© King Features SyndicateTed Forth’s fight against The FallToday is the latest Sally Forth to feature Ted’s losing battle to keep his yard leaf free. There is a history as Francesco Marciuliano shows the last 14 years of the inevitable. © King Features SyndicatePopeye Goes to WashingtonI have it on good authority (Hi […]
… Aragonés contributed to a special edition of MAD, publishing Tuesday, that marks the magazine’s 70th anniversary. The special edition also spotlights Aragonés’s status as the oldest artist currently drawing for MAD. He says he’s been blessed with six fruitful decades at the iconic magazine… Once Aragonés left for New York in 1962, he didn’t […]
Tom Toles is the most decorated journalist in the history of Buffalo news media. He cut his teeth as an editorial cartoonist at The Courier-Express, moved on to The Buffalo News, where he earned his Pulitzer in 1990, and then succeeded the legendary Herblock at The Washington Post in 2002. His work was syndicated in […]
Arlo and Janis offer incisive commentary on the owner-side of the housing boom and how little it should matter to those who are already in a house, particularly one with a locked-in low-interest 30-year mortgage.This is an excellent time for them to stay put and do nothing.As he notes, they’d be unlikely to swap into […]
Doonesbury for October 2, 2022 © G. B. Trudeau Update on the Charles M. Schulz/USPS First Day Issue Event. Hundreds of “Peanuts” fans and stamp collectors turned out Friday at the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa for the first day of issue for 10 new stamps featuring “Peanuts” characters. Fans of all ages crowded […]
(Matt Davies) (Mike Luckovich) (Bill Bramhall)This is an intriguing Juxtaposition because of the breadth contained in it.Davies expresses the frustration many people — especially his Newsday audience in New York — feel over appeals for federal help from Ron DeSantis, who, as a congressional representative, voted against federal aid for Superstorm Sandy. He also tosses in the […]
The Harvey Awards, which honors exemplary comic book work, will be adding members to its Hall of Fame at New York Comic Con in October. The new inductees are Neil Gaiman, whose best-selling series The Sandman was recently adapted for Netflix, the underground cartoonist Gilbert Shelton, and Roy Thomas, a prolific writer and editor for […]
This is the day! United States Postal Service First Day of Issue PEANUTS Stamp Dedication Ceremony Friday, September 30 Free Admission: 11:00 am–5:00 pm Stamp Release Ceremony: Noon Cost: Free! Enjoy free Museum admission all day, and celebrate the first day issue of the new US postage stamps commemorating Charles M. Schulz’s centennial year. More […]
Political cartoonists should, indeed, stick pins in powerful people, but it does seem, in the current cycle, like a two-pan scale, where what happens on one side shifts the balance for the other.Lee Judge (KFS), for instance, is hardly a Trump fan, but he seems anti-Biden in his comment on the way the White House […]
In 1843, the periodical Punch introduced the word cartoon to refer to comic drawings. By the mid-19th century, periodicals around the world were using cartoons to express publishers’ and cartoonists’ thoughts on politics. Ohio State University’s History Teaching Institute notes that editorial cartoons are based on current events and have an educational purpose as “[t]hey […]
Let’s start this comic strip stuff with panel nonsense. © Scott HilburnBoing Boing, who regularly features collections of comics they discover to their liking recently put the spotlight on thirty “Absurd And Humorous One-Panel Comics By Scott Hilburn.”Unfortunately the it appeared before the above issue of The Argyle Sweater. Thomas Yeates created a new title panel […]
Hurricane Ian has made landfall in Florida and there’s little funny in what this powerful storm is doing, but, then again, it is producing a lot of material for cartoonists like Clay Jones, largely because of the Republican Party’s track record, in Florida generally and on storms and climate change specifically.Several people have noted that […]
Illustrator Robb Armstrong sometimes calls his time at Syracuse University “The Syracuse Years,” like a flashback chapter in a comic book. On Sept. 30, Armstrong will return to Syracuse University to receive an alumni award for his long career in comics. He previously received the George Arents Award from S.U. for excellence in his field, […]
A bit of politics before we go for the laughs. I was surprised that NASA’s asteroid deflection drew so much attention, since they’ve been talking about it for several years.I was also surprised that several cartoonists, including Kevin Necessary, greeted it with a “Why are we doing that?” response. I think the last time I […]
Cartoonists of all sorts and stripes – comic strip cartoonists, editorial cartoonists, comic book (mainstream, alternative, small press) cartoonists – of all ages, for all ages. Only a week away. (a week away, a week away) Lee Marrs, Keith Knight, Bill Plympton, Ann Telnaes, Jim Mahfood, Steenz, Dan Parent, Trina Robbins, Kevin Necessary, […]