I was hoping for a day of frivolity, but this Vintage Radio Patrol (KFS) brought me up short, my first reaction being that Lennie Briscoe would do the same damn thing and torpedo the State’s case against her.Next reaction being to examine that middle panel, which reveals that the strip ran in 1940, which in […]
As their romance grew, Bill Simmons and Jehanne Gheith found a shared obsession with the daily Jumble puzzle — a courtship built around a mutual fondness for unscrambling. So last year, when it came time for the big question, Simmons easily struck on a proposal with his own unique brand: a handmade Jumble with a […]
We’ve been on a bit of a book kick here lately, so let’s start with that. While every year is a good one for people who collect Peanuts books, this one looks to be a particularly prime one for people who collect not so much the books, but the boxes they come in. Peanuts maven […]
Phoebe Howell is celebrating her tenth birthday this week.A celebration that corresponds with the 10th anniversary of Heavenly Nostrils making its webcomic debut on April 22, 2022.As cartoonist Dana Simpson explains she had ended her Ozy and Millie webcomic and had planned on changing her career – leaving comics and try illustration.That never got past […]
Matt Davies illustrates the plight of Floridians canceled by the self-proclaimed opponents of Cancel Culture.Someone — though not Mark Twain — said that America is on a tilt and all the loose nuts slide into Southern California, but it’s getting hard to believe they’re not actually falling straight down. And, however absurd and depressing and incredible […]
Andrews McMeel Syndication (AMS) has announced the signing of Brian Crane’s Pickles comic strip. The date for the move from Washington Post Writers Group to AMS is given as July 1, 2022 (a Friday). Kansas City, MO (April 18, 2022) Andrews McMeel Syndication (AMS) will assume sales and distribution of Pickles by Brian Crane, […]
Christina “Steenz” Stewart‘s Heart of the City comic strip has been collected in a book. The Riverfront Times features a story on local cartoonist Steenz and their book. St. Louisan Steenz Stewart finds inspiration everywhere — from the moment they wake up till the moment they fall asleep — they’re finding ideas for their […]
Tom Tomorrow sets the stage today by extending the Republicans’ strategy of fear- and hate-mongering into the absurd, for the benefit of anyone who didn’t think it was already there.And let’s note, in particular, that fifth panel, because, in a functioning democracy, it seems unbalanced to blame one party for trying to destroy everything. But […]
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports on the offense. Metroland Media’s seven Simcoe County newspapers ran a cartoon last week that pictured the Pope saying “I’m sorry” to what appears to be an Indigenous woman and man, who respond “How $orry?” Metroland Media is a subsidiary of the Torstar Corporation, and has newspapers in the Simcoe […]
Comic strips yesterday and today seems to have jumped the gun on National Cartoonists Day.Superheroes were the theme for today’s comics.Rex Morgan, M.D. has recently started a story about a costumed vigilante, but today Terry Beatty took it a step further showing a trio of self-appointed cos-playing do-gooders. © North American SyndicateTom Batiuk and Chuck […]
Comics Kingdom picked April 20th to add Legalization Nation to its lineup. (Unknown if they added it at 4:20 a.m. this morning.)© Brian Box BrownLegalization Nation is a pro-cannabis comic strip by cartoonist Box Brown. When it was first announced earlier this year Comics Kingdom said it would be a weekly strip. It was also […]
Jason Chatfield takes a shot at audience members who seem to wish they’d been the ones invited to speak on the stage, or perhaps to conduct the interview. The usual comment here would be “There’s one in every crowd,” but there seem to be at least three or four.Audience mikes should have an automatic eight-second […]
2022 Cartoonist Studio Prize Winners The Beat and The Center for Cartoon Studies are proud to reveal the winners of the tenth annual Cartoonist Studio Prize Award in both the Print Comics and Webcomics categories. Each of the 2022 Cartoonist Studio Prize Award winners will receive a $1000 prize and a Wacom One Creative Pen […]
Derf Backderf’s short comment, as he wrapped up this year’s MOCCA Festival, was enough to send me scrambling to the Internet to order a copy of Aimee de Jongh’s “Days of Sand,” and, if that’s not enough of a compliment to Derf — author of “Trashed,” “My Friend Dahmer” and “Kent State: Four Dead in […]
According to Lewiston (Maine) Sun Journal columnist Mark LaFlamme: So, I was just hanging around, minding my own business, when I started to notice a new cartoon populating the Sun Journal pages. In one of them, the proposed Lewiston homeless shelter and the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Department building were presented as homeless people on a […]