Syracuse University has Ray Thompson‘s Papers and the inventory includes a biography of the 20th Century cartoonist and writer: In the autumn of 1926, after attampting in vain to land a job at any of the city’s newspapers, he decided to try freelancing. He had been drawing cartoons since grade school and sold his first […]

Not gonna get into politics today, or, at least, not too far into them. Joy of Tech offers this commentary on the Spotify/Rogan/Young issue, and I like that they take a position without overreaching but one with teeth, and an answer to the anti-vax Brown Shirts who contend that Neil Young is old and (therefore) […]

Yes, it’s number one, it’s Top of the PopsToday The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman reached #1 on Amazon’s Best Sellers list.From Mediaite:The graphic novel is also available as two paperback volumes, Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History and Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began, which are ranked #3 […]

A reminder that the deadline for entries to the National Cartoonists Society’s Divisional Reuben Awards ends in three days – February 2, 2022. The NCS has put up a video describing the selection/election process of the Reuben Awards.(As much as I love the procedural explanation I love the various interpretations of the NCS logo.) In today’s […]

“I know what you’re thinking about,” said Tweedledum: “but it isn’t so, nohow.” “Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.”Andertoons explains the logic under which we’re currently operating, no matter how Tweedledee defines the term, if […]

Fox Sports NASCAR coverage will have one thing in common with their NFL games. If you view your favorite race car driver as a superhero, you’re in luck. So does Fox Sports. When the network begins its live coverage of the new NASCAR season, its program design will incorporate graphics that will cast drivers as […]

“My experience in China assured me that the power of the cartoon is so mighty that that government would just hunt me down, harass my family, everything they can to stop me from drawing. If it is all for nothing, then why are they doing it?” The perfect example, [Badiucao] says, is the viral meme […]

Let’s start with some good news and a laugh, as RJ Matson notes the emergence of forged elector ballots, and we learn that the January 6 Committee has subpoenaed Rudy Giuliani and several others connected to the attempt.It’s not the White House tapes in which we heard Nixon actively plotting to pay off the Watergate […]

The law of unintended consequences.Maus by Art Spiegelman at Amazon as of 12 noon PST:       And in all books:edit to addIn all books at 2:30am January 29, 1922:#3 Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Paperback) #4 The Complete Maus (Hardcover)

A Knoxville, Tennessee comic book store is giving free copies of Art Spiegelman’s Maus graphic novel to students who wish to read the book. Knoxville is about fifty miles northeast of McMinn County where the Pulitzer Prize-winning book has been banned from the school district’s eighth grade curriculum. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A Knoxville comic book […]

Back in the day, before the Zits era, there was a time when Jim Borgman was the editorial cartoonist for the Cincinnati Enquirer. Being the All-American boy he was, and still is, his cartoon ideas occasionally found themselves more appropriate to the sports page than the opinion page.With the Bengals playing in tomorrow’s AFC Championship […]

I was glad to see Steve Brodner’s latest commentary, which is about banned books, and about the way the right wing has embraced Cancel Culture and about how young people are not accepting it.The Granbury School District is banning books. Banning them.Not simply removing them from a curriculum as we discussed yesterday, or putting them […]

In a comic about reporting on comics, a Times journalist takes you through his process — from idea to pitch to research and writing. From the New York Times: This comic, by the Times reporter George Gene Gustines and the artist Bill Walko, is part of our ongoing journalism and news literacy series. You can […]

100 years ago this week Gene Ahern, in his Our Boarding House panel, started a sequence that would have a great impact. In 1922 the week began on the Monday of January 23 and featured a mystery stretching through the week. (Click on panels to embiggen, a second click will supersize.)January 23, 1922:  January 24, […]

 I don’t disagree with Steve Brodner (or Neil Gaiman)’s take on the idea of banning Art Spiegelman’s now-classic graphic memoir, Maus.Or, at least, I wouldn’t disagree if what is being reported were what had happened.  As DD Degg noted here yesterday, the Daily Beast reports that “The McMinn County (Tenn.) school board’s 10 members voted […]