Friday The New York Times dropped a story about satire and Facebook’s bots inability to recognize it: Since 2013, Matt Bors has made a living as a left-leaning cartoonist on the internet. His site, The Nib, runs cartoons from him and other contributors that regularly skewer right-wing movements and conservatives with political commentary steeped in […]
Lincoln Peirce offered a bit of critical commentary in Big Nate (AMS) yesterday.It’s no secret that a lot of comic strips have outlived their creators, but, when a cartoonist gives up a strip, what happens next varies. If a strip is not in a lot of papers, the syndicate may shut it down, but if […]
Yesterday we noted that The Keizer Times had signed the Steve Breen’s caption contest Caption It! They also added Dave Coverly‘s gag panel Speed Bump, so now the prospective gag writers of the caption contest will have a professional’s capabilities to compare with their attempts at humor. Coverly is the creator of Speed Bump, a […]
The Minneapolis Star Tribune will start carrying the Baldo comic strip as a replacement for the Buckles comic strip, which ended its run today.The paper doesn’t mention Buckles in today’s interview with Baldo co-creator and writer Hector Cantú … Q: Is Baldo you as a kid? Carlos as a kid? Your third cousins? A: Baldo […]
G. B. Trudeau’s Doonesbury debuted October 26, 1970. The daily, that is.It took another five months for the first Sunday Doonesbury to show up.Fifty years ago: And today:© G. B. TrudeauFrom Comic Book Resources: Top Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Doonesbury.
Mostly not to be.James Allen shows his original vision for the September 25, 2016 Sunday Mark Trail page. We pair it with the published version.© North America Syndicate/KFS Topps has cancelled a Garbage Pail Kids Shammy Award sticker card. From meaww: The Shammy Awards is currently under fire for a violent portrayal of BTS in their […]
John Deering (Creators) offers a chilling combination of “Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it” with the stand-up comics’ critique of being “too smart for the room.”It’s a really good cartoon, except that, in a country where half the people were born after 1982, how many of us even […]
Goofus and GallantPresidential historian and author Michael Beschloss uses the characters Goofus and Gallant, from the comic strip of the same name first created in the 1940s, to seemingly compare Trump and Biden.Goofus and Gallant © Highlights for Children, Inc. The Chief at the Toh-Atin Gallery A few weeks ago, Telegraph opinion page cartoonist Shan Wells […]
An enormous marble structure engraved with the text of the First Amendment used to decorate the facade of the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Now, just over a year after the journalism museum’s closing, the slab is set to find a new home at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Weighing 50 tons and standing 74 […]
The Keizer Times, a weekly broadsheet newspaper serving Keizer, Oregon, will test its readers ability to be gag writers for Steve Breen’s Caption It!© Creators Syndicate/Steve BreenFrom the paper’s introduction: About 10 years ago, Breen began giving readers of The San Diego Union-Tribune a weekly opportunity to caption one of his drawings. The idea grew […]
We’ll start off a Canine Cascade with Wumo (AMS), for no particular reason except that I just swapped out my Facebook pics, which I don’t do terribly often. It is a form of branding, after all: People see your pic before they read your name.Which makes dog faces an excellent Facebook pic locally, since most […]
From today’s Washington Post comics page.Rhymes With Orange is by Hilary Price and Rina Piccolo © RWO Studios Lio is by Mark Tatulli © Mark Tatulli Wiley
Editorial cartoonist Ed Hall has seen an anti-racism cartoon of his changed in Photoshop to one that downplays racism, but then keeps Ed’s signature on the perversion.Yesterday, someone on Reddit, decided to take one of my cartoons, change the text in Photoshop, and turn it into a racist cartoon. Then they did something even more […]
The current level of toxicity on social media is depressing and probably bodes ill for the country, but, whatever is true about the Atlanta shootings, Joe Heller is right about the hate unleashed over the coronavirus.Which is to say, while I stand by what I said yesterday that this isn’t the case to hold up […]
It is being reported that author and cartoonist George Mandel has passed away.George Mikali MandelFebruary 11, 1920 – February 13, 2021From the March 18, 2021 Shelf Awareness notice: George Mikali Mandel, the author and cartoonist who was an early member of the Beat Generation, died last month in New York. He was 101. Born in […]