Comics and animation historian David Mruz has passed away. David Richard Mruz February 11, 1951 – December 20. 2020Comics and animation historian, fanzine publisher: Mindrot/AnimaniaWhen most of us think of Minneapolis cartoonists our thoughts go back to Charles Schulz, for native Minnesotan David Mruz his thoughts go back much further to another Charles:For comics historian […]
What makes Agnes (Creators) work so well is that Agnes and Trout really are like Lucy and Ethel: They come up with some outlandishly bad ideas, but their hearts are always in the right place.Their poverty helps: While Lucy wanted the spotlight down at Ricky’s club, Agnes is trying to climb out of the hole […]
photos via Steve Milloy and Matt WuerkerFor the second time in ten days The Washington Post gave Ann Telnaes a full page to express her opinion. A most excellent use of the acreage.If you don’t get the dead tree edition, the cartoons can be read in detail at Ann’s WaPo page, or with Mike […]
Thought there would be a lot more “Our Cartoonist Looks Back on 2020” articles on this last Sunday of the year, but I guess with the dwindling number of editorial cartoonists on staff… The Minneapolis Star Tribune present some of Steve Sack‘s 2020 cartoons. A bit southeast the Wisconsin State Journal does the same with Phil Hands. Heading […]
Six weeks ago I mentioned the absence of Roger Mahoney‘s name in the in-strip credits line for the Andy Capp comic strip. Naturally two days later Mahoney was back in the credits. Then things got strange.When the time for the non-Mahoney strips came due for Creators/GoComics’ showing they skipped them and (for the first time?) […]
Speed Bump (Creators) speaks for me.A year can’t be evil, and I refuse to sit around feeling sorry for myself, but I’m certainly willing to call the past year nuts and illogical and silly and, as the little lad about to take over suggests, simply puzzling.I don’t much care if they catch him just so […]
Wayno has revealed the new secret symbol that will soon begin appearing in Dan Piraro’s and Wayno’s Bizarro panels. On January 1, 2021, The Pipe of Ambiguity will join the roster of Secret Symbols. Dan and I agreed that it would be a fun way to continue to leave my mark on Bizarro as I […]
Signe Wilkinson and The Philadelphia Inquirer/The Philadelphia Daily News announced today that Signe will become an occasional contributor rather than a daily editorial cartoonist: Editor’s Note: Signe Wilkinson, the first woman win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, and the cartoonist for The Inquirer and Daily News since 1985, is putting down her pencil at […]
There is a lot of kvetching over how horrible 2020 has been, but cartoonists are going to have to really kick out the jams to do better than Ann Telnaes (WashPost), who not only echoes Mike Dukakis’s Greek saying that a fish stinks from the head, but, working on-line, does not let herself be limited […]
Looks like Dennis and I were on the same page, featuring Comics of Christmas Past, but, as usual, I’ll be more long-winded.Let’s turn the calendar back to 1925, which isn’t a round number but was astonishingly better than 1920. I don’t know what happened in those intervening five years, but newspapers suddenly exploded with comic […]
Historical Comic and Cartoon articles from the past week.Starting with the man who created the modern Santa Claus seems appropriate. Grunge relates The Tragic Death of Thomas Nast. Pamela L. Travers was notoriously hard to deal with, as The Conversation notes in Mary Shepherd: The Artist Who Brought Mary Poppins to Life. It isn’t only us […]
Newspaper graphic artist Dorothy Henry has passed away. Dorothy Alice Henry (née: Leenknecht)October 31, 1925 – December 21, 2020Painter, commercial and advertising artist, newspaper illustrator, cartoonistDorothy was the staff illustrator of the Port Huron Times Herald for some years.From the obituary: Dorothy was employed as Advertising Design Artist and Illustrator at numerous agencies in the […]
This Christmas-themed collection includes works by Daniel R. Fitzpatrick, Robert Lemen, Marguerite Martyn, Bill Mauldin, Robert Minor, Amadee Wohlschlaeger and other Post-Dispatch artists and editorial cartoonists. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch gallery of 50 cartoons through the years.
I suppose Michael de Adder (Ind) sums it up best: We’ve gone off the rails and Dear Leader continues to sit there tweeting away.The question now being not so much “So what?” as “Now what?” Yesterday, I joked about an Oprah-style rally where everyone who attended got a pardon, and Clay Bennett (CTFP) jokes about a […]