March 26, 1972 saw a new comic strip appear about a group of high school students created by school teacher Tom Batiuk who also happened to be a cartoonist.The Funky Winkerbean cast spent 20 years in high school until Tom decided to move them on to a different arrangement, advancing them 4 years after their […]
Mike Lester (AMS) sums up Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings, in which she was asked a barrage of asinine questions that had nothing to do with her fitness for the position, and in which she politely declined to answer those which were clearly and obviously irrelevant.He slips in a few sensible topics there, but when […]
With newspapers increasingly NOT publishing on a daily schedule and subscribers being referred to websites to read their favorite comic strips (and the box scores, and stock listings, and the …) and comic book print runs these days not breaking 50,000 copies for almost all titles.It seems the future is digital. From TechCrunch: The comics world […]
After such a hateful week of deliberate lies and irrelevance, it’s time to take a break. Here’s an intelligent palate-cleanser from Bizarro (KFS), which only requires that you have read some Poe, which, in turn, only requires that The Telltale Heart was assigned in eighth grade.Though we were assigned the Pit and the Pendulum and […]
Sherman’s Lagoon, the comic strip created by Jim Toomey in 1991, is beginning its fourth decade by switching to its fourth syndicate.Sherman’s Lagoon started in Jim’s local newspaper The Escondido Times-Advocate on May 13, 1991, and was self-syndicated by Jim’s Pacific Press Features. The comic picked up a few more papers by the time Jim […]
Philadelphia cartoonist Stu Goldman has passed away.Stuart Wilk (Stu) Goldman March 26, 1947 – March 3, 2022 From the Jewish Exponent obituary: Stuart “Stu” Goldman, the former editorial cartoonist and art director/graphics editor for the Jewish Exponent, died on March 3 at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was 74. Goldman worked for the […]
Drew Sheneman shows the broken promise upon which the Republican members of the Senate Judicial Committee based their approach to the confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.It raises the classic question noted in Goldoni’s 1743 commedia, “The Servant of Two Masters”:Pantalone:. What are we to make of this fellow? Is he a knave or […]
Friday Event Liza Donnelly explores [the New Yorker women cartoonists] in her new book, Very Funny Ladies (with foreward by David Remnick and Emma Allen) that celebrates the increase in gender, racial and ethnic diversity among cartoonists today at The New Yorker. Female cartoonists Roz Chast, Amy Hwang, Emily Flake will talk — and laugh […]
In 1926 cartoonist George Storm adapted Johann Wyss’ The Swiss Family Robinson into a comic strip serial for the McClure Syndicate. The closed-end strip ran daily from October 18, 1926 to March 18, 1927 in most newspapers that carried it.Ron Goulart excerpts from Nemo, the Classic comics Library #4: While looking for something or other I […]
Ann Telnaes summarizes yesterday’s confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown-Jackson, which, as she notes, had nothing to do with assessing the judge’s qualification but were, instead, a chance for GOP politicians to compile sound bites.Chuck Grassley (R-Ia) asked her a for-real question about allowing cameras in the Supreme Court, and she properly replied that — assuming […]
Cartoonist John Kovalic is best known for Dork Tower and Apples to Apples.Recently John cartooned a Ukraine related drawing in support of that country. [W]hen Russia invaded Ukraine last month, Kovalic said he felt the need to do something to help. “Saturday night after the invasion, I was just sitting here at the desk and […]
This September, IDW Publishing will release Bloom County Library: Book One, the first of five editions collecting all the humor and all the characters of the original run of Breathed’s comic strips, published worldwide in over 1,200 newspapers on a daily basis from December 8, 1980 to August 6, 1989. The first volume features the […]
Due to circumstances beyond anyone’s control the syndicated newspaper debut of Crabgrass by Tauhid Bondia, originally scheduled for March 28, 2022, will be delayed three months.From Tauhid: So there’s been update on the Crabgrass newspaper launch, folks. Long story short: It’s been pushed back to June 27. Long story long: This comes after a lots […]
Matt Wuerker (Politico) cites the phrase “Fog of War,” which began, as he suggests, on the battlefield, but has spread markedly.According to Wikipedia (or whoever they copped it from):The first known use of the exact phrase in text dates to 1896 in a book titled The Fog of War by Sir Lonsdale Augustus Hale, where it is […]
[Keith] Davidson began working at The Valley Reporter in 1992, after seeing an ad published in the paper seeking a graphic artist. He began drawing comics and working on advertisements as well as a plethora of other tasks, including the weekly Chinese food run on Wednesdays. The (Waitsfield, Vt.) Valley Reporter profiles their editorial cartoonist […]