Greg Robinson for Nichi Bey writes: By the 1930s, comic strips had become important vehicles of social and political commentary…Yet… representations of racial minorities in mainstream strips, especially positive ones, were rather rare…As a result, I was pleasantly surprised recently when I came across the Toya Matsu episode in the 1930s comic strip “You be […]
The best part of this Daddy’s Home (Creators) is that he’s right, sort of.That is, we shouldn’t believe what they say, because we all use more than 10 percent of our brain, though the people who keep saying this perhaps do not.It’s appropriate that she’s on her laptop, because that’s a flowing river of such […]
TERRY GROSS, HOST: David Sipress, welcome to FRESH AIR. I love your cartoons. Thank you for being here. Let’s start with your most published and tweeted cartoon. SIPRESS: I wrote that sometime during the ’90s. It’s not a New Yorker cartoon. I never can remember where it first started, but I think it was during […]
Not many local comic strips last 25 years, but Washashores by John Andert did – and does.The Provincetown Banner celebrates the accomplishment: In the Provincetown Banner issue of Thursday, March, 6, 1997— 25 years ago… Near the back, on page 21, was a new “Washashores” cartoon by John Andert. Then-Banner editor Hamilton Kahn had an idea […]
We are a week late in honoring Spanish cartoonist Josep Marti who was born February 28, 1932 and is now eligible for our Senior Stripper Club for cartoonists aged 90 and over. Spanish artist Josep Marti i Capell has drawn for various European publishers. He started out with realistic western and war stories for the […]
Reply All (WPWG) not only suggests taking a break from the Weight of It All, but explains how we manage to get by without pondering such things.I laughed at the punchline, but it set me thinking about Neil Postman’s classic “Amusing Ourselves to Death,” which, in turn, leads me to think of the mud-spattered, toothless […]
And the award goes to…..Cartoon of the Year to David Rowe for Nuts Open Category winner Jason Chatfield for Coronavirus Diary 1- 3Merit Award to Jed Dunstan for Kangaroo looking for a date Sports Category winner is Harry Bruce for Faster, higher, stronger with Merit Award to Lindsay Foyle for Excitement Comic Strip Category winner is Ian Jones […]
Stephan Pastis is going on a “mini-book tour,” meaning the tour is short not that his book is small (the newest book is a giant-sized treasury).Stephan is abandoning The West to visit a number of cities in The South to talk about his Pearls Before Swine comic strip. He’s already adding more cities to the […]
I particularly like Andy Davey’s piece, both for what it is and for how it contrasts with other commentary.We need to be a little cautious in accepting everything we hear from the resistance, because they’re in a war for hearts-and-minds, too, but it is plain that Ukraine hasn’t folded up like Putin expected it to.Not […]
These kind of things work better as print comics than as web comics.Funky Winkerbean and Lio go sideways, though at a 180 degrees from each other.To save you the extra computer steps here they are right side up: © Batom Inc. © Mark TatulliThat is the second Atomik Komix cover by James Pascoe and […]
The war has — appropriately — taken up a lot of interest, but it’s not the only thing happening in the world, and Ann Telnaes expresses her opinion of an attorney general who not only kept his eyes shut but helped hide and deflect what illicit behavior he couldn’t ignore.Until it was time to cash […]
A new co-signature appeared this week in the Bliss panel.© Harry BlissA commenter at GoComics guessed Cary Stringfield, a web developer and cartoonist. With no proof I propose an alternative – Anne Stringfield, aka Mrs. Steve Martin (Steve Martin has been offering gags to Harry Bliss for a while now).From The Famous People website (since […]
Arizona Daily Star editorial cartoonist David Fitzsimmons says: In my 66th year of life, I have decided to cut back to a column and a cartoon a week, enter the realm of joyful semi-retirement and enjoy the gift of time. I’ve been essentially doing the same thing nearly daily for the past six decades. I’ve […]
Comedy today, but starting with a bit of political humor that makes a point about cartooning as well as Lindsey Graham’s splendiferous rewriting of history.His remark was so ridiculous that I wanted to twist his words by suggesting confusion between “kiss” and “kick,” but it’s hard to phrase it in a way that doesn’t either […]
Richard GuindonThe death of Richard Guindon is major news in the upper Midwest.From The Minneapolis Star Tribune:A fixture in the pages of the Minneapolis Tribune, Guindon wielded a distinctive drawing style that seemed to borrow in equal parts from Aubrey Beardsley and Peter Max. His quirky, observant musings, syndicated to newspapers across the country, were […]