Andrews McMeel Universal has issued a memorial to Chairman Emeritus and Co-Founder John P. McMeel.excerpt: “I’m not sure I ever met anyone who was more enthusiastic and energized about life and work than John,” said Gary Larson, creator of The Far Side®. “I confess to being a little on the withdrawn side when I first […]
In 1998, duties on the Heathcliff newspaper comic were handed off by [George] Gately and his brother John Gallagher to their nephew, Peter Gallagher, who has been drawing the strip ever since. Somewhere between 1998 and now, shit got weird. © Creators Syndicate I think I maybe started working with them around 1994. You know, […]
John Backderf and Mike Peterson weren’t the only ones to notice Trump Cult cartoonist Ben Garrison‘s recent cartoon heralding the former president’s heroic crusade against social media titans.Liberal site Raw Story called out the cartoonist: Conservative columnist Ben Garrison this week drew a cartoon depicting former President Donald Trump as the heroic knight Don Quixote […]
Pat Byrnes (Cagle) points out the obvious, which is okay because there are so many people who can’t see the obvious, though, as noted here before, it’s not like they’re gonna see it even if you rub their noses in it.Still, it’s necessary to raise an objection when ignorance is being ginned up by deliberate […]
Universal Press Syndicate/Andrews McMeel Universal co-founder John McMeel has passed away. John Paul McMeel January 26, 1936 – July 7, 2021 Hall Syndicate/Publishers-Hall Syndicate salesman and manager Universal Press Syndicate Co-Founder, Sales Director, and President Andrews McMeel Universal Chairman On July 7 current AMU Chairman Hugh Andrews notified the company’s associates:I am deeply saddened to […]
This first one is for Kip.© Magazine Management(?) Charles Rodrigues, who was born in 1926 and died in 2004, was one of the most widely-published and beloved cartoonists of the latter half of the 20th Century. His cartoons appeared in scores of men’s magazines, from the low end, low circulation girlie mags and dozens of […]
Speed Bump (Creators) provides a bit of grim humor which assumes that you recognize the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse and also that you realize that anti-vaxxers are taking on the job of extending the death toll from the coronavirus.As noted here yesterday, Anthony Fauci has said that the remaining deaths from Covid are almost […]
Co-founder and Chairman of Andrews McMeel Universal John McMeel has passed away.John McMeel, Chairman of Andrews McMeel, passed away on July 7, 2021 at age 85. The company that became Andrews McMeel Universal started as a moonlighting alternative career of two firm friends, John P. McMeel and James F. Andrews. McMeel was a native of […]
Recently stumbled on a few sites that feature cartoons for specific audiences.Cartoonist Dan Thompson, of Brevity, Rip Haywire, KidSpot, Harley, Lost Sheep, and Humorous Maximus fame, began a new weekly gig earlier this year.© Classic CarsThe Classic Carl Caption Contest is, you guessed it, a caption contest. It began in February of this year. Dan […]
Robert C. Harvey is a well-known and well-learned comics historian and cartoonist. Bob has been a long-time contributor to The Comics Journal (contributing an essay today) and he contributes a monthly column to Humor Times (usually in the first half of the month, so a new one should be just around the corner).R. C. also has […]
I like this Matt Wuerker (Politico) cartoon, though I wish he’d been less specific about the crisis at hand, because that donkey has been pondering the filibuster for some six months, and climate change is only one of the issues going unaddressed while Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Senima play at being president.One hangover from the […]
Vintage Comics Kingdom has added Vintage Mark Trail to its offerings. For some reason they are running strips from 1971, 25 years after the comic began in 1946. By this time the art is as much assistant Jack Elrod as creator Ed Dodd. In 1978 Elrod would begin co-signing the strip.Also odd is that they […]
We’ll start with a somewhat serious issue today and then descend into more trivial matters.Ed Hall is hardly the only person, or even the only cartoonist, to delve into the case of Sha’Carri Richardson, favored for the gold at the upcoming Secret Olympics, but suspended for a month after testing positive for THC, having smoked […]
Magazine cartoonist Danny Shanahan has passed away. Daniel Patrick (Danny) Shanahan July 11, 1957 – July 5, 2021 Michael Maslin is reporting the death of Danny Shanahan: The cartoonist, Danny Shanahan, who contributed drawings to The New Yorker from September of 1988 through last year, died early this morning, according to his wife, Janet Stetson. He […]
The other day Mike linked to Bado’s post of Seven Days publisher Paula Routly’s defense of their editorial cartoonist Tim Newcomb.That was part of Seven Days’ annual cartoon issue, where along with the regular roster of comic strips and cartoonists they open up even more pages to other area cartoonists.Dan Bolles’ Drawing Conclusions introduction can […]