I’ve got great news for all you creeps, crooks and conmen of the Panhandle political class. Grab your champagne and pop your corks — the idiot cartoonist is officially leaving the Pensacola News Journal! Yes, editorial cartoonist Andy Marlette announced early this month that he was leaving the paper where he had been employed since […]
Mike Smith (KFS) offers a common though often dubious critique, that the Republicans are flooding us with criticism of the Biden administration without proposing any solutions of their own. I say “dubious” because sometimes an act is so clearly foolish that you only need to point it out; you don’t need to specify the non-foolish […]
Apologies to Sean Cleary and everyone, life got in the way of The Daily Cartoonist today. So other than the already set in motion Hey Kids! Comics! post TDC was forced into the backseat.Anyway… © Patrick McDonnellYes Sean there has been a number of comic characters guest starring in other comic strips this month.And of course […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for September 2022 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Nothing Echoes like an Empty Mailbox (more about the USPS book) Ink, Blood, and Linseed Oil Celebrating 30 Years of Nature’s Favorite […]
I know I got a bigger laff out of this BC (Creators) than I should have, because it happened to me and a very young son while fishing off opposite sides of a canoe. There was much shouting of “Dad! I need help!” and “Not now! Not now!” until it turned out we didn’t need […]
Continuing with a couple topics that partner Peterson touched on this morning.The Return of Brownie the Elf Cleveland Scene reports National Football League’s Cleveland Browns bringing back an old favorite. From a helicopter perch high above the city, Fox 8’s Patty Harken snapped this shot of the Cleveland Browns’ new midfield logo at FirstEnergy Stadium, […]
(Benjamin Slyngstad) (Pat Bagley)Here are two closely related commentaries on the negative response to diversity and inclusion in fantasy productions, but, while closely related, they differ in some interesting ways.Slyngstad rightfully draws his character as a bigot, but the fellow has half a point: Elves, trolls and orcs are all derived from Norse and Germanic folklore, […]
As we hit the week of Lee newspapers’ cuts to their comics pages, we also come to the week that News Corp Australia newspapers cut not most but all the comic strips they were carrying.Gary Clark is the creative genius behind the comic strip, Swamp. First published in 1981 by the Sunshine Coast Daily, the […]
It’s just an invitation across the nationA chance for folks to meetThere’ll be laughing, singing and music swingingDancing in the streetThere’s still time! “For what?” you ask. To book a flight from Kansas City to Alaska. After you close out the Reuben Party Friday book it to Palmer Alaska for another party on Saturday. Chad […]
The headline I really wanted to use derived from a place Then-Wife worked, in which they printed up some of those pink “While You Were Out” notepads but with the heading “While You Were F****** Off,” which would be accurate for today’s discussion but inappropriate overall.To which I will add, as a dire warning, that […]
Update –Here is the new company-wide Lee Enterprises daily comics page from September 13, 2022. Comics are from Andrews McMeel Syndication, puzzles are from Tribune Content Agency.Another update:Here, by the way (see comments below), is the extra page of Lee e-edition comics.I’m sure (actually I’m guessing) these cartoonists get a few extra coins for this.The […]
He is to Popeye… what Ming is to Flash Gordon.… what Bull Dawson is to Captain Easy.… what Susie is to Calvin.And though he was well-known to the sailor man,and had been skulking around the ship for a week, we first met him 90 years ago today. The rest of the week: © King Features SyndicateThe […]
The Courier Mail has announced the newspaper will no [longer] print comic strips, much to the dismay of the industry. In a small article in the paper today, the Courier Mail said the decision was based on “extensive research into changing readership habits”. Australian Cartoonists Association president Cathy Wilcox said she hoped dismayed readers spoke […]
Ann Telnaes asks a simple question, amid the continuing downpour of corgis and weeping guardsmen and crowns being passed around and royal hats and additional maudlin tributes to someone else’s dead monarch.The answer, of course, is that, yes, we did, and, as noted here previously, we continued for nearly 150 years to view England and […]
Recently we’ve mentioned changes to some Lee Enterprises newspapers that hinted at a company-wide change to their comics pages, though we were loath to declare it so without confirmation. See here and here. But in the past years when we have seen a change in one newspaper of a chain, especially with syndicated content, it […]