On June 27, Bondia and his family will make an hour-and-a-half drive from their home in Hodgenville, Kentucky, to Lexington, to pick up a copy of his comic in print. Crabgrass will debut in about 30 McClatchy newspapers and websites on Monday.My drive (bicycle ride) will be considerably shorter since McClatchy publishes a newspaper ten […]
John Deering (Creators) offers a comparison of the Texas GOP’s bizarre party platform to the familiar final scene of Dr. Strangelove, in which Slim Pickens’ gung-ho hyperpatriotic character joyfully rides the atomic bomb that is about to end the world.It’s particularly well-chosen because, in the movie, the bombing is the product on an insane officer […]
Golf. It’s not just the game of kings but the preferred sport among American politicians. And it isn’t anything new. Clifford Berryman’s early 20th-century editorial cartoons are proof of that. ‘Running for Office: Candidates, Campaigns, and the Cartoons of Clifford Berryman,’ running through Sunday, July 3, at Louisiana’s Old State Capitol and Robin Miller, for […]
Arlo & Janis (AMS) has a tradition of Arlo waxing philosophical while Janis takes a more pragmatic view, and it makes for a nice way to welcome summer, unless, as Arlo points out, you’ve already welcomed summer in one of its other guises.Or, like Janis, you’ve had enough summer already thankyouverymuch.One issue with national cartooning […]
The Washington, D.C. chapter of The Society of Professional Journalists announced the winners of their annual awards “for excellence in TV, radio, newspaper, magazine, newsletter/trade publication, and online journalism, encompassing breaking news, business writing, commentary, photography, and more.”Editorial Cartooning is one one the categories.In the Daily Newspapers division:Editorial Cartoon Winner: Alexander Hunter, The Washington Times, […]
Does the name Ken Foster[sic] mean anything to you? Okay, how about Ruben Bolling? Finally, how about Tom the Dancing Bug? They are all one and the same. I didn’t know that either. It turns out that Foster[sic], a long time Upper East Sider, is a highly successful editorial cartoonist. He chose Ruben Bolling as […]
As a cartoonist, I’m always asked about my greatest influences. I have quite a few, but my earliest — like many, many cartoonists — was Charles Schulz (Peanuts). Therefore, you can imagine how honored I am to be speaking at the Charles M Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, CA on Saturday, June 25! It’s a […]
Joel Pett lays the groundwork for today’s parade of despair, which comes with a side order of a curse on both your houses.The MAGA crowd is claiming bias and declaring the hearings a witch hunt. That’s without counting the truly delusional group that says Bill Barr and the other Trump staffers are still loyal to […]
As Scoop describes it: Cartoonist and caricaturist Angelo Torres, known for his work in MAD, EC, and Warren, is the subject of the new short film, My Dinner with Angelo. Now streaming on Vimeo, the movie features Torres interviewed by Ian Scott McGregor. Scoop continues: Accompanying the interview is new footage of Torres’ contemporaries like […]
Once again the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists is teaming up with Cartoon Crossroads Columbus and the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum for their annual convention this year. The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists will again be part of the CXC Festival in October in Columbus, Ohio. While CXC is free and open to […]
A very late notice that Glenn McCoy, after a four year absence, returned to The Duplex comic strip on April 18, 2022 (the dailies, Glenn started doing the Sundays again on May15, 2022).His sojourn in Hollywood seems to have refreshed his comic strip sensibilities – the art and gags seem fresher than ever.Not to downplay […]
Wallace the Brave (AMS) takes a sweet but kind of downer look at Father’s Day. Their wistful pessimism is not, however, to be confused with Prickly City (AMS), which takes the occasion to be genuinely unpleasant and divisive.Spud and Amelia don’t hate their fathers. They miss them in their own quite different ways: Spud literally never […]
A few book related items have surfaced recently. So…Our friends at Stoopid! take the comic part of comic book seriously and they have just released a new issue of the funny book. Order the new issue here and catch up on back issues you may have missed. At the dawn of the Silver Age of Superheroes […]
We always hear that there are a little over 25 editorial cartoonists on staff at print newspapers in the United States. Or a bit under 50, or around two score and two, or about three dozen, or …But never a list of those dwindling souls.Eric Devericks moved on. So here is a list of staff […]
It is unfortunate that the 50th anniversary of the Watergate scandal coincides with the current political crisis, but we’ve added “-gate” to every bump in the road for the past half century, and both scandals involve the White House, so the popular linkage was likely inevitable.But Matt Wuerker (Politico) demonstrates how different the world we […]