous, yet insightful images offer thoughful commentary on pressing issues of the day. Reflecting on his newspaper […]
As Mike Peterson mentioned in his column today, cartoonist Pedro X. Molina has been awarded the Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent 2023 from the Human Rights Foundation (“promot[ing] freedom where it’s most at risk: in countries ruled by authoritarian regimes”). From the announcement: The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is pleased to announce the […]