For POLITICO’s 15th anniversary, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Matt Wuerker picks his favorite sketches of the past decade-and-a-half chronicling American politics. Like those old Herblock and Mauldin and Conrad books Matt selects and annotates the cartoons – he also provides an introduction profiling his career at Politico. Over these past 15 years, POLITICO has done […]
Wishing Jenny Campbell blue skies. © Jenny CampbellWas aware of the Christmas Covid problems Jenny had, but nothing of today’s Flo & Friends topic (if it means what I think). What could make an All-American Family turn on Stephan Pastis?© Stephan Pastis (or maybe Bil Keane Inc?)Read the disgusting Pearls Before Swine before we throw it on […]
Monty (AMS) has been having various misadventures in the Arctic, and here, as noted in that fourth panel, he’s having his leg pulled by the locals.Do the natives have 50 words for snow? According to this, yes but also no, since, to begin with, there’s more than one Eskimo/Aleut language and 50 was a rough […]
A Comic Chronicles EditionSo much comics history. IF FAY KING HADN’T MARRIED A PRIZE FIGHTER named “Battling” Nelson, we’d know almost nothing about her life. We know her opinions about the manners and mores of the twenties and thirties from her comic strips, cartoons and columns. And we have an inkling of what she looked […]
*Some new animation this season featuring classic cartoon characters.More Mickey Mouse content will be making its way to Disney+ real soon. © DisneyToday, Disney+ announced the premiere date and released the trailer and key art for The Wonderful Winter of Mickey Mouse, launching its second season. The second installment consists of four extended-length specials that […]
My initial response to Clay Bennett (CTFP)’s cartoon is not “maybe it’s me” but “yeah, it’s definitely me.”I was thinking that because you can declare an Ace to be 1, he still had a straight flush, J-Q-K-1-2. I’m less embarrassed by thinking a flush could — how you say? — go around the corner, than […]
The first Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoon in 1922 How is The Pulitzer Prize board celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning? By eliminating “Editorial Cartooning” as the name of the category.Editorial Cartoonists, going forward, will be known as Illustrated Reporters and Commentators.From the Pulitzer site: The Editorial Cartooning category is […]
John Cole shows both reactions to Biden’s press conference. He gets the time wrong: It was just under two hours, hardly four, but still a prodigious effort.The dual response, I think, is between those who did the assigned homework — who watched the conference and judged it for themselves — and those who fake their […]
Ginger Snappish offers a primer on comic lettering. Part 2 of The Art of Lettering Comics. Other blogs about typography and lettering…from Todd Klein and Alex Jay.
The recent death of author Ron Goulart has brought up his early compositions for an advertising agency that had a wider audience than any of his later writing (a “circulation” of 50 million copies). From and © The New York Times of April 27, 1962: We have no idea how many editions appeared, but here’s a sampling. May […]
The National Cartoonists Society has begun its annual call for entries for consideration for the NCS Divisional Reuben Awards recognizing excellence in professional cartooning. As always, you DO NOT have to be a member of the NCS to have your work considered for a divisional award. All that is required is that the work be […]
Comics Kingdom bailed out on the last segment of the current Vintage Radio Patrol story. Here’s what you missed:
Ann Telnaes takes a more cynical, disappointed view of last night’s press conference than I do, but I find it hard to argue with her.Biden was thoughtful and sharp throughout the nearly two-hour presser, and I felt he exhibited candor, including his admission that he was likely going to break up the Build Back Better […]
You’ve seen them in magazines, in cartoons, and at just about every densely populated tourist attraction in America. A professional caricature artist will manage not only to capture a person’s likeness, but amplify it – all while exaggerating, contorting, and stylizing the subject’s most prominent features. To some, they are souvenirs. Fleeting entertainment. To others, […]
Today Michael Maslin corrects a couple misconceptions that have taken hold about Alan Dunn and the cartoons he did for The New Yorker: In my earliest days at The New Yorker it seemed to be a gospel truth that Alan Dunn was the most prolific New Yorker artist. I’ve long been fascinated by how such facts […]