New Yorker cover artist Ian Falconer has passed away.Ian Woodward Falconer August 25, 1959 – March 7, 2023 From The New York Times: He was a stage designer noted for his work in opera when he hit the best-seller list in 2000 with the first in a series of books for children. Ian Falconer, who […]
Life is good, and I’m well past midlife, as depicted in this Non Sequitur (AMS). As for my mojo, either it’s gone or it’s become so fully embedded that I don’t fret over it. I do miss malls, though. I don’t think anyone is building them anymore and most of the ones I’ve seen lately […]
Some cartoonist and comic strip histories from during and before our lifetime. Jeffrey Lindenblatt returns to Stripper’s Guide with the 1991 stats for comic strips and panels that appeared in his survey of 300 newspapers (down to 268 dailies for 1991). In the Top 30 spots, Calvin and Hobbes continued its climb moving one spot […]
The Washington Post editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes was awarded the Herblock Prize for 2023. From the Herb Block Foundation announcement (with the submission portfolio): Ann Telnaes creates editorial cartoons in various mediums — animation, visual essays, live sketches and traditional print — for The Washington Post. Judges comments: Ann Telnaes’ combination of expertly-crafted renderings and […]
Today is International Women’s Day, though you wouldn’t know it by looking through American cartoons. Ah well, don’t feel bad: I didn’t see any among the British cartoons, either. Which doesn’t mean there weren’t any, but, if there were, they were hiding very well.Meanwhile, Fiona Katauskas explains why it isn’t a bigger deal in Australia. […]
A New Comic Strip Lum and Abner cartoonist Donnie Pitchford has created a new comic strip called A New Comic Strip! Donnie’s introduction at that Lum and Abner link: This is a new “bigfoot” sci-fi strip in daily format, although don’t look for it six times a week! The best I can manage right now […]
Cartoonist Gary Varvel was the keynote speaker at a local Republican function.From The Greenfield Daily Reporter: The award-winning syndicated editorial cartoonist who spent 24 years at the Indianapolis Star was the keynote speaker at the Hancock County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner at Adaggios Banquet Hall late last Friday. He was joined by GOP officials […]
Marc Murphy may not be polite, but that doesn’t mean he’s wrong. The 2023 CPAC Conference was something of a damp squib, which was a surprise given the prominence it once commanded in the media, if not in actually influencing, rather than simply echoing, Republican politics.Is the echo still there? That’s the big question.To be […]
Sources tell TDC that former Andrews McMeel Universal President John Glynn has been hired by King Features Syndicate. John will help with creator relations and feature development for the New York-based syndicate. He started Friday, March 3.John was with AMU for 20 years starting as Associate Editor and rising to President and Editorial Director replacing Lee Salem at Andrews […]
Darrin Bell, Bill Holbrook, Liniers, Bianca Xunise, and editor Tea Fougner are some of the King Features people that Associated Press reporter Mark Kennedy talked to about their comics page neighbor’s racist remarks.Darrin Bell is the opening focus of the article: “The only reason anyone knows who Scott Adams is because of the comics page. […]
Macanudo often gets philosophical, and here, Henrietta echoes Heraclitus, who famously said “No man ever steps in the same river twice.” Forests really do change, and quite quickly, despite how long specific trees themselves can last. Some of those old trees die, new trees spring up and the ground cover is in constant flux. The […]
I’m not sure that Hector and Carlos took obsessive-compulsives like me into consideration with today’s Baldo. I’m the kind of guy that will look up those issues of MAD and find that the back covers are wrong for issues #180 (January 1976) and #159 (June 1973). Then, of course, I had find where Castellanos grabbed […]
Aislin lays out the threat Tik Tok poses: As a Chinese-owned company, there’s a strong suspicion that the Chinese government could tap into user accounts.It’s a pretty wide reach, according to Statista, though I note their chart of the top audiences doesn’t include Aislin’s native Canada. (8.3 million, out of a total population of 38 […]
Dan Davis is lucky, he gets to make a living by doing what he loves – drawing comics. Of course it helps to have a skill set that has allowed him to do that for nearly forty years. Around these parts he is known as the artist of Crankshaft and a penciller for Garfield. Davis […]
It’s National Grammar Day, and Day By Dave (AMS) celebrates it by dragging fingernails across a blackboard. Using “should of” for “should have” is not a grammatical error, dammit. It’s a usage error. Or, if you really want to shut them up, point out that it’s a case of catachresis. And note, that, as it […]