The Santa Rosa Press Democrat will be making changes to its daily comics page. Dear Readers – The Press Democrat is making some slight design improvements throughout our print edition, starting in April. One area we’re reviewing relates to our comics section that publishes Monday-Saturday. The paper asks readers to mark their favorite comics.Comic Panels: […]
… In other words, just as the popular concept of American democracy has been modified (some might say vulgarized) to include capitalism as a leading example of its primary function, so too has the practice of satire and political cartooning been amended to require amusement as its foremost intention, a sure sign that it can […]
In Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” a hard-drinking couple center their lives and their relationship around a cruel series of shared memories of extremely dubious truth. Any more would be a spoiler, and, if you’ve never seen Mike Nichols’ 1966 film of the play, you should.But don’t expect to laugh, because, in the words […]
Mad #24 is nipping at our heels with a release date of February 15. It features a new cover by Ed Steckley. Though some places are showing an old (July 1976) Bob Jones cover to illustrate the solicitation.Must have been sent out for the early listers.Elsewhere Ed gives us a look at the contents page […]
Today’s Arlo & Janis (AMS) is a bit of a Super Bowl standard: The sports savvy guy and the woman who picks her team by, in this case, colors, or, other times, by ferocity of mascot. The denouement is that her teams wins.It’s a gag with legs: As Homer wrote, “It’s funny because it’s true.”For […]
KUSA-TV in Denver has an extended (20 minutes) segment featuring Reuben Award-winning cartoonist Ray Billingsley of Curtis fame and Where I’m Coming From cartoonist Barbara Brandon-Croft, the first Black woman cartoonist to be syndicated in mainstream (white) newspapers. Also included is Richard Prince who writes about diversity in the news media.The trio discuss the still […]
Looper lists the Most Popular Peanuts Characters from worst to best. The only problem with the “Peanuts” gang is that some members are more lovable than others. Some of the Shulz [sic] toons are charming and imaginative enough to carry their own feature films, but some don’t have the charisma to carry a single comic […]
Cornered (AMS) opens today’s discussion, and the arms crossed posture is perfect.I’ll begin the topic by confessing that Constant Reader Bob Crittenden dropped me an email to very politely point out that, if I began the blog in 2010, yesterday was its 12th, not 11th Anniversary. The problem, I shamefacedly confessed, is that I haven’t […]
Just how old is Walt Wallet of Gasoline Alley?I have, with nothing to back it up, long ago decided Walt was born in the year 1900.With a Walt biography the subject of the current comic strip we may finally find out.1900 still works with Walt in the Navy during World War I.But then Jim Scancarelli […]
Buster was one of Britain’s longest running weekly comics, but when it launched back in May 1960, then owners the Mirror Group took advantage of the popularity of newspaper strip character “Andy Capp“, published in the Daily Mirror. They gave the comic a perhaps unusual PR boost – by making flagship character Buster the son […]
This Ink Pen (AMS) was the first strip featured on Comic Strip of the Day, back on February 6, 2010, which you will, by a simple arithmetical process, easily discover was not 11 years ago today.However, today is the day I can get my car in for inspection and a new sticker at 8 am, […]
February 8 is Okefenokee Swamp Day in Georgia One of Georgia’s seven natural wonders, Okefenokee Swamp has inspired everything from comic strips to rides at Six Flags Over Georgia and has long been one of the state’s leading tourist attractions, but on Feb. 8, the 428,000-acre blackwater wetland will finally get its dues at Georgia’s […]
It being a day to debate various unclear topics, let’s clear our palates with John Darkow’s straightforward commentary on “legitimate political discourse,” in which he skips all the metaphors and the reductio-ad-absurda and goes straight to the point:There is absolutely no moral world in which what happened on January 6 qualifies as “legitimate political discourse,” […]
The scam targeting cartoonists we were alerted to last Spring is still making the rounds, with a twist.Shannon Wheeler is working with authorities: I’m Shannon Wheeler and someone is using my name and project details similar to some of my own work to lure working artists into a fraud scheme. I’m working with law enforcement […]
Sometimes a cartoonist’s final draft doesn’t work.Artist Jim Keefe finished a Sally Forth strip and then had second thoughts.Do you see the difference from the black and white original and the color panel that was published? © King Features SyndicateFrom Jim’s Facebook page:Pen and ink establishing shot for today’s Sally Forth (2/7/2022). Realized after the […]