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A Second Season of Joe Wos’ Cartoon Academy

by D. D. Degg 0 comments December 3, 2021

WQED Education is offering a second season of an innovative and fun project – cartooning. Renowned Pittsburgh cartoonist Joe Wos takes students of all ages (and the young at-heart) through the creative steps of drawing cartoon characters, while sharing educational facts on the cartoon subjects. He’ll also teach a few artistic terms during each online […]

CSotD: Friday Follies

by Mike Peterson 1 comments December 3, 2021

This is one of those days where it doesn’t much matter where we start, but Alex got both a laugh and a nod, and that’s the overall goal.The headhunter goes on for half the strip about the importance of modern thinking and how it impacts old duffers like Clive, but, in the end, well, she’s […]

Comic Chronicles: According to Doyle

by D. D. Degg 0 comments December 2, 2021

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State University Libraries’ Eberly Family Special Collections is hosting a new digital exhibition titled “The World According to Doyle: Editorial Cartoons from The Jerry Doyle Papers at Penn State.”   1974/75ca. 1966 (click on cartoons to enlarge) Taking an expansive view of American politics during the 20th century, the digital exhibition examines […]

CSotD: Supreme Indifference

by Mike Peterson 8 comments December 2, 2021

Jack Ohman (WPWG) notes the obvious lack of consistency in the pro-life movement, which has a dominant foothold on the Supreme Court.Whether it rises to the level of conscious hypocrisy or is more along the lines of willful blindness really doesn’t matter to that woman clinging to the overturned Roe boat (a nice and applicable […]

Sacrilege in the Funny Papers?

by D. D. Degg 2 comments December 1, 2021

A Macanudo comic strip was upsetting to someone.© Liniers The Durango Herald received a letter to the editor: The so-called comic strip Macanudo has always been, to me, either weak or just plain stupid. However, the one that appeared last Friday (Herald, Nov. 16) insulting Christians was offensive. I’m guessing I’m not alone in that […]

The Phantom: Original Fantomen Story #1000

by D. D. Degg 0 comments December 1, 2021

In 1950 the Swedish comic book starring The Phantom began with reprints translated from the U.S. comic strip. A dozen years later they were getting close to using up all the strips. In order to keep the popular comic going the publishers contacted King Features Syndicate and a licensing agreement allowed for new stories to […]

Cartoonist Eleanor Davis Gets New York Times Gig – Updated

by D. D. Degg 0 comments December 1, 2021

Original November 29 post:Eleanor Davis, who The New York Review called “one of the very best cartoonists working today,” seems to have hooked up with The New York Times for a daily spot illustrating their “Of Interest – Noteworthy Facts from Today’s Paper” column.Above is her first from November 3, 2021.   As seen the artwork […]

CSotD: Random Notes and Revelations

by Mike Peterson 9 comments December 1, 2021

Some days are political, some days are comical. Today is a mix, but we’ll start with the shock of Michael Ramirez (Creators) pointing out that Marjorie Taylor Greene is an embarrassment to the Republican Party.Constant Readers will know I often disagree with Ramirez, but he doesn’t simply illustrate talk radio nonsense and this is an […]

Stuff & Nonsense: Calvin and Hobbes Edition

by D. D. Degg 0 comments November 30, 2021

Comic Legend: Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons did a fill-in Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. Earlier this month, the following bit was shared around social media: 27 years ago, the infamous November 14, 1994 colour strip of Calvin and Hobbes ran in various newspapers, the sole strip of the series not written and illustrated by […]

Spotlight on Senior Stripper Joe Giella

by D. D. Degg 0 comments November 30, 2021

93-year-old East Meadow resident [Joe Giella] has had a part in bringing heroes and villains – including Captain America, The Flash and The Joker – to life. “This is a superhero-oriented country,” Giella says. “That kept me going. I just love to draw and instead of just drawing like static figures, I like the action, […]

Healthwatch: Mallard Fillmore, The Born Loser

by D. D. Degg 0 comments November 30, 2021

© KFSThis week Bruce Tinsley returned to his daily Mallard Fillmore for the first time in five months (June 2021). His lengthy leave in 2019/2020 was due to an “extended illness.” It is unknown if this sabbatical was a recurrence of that earlier problem or ????. It remains to be seen if the previous pattern […]

CSotD: Varying Comments on the Variant

by Mike Peterson 11 comments November 30, 2021

Martyn Turner provides a good starting point by celebrating the fact that we’ve long since lost track of the starting point and it’s all ups and downs now.Turner is Irish, hence the snakes. The game we Yanks call “Chutes and Ladders” is “Snakes and Ladders” elsewhere because of its Indian origins, but it’s played the […]

Jerry Palen – RIP

by D. D. Degg 0 comments November 29, 2021

STAMPEDE cartoonist Jerry Palen has passed away.  Jerry Joseph Palen July 9, 1943 – November 25, 2021 rancher, painter, sculptor, cartoonistFrom the obituary: In 1964, Jerry married Ann Prosser, his high school sweetheart whom he met in art class at Central High. The couple interrupted their studies at the University of Wyoming to move to […]

Jesse Springer, Freelancing Editoons in Oregon

by D. D. Degg 1 comments November 29, 2021

For more than a quarter century, political cartoonist Jesse Springer has parodied and highlighted the uniqueness that is Oregon. His work has appeared in many regional newspapers across the state. Springer’s latest book, “Only in Oregon” is a compilation of several hundred cartoons taking on everything from climate change to COVID-19 to gerrymandering. Jesse Springer […]

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