K. C. Green, creator of the internationally famed “this is fine” internet meme, is taking his humor to King Features with the new Funny Online Animals comic strip.© KC Green KFS editor Tea Fougner introduces the new comic: Wow! I’m so thrilled to introduce you to our newest members of the Kingdom, the FUNNY ONLINE […]
Clay Jones used his Twitter account to let his Facebook followers know that he had been suspended because the Facebook Artificial Intelligence doesn’t recognize satire and humor. Clay Jones’ Facebook account was back on the streets this morning.
Let me start the day by declaring that I don’t like most of these cartoons very much, but it’s not my job to like cartoons.Ed Hall’s take offers a good starting point, however, and it’s also not his job to be liked.This is a play on sentiment, dead children being an obvious tug at the […]
Pop Culture scholar and historian M. Thomas Inge has passed away.Milton Thomas (Tom) Inge March 18, 1936 – May 15, 2021 As CBR noted in their subhed: “M. Thomas Inge [was] one of the very first academics to cover comics as a college course and one of the earliest scholarly comics writer[s].”Tom Inge has long […]
This is hardly new: It’s an illustration from a 1903 book of nursery rhymes by Charles Robinson, who did much more elaborate work elsewhere and go have a look, because it will be worth your while though you can also read that nursery rhyme book here.As with most nursery rhymes, there are a kabillion interpretations of […]
“Who is Bill Mauldin?” reads lamppost banners outside the Monroe Building, where “Drawn to Combat: Bill Mauldin & the Art of War” opened Friday at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library, 104 S. Michigan. Mauldin not only changed how Americans viewed World War II but how we think about war and the military. At a […]
In a blast from the past journalists at The Chicago Tribune and The New York Daily News are speaking with one voice, imploring anyone with big pockets to save them. Running out of time and hope, more than 100 Chicago Tribune employees and supporters held a rally at the newspaper’s West Town printing plant Saturday […]
2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge? — Ezekiel 18 David Horsey’s 2002 cartoon applies as well 19 years later, though today we speak of missiles, not individual terrorists or tanks.Details change, the Middle East […]
Broadcaster and cartoonist Mike Mundt has passed away. Michael Elmer (Mike) Mundt September 6, 1953 – May 7, 2021 From the obituary:He graduated from the University of Idaho in 1976 with scholastic emphasis in Architecture, Electronics, Engineering, and Broadcast Communications. His early broadcast career was as a Broadcast Engineer for KUID-TV and as an instructor of […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for May 2021 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Back Issue #127 We’ll start the book section with a couple filed for May but released in April. Caricature and National Character The […]
This Reply All (WPWG) ran a couple of days ago, but it anticipated yesterday’s CDC announcement that you can stop masking if you’ve been vaccinated.The announcement has been greeted with joyous political cartoons, but over in Stripland it means we’re going to discover a lot of cartoonists’ lead times because there will continue to be […]
Australian editorial cartoonist Mark Knight has quit the journalists’ union there after they took an action he didn’t approve. From The Australian: After a lifetime of membership, Herald Sun cartoonist Mark Knight has quit the journalists union after its “latest perversion” of withdrawing from the Australian Press Council. According to Sky News host Chris Kenny, […]
The syndicates have been busy this year adjusting their pages that feature the comics offered to newspapers. The year started off with Tribune Content Agency introducing Mt. Pleasant as a new comic strip. That was quickly followed by Andrews McMeel Syndication taking on the distribution of Half Full, and more recently dropping Tarzan from their […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has decided not to gather in large crowds for the 2021 convention, opting instead for a virtual congress. The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has joined other cartoon festivals in dropping their plans for an in-person convention in 2021. The AAEC had been in talks with the Association of […]
The Red Queen, who was running as fast as she could just to stay in one place, has been taken from the board, to be shortly replaced by the White Queen, who can believe six impossible things before breakfast.Yes, I know: Ann Telnaes has drawn her in good Republican red, but Elise Stefanik is pure […]