(Peter Schrank) (Bob Gorrell – Creators)This Juxtaposition offers a starting point for the day, because Schrank is British, which puts a somewhat different spin on the idea: The world has long criticized America for playing “Cops of the World,” though it has a spotty record for either welcoming or turning down the help.Gorrell, by contrast, is […]
It seems that a couple years ago Captain Marvel’s comic book cat Chewie was the star of a comic strip series that appeared on Instagram and as variant covers for a half dozen Marvel comic books.From Marvel: MARVEL MEOW, a cat-themed mini-comic series by Japanese artist Nao Fuji, has been clawing around on Marvel’s Instagram […]
Like most comics sections in 2021 the Sunday color supplements of August 28, 1921 were almost all four pages. A main difference was that instead of six to nine comic strips per page, the Sunday pages then usually carried one comic strip – occasionally two (the “topper” strips hadn’t yet been invented).The strips were in […]
Non Sequitur (AMS) comes through with a bit of nice timing to reassure me and I hope you that we aren’t crazy after all.It’s not so bad that we’re told what to be outraged about. It’s that we snap to and obey.Given lead times, Wiley couldn’t have known this strip would land just as we […]
Gag cartoonist Sam Ansell has passed away. Samuel Tarshis (Sam) Ansell May 25, 1922 – August 1, 2021 From the obituary:Cartoonist, ad man and business man Samuel Ansell, 99, of Waltham, died on August 1st, 2021. Sam Ansell’s career changed course many times but cartooning was always part of it. His love of George […]
August saw The Sedalia (Missouri) Democrat abandon the color comic supplement. Due to budget constraints, the Democrat will no longer publish the color weekend comics section after July.The COVID-19 pandemic affected many businesses, and the newspaper industry and the Democrat were no exception. The Democrat’s management was unfortunately forced to enact cost-saving measures, which resulted […]
One of my favorite passages in “War and Peace” comes when young Nicholai Rostov gets his first, and nearly last, taste of combat.Unhorsed and injured, he’s lucky to escape at all, but what he has left behind are his romantic notions and his childish sense that he is not subject to the same rules of […]
From a King Features Syndicate press release: King Features Syndicate, a unit of Hearst and home to some of the world’s most popular entertainment characters, is growing its global publishing program under the direction of publishing director Christina Nix Lynch to develop new partnerships for original content. The expansion includes new territories, titles, formats and […]
[I]f you were looking for a name for a cartoonist, you couldn’t do much better than Scrawls. And that’s exactly how Sam C. Rawls signed his editorial cartoons and his comic strip—he was one of those rara avis who does both— and every syllable is exactly the truth, no fictional make-believe in sight. But […]
A number of people have recently treated us to a number of old public domain comics. From the National Institutes of Health and their National Library of Medicine comes The Tooth-Ache by Horace Mayhew and illustrated by George Cruikshank ca. 1850, a comic book consisting of forty-four sequential panels. Still in the 19th Century but after […]
Jen Sorensen leads off today’s continuing coverage of the end of the war in Afghanistan, a war which, as we all know from current commentary, was entirely planned and carried out by Joe Biden.Or something.The Economist even solicited analysis from Henry Kissinger, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for having brought peace to […]
A Florida editorial cartoonist was ripped as sexist and misogynistic on Wednesday for publishing a political cartoon that depicted Gov. Ron DeSantis’s press secretary Christina Pushaw as a Covergirl and a Twitter troll. From Fox News: Andy Marlette of the Pensacola News Journal produced an exaggerated drawing of Pushaw as a “COVID-19 Covergirl and taxpayer-funded […]
As a youngster and teenager I went camping and to summer camps and down through the river vegetation. I don’t remember going through cornfields, I grew up around orchards and vineyards. But I never got lost. I do realize children get lost on occasion, but reading the funny pages it seems to be a rite […]
The character watch is simple enough to define … It’s simply nothing more, nor less, than a watch with a cartoon or other character on the dial, and although I can’t look at any character watch that doesn’t have moving character hands without feeling disappointed, the truth is that there are millions of character […]
Joel Pett reflects a mood set by others.Today’s headline puns on a mystic 14th century text in which the writer contends that we can’t know God through intellectual striving and so must approach faith through a more contemplative route. It wasn’t new then and, of course, it isn’t new now, though it is kind of […]