A Dennis Draughon editorial cartoon is taking some heat.From the right-of-center The Hill:North Carolina’s first Black lieutenant governor held a press conference on Tuesday to express outrage over a political cartoon that linked him and other members of the State Board of Education to the Ku Klux Klan for their opposition to allowing teachers to speak about […]
Which of The Usual Gang of Idiots Do You Most Admire? That’s almost impossible to answer … Mort Drucker was the master of caricature and literally defined the movie/TV parody. Jack Davis was the greatest action/movement/physical cartoonist maybe ever. Wally Wood was a virtuoso of ink, light, and shadow, and could draw virtually anything from […]
I’ll be sending you off to some good stuff today, but let’s lead with a cartoon I absolutely cannot understand.I almost always disagree with AF Branco (Creators) but it’s not hard to figure out his rightwing fringe take on things.This one makes no sense, though, unless he preferred the succession of liars, obstructionists and bullshit […]
Seated at his desk at The Houston Chronicle in July 2017, Nick Anderson was neck-deep in research, searching for the subject of his latest cartoon, while mentally packing ahead of his family’s impending move to the Riverside Terrace house he’d closed on only six days prior when the phone rang: his boss needed to see […]
Editor & Publisher’s roots began in 1884 when The Journalist was first published to serve the U.S. newspaper industry. The Editor & Publisher: A Journal for Newspaper Makers was founded in 1901, and in 1907 it merged with The Journalist. Later, Editor & Publisher acquired Newspaperdom, a trade journal for the newspaper industry that started […]
I’m going to let John Branch (KFS) stand in for a lot less honest, or less accurate, commentators, because his piece is both clever and, I think, accurate.Westerners are used to seeing those pumps constantly going up and down on the plains, but I heard them likened to grasshoppers early enough that I didn’t think […]
There is a growing and welcome sub-genre of comics history that deals with African American cartoonists and the work they have produced. Below, some books off the shelf dealing with the subject.Invisible Men by Ken Quattro is the most recent of the books about Black cartoonists. This deals with the Golden Age of comic books […]
Famed radio and tv announcer Bill Owens was born February 1, 1931. Wikipedia profiles Bill and his career with two sentences devoted to our area of trivia: Bill also wrote the popular syndicated panel “Return With Us To…” with drawing by comic strip artist Don Sherwood. This nostalgic remembrance of the past enjoyed a […]
I always enjoy Agnes (Creators), but never more than today, when she is slogging through the snow and kvetching over a month that even Gilbert & Sullivan dismissed as “beastly.”Which is a good time to point out that Groundhog Day is ridiculous because it’s far too dependent on location, and was originally a badger in […]
A couple strips are taking me back.© Stephan PastisWho else, when reading Pearls Before Swine,thought of the old B. Kliban classic?© B. Kliban © North America Syndicate (KFS)Back when cars weighed more than they cost and gas was a quarter a gallon (which got you about ten miles). Nice reproduction (front, back, and side)Terry. “She’s got ducks, […]
So you’re feeling good about acing that Jeopardy category, eh?Let’s go deeper into the woods and see what you know about The Phantom. 1. What is the name of The Phantom’s wolf/dog? 2. What is the name of The Phantom’s horse? 3. What is the name The Phantom uses when away from his jungle home? […]
As noted here yesterday, the GameStop gambit was not pulled off by youngsters, but I got a laff out of Dave Whamond (Cagle)‘s cartoon anyway, because, regardless of whodunnit, the targets were, indeed, pigs.Not because they are rich. I know some rich people who got there honestly and ethically. But I’m not the only newspaper person […]
It is July 1947:The Wheels of Justice move slowly. A Cartoonist’s Frustration rises quickly.October 19, 1947: October 26, 1947 – The Des Moines Register which knows syndicates, giving its name to one, recognizes what is happening and informs their readers and issues a warning to Capp:That Sunday’s Li’l Abner:The pertinent panels: The Wheels of Justice […]
It’s been three and a half months and, by the response here at TDC to the Portland Press Herald comics survey, the Trailheads are not adjusting. And those are not the only ones. (To be fair there have been accolades.) I, not being a big fan of Mark Trail since Ed Dodd and Tom Hill […]
I’m not going to make a habit of commenting on things I’ve drawn, but I think I do need to say a few things about “Club Nematoda,” a kind of Village Vanguard I had imagined for some hipster worms. Saying nothing would have been like a cartoon hit-and-run; I had to go back and explain […]