According to Michael Ramirez (Creators), the fact that Marjorie Taylor Greene lost her committee assignments means that declaring an anti-semitic belief in space lasers, thinking that mass murders of school children were staged and advocating the assassination of legislators is “nutty.”And equally as “nutty” as believing that people who work two jobs should be able […]
The Right Wing Media Research Center was apoplectic over a recent NBC Today show where Left Wing hosts praised Garry Trudeau and his Doonesbury comic strip. After [Al Roker] noted some newspapers placed Doonesbury on the editorial page, [Harry] Smith added: “And sometimes when the subject was particularly volatile, these papers would just black out […]
UpcomingAn Evening with Gene Luen Yang Thursday, March 11, 2021 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. MTJoin the Calgary Distinguished Writers Program for an evening with Gene Luen Yang, the bestselling writer and artist behind American Born Chinese, Boxers & Saints, the Avatar: the Last Airbender comics, and many other iconic works. © Gene Luen YangBestselling […]
Clay Bennett (CTFP)‘s latest inspires a couple of reactions.One is to take it at face value, because it does feel that we’ve put a lot of bad vibes and hard feelings behind us. I’ve said before that I don’t expect a lot from Joe Biden, but a simple Jerry-Ford-like chance to exhale is good enough […]
Who?Now let’s get up-to-date. Last week:Bringing us to February 7, 2021 and #500.From June 5, 2011 – the first strip:© Chester Lauck, Jr. & Donnie PitchfordIf you don’t subscribe to The Mena Star, which runs the weekly strip, you will find Lum and Abner at Webtoons where the latest episodes can be read along with […]
I realize it’s Super Bowl Eve and we’ll get into that later, but it’s also the 11th anniversary of the start of this blog, which, as you see, began with a favorite strip and a single sentence inviting people to enjoy it.Comic Strip of the Day has evolved quite a bit since then, but the […]
One hundred and twenty years after the original Queen Victoria’s reign passed into history, The New Adventures of Queen Victoria comes to an end.February 14, 2021 will be the last installment.Shutting down the strip is the choice of creator Pab Sungenis and not part of the GoComics culling, as explained by Pab in a November […]
Peter Brookes (Times UK) invokes James Gillray’s classic 1805 cartoon to show the controversy between the UK and France over vaccine allotment. Oddly enough, DD Degg ran the original yesterday, in a posting that is not long but is quite deep and that you really should go check out. However, here it is again, the background […]
There has been a persistent myth that Napoleon was a short man, when in fact he was 5 feet 7 inches tall which was above average height at the time. James Gillray, a British cartoonist helped directly influence this myth, consistently drawing the French leader as a short figure surrounded by tall British adversaries. R.K. […]
Last year Dick Wright returned to editorial cartooning after a 15 year break.Now he has got a much wider audience by joining the Cagletoons syndicate.From Daryl Cagle’s introduction: Conservative cartoonists are rare, and great conservative cartoonists are extremely rare; we’re delighted to have Dick join our cartoonists and we look forward to seeing him give […]
In 1939 V. T Hamlin brought Neanderthal Man into the Present.Now cartoonist R. L. Crabb is rescripting some of those Alley Oop comic strips to focus on the efforts of the Republican Party to find their next Leader.The satire started on February 1, 2021 and has continued through at least today:Below – more original Alley […]
There’s a line to be drawn somewhere between political commentary and personal ridicule, and I think that, if Kirk Walters (KFS) had only shown Greene in the strait jacket, foaming at the mouth, it might be unfair.Except that it’s not as if she had campaigned on fiscal prudence and only later did we discover that […]
Gary Varvel and Creators Syndicate are offering a new feature beginning February 6, 2021.Humor Me is a caption contest offered weekly (intended for Saturdays, but editors being editors… ). The twist here is that each local newspaper will pick the winning gag lines from local submissions. That makes for a quicker turn around than other […]
Cartoonist (and now multimedia creator) Keith Knight has been nominated!The complete list of NAACP Image Award nominees. In other Keef news, he has a new address on the internet.© Keith KnightSupport a cartoonist
Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has his hands full on both coasts. His Washington D.C. troubles are lead stories on national networks, at home a faux pas is front page news – headlined above the fold.From the Bakersfield Californian:In a cartoon posted on Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s blog last week, a woman lounges under a tropical sun, […]