Happy Birthday to Lily Renée (Lily Renée Willheim Peters Phillips) born 100 years ago today. Lily joins a few other centenarians on our Senior Strippers list.This seems a good time to update our Senior Strippers roster, cartoonists who for 90+ years continue to survive “the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to.”Below is, […]
Political cartoons aren’t supposed to be funny except when they are, and I got a laugh out of Cathy Wilcox‘s piece, though I recognized the serious point behind it.It is, of course, a double criticism, of America’s erratic policies and of Australia’s response, and I’m betting that not all her readers at The Sydney Morning […]
His work space is a challenge — the ledge is about three feet deep and three feet high, so he has to kneel or lay on his side to paint. “I take a lot of breaks,” Hanley said. Hanley drew 10 different scenes that incorporate the local scenery and various uses of horses, from providing […]
I don’t know if Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereals is a “political cartoon” or a “funny cartoon” but it is certainly an “on-target cartoon” today.There’s an old wisecrack about how every time you come up with something foolproof, they invent better fools. Well, we’re mass producing them on-line, and it’s not so funny.But it sure seems […]
Shrimp & Grits by Andy Marlette will debut from Creators Syndicate on May 31, 2021 (if I’m reading the dates of the sample strips correctly).Shrimp is a young girl and Grits is her friend – an alligator. Shrimp’s dad Hugo, owner of a pub, is also part of the cast. © Creators Syndicate/Andy […]
Before Working Girl, 9 to 5, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, or even Our Miss Brooks, which each featured single females in the mostly male world of business, there was the groundbreaking Winnie Winkle. She was the iconic working girl of the 20th century, who first appeared on September 20, 1920, in the comic strip […]
Five years ago this week, cartoonist June Brigman took over the iconic newspaper comic strip “Mary Worth,” continuing a popular feature whose roots some say are tied to a Depression-era strip with a lead character of the same name but much different circumstances. Brigman is a veteran illustrator, working on comic books including “Supergirl” (DC) […]
David Gilbert ended his 25 year run on the Buckles comic strip seven weeks ago. Now he brings back the Buckles archives at the GoComics site starting today with the first strip from April 1, 1996.above: 1996 intro to the comic strip Earlier this year, David Gilbert, Buckles creator, announced he would end the strip’s 25-year […]
Mother’s Day brought out a sort of history, unintentionally emphasizing that oddly untethered view of time and society comic strips offer, so let’s pick on Luann (AMS).She’s a good character to launch the topic, because she’s one of those loveable cartoon airheads, and, in this case, has absorbed the current pop culture concept that women […]
Sports writer, promoter, cartoonist Bill Morgan has passed away.William Edwards (Bill) Morgan, Jr. December 13, 1931 – February 9, 2021From the obituary: He was sports editor for the Lufkin Daily News from 1953 to 1955, when he went to the Dallas Morning News as a sportswriter. In 1960, the fledgling Dallas Cowboys hired him away […]
Ripley’s Stippler Immersion © Ripley EntertainmentThe new artist of Ripley’s Believe It or Not, who we will refer to as The Stippler until we learn the identity, has now taken on the Sunday page chores as of May 9, 2021.May 10 edit: It appears John Graziano has returned with the May 10 daily. Compu-toon Classic […]
(Some thoughts about newspapers, while I take Mother’s Day off to go visit the Aged P.)Here’s the protagonist of an 1867 novel, “Ned Nevins, the News Boy, or, Street Life in Boston,” in which the plucky lad worked to rise above his grim surroundings, as plucky lads would in popular literature for the next half […]
The National Newspaper Awards have announced the winners of their 2020 awards with Michael de Adder as the winner of the Editorial Cartooning category. Editorial Cartooning Winner: Michael de Adder, Halifax Chronicle Herald/Toronto Star Finalists: Graeme MacKay, Hamilton Spectator; Bruce MacKinnon, Halifax Chronicle Herald An additional note: Several individuals took home top honours for the […]
These days we have Funny Times and Humor Times for regular magazines featuring political, social, and gag cartoons. 100 years ago our grand- and great-grand parents had Cartoons Magazine. above: covers from Robert Beerbohm and his Platinum Age Facebook pageIt was one hundred years ago this month that sadly saw the end of Cartoons Magazine […]
Mike Smith (KFS) echoes my current thoughts. Social media in general, and Facebook for sure, was bad enough during the elections, when lies and complaints about politics dominated things.Now that that’s over, what comes to the surface is people bitching and moaning and complaining and kvetching about trivia.Conversational phrases they don’t like.Foods they don’t like.Militant […]