“My experience in China assured me that the power of the cartoon is so mighty that that government would just hunt me down, harass my family, everything they can to stop me from drawing. If it is all for nothing, then why are they doing it?” The perfect example, [Badiucao] says, is the viral meme […]
Let’s start with some good news and a laugh, as RJ Matson notes the emergence of forged elector ballots, and we learn that the January 6 Committee has subpoenaed Rudy Giuliani and several others connected to the attempt.It’s not the White House tapes in which we heard Nixon actively plotting to pay off the Watergate […]
The law of unintended consequences.Maus by Art Spiegelman at Amazon as of 12 noon PST: And in all books:edit to addIn all books at 2:30am January 29, 1922:#3 Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Paperback) #4 The Complete Maus (Hardcover)
A Knoxville, Tennessee comic book store is giving free copies of Art Spiegelman’s Maus graphic novel to students who wish to read the book. Knoxville is about fifty miles northeast of McMinn County where the Pulitzer Prize-winning book has been banned from the school district’s eighth grade curriculum. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A Knoxville comic book […]
Back in the day, before the Zits era, there was a time when Jim Borgman was the editorial cartoonist for the Cincinnati Enquirer. Being the All-American boy he was, and still is, his cartoon ideas occasionally found themselves more appropriate to the sports page than the opinion page.With the Bengals playing in tomorrow’s AFC Championship […]
I was glad to see Steve Brodner’s latest commentary, which is about banned books, and about the way the right wing has embraced Cancel Culture and about how young people are not accepting it.The Granbury School District is banning books. Banning them.Not simply removing them from a curriculum as we discussed yesterday, or putting them […]
In a comic about reporting on comics, a Times journalist takes you through his process — from idea to pitch to research and writing. From the New York Times: This comic, by the Times reporter George Gene Gustines and the artist Bill Walko, is part of our ongoing journalism and news literacy series. You can […]
100 years ago this week Gene Ahern, in his Our Boarding House panel, started a sequence that would have a great impact. In 1922 the week began on the Monday of January 23 and featured a mystery stretching through the week. (Click on panels to embiggen, a second click will supersize.)January 23, 1922: January 24, […]
I don’t disagree with Steve Brodner (or Neil Gaiman)’s take on the idea of banning Art Spiegelman’s now-classic graphic memoir, Maus.Or, at least, I wouldn’t disagree if what is being reported were what had happened. As DD Degg noted here yesterday, the Daily Beast reports that “The McMinn County (Tenn.) school board’s 10 members voted […]
Southeast Tennessee’s McMinn County School Board has voted unanimously to ban Art Spiegelman‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus from every school district library. From the Daily Beast: The McMinn County school board’s 10 members voted to axe Maus from curricula and school libraries, citing its use of the phrase “God Damn” and its drawings of […]
The Ron Goulart funeral home obituary is up. Mr. Goulart who was born in Berkeley, California was a widely recognized science fiction and mystery writer as well as a comics historian. This seems a good time for a bibliography of Ron’s comics and pulp history books. Cheap Thrills (1972) An Informal History of the Pulp Magazine (1973) […]
Tim Newcomb is entitled to his opinion.A Tim Newcomb cartoon about Democratic candidates for Vermont’s U.S. House of Representatives seat has some citizens (and advertisers) calling for a modern day equivalent, as The Times Argus puts it, of the cartoonist being drawn and quartered.Today, Tim finds himself on the end of a pointy stick following […]
I had an odd response to yesterday’s Non Sequitur (AMS) yesterday, or possibly the brilliant inspiration for some kind of dystopian speculative fiction.I suspect the Venn diagram of people who believe in crypto and people who distrust the government has a rather large intersection, given that the appeal of Bitcoins and such appears to be […]
We don’t feature a lot of comic book news here – mostly because there are so many comic book news sites available.But for some reason I have some comic book links bookmarked. Figure I’ll share them with you before they get deleted. Unsurprisingly the links are mostly about the history of the modern comic book. The […]
There’s a new face in the GoComics family—five new faces, in fact! Last week, we welcomed fan-favorite Baby Blues to the site, who brought with it all growing pains of the MacPherson family—Darryl, Wanda, Zoe, Hammie, and Wren. The GoComics Blog put up an interview with Baby Blues creators Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman. How […]