The newest syndicated comic strip is introduced by its creator in his hometown paper.Andy Marlette, the editorial cartoonist for The Pensacola News Journal, will debut the new comic strip Shrimp & Grits Monday, May 31, 2021. Today he is allotted space in the News Journal to tell readers about the comic and the feature’s characters.From […]
According to this Steve Kelley (Creators) cartoon, vaccinated people who wear masks are showing off how caring and thoughtful they are.I got into a conversation about “Virtue Signaling” and “Social Justice Warriors” the other day, with someone who felt it was wrong to suggest that some people are showing off. Well, some people are showing […]
Advertising artist and cartoonist Cliff Witkowski has passed away.Clifford William (Cliff) Witkowski June 26, 1937 ~ May 24, 2021 From the obituary: Cliff was a U.S Naval company commander at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center and aboard the USS Eversol DD789 during the Cold War. After his military service, he attended The Chicago Institute […]
Canadian-born Barry Blitt came to New York in the 1990s to pursue a career as an illustrator. While he had been working in Canada, he felt the move to the big city would further his exposure. And indeed it did. In addition to countless prizes and accolades, in 2020 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize […]
“We’ve noticed over the years that editors have become more and more timid and rejecting printing cartoons that express opinions — because we collect stats on each of the cartoons and we can compare the usages between different cartoons,” Cagle explained during TheWrap’s “Conversations on Cancel Culture” series focusing on journalism. © Bruce Plante (2016)The […]
I’ll save the other Memorial Day cartoons for later, but Ed Hall provides a fitting starting point for looking at yesterday’s vote, in which the GOP spared us the painful burden of proving that there was no insurrection, that it was, in fact, BLM and Antifa crisis actors pretending to be Trump supporters peacefully behaving […]
Archie Comics’ webcomic, Bite Sized Archie, is reaching a bigger audience. Bite Sized Archie, the first-ever webcomic series from Archie Comics, is expanding its online presence with a new syndication deal with digital comics app Tinyview and the upcoming release of the first in a series of digital collections on ComiXology. “We created Bite Sized […]
Gannett (previously Gatehouse) is shutting down their newspaper content offering More Content Now. More Content Now is closing operations on May 31, 2021. We have enjoyed working with you these past nine years and are so grateful you found our work of value. From 2013 is the introduction to the service: GateHouse Media, Inc., a […]
The AAEC alerted members to an exhibit of Pat Oliphant cartoons at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge the other day.I’d already known about it, but the hassles of traveling in the pandemic had let me procrastinate, so I jumped in the car yesterday and drove down to catch the second-to-the-last day.The museum isn’t huge […]
Children’s book author and illustrator Eric Carle has passed away.Eric Carle June 25, 1929 – May 23, 2021 From NPR: Eric Carle’s picture books were often about insects. Spiders, lady bugs, crickets and of course, that famous caterpillar, all as colorful and friendly as Carle himself. The Very Hungry Caterpillar — probably Carle’s best-known work […]
One bright day in the middle of the night Jason Chatfield is sitting at a bar when inspiration hits. I was sitting at a bar ordering a beer when the bartender asked me for a card to keep my tab open. I told the bartender to ‘keep it open’ and as I said it, I […]
Walt Handelsman (AMS) has what appears to be the best take on the revelation that the coronavirus is more likely to have escaped from a laboratory than, as the Chinese government had originally contended, been a spontaneous crossover from China’s bushmeat markets.It’s possible that the virus was developed in the lab. It’s also possible that […]
Bazooka Joe in Israel © ToppsThe Virtual Museum of Israel Chewing Gum Wrappers looks at the Bazooka Joe chewing gum there since at least the 1960s. Pulp Fiction© the respective copyright owners A scarce first edition of The Shadow, published in April 1931, recently sold for $156,000 at Heritage Auctions, setting a world record as the […]
Politico interviewed Matt Wuerker about the Bill Bramhall cartoon commotion. Suggesting that people are overreacting to the cartoon and taking it out of context (it’s about being a New Yorker, not an Asian), Matt Wuerker discusses the undeniable racism in the history of political cartoons but sees the Bramhall cartoon as being misinterpreted. “The cartoon is […]
Before we get into the Juxtapositions, a couple of cartoons that pinged me on a personal level.Macanudo (KFS) hits on a particular favorite, because we read “Great Expectations” in junior high and I didn’t get it, except, wow, a surprise ending.But, yes, I can put a peg in the ground to mark who I was […]