© AMSI’m always fascinated by cartoonists cartooning about cartoonists. Got a three-fer this week with In The Bleachers by Benz Thursday and JumpStart by Robb Armstrong today. © Ruff Sketch Inc.And Ralph Hagen’s Rory’s The Barn.© Ralph Hagen © G. B. Trudeau“Zonk, since you don’t age…”Filed under Stuff I Never Knew/Realized. Though G. B. Trudeau did […]
In today’s Non Sequitur (AMS), Wiley Miller explains how to avoid popularity.It’s a simple formula, though it varies depending on how much people have invested in beliefs that don’t jibe with the truth.Not to be confused with beliefs that don’t jive with the truth. Jiving with the truth is our topic today. Joel Pett lays out […]
Ginger Meggs has joined an elite club – one that only a handful of comic strips have attained* – Ginger Meggs has regularly run new material for 100 years.When introduced Ginge’s Us Fellers comic strip wasn’t anticipated as the main attraction. Ginger Meggs first showed up in the premiere issue of Us Fellers by Jimmy Bancks […]
I had some deep thoughts today but realized I’ve shared enough deep thoughts lately and I’m not in the mood.So here is our deepest thought of the day, from Red and Rover (AMS), and it fits my mood that it comes from a dog.Nothing against dogs, mind you. I appreciate their ability to live in […]
Ashville, North Carolina has a claim on three editorial cartoonists as residents. David Cohen (Asheville Citizen Times), Randy Molton (Mountain Xpress), and Brent Brown (Mountain Xpress) talked to station WLOS about the challenges.From larger-than-life politicians to protests and a global pandemic, at times over the last two years, we’ve probably all taken a step back […]
Critiquing cartoons is the point of this blog, but I try to be constructive, because pointing out good work is also “criticism” and that’s more in line with my intentions.But the knife cuts both ways, and, while I generally like Michael de Adder‘s work, this one seems to beg for someone to point out that, […]
This year’s EWK award goes to a seasoned veteran among political cartoonists. Swedish-born Ann Telnaes, who signs for The Washington Post, has for many years worked in the epicenter of American politics. The EWK selection jury noted (via Google Translate): In times when media houses all over the world are reducing their paper editions in […]
Military publications distribute news to the soldiers and often include cartoons to ease the tension. Some by soldiers and some by patriotic civilians.As much as love Milton Caniff‘s morale boosting Miss Lace today we’ll concentrate on those soldier cartoonists.Our source is Wing Tips from the Mather Air Field of 1944. The weekly publication spread cartoons though […]
We defer to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin to set the scene for November 11, 1942, the first Armistice Day after Pearl Harbor.It had been a busy 11 months, and, while troops of the French puppet government were defeated in Africa, Rommel was still hanging on: Two days later, papers would bring news of the British victory […]
The Ginger Meggs comic strip will mark its one hundredth anniversary this week. It was Aussie Jimmy Bancks who introduced the world to this mischevious scamp in November 1921 in a feature called Us Fellers, which he changed to Ginger Meggs about a month later. A series of creators followed Bancks’s untimely death in 1953: […]
It is occasionally brought to my attention that, while the feature is called “Comic Strip of the Day,” it often features editorial cartoons. I’ll also confess that I always feature more than one comic strip, which wasn’t the case back in 2010 when I started doing this, either.Anyhow, one way to make me feature funny […]
It seems that with Kieran Castaño signing this past Sunday’s Ripley’s Believe It or Not he has taken on all the panel’s duties (he had been signing the dailies since August).But first – Kieran Castaño?Kieran, who signs the feature with an indecipherable (to me) initial and his last name, was finally revealed as the cartoonist […]
The University Press of Mississippi has all their books on sale! Here are a few of them: Over 150 comics related titles all on sale for $20.22. Get ’em while they last.
It’s a case of life imitating art, or more specifically, life imitating a cartoon. A while back, Tom Toro published a cartoon in The New Yorker that exquisitely captures this sentiment, that our obsession with wealth continues to suffocate the will to ensure a livable planet. That cartoon was published in 2012. Since then, it […]
Bill Bramhall opens the day with a nightmare depiction of a woke Democrat, which brings to mind the oft-repeated quote of poor Henry Clay, “I would rather be right than be president.”Be careful what you wish for.I say “poor Henry Clay” because he was a great man in an era when we needed great men, […]