According to comic book historians who keep track of such things, Animal Comics #1 from Dell Publishing was released 80 years ago today.Its claim to fame is that the comic book featured the debut of Pogo Possum and Albert the Alligator by Walt Kelly.The occupants of Okefenokee were not birthed fully formed, their presentation in […]
I’ve got to agree with John Cole on this one: The response from the GOP to the revelations from Mar A Lago are at least as disappointing and depressing as the facts themselves. (If you didn’t get that headline, here’s the background.)Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) have been burning up the […]
Another step toward realization for the Bloom County animation series.Tim Long (The Simpsons) has signed on to co-write and showrun Bloom County, the upcoming FOX animated series based on the acclaimed comic strip of the same name created and written by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, screenwriter, producer and children’s book author Berkeley Breathed.Breathed, who is co-writing […]
© Glenn McCoyThis week’s favorite (so far) is the Glenn McCoy take on cancel culture in his The Duplex. Two hopes: that the run continues for another week and that specific politics stay out as both sides have their share of blame in the process. © John HambrockThis week’s disappointment is the end of The Brilliant […]
As is often said here, the “bland restatement” technique of cartoons like This Modern World is often a problem, since the absurd things the characters say are not far off from things actually being said.That’s true of this piece, but the hyperbole of Trump being in possession of an actual nuclear weapon, rather than highly […]
For nearly 30 years, the cartoonist Lynda Barry published her adored comic strip “Ernie Pook’s Comeek,” which told the whimsical, hardscrabble story of the young sisters Marlys and Maybonne, in alternative papers across the country. (An anthology, “It’s So Magic,” was published earlier this month.) [S]ince 2012, Barry, a 66-year-old who in 2019 received a […]
We’re not doing politics today, but Rod Emmerson‘s cartoon is a combination of politics and social commentary, since in New Zealand, as this article from his paper explains, masks remain mandated for everyone in some settings and for employees in others, but are being largely discarded by the public in places where covid infections are […]
Famed Texas editorial cartoonist Etta Hulme (Ft. Worth Star-Telegram 1972 – 2008) drew a comic strip for her newspaper for a month and a half in 1980. Before we get to the 1980 comic strip let’s note that the “comeback” mentioned in the above promo was a reference to a Jerry Flemmens humor column that ran […]
An odd piece today from Prickly City (AMS), where the meaning of Labor Day, and of holidays, has apparently disappeared entirely.Well, perhaps not so odd, given that we’ve largely stopped honoring holidays in this country. We’ve not only got fewer holidays than many other countries, but we only take a handful of them as holidays […]
Lucien De Gieter, born September 4, 1932, turns 90 today and becomes one of The Daily Cartoonist’s Senior Strippers.Lucien’s entry at the Lambiek Comiclopedia: Lucien De Gieter is a Belgian comic artist, since the 1960s a prominent artist for Spirou magazine and best known for his comic series ‘Papyrus’. De Gieter began his association with […]
A new Trubble Town book is the rational for a new Stephan Pastis interview. © Stephan Pastis STEPHAN: Yes, I’m sure I will be doing that once again. I try to draw 14 Pearls strips every week that I’m home, which buys me 26 free weeks a year to write other books and travel. […]
The Waco Tribune-Herald informed readers of major changes coming:In two weeks the Tribune-Herald will roll out a complete overhaul of our daily comics and puzzles pages, as well as our Sunday comics section. Readers tend to react passionately when we change mainstays in the paper, so consider this a heads-up. We’re shifting our focus from […]
Mr. Boffo reminds me of when I got a subscription to the New Yorker for donating to my NPR station. I enjoyed leafing through and looking at the cartoons, but, while the articles were well-written and interesting, I couldn’t plow through them before another issue arrived.It was like some literary form of the Sorceror’s Apprentice: […]
It appears Andy Marlette, the last staff editorial cartoonist for a Gannett newspaper, has left his position at The Pensacola News Journal.The Andy Marlette page at PNJ.com seems to indicate that thecartoonist no longer is on staff at The Pensacola News Journal.Andy’s farewell(?) column and cartoon is behind a paywall so we don’t know if […]
Thirty-five years ago, come next weekend, cartoonist Mark Parisi began self-syndicating a weekly comic panel he titled “off the mark” which everyone, through force of habit, capitalizes to Off the Mark. Next Saturday, Sept. 10, Gloucester cartoonist Mark Parisi celebrates 35 years of syndication of his cartoon panel “Off the Mark.” Back when he was […]