There were reasons Elizabeth Cady Stanton was somewhat eased off center stage in her later years, and her advocacy of an “educated franchise,” as she put forth in this 1898 article, was an unfortunate example.Divisive at the time, it seems even worse today, given the later history of outrageous “literacy tests” used to block Black […]
Editorial cartoonist Larry Terrill has passed away. Lawrence Mervin (Larry) Terrill October 1, 1935 – October 8, 2022 From the obituary: A talented artist throughout his life, Larry started drawing at the age of 5 or 6, when “he would wait for the newspaper to be delivered” and then spend his time copying the comics. […]
Today’s guest star is Rembrandt van Rinj, whose The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp provided Morten Morland with inspiration for his own dissection of Liz Truss’s failing (or flailing, take your pick) tenure as Prime Minister.Readers in the UK will, no doubt, recognize the gathered students, but it’s enough to note that the lecturer […]
David G. Brown posted a photo gallery of the recent AAEC Convention. This morning the CXC Newsletter came with awards information and photos. Trina Robbins and Lee Marrs won the Transformative Work Award for their work as part of the Wimmen’s Comix collective from the 1970s to the 1990s, and for their careers across media. […]
In 1997 Dan Martin was the only cartoonist in America to get a front page cartoon published every day in his newspaper.On October 17, 1997 he invaded the inside of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch when the paper published the cartoonist’s Postcard from Mound City for the first time (above).The Last Postcard From Mound CityIn 2022 […]
Fans of Breaking Cat News, The Tarot, and playing cards are being treated to an enchanting series created by Georgia Dunn and being shared on her Facebook page and on her Twitter feed.Says Georgia: For a while now I’ve wanted to create some BCN Tarot card themed art, just for fun! Recently I started sketching […]
I’ve been loathe to pass along British political cartoons lately because they’ve been so steeped in economics and intraparty squabbles as to be impenetrable to the outside. However, the emergence of Liz Truss as Prime Minister has unleashed such a flood of ridicule that Matt’s cartoon is quite accurate: It’s hilarious even if you don’t […]
“If This Be … Mo(och)dok!” Pooch Cafe © Paul Gilligan; Captain America and MODOK © Marvel ComicsPaul Gilligan gives old-time Marvelites a treat in this past week’s Pooch Cafe. 10 Funniest Calvin and Hobbes comic strips … or not. © Bill WattersonThe “10 Funniest Calvin and Hobbes Comics, According to Reddit” are collected by Screen Rant. […]
No politics today, but I can’t help but share this morning’s Sunday Times cover, upon which Morten Morland has depicted the Prime Ministers who served the UK in those years. We’ll get back to politics and Liz Truss tomorrow, assuming she’s still in office tomorrow. Not that politics don’t matter, and Deflocked reminds us of how […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for October 2022 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. We start with a set missed this past Summer. Rocky and Bullwinkle: The Complete Newspaper Comic Strip Collection – Volume 1 (1962-1963) Rocky and […]
Dr. MacLeod comments on the latest round of executions and self-immolation from Gannett, and I promise not to go into yet another rant about how Wall Street owners don’t care about the product, only about the profits, not because it isn’t central to the problem but because I’ve said it so often that it has […]
Liz Montague! Elizabeth Montague is a cartoonist and author known online as “Liz at Large” or simply Liz Montague. She made national news in 2019 for being the first [second*] [third**] Black cartoonist for the New Yorker. Since then she has worked with President Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, the U.S. Open, and Google, where she […]
What’s a carnival without a side show? Presenting Keith Knight, the Two-Headed Man! Midway Games. Can you pass up the quiz booth? (It’s an easy test.) The Amazing Vertical and Horizontal Newspaper Panel – another double feature!A 2008 sample how Wiley, the concept’s originator, draws the daily Non Sequitur panel. Wayno apparently goes another way with this 2022 […]
No need to wait for the cartoons about yesterday’s Jan 6 Committee hearing to arrive; Jack Ohman had picked up on the scandals and ass-covering of the Secret Service that morning, though I doubt he knew ahead of time the ghastly array of uninvestigated warnings that would be displayed at the hearing.I’ve often said that […]
“There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of […]