It’s always good to start with a joke, and today’s In the Bleachers (AMS) made me redouble my search for a half-remembered golf joke, which I eventually came up with:A golfer is about to tee off when he sees a long funeral procession on the road next to the course. He stops in mid-swing, takes […]
As the Washington Post Writers Group (WPWG) continues to dismantle their comics syndication service, the Mike du Jour comic strip by Mike Lester has signed on with Andrews McMeel Syndication (AMS). This week the title was added (out of alphabetical order) to the AMS page of syndicated comics.This move comes as the comic strip is […]
Cartoonist and character designer Paul Coker, Jr. has passed away. Paul Allan Coker, Jr. March 5, 1929 – July 23, 2022 Tom Richmond, among others, has reported the death of Paul Coker, Jr.Paul was a gag cartoonist and an illustrator of greeting cards, but more famous as a MAD magazine contributor and a character designer […]
Bob Eckstein starts us off today with a cartoon that is only “bathroom humor” by implication, but, then, if you don’t know the expression he’s alluding to, you won’t get the joke.I laughed because I tend to lump podcasts and videos into the category of things I don’t much follow. I like to read, but […]
For most of his career, Elston was commonly known as the only full-time editorial sports cartoonist in Canada, and he has a galaxy of autographs and framed keepsakes on display from the very same NHL personalities he was once paid to skewer. His work appeared in Canadian newspapers, as well as The Hockey News and, […]
Last month Brian Basset reported he had cancer surgery forcing Red and Rover into rerun status. In late June Red and Rover returned to new comic strips, then last week it was back to reruns.Darryl Heine contacted the cartoonist to ask why and Brian responded: This has been an extremely trying time for me. After […]
When David Lee Finkle stopped creating new Mr. Fitz comic strips earlier this year he mentioned that he might return after taking a few months sabbatical from the deadlines.And so he has:The West Volusia Beacon, Mr. Fitz’s old print stomping ground, reports: They say if you love what you do, you’ll never work a day […]
Tony Dow’s death inspired Ruben Bolling to repost this Tom the Dancing Bug from 2012, which I liked then and I like now, not only because it pokes holes in the rightwing objections to liberal reform, but because it treats the original sitcom with more respect than it usually gets.“Leave It To Beaver” did have […]
Steve Stegelin’s illustrations have appeared in City Paper’s pages for 18 of its 25 years. You can see some of his best cartoons here. Each week, his award-winning editorial cartoon and Blotter drawings elicit laughs, prods and probably a few nods or head shakes, depending on whether you’re being lampooned by the city’s resident […]
First generation Greek American Stephan Pastis was once a high-powered lawyer in San Francisco before he chucked it all to become an author and one of the United State’s foremost comic strip artists. Now, with his “Pearls Before Swine” syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate, his cartoons, featuring Rat, Pig, the Zeeba family and their neighbors, […]
Jeff Koterba comments on Amazon’s purchase of a health care chain, which adds to the growing collection of stuff the octopus owns.It’s not quite the same thing as a monopoly, since there’s no logical connection between Amazon’s main business as a seller of things and the health clinic’s business as a seller of services, though […]
Two of the handful of premiere publishers of classic comic strips have entered a publishing and distribution agreement. Fantagraphics and Sunday Press announced they would be entering a partnership deal last week. From now on, Fantagraphics will be distributing the existing catalogue of Sunday Press titles and from 2023 new books will be published under […]
New Yorker cartoonist Tom Toro has created a new comic for GoComics. Home Free is a digital comic strip that follows the wacky-yet-loveable Szabo family. Mr. Szabo, hardworking and frugal-to-a-fault, has bitten off a little more than he can chew in home improvement projects. And if the hassle of a home reno wasn’t enough, he […]
America’s Best Comics? Pfft.We’re talking The World’s Greatest Comics! As always the left and the right (coasts) disagree.But we’re going on the record, though your mileage may vary:Then there are the subsections. But even when broken into smaller bits not all see eye to eye, though to my thinking it is more elementary than the above […]
Paul Fell offers a nuanced take on the current, horrific situation in the wake of Dobbs, as red states flex their newly acquired muscle without, as he suggests, any solid sense of how to do it.“Nuanced” in that, while he depicts the incredibly harsh laws as vicious, he makes the lawmaker appear more foolish and […]