In addition to being a witty and likeable guy, Rob Harrell is an accomplished author and illustrator. Harrell resides in Zionsville with his supportive wife, Amber. We had the pleasure of featuring Harrell on our cover of Zionsville Monthly back in October of 2018. Since that time, Harrell has published “Wink” (2020) and his latest […]
The South East Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society held their annual meeting at Salisbury, North Carolina’s Waterworks Visual Arts Center this past weekend. As mentioned here earlier Marcus Hamilton was there with his art exhibit “Two Dream Careers: From Illustrator to Cartoonist” and animator Eddie Pittman was there with his presentation. And they honored […]
John Darkow is hardly the only cartoonist to depict the last plane departing Afghanistan, or even the only one to offer “credibility” rather than our Afghan allies as what we’ve left behind.It leaves me asking if all these cartoonists had a better plan.It’s not necessary to have a detailed plan in order to criticize what […]
The new New Yorker is a Food and Drink issue. One of the thrills of living in a big city, especially a cosmopolitan one like New York or London, where the cartoonist and artist Tom Gauld lives, is the abundance and variety of delicacies that are readily available to tempt even the most finicky of […]
I recently confessed a crush on Wallace the Brave (AMS)‘s mother, and yesterday’s final panel not only failed to diminish things but heightened it a bit. Anybody can be charming at dinner, but to be equally together at breakfast is the mark of quality, IMHO, and the sweats, tosseled hair and bunny slippers only enhance […]
Does it strike anyone else that the Sunday Andy Capp comic strips are now basically two dailies with similar settings and complimentary contexts? It has struck me that since cartoonist Lawrence Goldsmith returned to the Sunday page after his hiatus he and partner Sean Garnett have set up these pages in such a way that […]
(Peter Schrank) (Bob Gorrell – Creators)This Juxtaposition offers a starting point for the day, because Schrank is British, which puts a somewhat different spin on the idea: The world has long criticized America for playing “Cops of the World,” though it has a spotty record for either welcoming or turning down the help.Gorrell, by contrast, is […]
It seems that a couple years ago Captain Marvel’s comic book cat Chewie was the star of a comic strip series that appeared on Instagram and as variant covers for a half dozen Marvel comic books.From Marvel: MARVEL MEOW, a cat-themed mini-comic series by Japanese artist Nao Fuji, has been clawing around on Marvel’s Instagram […]
Like most comics sections in 2021 the Sunday color supplements of August 28, 1921 were almost all four pages. A main difference was that instead of six to nine comic strips per page, the Sunday pages then usually carried one comic strip – occasionally two (the “topper” strips hadn’t yet been invented).The strips were in […]
Non Sequitur (AMS) comes through with a bit of nice timing to reassure me and I hope you that we aren’t crazy after all.It’s not so bad that we’re told what to be outraged about. It’s that we snap to and obey.Given lead times, Wiley couldn’t have known this strip would land just as we […]
Gag cartoonist Sam Ansell has passed away. Samuel Tarshis (Sam) Ansell May 25, 1922 – August 1, 2021 From the obituary:Cartoonist, ad man and business man Samuel Ansell, 99, of Waltham, died on August 1st, 2021. Sam Ansell’s career changed course many times but cartooning was always part of it. His love of George […]
August saw The Sedalia (Missouri) Democrat abandon the color comic supplement. Due to budget constraints, the Democrat will no longer publish the color weekend comics section after July.The COVID-19 pandemic affected many businesses, and the newspaper industry and the Democrat were no exception. The Democrat’s management was unfortunately forced to enact cost-saving measures, which resulted […]
One of my favorite passages in “War and Peace” comes when young Nicholai Rostov gets his first, and nearly last, taste of combat.Unhorsed and injured, he’s lucky to escape at all, but what he has left behind are his romantic notions and his childish sense that he is not subject to the same rules of […]
From a King Features Syndicate press release: King Features Syndicate, a unit of Hearst and home to some of the world’s most popular entertainment characters, is growing its global publishing program under the direction of publishing director Christina Nix Lynch to develop new partnerships for original content. The expansion includes new territories, titles, formats and […]
[I]f you were looking for a name for a cartoonist, you couldn’t do much better than Scrawls. And that’s exactly how Sam C. Rawls signed his editorial cartoons and his comic strip—he was one of those rara avis who does both— and every syllable is exactly the truth, no fictional make-believe in sight. But […]