Ruben Bolling was at his daughter’s high school graduation ceremony in Manhattan when he got word. Out in Santa Fe, Marty Two Bulls Sr. was driving to get coffee when his Instagram alerts poured in. And in Southern California, Lalo Alcaraz was preparing for a Zoom meeting at his Hollywood job when he got a […]
Virgil Partch’s Big George panel began on May 23, 1960.It last ran 30 years and one week ago on June 8, 1991:hat tip to Charles Brubaker for the last Big George panelThat last panel appeared nearly seven years after Vip’s death, Partch being one of very few cartoonists who worked so far ahead in case […]
Dave Granlund posted this, appropriately, on Flag Day, which meant I’d already filed by the time I saw it. But it applies throughout the year, so here it is on Day After Flag Day.There is no law against wearing apparel that looks like the flag, according to the American Legion, as long as it wasn’t […]
Reed Brennan has notified newspapers carrying the Mutts comic strip: Attention MUTTS Clients: MUTTS creator Patrick McDonnell will be on a six-month sabbatical to collaborate with His Holiness the Dalai Lama on a special project beginning on Monday, July 5, 2021, and continuing through January 1, 2022. During this time, classic favorites specially selected by […]
The Society of Professional Journalists announced the recipients of the 2020 Sigma Delta Chi Awards for excellence in journalism on Saturday, among them are awards for editorial cartoons created in 2020. Matt Davies won for newspapers with a circulation of 100,000+ (Newsday).Judges statement: Davies makes his point with a whisper rather than a shout and thus […]
Rob Rogers (Counterpoint) went there, and it’s courageous and effective. But how many people know where he went?Again, it’s that darned median age: Half of Americans are under 38, and it’s been 66 years since 14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered for (allegedly) insulting a white woman.His lynching was one of the major catalysts for the […]
These days Red Ryder is less known for the comic strip than for the BB Gun. Even the upcoming Rodeo, now in its 71st year, is more famous than the comic.© Red Ryder Enterprises, Inc Comic strip (and comic book) writer Stan Lee was honored with a NYC street. © R. L. CrabbSpeaking of streets – […]
Play Ball!© Peanuts WorldwideConcurrent with today’s Peanuts rerun is a similar Heritage Auctions drawing by Charles Schulz, currently going for $5,000.00 with four days left. Ted and Sally and Arlo and Janis © King Features SyndicateToday’s Sally Forth makes me think it would have been a completely different strip if the scene was taking place in Arlo […]
Since DDDegg has done an excellent mop-up of the Pulitzer fiasco, I’m going purely for comedy today, leading off with this Super-Fun-Comix-Pak (AMS) strip, by Ken Fisher or Ruben Bolling or somebody.Irving Kristol — Bill’s dad — defined a neoconservative as a liberal who got mugged, and now Bolling certainly understands what it’s like to […]
Mike Peterson has weighed in with his and a few others opinions, but the outrage is large and justifiable.The major slight is to the nominated cartoonists of course, and we’ll return to them in a moment. But let’s not forget the affront shown to this year’s jury.Two Pulitzer Prize-winning Cartoonists, two Editorial Page Editors, and […]
Well, I stand by yesterday’s post, and I’m glad that it — and JP Trostle’s “epic rant” — got said before Columbia University and their Pulitzer Committee delivered that stunning mean-girl snub because otherwise it might sound like sour grapes.As I wrote thenThe Pulitzers do reward good work. But they’re still just plaques, and the […]
When the Pulitzer Prize awards first happened in 1917 there was no category for Editorial Cartoons. That honor began in 1922, so this is the 99th year since the first Editorial Cartoon Prize was awarded to Rollin Kirby (though not every year since then saw a Prize awarded to a cartoonist).The original terms for the […]
Since I started yesterday with a cartoon about an eclipse that was over before you got here, I’ll start today’s with some thoughts about the Pulitzers, which won’t be announced until 1 p.m. by which you’ll probably have read this.JP Trostle launched a most bodacious rant about the Editorial Cartoonist category yesterday, reprinted by Bado […]
Gag writer and gatherer Al Gottlieb has passed away. Al Gottlieb ca. 1927 – May 2021 Van Scott, current editor of Gag Recap, passed on the sad news in late May: Jackie Rosenberg, the daughter of Al Gottlieb, Publisher of the Gag Recap for 36 years (1963-1999) informed me that Al passed away last week […]
There is an annular solar eclipse happening as I write this, but while Samson’s Dark Side of the Horse (AMS) is aptly named this morning, by the time most Americans see the strip, the reminder will be too late.I thought about pausing to take a look, but we’ve got partly cloudy and I’d have to […]