Editorial cartoonist Pascal Élie has passed away. Pascal Élie 1959 – October 21, 2022 From Terry Mosher and The Montreal Gazette:My friend Pascal Élie, editorial cartoonist for Le Devoir, died at 63 last week after struggling with a debilitating disease diagnosed when he was only 49. Always the professional, Pascal supplied cartoons for the newspaper […]
Chris Britt (Counterpoint) starts us off with a look into the Republicans’ Halloween House of Terror, decorated in keeping with the historic framework of the past six years, tying in the GOP’s alliances with Q-Anon, their reluctance to denounce tiki-torch bearing Anti-Semitic neo-nazis, their ammosexual fetishes, their opposition to safe medical abortions and their ever-present […]
A Sunday Miracle © NEAFor the first time in nearly four years Alley Oop and Ooola as adults appeared in the Sunday comic strip since Joey Alison Sayers and Jonathan Lemon took over. The last time they appeared as adults was in the January 6, 2019 Sunday rerun (last original Sunday appearance was August 26, […]
Friday introduced another real world, but heretofore unseen, occurrence into the World of Gil Thorp.As the top commenter Ravenswing noted Friday about the new development: Henry, I say this with all the wish to see you succeed at this as I may, but you need to slow your roll here. This is a daily comic […]
Cartooning doesn’t have a lot of rules, but “If you thought of it fast, so did everyone else” is pretty reliable.Be glad I didn’t do this with all the corgi cartoons that followed QEII’s death. And that, over at Drawing Fire, Clay Jones compressed the gas-pump-snake cartoons into a single piece. Can’t we talk about something a […]
Editorial cartoonist Dennis Renault has passed away. Dennis Julian Renault August 23, 1936 – October 19, 2022 The Sacramento Bee is reporting that Dennis Renault has died in an accident near his Monterey County home.Via AOL News, which ran the SacBee’s cartoon gallery accompanying the obituary notice: Dennis Renault was The Sacramento Bee’s political cartoonist […]
We’ll start the day with a little crossover from the funny pages, because Snuffy Smith (KFS) sets the tone for a discussion of spin, lies and foolish belief, and I like Snuffy’s contention that it’s an issue of good judgement.There is genuine dishonesty, of course, but there is also genuine stupidity and genuine self-deception, and […]
After raising a fuss last month over Lee Enterprises dropping Dilbert, cartoonist Scott Adams said he was “kinda hoping [Dilbert] would get cancelled over this” after finishing a week of comic strips about ESG in Corporate America. Scott has been focusing more and more on conservative talking points in his comic strip. The World News […]
Joe Palooka began in the Spring of 1930, eight years later, in the Spring of 1938, the very popular comic strip introduced a, let’s say, eight year old child.The next Sunday Max and Alice returned and then reappeared twice more. Don’t know how far ahead Ham Fisher and Mo Leff (art assistant/ghost) worked but Little Max […]
I’m so old that, when I saw today’s Pooch Cafe, I thought, “Well, there’s a cartoon that appeals to the young folks.” Then I realized that the little kids I took to see Tron are now 46 and 50 respectively.Even at 6 and 10, I don’t think they took the film seriously, but we really […]
The North Dakota Forum editorial cartoonist Steve Stark is retiring after 34 years. From InForum’s profile: Steve Stark was an early cartoonist while a student at NDSU on The Spectrum student newspaper in the 1970s. Later, Steve began his editorial cartooning in earnest at the Lake County News Chronicle, a weekly newspaper in Two Harbors, Minn. […]
Well, that didn’t take long, though, as one wag noted on social media, Liz Truss served two monarchs.Still, as Ben Jennings depicts it, she was tossed out like yesterday’s trash after 44 days. Even poor Ann Boleyn managed to stick for 1,000. Juxtaposition of Juxtapositions(David Rowe)(Matt Golding)Rowe and Golding chimed in from Australia with a pair […]
Belatedly we welcome cartoonist Lee Lorenz to our Senior Strippers club.Michael Maslin notified us (for some reason our notebook says born in 1933): Lee Lorenz Born October 17, 1932, Hackensack, NJ. Lorenz was the art editor of The New Yorker from 1973 to 1993 and its cartoon editor until 1997. During his tenure, a new […]
Clay and The KlanClay Jones got banned again: Oh yeah: Facebook pulled this cartoon for “violating” its terms of service. I appealed and lost. My account is now blocked for three days which will also limit views of my work for a while after I return. I thought at least one social media account would […]
In the Vanishing Skills Department, today’s Grand Avenue suggests that nobody in the chain of cartoonist-to-editor-to-syndicate knows how to bake a pumpkin pie.There was a time, consarn it, when a young fellow looking for a wife was asked if she could bake a cherry pie. We used to sing “She can bake a cherry pie, […]