A letter to the editor of The Cadillac (Michigan) News: I take exception with your weekend comic strip “Over the Hedge.” The portrayal of guns being stolen from a home through a pet door and buried, suggesting the guns themselves are a problem. In fact, people can use guns for good or evil as the […]
above: Florence W. Taylor from The Intelligencer of 1926The Lancaster Pennsylvania newspaper, LNP, received a letter to the editor: I have a question for your newspaper editor or editorial board or whomever. Do you actually pay to support 38 comic strip writers in your paper? Count them! You are raising my subscription cost for LNP […]
The advantage of the Jan 6 Committee holding a hearing in prime time rather than in midafternoon was that more people were home to watch.The disadvantage for political cartoonists is that it meant they didn’t have time to respond overnight, which Deb Milbrath indicated by simply posting her notes on Facebook in an implied promise […]
The San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) started in earnest Thursday (July 21) and The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) counts among the exhibitors and goers. The NCS notes there will be SDCC exclusives.The legendary Sergio Aragones may not be at SDCC this year, but Groo The Wanderer is — in pin form! Stop by booth 1307 to […]
Humorist, satirist, and comic writer Sean Kelly has passed away. Sean Charles Kelly July 22, 1940 – July 11, 2022 From The New York Times: Sean Kelly, a wry master of literary and musical parodies who helped infuse National Lampoon with the sharp-edged and often crude humor it became known for, died on July 11 […]
Mike Rhode reports on Sara Duke revealing that The Library of Congress has received a new addition from 1918 to their collection by Harrison Cady, a master of the arts. “Written by Jim Edgar, ‘Matt Marriott’ was the finest and most atmospheric newspaper strip about the American Wild West that has ever been produced,” artist […]
I’m not in a political mood today, but I’ll feature this Carpe Diem (KFS) because I’m pretty sure that, since Niklas Eriksson lives in Sweden and his panel is not political, his lead time was significant and this is a coincidence.I wouldn’t run it if I thought he were drawing a fist-bump cartoon not out […]
A message from Joe Wos: Hi. It’s me Joe! Your friendly neighborhood cartoonist. Recently while I was on tour I was mugged. My phone and wallet were taken (credit cards, ID) and I was left with a broken arm, wrist, teeth and quite a few scrapes and bruises. I will bounce back and be back […]
Slate: Andy declares himself not ready to die until he hears Pet Sounds on CD. It’s a really specific choice that becomes quite beautiful at the end. Do you recall how that notion worked its way into the strip? Garry Trudeau: During the ’80s, many music geeks, including me, waited impatiently for beloved classic albums […]
In posting this cartoon to his Twitter page, Pat Byrnes admitted that he’d likely undercounted the number of gun deaths on the left side, but was content to make the point that, despite the successful intervention of a bystander in an Indiana mall shooting, “Good guys with guns” are a pretty poor defense system. And Clay Jones […]
Paul Anderson was 6 years old when his teacher bragged to the entire class one day that Paul’s dad, Brad Anderson, was the famous cartoonist who created “Marmaduke,” the wildly-popular syndicated comic about a mischievous but lovable Great Dane. Every kid in the class was smitten by the weekly tales about that larger-than-life dog, so […]
Later this year will be the 100th anniversary of Charles M. Schulz’s birthday. AP photo“Peanuts” was America’s favorite comic strip. At its peak, there were 100 million readers each day. Charles Schulz drew it for almost 50 years, through the relatively complacent but anxious Cold War 1950s, the tumultuous 1960s, the Vietnam War, the civil […]
Political cartoonist and comics historian Jim Ivey has passed away. James Burnett (Jim) Ivey April 15, 1925 – July 14, 2022 Friends of Jim are sharing the sad news.From Craig Zablo: Jim was born James (but preferred the much less formal, Jim) Burnett Ivey on April 15, 1925 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Jim attended the […]
Webtoon, the popular mobile online comics platform owned by Korean tech giant Naver, just announced its payments to English-language comics creators and the results are eye-opening in an industry not famous for its generosity to artists and writers. According to Webtoon, payouts to English-language creators topped $27 million since 2020, or more than $1 million […]
Jen Sorensen explains the interplay of polarization and bothsidesism.We used to joke about the mainstream media’s obsession with presenting both sides, saying that if someone said Hitler was a bad person, reporters would be ordered to find someone who would say he was good.It seemed like clever hyperbole at the time, but now we’ve got […]