A couple articles about Jewish cartoonists dropped today. The Jewish News of Northern California introduces its readers to Rebecca Schuchat: Comics are Rebecca Schuchat’s preferred mode of self-expression. Yet the Oakland-born cartoonist, whose new comic strip, “Where’s My Timbrel?,” is debuting here and will continue on J.’s social media channels, tends to make comics that […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced the setting for the 2022 Reubens’ Weekend. Put it in your calendars, folks, because we’re going to try this once more with feeling– our 76th Annual Reuben Awards will take place in Kansas City, MO on Thursday 15th & Friday 16th September* 2022. We miss you all and can’t wait to get together […]
There are certain strips I don’t fact-check, but today’s Tank McNamara (AMS) left me thinking he must surely be making this up.However, I Googled it, and, yes, there is a movie in development called “80 For Brady,” starring those women, and, gee golly, it’s even being produced by Tom Brady, which, for those who don’t […]
After nine months (has it been that long?) the Comics Kingdom Blog reappeared earlier this week. The March 7 item is not much, only a notice, but we hope it is the beginning of a return to the way it was.Past years had seen Brian Walker, John Rose, and other King Features cartoonists become regulars […]
Greg Robinson for Nichi Bey writes: By the 1930s, comic strips had become important vehicles of social and political commentary…Yet… representations of racial minorities in mainstream strips, especially positive ones, were rather rare…As a result, I was pleasantly surprised recently when I came across the Toya Matsu episode in the 1930s comic strip “You be […]
The best part of this Daddy’s Home (Creators) is that he’s right, sort of.That is, we shouldn’t believe what they say, because we all use more than 10 percent of our brain, though the people who keep saying this perhaps do not.It’s appropriate that she’s on her laptop, because that’s a flowing river of such […]
TERRY GROSS, HOST: David Sipress, welcome to FRESH AIR. I love your cartoons. Thank you for being here. Let’s start with your most published and tweeted cartoon. SIPRESS: I wrote that sometime during the ’90s. It’s not a New Yorker cartoon. I never can remember where it first started, but I think it was during […]
Not many local comic strips last 25 years, but Washashores by John Andert did – and does.The Provincetown Banner celebrates the accomplishment: In the Provincetown Banner issue of Thursday, March, 6, 1997— 25 years ago… Near the back, on page 21, was a new “Washashores” cartoon by John Andert. Then-Banner editor Hamilton Kahn had an idea […]
We are a week late in honoring Spanish cartoonist Josep Marti who was born February 28, 1932 and is now eligible for our Senior Stripper Club for cartoonists aged 90 and over. Spanish artist Josep Marti i Capell has drawn for various European publishers. He started out with realistic western and war stories for the […]
Reply All (WPWG) not only suggests taking a break from the Weight of It All, but explains how we manage to get by without pondering such things.I laughed at the punchline, but it set me thinking about Neil Postman’s classic “Amusing Ourselves to Death,” which, in turn, leads me to think of the mud-spattered, toothless […]
And the award goes to…..Cartoon of the Year to David Rowe for Nuts Open Category winner Jason Chatfield for Coronavirus Diary 1- 3Merit Award to Jed Dunstan for Kangaroo looking for a date Sports Category winner is Harry Bruce for Faster, higher, stronger with Merit Award to Lindsay Foyle for Excitement Comic Strip Category winner is Ian Jones […]
Stephan Pastis is going on a “mini-book tour,” meaning the tour is short not that his book is small (the newest book is a giant-sized treasury).Stephan is abandoning The West to visit a number of cities in The South to talk about his Pearls Before Swine comic strip. He’s already adding more cities to the […]
I particularly like Andy Davey’s piece, both for what it is and for how it contrasts with other commentary.We need to be a little cautious in accepting everything we hear from the resistance, because they’re in a war for hearts-and-minds, too, but it is plain that Ukraine hasn’t folded up like Putin expected it to.Not […]
These kind of things work better as print comics than as web comics.Funky Winkerbean and Lio go sideways, though at a 180 degrees from each other.To save you the extra computer steps here they are right side up: © Batom Inc. © Mark TatulliThat is the second Atomik Komix cover by James Pascoe and […]
The war has — appropriately — taken up a lot of interest, but it’s not the only thing happening in the world, and Ann Telnaes expresses her opinion of an attorney general who not only kept his eyes shut but helped hide and deflect what illicit behavior he couldn’t ignore.Until it was time to cash […]