The election of Joe Biden was supposed to usher in a return to normal, an end to the pandemic, a calming of the waters. Instead 2021 was a year of surprises — an attempted coup, a new spike in Covid, a deepening of the culture wars. Matt Wuerker did his best to keep up with […]
Nobody, I said, as I slid down the bannister, could call me a fussy man, but I’m not eating at a place — as demonstrated in today’s Zits (KFS) — where they go out of their way to prevent the dishwasher from cleaning the silverware.I assume putting the saucers together is to make unloading easier, […]
Realist-with-a-pop-twist painter Wayne Thiebaud has passed away.Morton Wayne Thiebaud November 15, 1920 – December 25, 2021From Acquavella Galleries: It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of a truly remarkable man, Wayne Thiebaud. An American icon, Wayne led his life with passion and determination, inspired by his love for teaching, tennis, and above […]
Sherman the overweight shark took a right at the Columbia River and ended up in Lake Pend Oreille. True story — at least on the Funnies Page. The Coeur d’Alene Press, a dozen miles from the lake, breaks the story: Starting Monday, the comic strip Sherman’s Lagoon plumbs the depths of a poorly kept Idaho […]
As Rex Morgan M.D. above shows it’s a good day to read The Funnies. The comics section Rex is reading carries what looks to be one of the many Blondie knock-offs that showed up over the years. And the purple of the other strip makes me think Terry Beatty had an itch to draw an […]
I was surprised at how many cartoons were about Christmas this morning. I’d expected some Boxing Day gags and Returning Things gags, but not so many actual Christmas gags.Maybe I compartmentalize too much, or maybe I’m dreading the dead space between now and New Years, when everyone takes off and there’s nothing to comment on.But […]
Ted Rall pulls no punches. He’s a patented political pugilist, landing haymaker after haymaker, week after week. Rall’s cartoons may not float like a butterfly, but they certainly sting like a bee. Here are some of our favorites from 2021. WhoWhatWhy presents a gallery of their favorite Ted Rall cartoons. cartoon © Ted Rall
From The Globe and Mail: Cartoonist Seth presents A Garden in Winter, reflecting on a season that defines Canada. © Seth
Mike is far more industrious than I am, I’ll just link to some favorite sites that have gathered Christmas comic and cartoonist art through the years. Yesterday’s Papers posts Christmas comic art from then to now. Hogan’s Alley specializes in giving us Christmas cards from cartoonists. And here. Who’s Out There present a half […]
Wally Wood was a giant in the comics business, as explained at length, with an abundance of examples, in this Lambeik Comiclopedia profile, better than which I cannot begin to do.And much of which I dare not reproduce here, though I’ll confess that, like nearly everyone I knew in Boulder, and since my mother lived […]
Since 1986, Bruce MacKinnon has been the editorial cartoonist for The Chronicle Herald in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has won multiple national and international awards, and his cartoons have been featured in publications and exhibits around the globe. Saltwire presents a Bruce MacKinnon gallery of 2021 cartoons.
From The Day: Donder and Blitzen (German for “thunder” and “lightning”) first made their appearance in 1823, springing from the pen of Clement Clarke Moore in his classic poem “The Night before Christmas.” Up until that time Americans were pretty hazy regarding Santa Claus, the patron saint of Christmas. Moore would help define him as […]
Notice from the L. A. Times:After the furor 9 Chickweed Lane caused by a poor choice of words, The Los Angeles Times has filled that space with the Luann comic strip beginning December 22. (Sorry, the best I can come up with now is this December 24 PressReader shot.)While the likelihood of Greg and Karen […]
For some reason, I didn’t see a lot of “bear trap in the fireplace” gags this year. Which is a good thing, I would add.However, Monty (AMS) put a spin on that tired old chestnut, and there’s nothing I love more than watching Sedgewick try to be a real boy, while his patient butler, Jarvis, […]
The global (and massive) vertical South Korean-based webcomic site Webtoon placed a full page color ad in the Tuesday, December 21, 2021 issue of The New York Times’ Arts section.The ad appeared on the back page of the section with a teaser ad at the bottom of the section’s first page. Mike Rhode for the […]