Here’s a snippet of a longer piece by Ann Telnaes, contrasting the sacrifices Americans made in WWII with the ones certain Americans refuse to make today. Click that link and see the rest. And here’s a reminder that she cut her teeth in the animation business, and also that she has little patience with fools. She […]
Jean Plantureu, better known by his pen name Plantu, has drawn his last cartoon for Le Monde.From Good Word News: As he announced in January, the designer Plantu, who has just celebrated his 70th birthday, has asserted his retirement rights within the daily newspaper. He signs his last drawing in one of Le Monde in […]
Since The Great Comic Strip Switcheroonie of 1997 April Fool’s Day has become a day when cartoonists have traded properties. It certainly doesn’t happen on the original’s scale or even every year. but on occasion a couple friends get together and do it.For example in 2014 it was Mark Parisi and Dan Thompson.© Mark Parisi […]
Steve Eldridge commented earlier today: On occasion, I will look up a cartoonist to see what the real life human who does the work actually looks like. Some cartoonist are recognizable – Telnaes, Pastis, Guisewitz, Davis, Robbins, McCay, etc. Other cartoonists, particularly web cartoonists, don’t get their faces in the news much.So Bored Panda gave […]
The other day we noted that Roger Mahoney drawn Andy Capp comic strips had returned and wondered if they were reruns.It turns out the art and the word balloons are from the past, but the script in those balloons are new.Sean Kleefeld noticed the strangeness: What immediately stood out to me is the thing that […]
I usually begin my day by checking Google News to make sure I haven’t missed any important changes in the world, because I don’t want to feature a political cartoon that’s been overtaken by developments.For instance, Delta and Coke breaking their silence on Georgia’s repressive election laws made a couple of cartoons obsolete, though I […]
© The Sporting News © Marvel Entertainment © King Features Syndicate Ozark Ike was created by Rufus Anderson Gotto, who was a native of Tennessee so he probably knew something about hillfolk. However, his character was called Ozark Ike so maybe he didn’t want to insult any of his fellow Tennesseans. © respective copyright owner Baseball month […]
Michael de Adder, who recently signed to contribute three editorial cartoons a week to The Washington Post, had his first exclusive WaPo editoon published in the paper Tuesday March 30:© Washington PostMichael’s Washington Post page shows that though he is now a contracted contributor to the newspaper, he is far from a stranger to the […]
The National Cartoonists Society has released the nominees for five 2020 Reuben Divisional Award categories that need members to vote for a winner.They are:GAG CARTOONS Kendra Allenby Robert Leighton Ellis Rosen NEWSPAPER COMIC STRIPS Brian Crane – Pickles Jeff Parker & Steve Kelley – Dustin Ricardo Siri (Liniers) – Macanudo NEWSPAPER PANELS Bill Abbott […]
Matt Davies (AMS) decries the difficulty of getting on the list for vaccination, and it’s an even better metaphor if you know that claw machines are programmed to drop things. Sometimes the claw is set to grip well, sometimes it’s set to be loose, so skill is secondary to when you drop in your quarters.I […]
Thursday, April 1, 20217:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT4:30 PM – 5:30 PM PDTAuthor/scholar Jonathan Zimmerman and illustrator/cartoonist Signe Wilkinson have teamed up to produce Free Speech and Why You Should Give A Damn.The pair will join cartoon editor Bob Mankoff for a conversation about [the] history of free speech in the U.S. and a […]
The ship is unstuck and we’ve got to get back to other topics and other tropes.Mike Luckovich (AJC) noted the problem conservatives had when Biden nailed his press conference, but they managed to edit together a few random moments when he paused and one when he dropped a subject and moved on. It helps preserve […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced the nominees for their Cartoonist of the Year Award for 2020; the award is more familiarly known as The Reuben Award.Alphabetically…Ray Billingsley would be the first African American to win The Reuben.Bill Griffith would be the first underground cartoonist to win The Reuben.Terri Libenson would be the first solely […]
Wimpy is not the only thing that shrunkThe Sunday Popeye on Comics Kingdom is down to two tiers for some reason (permanent reduction?). So here’s the missing top tier to the March 28, 2021 half page:© King Features SyndicateDigression – Can we still call the full strip a half page, since the half page formats, […]
That cargo ship wedged in the Suez Canal may be a disaster for international trade, but it’s been a boon for political cartoonists.Don Landgren isn’t the only one who has used it to comment on Republican efforts to stop voters from voting.The blockage of the Canal only impacts about 10 percent of shipping and the […]