I’m not in the mood for politics today, but Kevin Siers’ comment on the resignation of Boris Johnson is simply too good to delay.It’s one of those things where, once you see it, the connecting concepts are obvious, but combining Britain’s lion with Bert Lahr’s lion must have struck Siers like a thunderbolt.As a writer, […]
Filmmaker Tom Tanquary is informing us of the sad news that cartoonist and comics historian R. C. Harvey has passed away. There will be more as details emerge.
On July 7, 1997 Baby Blues writer Jerry Scott and editorial cartoonist Jim Borgman introduced 15-year-old Jeremy Duncan to newspaper readers with the Zits comic strip.The comic strip began with a decent client list and has grown considerably since. Zits appears in more than 1,600 newspapers worldwide in 45 countries and is translated into 15 […]
Editorial cartoonist Graeme MacKay celebrates his 25th anniversary with The Hamilton Spectator. … this week marks the 25 year milestone since officially beginning my role on July 7, 1997, as staff editorial cartoonist at The Hamilton Spectator. Previous to then my illustrations regularly appeared on a freelance basis in this paper as well as several […]
In order to start a day of mythbusting on an apolitical note, here’s a cartoon Rich Powell shared on Facebook the other day, though I note by the date that he drew it some time ago.It’s about the nursery rhyme about little piggies, used, as demonstrated in this 1857 painting by Lilly Martin-Spencer, to make […]
After nearly a hundred years in existence, the Popeye comic strip is reportedly getting a woke makeover, with the strip’s latest cartoonist promising more ethnic diversity and “more characters who aren’t heterosexual.” The right wing news site Breitbart has an article about ideas newly introduced in the Popeye comic strip. The item informs […]
From Intelligent Collector: In November 2020, Trudeau attempted the seemingly impossible: whittling down that mountain of strips to a mere handful that “proved defining and enduringly meaningful to him,” as The Washington Post noted upon its publication of Trudeau’s top 10. Among their estimable lot: strips about Watergate, women’s rights, onerous laws in Florida and […]
Joel Pett gets a laugh and helps lower our expectations of each other this morning, given how very little of what ought to be painfully obvious appears to be so. The past several days have seen a display of how many know so little about American History or about how our government works.Scott Stantis (Counterpoint) posted […]
Comics Kingdom has lost a week’s worth of Vintage Judge Parker.I found them.
As Texas politics change, so too has Sargent’s approach to depicting the warring legislators beneath the Capitol dome. “When I started, I was drawing them as little Mickey Mouse figures and clowns,” he recalls. “Now, there’s sort of an edge of evil.”Ben Sargent started as a Texas reporter. In 1974 he became the staff editorial […]
Informed sources tell me that Mike Manley will return to the Judge Parker daily art chores before the end of July.Beginning Monday July 25, 2022 Mike is back on Judge Parker. His return to the Sunday pages should follow not long after?On his Facebook page Mike responds to a comment with “Back on the Judge […]
Bill Bramhall depicts the Fourth of July in the New Normal, in which we can’t always distinguish the traditional fireworks from the new tradition of killing each other. My favorite part of the cartoon is that she’s only moderately concerned; it’s not like she’s leaping from the couch or he’s poised at the window.Maybe it’s […]
We landed in America today, the 4th of July. Last week, Sophie and I donated or sold just about everything we’d accumulated over 30-odd years living in Australia. The stuff we kept was crammed into two bloated suitcases before we jumped on a plane to start a new life. No plan, no job waiting for […]
From left to right: Elena Kagan, Brett M. Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas (with his wife Ginni Thomas behind him), Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., Neil M. Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, Samuel A. Alito Jr., Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen G. Breyer. Mike Peterson linked to Ann Telnaes‘ latest Washington Post interactive cartoon about the Supreme Court […]
As was foretold here a couple weeks ago, Scott Cohn began signing the Judge Parker comic strip today. No, we don’t when, or if, Bret Blevins will sign The Phantom comic strip. © UFSIt’s a good weekend to be a happy camper, and I am.Alley Oop (also Little Oop) is back in Stone Age […]