“I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.” – – – – Bill Mauldin (October 29, 1921 – January 22, 2003)William Henry Mauldin, better known to the world as Bill Mauldin, was one of the most popular and influential cartoonists of the twentieth century. In 1975, Bill Mauldin gave […]
Nick Anderson (Counterpoint) manages the only tasteful riff I’ve seen on that accidental movie set shooting.It’s not a real gun and GOP claims of a stolen election are equally fake and, alas, they’re both equally deadly.The question is not whether Donald Trump believes his Big Lie — he’s been a bullshit artist all his life […]
If you ask cartoonist Pat Byrnes, the best comeback in history is in the Bible and was brought to us by cartooning. The Pharisees tried setting a trap for Jesus, to which he responds by drawing in the sand. Born and raised in an Irish Catholic family in Detroit, Byrnes is now a renowned cartoonist […]
Not long after I posted this issue The AFRO posted an item about Hambone’s Meditations.I’m putting that notice up top for those who have already read this entry. Readers of The Commercial Dispatch and dozens of other Southern newspapers in the early 20th Century were greeted often, sometimes daily, sometimes on the front […]
In a refreshing turn around from years of newspapers dropping comics, in part or in whole, comes news from Edmond Life & Leisure that they have added a comics page to the weekly.From editor Steve Gust: Welcome to a new era for Edmond Life & Leisure, your locally owned community newspaper. On Page 18 of […]
Today’s Non Sequitur (AMS) offers my favorite: A combination of humor and potential for serious thought.It’s only funny if you recognize the blend of fact and folklore that runs not only throughout most religions but most ancient histories as well.Fundamentalists on either side simply don’t get it. One group feels you should believe absolutely everything, […]
Townhall, a “source for conservative news and political commentary and analysis,” gave their political cartoonists a virtual, and distinctly partisan, hug: I believe it is time we all offered a passionate vote of thanks, perhaps even our blessing to the wonderful cartoonists that grace the pages of Townhall every day, helping us make the progressive […]
Crabgrass is a comic strip set in the early 80’s about what it means to be best friends during a time before cellphones, the internet and so-called “helicopter parenting”. If you ever wonder how you managed to survive your own childhood: Crabgrass remembers. At NCSFest a couple weeks ago Shena Wolf interviewed cartoonist Tauhid Bondia, […]
Cartoonist Tom Richmond has decided to change the emphasis of his online presence.He broke the news on his Tom’s Mad Blog last week: This blog used to get average of 3.5K unique visitors per day at its peak in 2008. Today a really good day is less than 1K. It has become obvious to me […]
There’s a lot to like in Steve Sack‘s cartoon, which plays upon the recent decision to allow booster shots of whatever is available rather than the specific vaccine you had before.Not only is it a good wrap-up of the major lies being promoted and accepted, but the dizzy, satisfied smile on the face of the […]
© King Features Syndicate Paul Berge noticed that one comic strip had replaced another this weekend. So he went back one more week to see if the replacement was new or happened earlier. What he discovered is that the October 17 comics section had run one comic twice. © respective copyright ownersI think Stephan Pastis deserves […]
…The commissars of cancel culture have also gone for cartoons and animations of late, though the reasoning has varied. The cartoonist’s history is filled with grotesque caricature: the blackface Bugs Bunny from 1953 who pretends to be a slave; the same character who ends up, in 1944, on a Pacific island filled with unsympathetically depicted […]
Happy 90th Birthday to comic book and comic strip cartoonist Larry Lieber!It was the latter half of the 1960s when I became infatuated with Marvel Comics, among the favorites was Larry’s Rawhide Kid. (I still retain an affection for western comics.) Within a few years I gathered quite a few of the early Marvels I […]
Matt Wuerker (Politico) illustrates the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, that “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”Emerson encouraged inconsistency, recommending that you “Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every […]
… It was the beginning of a beautiful relationship: Sunday marked their 40th wedding anniversary. They celebrated with dinner at a restaurant attached to the Baltimore Art Museum. They have lived in Baltimore for most of the time since the Courier-Express closed, less than a year after their wedding. Ricig was a sports cartoonist at […]