From Rob Stolzer: In the smallest of nutshells, Noel Sickles entered the comic strip field in 1933, spent three years working on Scorchy Smith, and left the field after revolutionizing the way adventure comic strips and superhero comics would forever be drawn. Not too bad for a 24-year-old young man, right? Sickles’ three-year run on […]
Mentioned here yesterday was MRC’s take on Michael de Adder‘s cartoon about Governor Ron DeSantis and Florida state’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill.The conservative media has smelled blood and is pouncing on Michael and The Washington Post.LifeNews.com, “devoted to reporting news that affects the pro-life community,” went with rerunning the Tim Graham column calling de Adder […]
There is a temptation to simply display Morten Morland’s absolutely brilliant commentary on Russian atrocities and shut down for the day. There’s also a temptation to save it for last, to end with a crescendo.But we have to be wary of temptation; I saw a posting from someone who wished Twitter had a button you could […]
Michael Maslin noted a new cartoonist in the April 4, 2022 issue of The New Yorker: Sixteen cartoons, seventeen cartoonists (Liana Finck has a “Sketchbook”). One duo that we know of (Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby. The Spill counts duos as one cartoonist), and one newbie: Gabrielle Drolet, the 8th new cartoonist added to the […]
A couple of recent Ron DeSantis cartoons have upset fans of the Florida governor.Earlier this week there was a complaint about Christopher Weyant. Regarding Christopher Weyant’s March 14 syndicated editorial cartoon of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis: It’s not enough that Post-Dispatch editorials and columns focus mostly on themes critical of Republicans associated with former President […]
Doonesbury, to paraphrase Mike Peterson, is The Comic Strip of the Month.© G. B. TrudeauThe last panel of the Sunday strip makes me sad. More paraphrasing…© North American SyndicateKaren Moy, in Mary Worth, almost quotes Charles Schulz. Peanuts from June 13, 1980:© Peanuts Worldwide After a week of reading and enjoying newspaper comics… Red is treating the delivery […]
Between countless variations on Putin painting himself into a corner and even more versions of people slapping other people, political cartoonists seem determined to see if they can boost Sturgeon’s Law beyond 90 percent.However, there’s still some interesting and creative work out there. Overseas cartoonists, for instance, have been having a field day with Putin’s disastrous […]
Automobile cartoonist and artist Stan Mott has passed away. Stanley Frederick (Stan) Mott February 27, 1933 – March 22, 2022 “Of course I drive a car. What made you think I didn’t drive a car.” Road & Track, January 1993From the Stan Mott- Wild Art, Strange Journey and Cars Facebook page: It is with great […]
For those who have access to a newsstand that sells the April 2022 issue of Washingtonian – grab it. Editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes on her journey from The Brave Little Toaster to a Pulitzer Prize. As told to Bill O’Sullivan. [T]he second season of Woke – debuting April 8th on Hulu – delves even […]
It’s a frightening world out there. As Mike Lester (AMS) predicts, Disney plans to groom our children, indoctrinating them to begin dying their skin with walnut juice and learning a second language.The notion that Disney films might feature non-magical Negroes and Hispanics who do not snooze under saguaros is clearly the sign of End Times, […]
Twenty-five years ago Jim Scancarelli‘s Gasoline Alley mentioned comics characters looking funny.And the comics did look off-model that day – ’cause it was April 1, 1997.The Corpus Christi Caller-Times hedder:Today is the silver anniversary of The Great Comics Switcheroonie of 1997.A Scripps Howard article explained what was happening to a confused public. To celebrate the occasion […]
We’ll start our April Fool’s Day coverage at Rob Rogers’ website, where he either had a technical glitch or an absolutely brilliant take on both the topic and the day.If it’s a glitch, Rob, don’t fix it. It can’t be improved. (Too late: Here’s what he meant.) But today’s headline says “Hateful Fools Day,” and the […]
The late 1960s to the mid 1970s was the height of the underground comix, and the creators and producers of those comix enjoyed a brief time of being joined by some old masters of the cartooning art. Historian Brian Doherty has a new book, Dirty Pictures, coming out this Spring about Underground Comix. One chapter […]
Cartoonist Tony Saltzman has passed away. Anthony Zola (Tony) Saltzman March 27, 1938 – March 24, 2022 From the obituary: On March 24, 2022, Anthony “Tony” Saltzman of Grand Rapids passed away unexpectedly at the age of 83. Tony had a wonderfully witty and dry sense of humor which led him to a career in […]
The tradition is to mark history in round numbers, and 54 years ago is hardly that, but March 31, 1968 was a pretty interesting moment in time and, besides, I have a doctor’s appointment this morning, so had to put something together in advance.So here was a historic moment for the date, and let me […]