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 […]
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 […]