Just scanning the comics. Six Chix © KFS, cartoon © Isabella Bannerman; Macanudo © LinearMonday’s Six Chix and Macanudo. 100 legs synchronized. Frog Applause © Teresa Burritt; False Knees © Joshua BarkmanMonday’s Frog Applause and False Knees. I like it like that. © King Features SyndicateI think I would enjoy a few weeks of Blondie in this […]
It’s a convention extravaganza for the next three weekends.Starting with Cartoon Crossroads Columbus.Alison Bechdel, Hilary Price, Jerry Craft, Jeff Smith, Shary Flenniken, Bianca Xunise, Steenz, Joey Alison Sayers, Jonathan Lemon, Trina Robbins, Shena Wolf, Roberta Gregory, Jules Rivera, Patrick McDonnell, Ben Towle, Brian Walker, Nick Anderson, Chris Samnee, and more guests. Then the next weekend is […]
Start here: It seems that the Border Patrol officers may have only been whipping their horses, not the refugees they were attempting to herd like cattle. Which isn’t the same as saying it didn’t happen, but conceding a reasonable doubt.On the other hand, the people insisting it didn’t happen are often the people claiming Biden […]
The Distracted Boyfriend meme is ubiquitous on social media,and some have pointed to earlier samples:But those cases were only a few decades old.Now cartoonist Kevin Huizenga has discovered a drawing by Gasoline Alley creator Frank King that predates the meme by 100 years. While visiting the comics show at the Chicago Cultural Center the other […]
Tom Batiuk seems to be taking on the vultures capitalists feeding off newspapers.The Crankshaft arc started last Monday (above) with hints and it seems out front with today’s strip:© Mediagraphics Inc.Tom is known for being a year or two ahead of deadline, which would put this ahead of this year’s purchase of the Tribune properties […]
We’ll start this discussion of misunderstandings and outright lies with an easy one: Steve Kelley (Creators) resurrects an old canard that, rather than holding off rallies because of the pandemic, Candidate Biden was “hiding in his basement,” and uses it to make a point about his falling approval ratings. You can find any sort of rating […]
comic characters © Marvel ComicsLarry Lieber, who scripted the initial appearances of Iron Man, Thor, Ant-Man, Loki, Fin Fang Foom, and other heroic and villainous characters in the Marvel Universe, has sued Marvel/Disney for a bigger portion of the pie. Disney has counter-sued to protect their interests. Earlier today we reported that the heirs of […]
Legendary Gets Hollywood Rights to Heathcliff © Creators Syndicate Move over Garfield, there’s a new cat in town. Or rather, the previous cat is back and looking to score the spotlight. Legendary has picked up the feature and TV rights to Heathcliff, the comic strip featuring the cocky and street-smart cat about town, Heathcliff. The […]
Starting today with a meme instead of a cartoon, but one in which I quote myself from a CSotD of about a year ago which seems particularly apt. My response to Greg Kearney‘s cartoon is personal, but that illuminates the point about journalism and friends.When I was editor of a small paper in western Maine, I […]
Cartoonist Mike Marland received the New Hampshire Press Association Lifetime Achievement Award Saturday night at their Excellence in Journalism presentation.From the NHPA site: Over the years Marland has drawn cartoons for 11 newspapers from all over the state, starting out at the Littleton Courier. Mike spent the bulk of his career, almost 30 years, skewing […]
For many children, their introduction to newspapers comes through the comics page, reading syndicated strips like “Garfield,” “Peanuts,” “Calvin and Hobbes” and “The Far Side.” Cartoons have long been dominated by white men, but the media niche is slowly inching toward diversity. Last year, Bianca Xunise and Steenz, who both identify as nonbinary, became the second and third Black femmes […]
Baby Blues (KFS) sets the stage today, because we’re going to look beyond the cover, much as we might rather not.BTW, Baby Blues seems, of late, less focused on the humorous oddities of raising a family and more centered on how much Zoey and Hammy hate each other. This doesn’t make for many laughs but […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has released a preliminary schedule of their upcoming online-only convention.The Friday events (so far) are for members only, but Saturdays are open to the public and free.Saturday’s happenings, limited to 300 viewers for each event, include: The finalists for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning discuss this year’s […]
Perhaps the best works created for children are the ones rife with layers discoverable later in life. That quality encourages intergenerational sharing. It makes the works enduring. Maybe, like me, you’ve read hundreds (or thousands!) of books and generally soaked up a lot of culture in the time since you last visited our spiky-haired boy […]
The past week has been one synchronicity after another.This Joy of Tech cartoon would be valid anytime, but we’re at the very start of autumn and, while the leaves have only just started turning, I am thinking about a run up the Champlain Valley and through the Adirondacks in about three weeks when the leaves […]