A reminder that Lalo Alcaraz will be presented with The Herblock Prize tonight at 7:00 Eastern time.It was announced last month that Lalo had won the Prize.Michael Cavna, at The Washington Post, has an article about Alcaraz today. Lalo Alcaraz was 13 when his father, a landscaper and plant nursery worker in the San Diego […]
Elon Musk is purchasing Twitter and, as Dr. MacLeod notes, social media is ablaze with outrage and, as he suggests, they’re flooding social media with furious denunciations of social media.Some of them may actually be bailing out; Mark Hamill notes that he’s felt a great disturbance in the Twitterverse, as if thousands of voices suddenly […]
George McManus and The Art of Entertaining Readers Daily Comic disharmony between Jiggs and Maggie over their social climb was the central joke of George McManus’s Bringing Up Father for over four decades. For all of McManus’s fine sense of humor, he banged that one note across four panels six days a week and a […]
Mykolas Lukosevicius wasted no time commenting on Macron’s victory in yesterday’s French elections, the caption reading, “So, happy?”Liberty looks anything but, and little wonder after the campaign she’s just endured. She chose the lesser of two evils, and Mykolas offers a bit of a visual joke in that, while her bare breast is taken from […]
Famed western and book cover artist James Bama has passed away.James Elliott Bama April 28, 1926 – April 24, 2022Social media is reporting that James Bama died this morning. James Bama is famous for his western paintings that are in museums around the world.But…James Bama contributed very little to comics, though one of his book […]
Visual puzzle and game creator Don Rubin has passed away.Donald Joel (Don) Rubin April 6, 1945 – April 8, 2022 From the obituary: Donald Joel Rubin, one of the world’s premier creators of games and puzzles, died of cancer at his home in Santa Rosa, California on April 8, 2022. In the late 1980’s his […]
We’ll start with a gamble that didn’t pay off, as seen in Nick Anderson (Counterpoint)’s cartoon. As you may have heard, CNN launched a streaming service, CNN+, which was then cancelled before it was a month old.But the gamble wasn’t that they thought it would catch on and it didn’t. I had some quibbles with […]
Editorial Cartoonist Steve Sack announced he is retiring from The Star Tribune today. It’s with extremely mixed feelings that after 42 years, and some 10,000 cartoons, I have decided to retire from the Star Tribune. I wish I was able to offer a farewell cartoon. I’ve been away from my drawing table in recent weeks, […]
Some upcoming events.Or in this first one a currently in progress event. There’s no mistaking artwork created by Chad Maupin. Colorful, vibrant and dynamic, his designs — which often incorporate his love of vintage comic books and classic horror movies — leap off the page and assault your senses in the most delightful of ways. […]
I was hoping for a day of frivolity, but this Vintage Radio Patrol (KFS) brought me up short, my first reaction being that Lennie Briscoe would do the same damn thing and torpedo the State’s case against her.Next reaction being to examine that middle panel, which reveals that the strip ran in 1940, which in […]
As their romance grew, Bill Simmons and Jehanne Gheith found a shared obsession with the daily Jumble puzzle — a courtship built around a mutual fondness for unscrambling. So last year, when it came time for the big question, Simmons easily struck on a proposal with his own unique brand: a handmade Jumble with a […]
We’ve been on a bit of a book kick here lately, so let’s start with that. While every year is a good one for people who collect Peanuts books, this one looks to be a particularly prime one for people who collect not so much the books, but the boxes they come in. Peanuts maven […]
Phoebe Howell is celebrating her tenth birthday this week.A celebration that corresponds with the 10th anniversary of Heavenly Nostrils making its webcomic debut on April 22, 2022.As cartoonist Dana Simpson explains she had ended her Ozy and Millie webcomic and had planned on changing her career – leaving comics and try illustration.That never got past […]
Matt Davies illustrates the plight of Floridians canceled by the self-proclaimed opponents of Cancel Culture.Someone — though not Mark Twain — said that America is on a tilt and all the loose nuts slide into Southern California, but it’s getting hard to believe they’re not actually falling straight down. And, however absurd and depressing and incredible […]
Andrews McMeel Syndication (AMS) has announced the signing of Brian Crane’s Pickles comic strip. The date for the move from Washington Post Writers Group to AMS is given as July 1, 2022 (a Friday). Kansas City, MO (April 18, 2022) Andrews McMeel Syndication (AMS) will assume sales and distribution of Pickles by Brian Crane, […]