Update: The New York Times Obituary: One of Ms. Noomin’s most startling and moving pieces was a 1994 story called “Baby Talk: A Tale of 4 Miscarriages,” in which she wrote of her own miscarriages, of the ignominies and the cruelties she endured at the hands of medical professionals as she kept trying to conceive. […]
Between the death of Queen Elizabeth and the Anniversary of 9/11, things are tedious over on the editorial pages, so we’ll stick to the funnies today. I was surprised to see this Pardon My Planet (KFS) this morning, since sensitivity might have called for pulling it, but, then again, it would have already been sitting […]
The original art for a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, dated February 6, 1992, sold at auction for $216, 000.00.Granted this strip was hand-colored by Bill Watterson and personally inscribed to fellow cartoonist Garry Trudeau.Other original art we mentioned last month have also sold.The 15th Flash Gordon Sunday by Alex Raymond, from April 15, 1934 […]
We mentioned it earlier this month, but Mark Parisi waited until the actual anniversary of Off The Mark to celebrate.© Mark ParisiMark lets us in on the in-joke at his Facebook page. GoComics notes the anniversary. The National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards, today announced that it will award Art Spiegelman with […]
The relentless corgi stampede continues, and Dr. MacLeod comments on the lack of imagination and creativity that it represents.I know cartoonists who say they never look at each other’s work because they don’t want to be influenced, which, on the one hand, is like Andy Warhol saying he never looked at Hopper or Dali or […]
A couple months ago we noted that when Crabgrass, the new comic strip by Tauhid Bondia, debuted it did so in, among others, the entire McClatchy group of daily newspapers.Last Sunday we reported that Crabgrass was one of the comic strips being signed on by The Waco Tribune Herald. At that time we said that […]
I wasn’t going to feature any of the 4,000 corgi cartoons today, but David Rowe’s is less about the dog than Prince Charles, or, I suppose, King Charles III.I just finished “The Guns of August,” Barbara Tuchman’s classic book about the opening of World War I, and what struck me in particular was that monarchs […]
According to comic book historians who keep track of such things, Animal Comics #1 from Dell Publishing was released 80 years ago today.Its claim to fame is that the comic book featured the debut of Pogo Possum and Albert the Alligator by Walt Kelly.The occupants of Okefenokee were not birthed fully formed, their presentation in […]
I’ve got to agree with John Cole on this one: The response from the GOP to the revelations from Mar A Lago are at least as disappointing and depressing as the facts themselves. (If you didn’t get that headline, here’s the background.)Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) have been burning up the […]
Another step toward realization for the Bloom County animation series.Tim Long (The Simpsons) has signed on to co-write and showrun Bloom County, the upcoming FOX animated series based on the acclaimed comic strip of the same name created and written by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, screenwriter, producer and children’s book author Berkeley Breathed.Breathed, who is co-writing […]
© Glenn McCoyThis week’s favorite (so far) is the Glenn McCoy take on cancel culture in his The Duplex. Two hopes: that the run continues for another week and that specific politics stay out as both sides have their share of blame in the process. © John HambrockThis week’s disappointment is the end of The Brilliant […]
As is often said here, the “bland restatement” technique of cartoons like This Modern World is often a problem, since the absurd things the characters say are not far off from things actually being said.That’s true of this piece, but the hyperbole of Trump being in possession of an actual nuclear weapon, rather than highly […]
For nearly 30 years, the cartoonist Lynda Barry published her adored comic strip “Ernie Pook’s Comeek,” which told the whimsical, hardscrabble story of the young sisters Marlys and Maybonne, in alternative papers across the country. (An anthology, “It’s So Magic,” was published earlier this month.) [S]ince 2012, Barry, a 66-year-old who in 2019 received a […]
We’re not doing politics today, but Rod Emmerson‘s cartoon is a combination of politics and social commentary, since in New Zealand, as this article from his paper explains, masks remain mandated for everyone in some settings and for employees in others, but are being largely discarded by the public in places where covid infections are […]
Famed Texas editorial cartoonist Etta Hulme (Ft. Worth Star-Telegram 1972 – 2008) drew a comic strip for her newspaper for a month and a half in 1980. Before we get to the 1980 comic strip let’s note that the “comeback” mentioned in the above promo was a reference to a Jerry Flemmens humor column that ran […]