The past is never dead. It’s not even past. — Gowan Stevens (“Requiem for a Nun,” William Faulkner) Let’s lead with an amended quote and a brilliant but distant example.William Faulkner is repeatedly cited for something he never said; He wrote it as a statement by one of his characters.He likely agreed with it, but he […]
Editorial cartoonist and columnist Rick Kollinger has passed away. Richard F. (Rick) Kollinger December 30, 1949 – May 31, 2021From the obituary: Rick Kollinger passed away at his home in Easton on Monday, May 31, following a long illness. Rick was a proud Eastern Shore native and a nationally acclaimed, award-winning political cartoonist and […]
Mike Smith (KFS) nails both the duality of our country at the moment and the hypocrisy of cursing China for its lack of transparency while hiding our own flaws.Unless we believe that the Chinese are continuing to release viruses into the world, these are two different issues, because what we do about Covid is separate […]
Female Phantom and Female Phantom Writers Folklore has that Lee Falk’s widow finished some scripts when the creator passed away. That would be, if true, the only known instance of a woman writing The Phantom comic strip. But there was a time when a woman wrote for The Phantom comic book in the U.S. Long […]
In/Vulnerable: Inequity in the Time of PandemicFrom the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Journalism Awards:In her @reveal series, cartoonist Thi Bui captured the devastation of COVID-19 and laid bare the stark disparities that shape our lives. Congrats to this year’s Cartoon winner for her riveting work “In/Vulnerable: Inequality in the Time of the Pandemic.” INVULNERABLE […]
Paul Fell comments on an extremely toxic part of the world we’ve built.I, too, liked it better when you could believe that false, hateful rhetoric was perhaps a misunderstanding, a difference of interpretation. What I really liked was the world referenced in this 2005 Jeff Danziger cartoon that I’ve run many times, a world in which […]
A number of memorials to the memory of Tom Inge have appeared. A few of them have listed May 15th as the date of Tom’s death so, though we haven’t seen the family obituary, we have added that date to our own obituary. From the Popular Culture Association (you may have to scroll down to find […]
In 1905 twenty-year-old Harry Conway (Bud) Fisher left Chicago for San Francisco where he got a job working for de Young’s Chronicle newspaper. It seems his theatrical portraits began appearing in the paper in November of 1905, with his sports cartooning splash coming on November 15, 1905.His caricature of Bob Fitzsimmons, an aging, freckled, knock-kneed […]
I dealt with Naomi Osaka’s withdrawal from the French Open briefly yesterday, but it’s still getting a lot of attention, and I like Bill Bramhall’s take best.It’s a personal thing. She did what she needed to do for her own sake, and he frames that here.But it also has wider significance, which also fits within […]
© Okefenokee Glee & Perloo, Inc.Rare is the day without Zippy weirdness.© Bill Griffith Peanuts Politics © Peanuts Worldwide Days after the strip was published, Governor Reagan wrote to Schulz. It wasn’t his first letter to the cartoonist; they had corresponded over the years … But this letter offered a rare insight into a policymaker’s thinking. Reagan […]
Iconic New Orleans cartoonist Bunny Matthews has passed away. Will Bunn (Bunny) Matthews III February 15, 1951 – June 1, 2021 From The New Orleans Times-Picayune: Will Bunn “Bunny” Matthews III, a cartoonist and writer whose Vic and Nat’ly cartoons summoned a quintessential bit of New Orleans’ collective character in the form of two brash, […]
From the Schulz Museum about a new Adults by Schulz exhibit:Sometime in the mid-1950s, Schulz developed a concept for a workplace humor strip featuring adults. He titled it Hagemeyer, after his close friend from the Army. The strip was proposed to United Feature Syndicate as a new strip by Charles Schulz and was drawn on […]
There’s a raft of stupid out there, as noted in today’s Mt. Pleasant (Tribune) and, yes, the only thing more annoying than unmitigated nonsense is people who feel superior for believing it.Appropriately, there’s a new study out that shows that the people who pride themselves on being able to spot fake news are the most […]
The nationally syndicated comic Scorchy Smith portrayed the derring-do of an American flyboy and was already running in 250 newspapers across the country in Fall 1936, when a young graphic illustrator from Fort Collins, Colorado, took it over and pushed the aviation adventure strip to new heights. It was everything Christman loved: drawing and airplanes. […]
Greg Kearney offers this alternative to weeping eagles and little kids solemnly saluting. I like it.You can readily find those saluting children and weeping eagles on your own, but I’m going to expand upon Kearney’s theme of remembrance. I’ll take a walk to visit my friend Jacob Jackson today, in the cemetery about a block away.The […]