It was a mystery on a par with The Riddle of The Sphinx or what happens when we shuffle off this mortal coil.Just who was the Lucy and Sophie Say Good Bye cartoonist?The 1905 run of the Chicago Tribune comic strip Lucy and Sophie Say Goodbye became popular because of the long goodbyes the title […]
If you’ve never seen the 1944 classic “Gaslight,” it’s worth the $3.99 at Amazon Prime, if only for the cast. But watching it will also help you understand why people keep throwing the term around in political terms today.In the movie, Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer) marries Paula Alquest (Ingrid Bergman) and then attempts to make […]
Notice from The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: This Labor Day weekend only, we are combining our Sunday and Monday print editions into a singular newspaper that will be delivered on Sunday, Sept. 5. The newspaper delivered Sunday will cover both Sept. 5 and 6. No separate edition will be delivered Monday, Sept. 6. Anticipating questions the newspaper gets […]
© The Vancouver Sun Graham Harrop looks as whimsical as you might expect from a cartoonist known for aiming at the funny bone. He seems to have a perpetual wry smile, like he’s hard-wired to see the absurdity of life. On his head, white hair tumbles over his forehead and ears. That he has so […]
Stephan Pastis had a five day plot for Pearls Before Swine set to run in January 2021 when a tumult caused by some “tourists” resulted in the syndicate pulling the strips. An upcoming storyline in “Pearls Before Swine,” the popular comic strip created by Santa Rosa cartoonist Stephan Pastis, has been pulled from 850 newspapers […]
I have nothing to comment about over this Pat Byrnes panel, except that, for someone with such a simple style, it’s remarkable how he builds the gag through their respective facial expressions. Someone working in more detail would have a harder time drawing our eyes to that.And well after getting the joke, I look it […]
MAD and MAD images © EC Publications You may not immediately recognize the name John Caldwell of Ballston Lake. But if you’ve ever read MAD Magazine, National Lampoon, the Harvard Business Review, or a host of other magazines, or if you’ve ever sent a Recycled Paper greeting card or perused a collection of one […]
Scrolling through the Intertubes has, as Joy of Tech points out, become a most unpleasant activity, and yet one to which we seem to have become addicted.One of the elements of that addiction is denial, the “I can quit any time I want to” common to addicts and those alcoholics who have only a small […]
From Andrews McMeel Universal (via PRNewswire): KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — To delight The Far Side® fans everywhere, comic art prints featuring Gary Larson’s peerless creation are now available. A selection of 28 fan-favorite and timely The Far Side® cartoon options [emphasis added], each printed on acid-free archival quality paper, is offered in a […]
I wish I could agree with Jack Ohman on this one.Given the disloyalty of the Republican Party in recent years — resisting inquiries into the insurrection and helping to keep the pandemic raging, etc. — it’s easy to condemn them for their role in second-guessing Biden throughout the evacuation from Afghanistan, with, yes, the assistance […]
In addition to being a witty and likeable guy, Rob Harrell is an accomplished author and illustrator. Harrell resides in Zionsville with his supportive wife, Amber. We had the pleasure of featuring Harrell on our cover of Zionsville Monthly back in October of 2018. Since that time, Harrell has published “Wink” (2020) and his latest […]
The South East Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society held their annual meeting at Salisbury, North Carolina’s Waterworks Visual Arts Center this past weekend. As mentioned here earlier Marcus Hamilton was there with his art exhibit “Two Dream Careers: From Illustrator to Cartoonist” and animator Eddie Pittman was there with his presentation. And they honored […]
John Darkow is hardly the only cartoonist to depict the last plane departing Afghanistan, or even the only one to offer “credibility” rather than our Afghan allies as what we’ve left behind.It leaves me asking if all these cartoonists had a better plan.It’s not necessary to have a detailed plan in order to criticize what […]
The new New Yorker is a Food and Drink issue. One of the thrills of living in a big city, especially a cosmopolitan one like New York or London, where the cartoonist and artist Tom Gauld lives, is the abundance and variety of delicacies that are readily available to tempt even the most finicky of […]
I recently confessed a crush on Wallace the Brave (AMS)‘s mother, and yesterday’s final panel not only failed to diminish things but heightened it a bit. Anybody can be charming at dinner, but to be equally together at breakfast is the mark of quality, IMHO, and the sweats, tosseled hair and bunny slippers only enhance […]