Tom Gauld comicBelow are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for November 2021 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. American Comics: A History Pearls Awaits the Tide Graphic Witness (second edition, expanded) Rubes Twisted Pop Culture Rube Goldberg and His Amazing Machines (review) Comics and the Origins […]
Businessman and cartoonist Bob Wilson has passed away.Robert Dennis (Bob) Wilson May 20, 1933 – October 16, 2021 From the obituary: While in college, a job opportunity arose that directed his career path. He bought J.J. Construction and built many homes in Indian Hills. He opened Mid-State Lumber Company in Cuba, Missouri in the mid […]
Tim Campbell (WPWG)‘s joke notwithstanding, one of the first things we learned in business law is that a price tag is not binding and that both parties are free to bargain until some kind of consideration changes hands.That’s obvious with the sticker on an automobile window, less so with a tag on a can of […]
Neil Gaiman Calls Out MoMA for Not Giving Cartoonist Credit From MoMA, crediting the publisher but not the artist:The source for his painting, Drowning Girl, is “Run for Love!,” the melodramatic lead story of Secret Love #83, a DC Comics comic book from 1962.Follow Neil’s Twitter thread where other comics people comment. Museum Uses Art After […]
Coming up is 2021’s installment of the Annual Guest Jumbler Week (November 15 – 20).Jeff Knurek and David L. Hoyt have lined up a stellar list of guest cartoonists to create the Jumble puzzle for this week’s 9th Annual Guest Jumbler event.SPOILERALERTFor those who don’t recognize all the characters, here is the list and the […]
© AMSI’m always fascinated by cartoonists cartooning about cartoonists. Got a three-fer this week with In The Bleachers by Benz Thursday and JumpStart by Robb Armstrong today. © Ruff Sketch Inc.And Ralph Hagen’s Rory’s The Barn.© Ralph Hagen © G. B. Trudeau“Zonk, since you don’t age…”Filed under Stuff I Never Knew/Realized. Though G. B. Trudeau did […]
In today’s Non Sequitur (AMS), Wiley Miller explains how to avoid popularity.It’s a simple formula, though it varies depending on how much people have invested in beliefs that don’t jibe with the truth.Not to be confused with beliefs that don’t jive with the truth. Jiving with the truth is our topic today. Joel Pett lays out […]
Ginger Meggs has joined an elite club – one that only a handful of comic strips have attained* – Ginger Meggs has regularly run new material for 100 years.When introduced Ginge’s Us Fellers comic strip wasn’t anticipated as the main attraction. Ginger Meggs first showed up in the premiere issue of Us Fellers by Jimmy Bancks […]
I had some deep thoughts today but realized I’ve shared enough deep thoughts lately and I’m not in the mood.So here is our deepest thought of the day, from Red and Rover (AMS), and it fits my mood that it comes from a dog.Nothing against dogs, mind you. I appreciate their ability to live in […]
Ashville, North Carolina has a claim on three editorial cartoonists as residents. David Cohen (Asheville Citizen Times), Randy Molton (Mountain Xpress), and Brent Brown (Mountain Xpress) talked to station WLOS about the challenges.From larger-than-life politicians to protests and a global pandemic, at times over the last two years, we’ve probably all taken a step back […]
Critiquing cartoons is the point of this blog, but I try to be constructive, because pointing out good work is also “criticism” and that’s more in line with my intentions.But the knife cuts both ways, and, while I generally like Michael de Adder‘s work, this one seems to beg for someone to point out that, […]
This year’s EWK award goes to a seasoned veteran among political cartoonists. Swedish-born Ann Telnaes, who signs for The Washington Post, has for many years worked in the epicenter of American politics. The EWK selection jury noted (via Google Translate): In times when media houses all over the world are reducing their paper editions in […]
Military publications distribute news to the soldiers and often include cartoons to ease the tension. Some by soldiers and some by patriotic civilians.As much as love Milton Caniff‘s morale boosting Miss Lace today we’ll concentrate on those soldier cartoonists.Our source is Wing Tips from the Mather Air Field of 1944. The weekly publication spread cartoons though […]
We defer to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin to set the scene for November 11, 1942, the first Armistice Day after Pearl Harbor.It had been a busy 11 months, and, while troops of the French puppet government were defeated in Africa, Rommel was still hanging on: Two days later, papers would bring news of the British victory […]
The Ginger Meggs comic strip will mark its one hundredth anniversary this week. It was Aussie Jimmy Bancks who introduced the world to this mischevious scamp in November 1921 in a feature called Us Fellers, which he changed to Ginger Meggs about a month later. A series of creators followed Bancks’s untimely death in 1953: […]