There’s not much to say about the place of truth and illusion in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? without spoilering Edward Albee’s play, which is nearly as mandatory to watch as George Orwell is to read if you want any insights on what’s happening around us today. Let’s just say it deserved the stack of […]

TCM showcased Dick Tracy last night with a few of the detectives movies from the 1940s. Also was a half hour presentation featuring Warren Beatty as himself and as Dick Tracy. Everyone seems to agree that the “interview” was bizarre, so why did it happen? Den of Geek explains: You’d think in the age of […]

If I were going to address politics today — which I am not — I’d have given Scott Stantis the Great Timing Award for dropping this Prickly City (AMS) just as yet another Republican congresscritter appears to have turned in a piece of autobiographical fiction.Alternative facts? The GOP is promoting alternative lives! Or I might […]

Christopher Weyant is an editorial cartoonist for The Boston Globe and Cagle Cartoons, and a magazine cartoonist for The New Yorker (and book illustrator and advertising artist and other graphic endeavors). Strip Search with London & Chianca recently interviewed Chris with a partial transcript appearing on The Boston Globe’s Boston.com website. Excerpt from that transcript: […]

Charlie Hebdo is the French satire magazine mostly famous (infamous?) for printing and reprinting cartoons of Mohammed, though they attack all religions. But their Islamophobia was again on display when, hours after the horrific Turkish-Syrian earthquake that has resulted in over 20,000 dead, Charlie Hebdo produced a cartoon joking about the disaster. The cartoon was […]

Prickly City (AMS) has been looking askance at the GOP lately, which would be unremarkable if the strip weren’t a conservative outlet or if we were living in a normal world. However, we’re in a world in which “conservative” seems increasingly to mean going along with the party line. Moving your lips while you cling […]

CBR (aka Comic Book Resources) creates dozens of lists every day. Yesterday Haiden Sayne created a list enumerating the “15 Best Comic Strips Of All Time.” Walt Kelly’s Pogo, Roy Crane’s Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy, Gary Larson’s The Far Side, and Milton Caniff’s Terry and the Pirates didn’t make the list. Neither did Stephan […]

It occurred to me yesterday that I’d missed the anniversary of Comic Strip of the Day, which began 13 years ago Monday with this Ink Pen, a strip about a talent agency for cartoon animals which is no longer active but can still be read at GoComics.It also occurred to me that I don’t much […]

Cartoonist Chris Browne has passed away. Christopher Kelly (Chris) Browne May 16, 1952 – February 4, 2023 Update from the obituary: Chris Browne, illustrator of the internationally-syndicated comic strip Hagar the Horrible, died here on February 4, 2023, after a long illness. He was 70 years old. Christopher Kelly Browne was born in South Orange, […]

A few updates to some items posted this past week about cartoonists Dan Martin, Mike Marland, and Barbara Brandon-Croft. Two days ago we reported on Dan Martin retiring from The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. That same day Dan wrote a farewell column to his readers at that paper. In 1980, I knew the journalism business was […]

Seven years ago Bob Englehart and The Hartford Courant parted ways, since then Bob has continued as a freelance political cartoonist syndicated by Cagle Cartoons. Now Bob is again associated with a newspaper. From the Associated Press coverage of a new newspaper startup (via The Arkansas Democrat Gazette): WINSTED, Conn. — At age 88, Ralph […]

Cartoon coverage of last night’s State of the Union Address began in advance, and Scott Stantis (Counterpoint) echoed the Clay Bennett cartoon featured here yesterday: The State of the Union is disunion.Reasonable people can disagree, but, then again, reasonable people can also agree, and, while Stantis and Bennett are from opposite sides of the aisle, […]

Editorial cartoonist Kevin Necessary has chosen to leave his occasional spot in The Cincinnati Enquirer (Gannett) behind as he concentrates on other venues for his artistic talents. Kevin informed us of his decision on Twitter and Facebook: Some personal news: I’m taking a brief hiatus from editorial cartoons to focus on a new illustration project. […]

I wish I could disagree with Clay Bennett (CTFP), but, yeah, that’s pretty much the State of the Union, and the only quibble I can add is that the pieces might perhaps be more bent from being pounded into places where they don’t fit.But maybe he’s right. Maybe the pieces fit perfectly without spelling out […]

This fun doesn’t come until Wednesday. Wednesday is a very important day! It’s the day Animation Resources is launching its Member Appreciation Month. This year’s event is extra important, because this year marks our 10th anniversary and our 50th Reference Pack! In honor of all this, Animation Resources has pulled out all the stops to […]