All three 2021 Pulitzer Prize finalists in the Editorial Cartooning category were in the news recently which means the Pulitzer No-Prize was a topic.Boing Boing takes the Pulitzer Board to task in a short item castigating them for not picking a winner, especially Ruben Bolling whose Tom the Dancing Bug they publish weekly. © Ruben […]
The San Diego Comic-Con has announced the comics writers who will be awarded The Bill Finger Award this year.Comic-Con is proud to announce six writers who contributed greatly to the history of comics have been selected to receive the 2021 Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing. The selection, made by a […]
As you’re reading the blog this morning, I’m somewhere in the Western Adirondacks, so, when I was deciding on a vacation post, I looked at this day in history and found that this was the date in 1958 that they began letting the water into the St. Lawrence Seaway, which was a big deal then […]
In 1972 The New York Times Magazine contacted a few cartoonists for each to work up a page oftheir famous characters centered around that year’s presidential election for their April 16 issue. Over the years Pogo’s Smoke Filled Tavern by Walt Kelly (which made the cover) and The Amazing Spider-Man by Stan Lee and […]
We were sorely disappointed when April Fool’s Day came and went this year without Berkeley Breathed‘s annual tribute to Calvin and Hobbes in his Bloom County strip.Berke played us. But it was worth it.Bloom County and characters © Berkeley Breathed; Hobbes © Bill WattersonThe two month wait has resulted in not just a one page […]
Since my headline is a takeoff on a Churchyism, I’ll start the day with a suggestion for anyone within range of Columbus. Bado’s Blog passes along this news of a new exhibit at the Billy Ireland and so do I and, for that matter, so does the Billy Ireland its own self, which also has […]
Editorial and sports cartoonist Jim Thompson has a new gig at the conservative website RedState with a (mostly) daily cartoon called Code Red Comics.Red State welcomed Jim and a few other contributors today:As our readers are undoubtedly aware, we’ve had a lot of exciting changes at RedState this year and have added some new faces […]
Journalism and beer. Beer and journalism. Philosophically, the two pair just about as good as anything. To that end, Fisher is excited to announce that ‘Transparency’ American pale ale, a beer brewed in collaboration with the @sltrib, is on tap and for sale in cans. Legendary Tribune cartoonist, @bagleycartoons, designed the label. Pat Bagley tweeted.
Clay Jones posts a cartoon in anticipation of this weekend’s holiday, raising an issue that, while hardly new, remains of interest.He also conflates the Declaration of Independence with the Constitution, which was written a dozen years later and has a completely different function. (And if you blow it up, you’ll see he conflates it with […]
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Ziggy‘s first dated panel GoComics interviews Tom Wilson, Jr., the son and successor of creator Tom Wilson. I remember Dad saying how, when he was a kid, he loved watching Laurel & Hardy films. He said his favorite instances in those films were when Laurel would do […]
It has been over a year since Jules Feiffer added art to the Tablet site.I keep his page bookmarked on the hope of new stuff appearing. So I was delighted when I recently clicked on the page and found a new drawing. But the accompanying message, though it made me laugh, was distressing.Had Tablet taken […]
The sentencing of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd has aroused a lot of emotion and several cartoons. I ran this Michael de Adder piece the other day, but I’m repeating it now because it represents a restraint I wish other commentators had struck.It’s not much of an “opinion” in the sense of […]
Former NCS President Tom Richmond shows off his caricature skills with a recent job for CNN.This consisted of a LOT of caricatures of classic sitcom actors/characters, and it was a tricky thing to compose because I needed to do it in a way that allowed for both a vertical and horizontal format Former NCS President Rick […]
Fifty years ago on Sunday June 27, 1971 newspaper readers were introduced to Ziggy in a promotional teaser for the next day’s debut.On Monday June 28, 1971 Ziggy by Tom Wilson began as a daily panel.Selling points for the panel was the clean uncrowded art and a lot of pantomime gags; if lettering was necessary […]
Graeme MacKay celebrates the opening of barber shops as Ontario eases up on things.We haven’t been as strict as the Canadians, which is why they won’t let us up there yet. Our local mask mandate goes off Thursday, though some stores have already dropped masks for the double-vaccinated, which sounds a bit confusing but only […]