National Football League’s Indianapolis Colts threw some shade at the Philadelphia Eagles with a 4th of July comic strip posted on the Colts website.© Indianapolis Colts/NFLPanel four shows coach Frank Reich rejecting quarterback Carson Wentz’s cheesesteak offering, both were formerly with the Philadelphia Eagles.Panel five shows Carson dumping the Philly delicacy on the ground.WPVI – […]
Pearls Before Swine (AMS) sums up the post-holiday.When I get up each morning at O-Dark-Thirty, I check Facebook and Twitter, not only for cartoons that haven’t yet made the syndicate sites but for news stories people are reacting to.There’s rarely any shortage of outrage, but, my goo’ness, there’s even less in the wake of a […]
Frank and Ernest by Bob Thaves is famous for a number of things.The funny puns and zany one-liners naturally. Also: the horizontal panel, the renowned Ginger Rogers quote, the block letters, topical humor, and the time-spanning abilities of the title characters.A few years after its 1972 debut Bob Thaves began to regularly run patriotic(?) gags […]
Kevin Kallaugher is one of those rare cartoonists whose artistry is so fine that you might like his work even when you don’t agree with his premise. However, he’s in another too-rare category, that of the political cartoonist who does his homework rather than illustrating a myth or resorting to personal insults in place of […]
Ziggy ran in The Cincinnati Post until that paper ceased to exist in 2007.Finally The Cincinnati Enquirer has picked up the comic to run in place of Mutts as that feature goes on an extended sabbatical. Tom Wilson, Jr. is an area resident so it is a bit surprising it took so long for The […]
Dark Side of the Horse (AMS) on the dumb side of praise.There are a couple ways of looking at this simple cartoon, the first being that paying to be told you’re smart is contradictory, and you can bet that vending machine never shows anything but 160, which is genius level, 100 being average.According to a […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists is now open for entries published between June 2020 and June 2021 for The Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning. The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists is once again looking for the best in local political cartooning. The Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local […]
The National Society of Newspaper Columnists (NSNC) has announced the annual best-of-the-best, the winners of its 2021 Column-writing Contest. “We took a chance, expanded the categories, and it paid off with some incredibly rich and insightful columns and content. I’m forever grateful to the judges for helping us navigate all the amazing work.”One of those […]
For reasons remaining unknown The Honolulu Advertiser decided to go all out for their 85th anniversary on July 2, 1941. For rationale just as mysterious we’re acknowledging that 80 years later.The Advertiser invited the cartoonists whose features ran in the newspaper to help celebrate. George (Grin and Bear It) Lichty, John (Strange As It Seems) […]
‘The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.’ — “Julius Caesar” Act 3, scene 2Several cartoonists did Pearly Gates cartoons about the death of Donald Rumsfeld and more than one took advantage of his infamous “You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might […]
Dennis the Menace Gets Royal Stamp Treatment The Beano comic is celebrating its 70th anniversary and to mark the milestone Royal Mail has released 10 special stamps using pictures from the comic strip. Dennis was first brought to life in a pencil sketch in January 1951 by Scottish illustrator and cartoonist David Law along with […]
All three 2021 Pulitzer Prize finalists in the Editorial Cartooning category were in the news recently which means the Pulitzer No-Prize was a topic.Boing Boing takes the Pulitzer Board to task in a short item castigating them for not picking a winner, especially Ruben Bolling whose Tom the Dancing Bug they publish weekly. © Ruben […]
The San Diego Comic-Con has announced the comics writers who will be awarded The Bill Finger Award this year.Comic-Con is proud to announce six writers who contributed greatly to the history of comics have been selected to receive the 2021 Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing. The selection, made by a […]
As you’re reading the blog this morning, I’m somewhere in the Western Adirondacks, so, when I was deciding on a vacation post, I looked at this day in history and found that this was the date in 1958 that they began letting the water into the St. Lawrence Seaway, which was a big deal then […]
In 1972 The New York Times Magazine contacted a few cartoonists for each to work up a page oftheir famous characters centered around that year’s presidential election for their April 16 issue. Over the years Pogo’s Smoke Filled Tavern by Walt Kelly (which made the cover) and The Amazing Spider-Man by Stan Lee and […]