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 […]
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 […]