Cartoonist Robert “Buck” Brown (1936 – 2007) will be inaugurated into the Illini Media Hall of Fame Class of 2022 this month at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Buck contributed cartoons to Dollars and Sense, The New Yorker Ebony, Ebony Jr., Jet, Esquire and others but is best remembered for his long run […]
The American Newspaper Publishers Association Convention in 1926 was naturally covered by Editor & Publisher. E&P previewed it in their April 17, 1926 edition. Included with that issue was a comic supplement which featured original comic strips by a number of syndicated cartoonists all concerning publishers, editors, and the convention.It is proper that it was […]
An apt mood-setter from Pros & Cons (KFS): Whether we’re entering a new Dark Age or a new Golden Age depends on your point of view.Let’s start here: One of the more deadly, underhanded techniques of reporting is to quote someone accurately.Underhanded if you simply don’t like the person, in which case, even if what […]
Keith Knight lives just outside of Chapel Hill, NC, these days, but from 1990-2008, he resided in San Francisco where he created his instantly recognizable comic strip “The K Chronicles,” the basis for Hulu comedy series “Woke.” Back in the city recently for a red-carpet event at the Cartoon Art Museum, celebrating both the exhibition […]
It’s appropriate for Tank McNamara (AMS) to lead off today, because sports coverage tends to drift between entertainment and politics, and the choice of whether to require vaccines for Broadway and sports is a bit of both.Start by saying that I’m not convinced I could catch much from the seats I could afford, but the […]
Forum Communications, an upper mid-west media company with a score of newspapers that can trace its publishing roots to 1878, has partnered with Comics Kingdom to bring their on-line readership the King Features Syndicate and Tribune Content Agency line of comic strips and panels.From DL-Online, the Detroit Lakes Tribune website: LOOK: DL-Online now features dozens […]
Steve Bell starts today’s discussion with a demand, backed with a depiction of the atrocities left in the streets of Bucha by the retreating Russian army.A simple depiction, for which he is to be commended, but not at all a simple demand, though it’s hard to disagree with on principle, even in Bell’s British homebase, […]
A Saul Steinberg drawing from 1967 graces the cover of the new New Yorker.Françoise Mouly interviews Ian Frazier, friend of Saul and executor of his legacy. …we all see him as a major twentieth-century artist and much funnier than most of the Abstract Expressionist painters he hung out with. But, because he drew rather than […]
You’ve likely already seen Sunday’s Doonesbury (AMS), which has not only been posted by a lot of editorial cartoonists but was featured here by my colleague, DD Degg.Now you get to hear what I think.Kim notes in that last panel that newspapers themselves are endangered, which — wit all doo respeck — seems the more […]
From Rob Stolzer: In the smallest of nutshells, Noel Sickles entered the comic strip field in 1933, spent three years working on Scorchy Smith, and left the field after revolutionizing the way adventure comic strips and superhero comics would forever be drawn. Not too bad for a 24-year-old young man, right? Sickles’ three-year run on […]
Mentioned here yesterday was MRC’s take on Michael de Adder‘s cartoon about Governor Ron DeSantis and Florida state’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill.The conservative media has smelled blood and is pouncing on Michael and The Washington Post.LifeNews.com, “devoted to reporting news that affects the pro-life community,” went with rerunning the Tim Graham column calling de Adder […]
There is a temptation to simply display Morten Morland’s absolutely brilliant commentary on Russian atrocities and shut down for the day. There’s also a temptation to save it for last, to end with a crescendo.But we have to be wary of temptation; I saw a posting from someone who wished Twitter had a button you could […]
Michael Maslin noted a new cartoonist in the April 4, 2022 issue of The New Yorker: Sixteen cartoons, seventeen cartoonists (Liana Finck has a “Sketchbook”). One duo that we know of (Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby. The Spill counts duos as one cartoonist), and one newbie: Gabrielle Drolet, the 8th new cartoonist added to the […]
A couple of recent Ron DeSantis cartoons have upset fans of the Florida governor.Earlier this week there was a complaint about Christopher Weyant. Regarding Christopher Weyant’s March 14 syndicated editorial cartoon of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis: It’s not enough that Post-Dispatch editorials and columns focus mostly on themes critical of Republicans associated with former President […]
Doonesbury, to paraphrase Mike Peterson, is The Comic Strip of the Month.© G. B. TrudeauThe last panel of the Sunday strip makes me sad. More paraphrasing…© North American SyndicateKaren Moy, in Mary Worth, almost quotes Charles Schulz. Peanuts from June 13, 1980:© Peanuts Worldwide After a week of reading and enjoying newspaper comics… Red is treating the delivery […]