Clyde gets down to reality in today’s Candorville (WPWG), and his list of dictators could also have included a heapin’ helpin’ of populist demagogues, who are mostly only barred from being actual dictators through chance and technicalities, not for lack of ambition.Lemont expects things to make sense, while Clyde sees what actually does.In Lemont’s world, […]
King Features’ Classic Comics for Middle Graders © King Features Syndicate; Studio MDHR; King Features Syndicate King Features, owner and licensor of a library of classic comic strips, is expanding its global book publishing activities beyond reprint collections, including into original YA and middle grade titles featuring contemporary characters spun off from the originals. Publishers […]
Pat Byrnes (Cagle) joins the masses, though only to mock their haste to be included.Constant Readers know I’ve been holding back a few days, waiting for things to settle in, which surely can’t mean for the whole thing to be over, just for it to take some kind of form. The Washington Post has an […]
The [Australian] Press Council considered whether its Standards of Practice were breached by the publication of a cartoon in The Australian on 14 August 2020. The cartoon depicts a scene of the then United States Presidential candidate Joe Biden giving a speech congratulating Kamala Harris on being the Vice-Presidential candidate. © The Australian/Johannes LeakThe Daily […]
Clay Jones yesterday: Side note: This cartoon has already got me banned on Facebook for three days. Yes, the appeal is in. From Clay Jones Twitter feed…where he also admits to his crimes:Clay Jones Facebook page, where others are posting the cartoon over and over.
The late 1970s and early 1980s saw a rebirth of the adventure comic strip. The successful syndication in 1977 of The Amazing Spider-Man saw a number of action strips getting real estate on newspaper funny pages. The smash box office of Star Wars saw that property adapted to the three panel format, along with more […]
While we await further development on things that aren’t funny, here’s a look at something that really is.Or will be when it releases in October, but you’ll have forgotten by then, so pre-order it now, from the publisher or at your local bookstore. Joe Dator is a frequent New Yorker contributor, but even if you hate […]
Here’s a book that just came to my attention.Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo comics strip is in the public domain, and French artist Frank Pé applies his reinterpretation in Little Nemo: After Winsor McCay. There is no denying that Little Nemo: After Winsor McCay is an example of beautifully designed and gorgeously structured comics storytelling; truthfully, […]
Illustrator, graphic designer, and cartoonist Seymour Chwast was born August 18, 1931.About Seymour:He is a founding partner of the celebrated Push Pin Studios, whose revolutionary work altered the course of contemporary graphic communication in the 1960s, and continues to affect the field of design worldwide. In 1985, the studio’s name was changed to The Pushpin […]
This month, [GoComics is] celebrating a quarter-century of The Duplex, the syndicated strip by brothers Glenn and Gary McCoy that features Eno and Fang—a perpetual dim-witted bachelor and his loveable canine sidekick—and their long-suffering neighbors, Gina and Mitzi. The Duplex’s journey began with Glenn in 1996. “It sprouted from a scribbled character in one of […]
Let’s save a little bandwidth here with a roundup of 12 variations on the same cartoon. I’m breaking from format by not acknowledging and linking to each cartoonist, but I’m also breaking from format by not commenting beyond what the collection itself implies.Which should balance out. I will comment on Paul Fell‘s cartoon, because, like him, […]
In college I started reading underground comics by Robert Crumb and Peter Bagge, and I was exposed to Matt Groening’s Life in Hell and Roz Chast and Tom Tomorrow for the first time. I actually wrote my senior thesis about a womens’ underground comics collective called the Twisted Sisters. One of my favorite cartoonists from […]
Patrick McDonnell has been an artist for over 40 years. Best known for MUTTS, he has always made personal and abstract paintings while drawing comics and illustrations for publication. During the turmoil and isolation of the past few years, McDonnell’s paintings have literally exploded – in volume and intensity. In this exhibition of over 50 […]
DC Comics and Webtoon have announced they will be collaborating on webcomics. WEBTOON Entertainment Inc, the world’s number one webcomic platform today announced it has entered into a creative partnership with DC. The agreement will see DC and WEBTOON collaborate on several upcoming webcomic series’ set in the DC Universe. These standalone series will appeal […]
I’m feeling old and grumpy, but, thanks to Paul Berge, I feel less alone.I was tempted to do an entire blog entry of Saigon Evacuation cartoons, but he posted this on his page and it satisfies the urge, even if it doesn’t quell the frustration.Some of the more recent variations at least acknowledge that those were […]