(Grand Avenue – AMS)(Joe Heller)Start the day with a Juxtaposition, because tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, which starts the beginning of Lent, which used to matter to people a whole lot more than it seems to in the present day.You can go back into history and find all sorts of ways people marked Lent centuries ago, […]
A treasure trove for cartooning fans is now available!The Internet Archive has made available the run of Jud Hurd’s CARTOONIST PROfiles magazine. From issue #1 (March, 1969) to issue #146 (June, 2005) CARTOONIST PROfiles was THE insider magazine for newspaper and magazine cartoonists (and greeting cards and illustration and and animation and caricature and… ).Accessing […]
Short notice for a couple of Tuesday, February 16 events.Join cartoonist Jimmy Margulies live online tomorrow night as he talks about political cartooning the past 30 years. The nationally-syndicated cartoonist has had a ringside seat to New York City and the shenanigans of New Jersey pols, from Chris Christie to some guy named Trump. Tues, […]
Leading into Valentine’s Day the Judge Parker comic strip had two people profess love for each other:That was a moral affront to one person who let writer Francisco Marciuliano know:Marciuliano’s response earned a… Read the thread on Ces’s Twitter feed. Around the time the outraged reader started reading Judge Parker he must not have seen that […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for February 2021 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Complete Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy Volume 29 The Complete Dick Tracy by Chester Gould is completed! In Love & Pajamas Britain’s Best […]
Real Life Adventures (AMS) asks the question on all our minds: “What’s the deal with mattresses?”Well, there’s also the question of “Whatever happened to President’s Day?” or, another way, “Remember when we had Lincoln’s Birthday and Washington’s Birthday?”But let’s not bring those old guys up because then we’d get to talking about San Francisco, where […]
By the time the comic strips showcased below came around there had been romance in comic strips. Eventually love became, if not the main focus, a frequent topic in some strips. When a strip’s title character is thirty-ish and the main supporting character is her younger sister affairs of the heart will enter the plot. […]
Today’s Pardon My Planet (KFS) provides a coincidental coda to the impeachment, because, come on now, what did you expect?I’m actually more optimistic now than I was at 24, when I was sure, along with a whole lot of other people, that Nixon would escape the revelations of Watergate.In fact, I wrote a parody of […]
100 years ago today in Gasoline Alley (from the New York Daily News):Over the years Jim Scancarelli has used the Sunday around Valentine’s Day as a reason to revisit the day Skeezix was found and his life after that momentous occasion.It was not unusual for the birthdays to be numbered. Birthday’s of note have […]
Cartoonist and television writer Allan Burns has passed away.Allan Pennington BurnsMay 18, 1935 – January 30, 2021From the obituary: Allan blossomed at Punahou School in Honolulu and discovered a talent for animation and writing, eventually having cartoons published in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Allan began creating humorous greeting cards and eventually did enough work to make […]
We’re starting to move kids back into the schoolrooms, and Signe Wilkinson (AMS) questions the wisdom of the move.There are many layers of this issue, and “Follow the science” is deeply tangled up with “Follow the sociology.” Joe Heller takes a similarly skeptical view of the development.Is it science, or is it something else?To start with, […]
The death of S. Clay Wilson is being widely reported. Violent, obscene and scatological, Mr. Wilson’s hyperbolic stories — full of corny puns and incongruously decorous dialogue, and populated by such unsavory, anatomically distorted characters as the Checkered Demon, Captain Pissgums and his Pervert Pirates, the Hog Riding Fools and Ruby the Dyke — are […]
British artist Gerald Lip has passed away.Gerald LipMay 12, 1929 – January 28, 2021newspaper cartoon editor, comic letterer, artistFrom the Daily Express obituary: Gerald also worked as colourist and sometime letterer on imported American strips such as Garfield and Hagar the Horrible, occasionally relettering words to give them a local flavour.Gerald’s name in relation to […]
I noted the other day that the opening of the impeachment trial, and particularly the lackluster nature of Trump’s defense, didn’t seem to spark much fury in Ann Telnaes (WashPo)‘s trial coverage.But it sure didn’t stay that way, and her growing portfolio is fine stuff indeed.We’ll see her again, because there’s a second critical topic […]
From the Berkshire Eagle: The Bushnell-Sage Library’s February program, “Learn to Draw Cartoons,” will be presented from 3 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 17, on Zoom. Award-winning cartoonist and humorous illustrator Rick Stromoski will teach participants how to create their own cartoon characters, draw facial expressions and even some animals. The program is best for […]