Those Disney and Newspaper Enterprise Association Christmas strips get all the fame and glory, while the Easter strips get forgotten. But there were special daily comic strips created for the weeks leading up to Easter. For a short while in the 1950s they were an annual tradition for NEA and the cartoonist was the same […]
Morten Morland offers an Easter-themed bit of Moskva Mockery.Most of today’s Easter cartoons, as with most mandatory holiday cartoons, seem unremarkable, though his detailed style adds some interest here. It’s not Beatrix Potter’s watercolors; more like Uncle Wiggly, but it echoes traditional gentle bunny depiction, with the addition of a sly expression that couldn’t be […]
We have previously mentioned Nunavut’s young cartoonist Ayla Kreelak and her comic strip Smidge and Friends who got a short run in The Nunatsiaq News.The strip was popular enough to warrant a return engagement. Smidge and Friends, an original comic strip drawn by Baker Lake artist Ayla Kreelak, has returned. Nunatsiaq News will publish a […]
Punchbooks has posted this cartoon from April 16, 1919, in which British Prime Minister David Lloyd George cheerfully presents the Paris Peace Agreement, citing the 1895 Punch cartoon which had turned an old joke into a permanent part of the culture:Parts of the agreement that ended the First World War were excellent, but it wasn’t […]
PEN America has published a report on the rise of books being banned in public schools. Book bans in public schools have recurred throughout American history, and have long been an issue of concern to PEN America, as a literary and free expression advocacy organization. Over the past nine months, the scope of such censorship […]
Cartoonist Alison Bechdel, known for her groundbreaking, richly layered depictions of queer life and family relationships, will receive the 2022 International Humanities Prize from Washington University in St. Louis. Awarded by the university’s Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, the biennial prize honors the lifetime work of a noted scholar, writer or artist […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for April 2022 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Famous, Infamous, and Forgotten The Art of Living: Reflections on Mindfulness and the Overexamined Life Birth of a Beetle: The Magazine Cartoons of Mort Walker Unicorn Selfies: […]
Glen LeLievre leads off today’s roundup of dubious pieces and dubious claims, with a cartoon that has been getting a lot of reposts on social media.The dubious part isn’t that it deals with a religious subject at that religion’s most sacred time of year, because it doesn’t mock any theological beliefs. In fact, it seems […]
Sorry about the tight deadline (April 20, 2022) but here’s a fun project for the cartoonist in your family. RubeGoldberg.com hosts the famous annual Rube Goldberg Machine contest where building a physical Rube Goldberg contraption is the object. Now they have added a cartoon contest!Details and rules at RubeGoldberg.com New at GoComicsWhile Andrews McMeel Syndication is […]
Comic book and comic strip artist Angelo Torres joins our Senior Strippers as he turn 90 years old, having a birth date of April 14, 1932. Early on in his career Angelo became a member of what Harvey Kurtzman (or Nancy Gaines) dubbed The Fleagle Gang – Roy Krenkel, Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, […]
I really wanted to decompress from political stress with some funny stuff today, but just when I thought I was out, Mike Thompson pulls me back with today’s Grand Avenue (AMS).I guess there may be some comfort in knowing that there’s nothing new in all this, and that faint-hearted school administrators have been shutting down […]
A couple months ago we noted that the Washington Post Writers Group was “winding down” its syndicated editorial cartoon service. Their comic strip division may also be slowing down, if not ending. The creators of the Pickles comic strip and the Loose Parts comic panel have told The Daily Cartoonist that come June their features will […]
Jen Sorensen describes the lack of actual, principled ideas in our current world, an example of sarcasm in defense of freedom, which should be the purpose of editorial cartooning, though we also see it used for just the opposite purpose: To reinforce prejudice and paranoia. Drew Sheneman (Tribune) echoes her argument, but is more specific in […]
The National Cartoonist Society has announced that Jeannie Schulz will receive the Silver T-Square at this year’s Reuben Awards ceremony. On behalf of the board of directors of the National Cartoonists Society, it is our great pleasure to announce that Jeannie Schulz will be awarded the Silver T-Square at the 76th Annual Reuben Awards in […]
Gannett, the largest chain in the country, last month eliminated one day of print per week at 136 of its newspapers, including at the Beacon Journal. Another 50 will make the change by June, with most losing Saturday print editions. Executives insist readers will get the same quality of journalism. Elahe Izadi at The Washington […]