Jonny Hawkins tells The Daily Cartoonist: [O]n January 14th on a beautiful Friday evening, I got an email from the acquisitions editor at Tribune (now called Tribune Content Agency) saying they loved Zoolies and wanted to syndicate it. I was elated. It was one week before my daughter’s 15th birthday. So, 33 years after it […]
David Sipress writes: In the fall of 1969, I made a spur-of-the-moment decision to quit graduate school at Harvard, where I was enrolled in a master’s program in Soviet studies. As the euphoria brought on by my boldness began to fade, an overwhelming anxiety about consequences took over… Chief among my real-world worries was that […]
Michael de Adder declares sanctions a failure within hours of the announcement of the first full rounds, mocking Biden’s response as silly and futile.There’s a real temptation to ask “What do you think we should do, then?”Tucker Carlson would, of course, offer a way of dealing with Putin that involves soft lighting and scented oils, […]
Unmute yourself with cartoons! Join Comic Book Legal Defense Fund [CBLDF] and award-winning editorial cartoonists Ruben Bolling, Clay Jones, and Shannon Wheeler for “Editorial Cartooning: A Workshop for Students” on February 23, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. PST (today!). The artists will describe their process for making editorial cartoons, provide tips for effective editorial cartoons, and […]
Presented on the anniversary of Edward Gorey‘s birth is a gallery of his art as selected by Richard Gagnon.
It is probably no coincidence that one of the Keebler Elves is named Roger. Nor is it likely a coincidence that Roger’s distinguishing feature is his height—he is far and away the tallest of the elves, which could be a hint that he might not be, strictly speaking, an elf but might possess some human […]
That headline: “Potpourri” used to be a category in Jeopardy which I think was a chance to use questions that hadn’t been chosen in previous games. I haven’t seen it in a long time (hence “Art”) but, then, it’s been awhile since I’ve watched Jeopardy, which brings us to Non Sequitur (AMS) and some suppressed […]
Despite the legendary status of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, neither were universally loved during their presidencies. The History Channel, through their history.com website, featured a look at the 1860s editorial cartooning of Honest Abe Lincoln earlier in this Presidents’ month. In this pro-Lincoln cartoon published during the 1860 presidential campaign, “Honest Old Abe” wields […]
Charles Schultz’s beloved beagle, born Oct. 4, 1950, often sat atop his doghouse banging out great opening lines, but alas, he just couldn’t follow through. His first literary lead was, “It was a dark and stormy night,” from Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s 1830 novel “Paul Clifton.” The missus had a favorite Snoopy strip framed for my […]
I’ve given up on anti-pineapple-and-ham pizza purity, but I laughed at today’s Andertoons (AMS) anyway.I don’t know if it was the times or the fact that there were a lot of Neapolitans in South Bend, but I came into pizza with very high expectations, and was horrified with what I found when I moved to […]
A note in the Sunday (February 20th) Arizona Daily Star is the first public inkling that The Washington Post’s syndication service (aka Washington Post Writers Group) will be shuttering the editorial cartoon portion of that operation: The Washington Post is winding down its syndicated cartoon service, which means the Star soon will no longer have […]
As we all know the internet, unlike print newspapers, has a limited space. So syndicates must abridge some comic strips on their websites. This has happened most recently with Comics Kingdom’s offerings. The recent revamp has seen a number of the older Sunday comic strips now displaying only eight of their nine panel grid.Inexplicably not […]
It’s Girl Scout Cookie time, and John Darkow offers less of a commentary than a report: The bakeries contracted to supply cookies are having substantial problems in handling the extra business this year.I went to poke around on Google News for this regional coverage, which states that Massachusetts and New Hampshire have been hit with […]
Following the news that The New Adventures of Tarzan will be collected between hard covers comes Dark Horse announcing they will also publish the other Tarzan strip from the E. R. Burroughs website.From The Beat:For years, the Tarzan of the Apes comic strips by Roy Thomas, Pablo Marcos, and Oscar Gonzalez have been available exclusively to subscribers of the Edgar […]
We’ll lead off today’s revue with Sunday’s Candorville (WPWG), in part because I have a one-week rule for how long I can hold a piece and in part because it made me cast back in my memory.I remember, back when I was maybe three or four, watching my mother paint her nails and asking her […]