The perceptive little girl in this Christopher Weyant cartoon asks an excellent question for which her father — judging by his expression — doesn’t have an excellent answer.“Read” the news, we can assume, is shorthand for “consuming” the news, for “paying attention to” the news.Actually reading the news has long been for those interested in […]
© Grimmy Inc.The Comics are a visual media, words and images for the eye. But today a number of cartoonists used music to invade our brains. © Creators SyndicateHeathcliff (above) and Mother Goose and Grimm (top) give us a generic sense of sound.But others got more specific.Fittingly the British Andy Capp gave us Queen. © M.G.N. […]
What could be more nonsensical than a MAD parody of a non-existant TV western? How about a second MAD parody of that same non-existant TV show. Tom Richmond and Andrew Secunda take on “Bounty Law” again, this time it will be part of the bonuses in the new hardback novelization of “Once Upon a Time […]
In Between Friends (KFS), Susan sometimes struggles with “older,” but she’s becoming more comfortable with “wiser,” which makes sense, since the phrase “older but wiser” suggests that the latter is compensation for the former.I prefer “older AND wiser,” and how sad if they don’t coincide. (There is, indeed, no fool like an old fool.)I don’t […]
Most comic sites upload the new strips around midnight – GoComics, Comics Kingdom, Arcamax, and the like all do it around that time (give or take depending on your time zone). But Creators Syndicate fairly recently began giving us the next day’s comics around 5pm Eastern (2pm Pacific).For example Tony Cochran references The Lone Ranger […]
When Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese, Congress moved to allow 140,000 refugees to settle in the US, a number that swelled to about a million as boat people and other escapees came to our shores. My recollection of the times was that, while not everyone here was thrilled at the influx, the only overt […]
From Reed Brennan: Attention ZITS Clients: Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman are taking a two-week vacation.The dailies for the weeks of September 13-18 and September 20-25, 2021, and the Sundays for September 26 and October 3, 2021, are reader favorites that have been personally selected by Jerry and Jim. Thank you, King Features Editorial Jerry […]
Conventional wisdom is that Gene Ahern switched from his Crazy Quilt comic strip to his Our Boarding House panel on September 16, 1921, but the earliest I can find it in a newspaper is September 17, 1921 so I’m celebrating today as the 100th anniversary of the feature.Below are the first three Our Boarding House […]
Given that today is only the 17th, I have no idea how many people will turn out tomorrow to protest the arrests of people who attempt the violent overthrow of the government.Nor, assuming they show up, do I know whether they will be met with the rubber bullets, truncheons and tear gas used against those […]
Once upon a time there was a lonely rich boy whose mother insisted on dragging him away from home to strange lands. Deprived of friends his own age and missing his father, the boy found solace in becoming a collector of all sorts of odds and ends, of coins and stamps, of beer steins and […]
(Tim Campbell – WPWG) (Jimmy Margulies – KFS) (Tom Stiglich – Creators)This Juxtaposition places the cartoonists in alphabetical order, because I have no intention of ranking them in terms of political insight and, on another day, three completely other cartoonists might have popped up in their place.That latter point being the issue: The growing trend of cartoonists […]
Great Britain’s Royal Mail celebrates Batman and the Justice League on stamps to be issued Sept. 17. Royal Mail, in partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products, revealed the images for these 18 DC Comics stamps on Sept. 1. The designs for the stamps were specially commissioned for Royal Mail and illustrated by British comic book […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for September 2021 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Empire’s Nursery The Strange Death of Alex Raymond You Can’t Do Business (or Most Anything Else) Without Yiddish Britain’s Best Political Cartoons (December 2021 for USA) Adventures […]
Bill Bramhall starts us off with a bit of optimism, and he’s correct that a lot of people are fed up with the anti-vaxxers who refuse to accept the normal responsibilities of living in society.The problem is that it really doesn’t matter how many actual, real people want the crybabies to shut up, get vaccinated […]
The art for a 1966 Christmas themed Sunday Peanuts comic strip and signed by Charles Schulz as “Sparky” set a record for an original Peanuts when it went for $360,000.00 at a Heritage Auctions sale. A Charlie Brown Christmas was released on television for the first time on 12-9-65. Just a year later, this Sunday […]