After nearly a hundred years in existence, the Popeye comic strip is reportedly getting a woke makeover, with the strip’s latest cartoonist promising more ethnic diversity and “more characters who aren’t heterosexual.” The right wing news site Breitbart has an article about ideas newly introduced in the Popeye comic strip. The item informs […]
From Intelligent Collector: In November 2020, Trudeau attempted the seemingly impossible: whittling down that mountain of strips to a mere handful that “proved defining and enduringly meaningful to him,” as The Washington Post noted upon its publication of Trudeau’s top 10. Among their estimable lot: strips about Watergate, women’s rights, onerous laws in Florida and […]
Joel Pett gets a laugh and helps lower our expectations of each other this morning, given how very little of what ought to be painfully obvious appears to be so. The past several days have seen a display of how many know so little about American History or about how our government works.Scott Stantis (Counterpoint) posted […]
Comics Kingdom has lost a week’s worth of Vintage Judge Parker.I found them.
As Texas politics change, so too has Sargent’s approach to depicting the warring legislators beneath the Capitol dome. “When I started, I was drawing them as little Mickey Mouse figures and clowns,” he recalls. “Now, there’s sort of an edge of evil.”Ben Sargent started as a Texas reporter. In 1974 he became the staff editorial […]
Informed sources tell me that Mike Manley will return to the Judge Parker daily art chores before the end of July.Beginning Monday July 25, 2022 Mike is back on Judge Parker. His return to the Sunday pages should follow not long after?On his Facebook page Mike responds to a comment with “Back on the Judge […]
Bill Bramhall depicts the Fourth of July in the New Normal, in which we can’t always distinguish the traditional fireworks from the new tradition of killing each other. My favorite part of the cartoon is that she’s only moderately concerned; it’s not like she’s leaping from the couch or he’s poised at the window.Maybe it’s […]
We landed in America today, the 4th of July. Last week, Sophie and I donated or sold just about everything we’d accumulated over 30-odd years living in Australia. The stuff we kept was crammed into two bloated suitcases before we jumped on a plane to start a new life. No plan, no job waiting for […]
From left to right: Elena Kagan, Brett M. Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas (with his wife Ginni Thomas behind him), Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., Neil M. Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, Samuel A. Alito Jr., Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen G. Breyer. Mike Peterson linked to Ann Telnaes‘ latest Washington Post interactive cartoon about the Supreme Court […]
As was foretold here a couple weeks ago, Scott Cohn began signing the Judge Parker comic strip today. No, we don’t when, or if, Bret Blevins will sign The Phantom comic strip. © UFSIt’s a good weekend to be a happy camper, and I am.Alley Oop (also Little Oop) is back in Stone Age […]
Joe Heller manages to capture the two major topics this year: A divided country and fireworks.I know which one bothers me more, but I’m capable of considering two things at a time. Juxtaposition of the Day(Jeff Koterba)(Edison Lee – KFS)Not sure why Edison finds his results disappointing. I think purple is a lovely color and obviously […]
Yesterday’s notice of Speedy Zawistowski‘s passing got me searching.I did find a couple references to Speedy in the Google Books preview of What Are You Nuts?, Gag Recap editor Bill Keough‘s collection of some of his columns from that trade publication.For instance Bill recounts how he and Speedy first met. Later Speedy’s name came up […]
When Randy Milholland’s first-grade teacher asked what he wanted to do when he grew up, he said, “I want to draw Popeye,” the comic hero he loved with from the newspaper and TV. “Maybe you should choose a more obtainable goal,” the teacher responded. The 46-year-old San Antonio cartoonist had the last laugh. As the […]
The Founders in Christopher Weyant‘s cartoon ask a very good question, though I might like it better if he’d left out the elephant and allowed the question to hang in the air.It’s his fantasy, mind you, but, of course, the Republicans weren’t around in those days, and we know how people who have never studied […]
Author/attorney, former journalist/publisher Dennis Shere: When the Pulitzer Prize committee announced the 2022 winners in early May, one category was missing: There no longer is a prize for editorial cartooning. The entries will now be considered alongside “illustrated reporting and commentary.” As a former editor for the Journal Herald in Dayton, Ohio, with ties to […]