I don’t know how things are working in Ireland, but the couple in this Graeme Keyes cartoon would have to die quickly if they were Americans. The soaring prices of housing have, indeed, barred many people from homeownership, though much of it is the massive chunk of change required for a down payment.But I’d suggest […]
The Scranton Sunday Times features a profile of current Prince Valiant writer Mark Schultz on the front page (but below the fold). Scranton Times-Tribune staff writer Jim Lockwood interviews Mark about his comics career in general and his years writing Prince Valiant in particular. “Basically what we’re try to do now is just not screw […]
That’s four color comics, not four-color comics.The Prescott Daily Courier will shrink its Sunday Color Comics print section to four comics beginning next week. The Daily Courier informed their readers of “a new comics format” beginning February 5: Today, Jan. 29, will be the last day The Daily Courier will offer its full section of […]
(Jack Ohman)(Dave Granlund)(Ann Telnaes)The New Confederacy — those folks who don’t have the cojones to secede but are determined to overthrow the nation from within — present these three cartoonists with an asked-and-answered set up. As Ohman notes, Speaker McCarthy has barred Adam Schiff from the House Intelligence Committee for having betrayed the Orange God […]
The Return of Philbert Phountain Phil Fountain is a pseudonym for ANC’s prodigal cartoonist, Philbert Phountain, who has recently returned from a working hiatus where he served as the lead fact-checker for George Santos. After a lengthy sabbatical cartoonist Phil Fountain has returned to the political battlefield of Northern California contributing to A News Cafe. […]
Adam Zyglis explains the ongoing outrage factor, in which the Republicans work to rile up the public over dubious threats while quietly enacting real ones. Coming up with phony reasons to restrict voting rights is a core goal, but hardly the only one: It’s also reported that, while GOP legislators are fuming over the prospect […]
I wonder how he did it. How did Brian Crane, creator of the comic strip “Pickles,” sneak into our house and set up listening devices to capture the conversations between my husband and me so he could chronicle our lives in his strip? Stefanie Pettit, for The Spokesman-Review, is wowed by the realism displayed by […]
The whole world is indeed watching, and, as Andy Marlette (Creators) suggests, the outrageous number of mass shootings in this country is becoming part of our brand. I don’t know how Germans feel about being associated with beer, and my favorite Mexican restaurants don’t feature mariachi music, but it seems Americans buy into our macho, […]
By 1948 Frank Godwin (b. 1889) had spent a good 40 years as a respected and requested illustrator for newspapers, magazines, books, and advertisers. Beginning in 1924 (Vignettes of Life) he became an impressive presence on newspaper comics pages, creating a famous twelve year run illustrating Connie (1929-1941). After Connie he gave up the grind […]
I wasn’t looking for anything too brain-involved today, and so the predictable foolishness of Sherman’s Lagoon (AMS) seemed just right. But even the funny stuff involves thought.Example: “Predictable foolishness” is different than repetitive or monotonous foolishness. There are all sorts of strips which simply repackage the same few gags in different settings. “Predictable foolishness,” however, […]
I got my rant on yesterday, but The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee has me thiiiis close to going off on 21st Century Cracker Jack prizes. Also yesterday I made a scene about the lack of spotting blacks, but today we are here not to bury but praise Patrick McDonnell’s Mutts where “negative space” is […]
Mike Luckovich becomes one of the first cartoonists to add Mike Pence to the list of administration officials who have purloined classified documents.I use the word “purloined” because it has something of a vague definition. It still means to steal, but is more along the lines of “pilfer” and thus can fall more in the […]
The comics page has returned to The Washington County (Wis.) Daily News and The Waukesha Freeman. A while back a reader described to me how she felt about the Comics Page we once had in the paper. She saw it as the “fun page” — a daily destination to find content on the lighter side. […]
…And maybe some grayscale. Reading a daily comics page in black and white I was struck by gray toning in today’s Rose is Rose. The amount of not-white was a pleasant change.Dare I say that most of the daily comics in newspapers are now colorized? And so cartoonists seem to have forsaken the practice of […]
Kevin Siers plays upon all the cartoons over the past week or so about the coming of the Year of the Rabbit by pointing out that, whatever traditions may prevail in other countries, of rabbits or tigers or whathaveyou, we have an unchanging tradition here:We kill each other.The image of the Wild West was greatly […]