New Hampshire cartoonist Jay Martin has passed away.Jayson J. Martin October 17, 1976 – December 30, 2021 From the obituary: Jayson J. Martin, 45, of Manchester NH, died on December 30th, 2021, after succumbing to a lengthy illness. [Jay] was a graduate of Manchester West High School class of 1995, followed by an Associate’s degree […]
I’m not in the mood for politics today and we’ll certainly get a heapin’ helpin’ whether I want it or not. But I will share Marty Two Bulls’ take on the anniversary because it cracked me up. I think it’s the trunk/snout, combined with the desperate expression and the obvious falsehood.If you want a more […]
With the barren United States Postal Service stamp-scape for comics lovers in 2022, let’s take a look, with the help of Richard D. Sheaff, at some cartoonist-related postage stamps that never materialized.Stamps by and about cartoonists have been issued (all the above), but some ideas never got a sticky backside.The self-caricature by Xavier Cugat, a […]
No one familiar with George Booth’s cartoons can look at an English bull terrier and not wonder whether its equine muzzle, pointed ears, and claustrophobically arranged eyes weren’t inspired by his drawings rather than the other way around. Many familiar elements of his œuvre—not just the dogs but also the cats, guillotines, car mechanics, bathtubs, […]
If you follow any cartoonists on social media, you’ve probably already seen Ann Telnaes’ interactive analysis of the January 6 insurrection, because her colleagues have been praising and forwarding it since she unveiled it yesterday.That’s unusual, not because of professional competition but simply because cartoonists tend to sit back and watch the market rather than […]
Since we are celebrating 40 year anniversaries today let’s go to Scotland where… “Births, Deaths, Marriages and Smirk, but not necessarily in that order”, is how someone once told me they read The Shetland Times – probably apocryphal – then of course there are the back pages. A cartoon is a form of expression that […]
On this very date in 1982, Sally Forth entered our lives. Okay, it didn’t technically enter my life until 1997 when I was hired to write the strip, simply because it did not run in my hometown paper. Of course, a lot has changed with the strip since it premiered four decades ago, including the […]
With the Sally Forth comic strip celebrating its 40th anniversary today (and all week), cartoonist Jim Keefe is taking the opportunity to recall the time he met Sally Forth creator Greg Howard, accompanied by Jim’s Sally Forth mentor Craig MacIntosh. I got to meet Greg Howard just once in 2012 before I took over the […]
The first For Better or For Worse Sunday issue of 2022 was not only well received at GoComics, but in newspapers.A letter to The Baltimore Sun: I had to comment on the wonderful message in the comic strip, “For Better or For Worse” (Jan. 2) by Lynn Johnston. … I read it several times and […]
Might as well start the day in puzzled mode, since I don’t have a particular hobby horse to ride.Specifically, I’m puzzled by “The trouble with instant coffee,” in today’s Pardon My Planet (KFS) because it suggests that there’s something that isn’t troubling about instant coffee. Which is to say that, while I agree the crystals […]
The Public Domain post got me to thinking there was one 1925 continuity that ran into 1926 and we might as well show the complete run here. J. R. Williams’ Out Our Way began in 1922 and in a few years it had become a very popular comic panel, appearing in many newspapers across […]
Comic books had appeared long before 1922, but that was the year a comic book appeared on a regular periodic schedule as the appropriately named Comic Monthly began to be published on a monthly basis, with the first issue cover dated January 1922.From ComicBooks.com: In January of 1922 Comics Monthly #1 appeared on the newsstands […]
Here are our ten most popular cartoons of year, 2021. Jeff Koterba was swinging for home runs this year, winning SIX of the Top Ten spots, along with ELEVEN of the Top Twenty. This was a fantastic year for Jeff! Daryl Cagle also refers to them as the “most reprinted cartoon[s],” all of which I […]
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I make a weekly cartoon for The Guardian newspaper about books and a weekly science cartoon for New Scientist magazine. I work as an illustrator and have written a number of comic books and, most recently, a children’s book called The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess. I’ve drawn ten covers for The New […]