Teresa Burns Parkhurst sets today’s mood, combining pointless carping about clocks with meaningful fear of Tuesday’s outcome.Most of the clocks will reset themselves in the wee hours of tomorrow morning and we’ll adjust, but it’s not clear the country, or its people, ever will, if the midterms go off the rails. Prickly City (AMS) offers this […]
The Alabama Media Group has announced that it will no longer publish newspaper hard copies.front pages via NewseumAfter February 26, 2023 the three largest newspapers in Alabama will go digital only.Announcement from the Alabama Media Group: Alabama Media Group will shift to all-digital delivery, ending publication in 2023 of its four newspapers in Alabama and […]
Stephen Collins reminds us that this is Whinging, Mewling and Complaining About Clocks Weekend, because we’ll be coming off Daylight Saving Time, which is nearly as horrific a moment as going back on Daylight Saving Time.One solution is to fly to Australia, where — as reported here a month ago — they’ve already been through […]
Graphika, a network analysis firm, has released a report on foreign actors, specifically Russian, trying to influence the United States midterm elections that includes the use of political cartoons.From the Graphika report: Key Findings Suspected Russian actors are engaged in a renewed effort to target far-right audiences in the U.S. with politically divisive messaging ahead […]
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to […]
Cartoonist George Booth has passed away. George William Booth June 28, 1926 – November 1, 2022 Update: The New York Times Obituary George Booth, the New Yorker cartoonist who created a world of oddballs sharing life’s chaos with a pointy-eared bull terrier that once barked a flower to death, and sometimes with a herd of […]
Nick Anderson (Tribune) with the only hammer cartoon you need. Or, at least, the only one you’re going to see here, because they’re gaining on the corgis for numbers and for lack of new insights, though I guess if someone drew Fox News beating a dead horse with a hammer, I might buy into that, […]
Last year we reported the findings of Eddie Campbell and Barnacle Press’s Holmes and Thrillmer on the identity of the cartoonist behind the 1905 comic strip Lucy and Sophie Say Goodbye. They determined that Robert J. Campbell was the creator of what some consider the first queer comic strip.Now Kevin Cooley has posted his research […]
The Day of the Dead is a misnomer. It doesn’t last just a day, but three. November 2 is the main celebration, but the day before is known as Children’s Day or Day of the Little Angels (Día de los Angelitos). Día de los Angelitos happens the day before the big events of November 2 […]
One of my first memes, from back when a man with a hammer declared “Mission Accomplished” before several thousand American kids, and several hundred thousand Iraqis, died to prove him wrong.This morning, we are beleaguered with cartoons featuring bloody hammers, and I’d have had a tough time sorting through them if more of them had […]
From Publishers Weekly: A Federal Court has blocked Penguin Random House’s acquisition of rival Big Five publisher Simon & Schuster. At press time, Judge Florence Y. Pan’s opinion was not yet public as the parties still need to agree on redactions to protect confidential information, but in a brief two page order Pan enjoined the […]
Appropriately GoComics introduces Curses! by Chelsea Carr on Halloween.From the GoComics blog: The comic strip follows Wilma, a witch who hasn’t quite mastered her magic yet, which gets her into some trouble. She and her family move to a cottage in the middle of the woods so she can have plenty of space to get […]
The National Press Foundation has announced that Ward Sutton has won the 2022 Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons. Sutton’s satire skewered U.S. politicians for inaction on school shootings, explored dark scenarios about the end of American democracy, and portrayed Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping as new […]
It’s Halloween, but that seems to mean “Cartoonists’ Day Off.” I found myself resisting the urge to post an entire page of “The Grownups Ate The Candy” gags, which was 98% of what I found.Okay, that’s sarcasm. It was only 93%.I did appreciate this Mt Pleasant (Tribune) because there are parents who go completely Stage Mother […]
A Hard-Copy of the Morning Newspaper is VitalArt Marmorstein needs four things in the morning: … a warm shower, a bowl of cereal, a cup of coffee and a hard-copy morning newspaper. If my kids have used up all the hot water, a lukewarm or even a cold shower will do the trick. If we’re […]