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This past week La Presse put a Serge Chapleau cartoon on its website depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the 1922 film vampire Nosferatu, and then almost immediately took it down and apologized as accusations of antisemitism began appearing. Just as quickly the Association of Canadian Cartoonists (ACC) responded by backing their brother. ……
Nick Anderson makes an interesting observation: There has been a constant drumroll from the right publicizing the idea that the border is open. Maybe that encouraged more people to try, despite the Obama administration’s publicity warning them that it was too dangerous and unlikely to succeed. I’m not convinced either stands up to much scrutiny….
The forum in Davos has just concluded, but I don’t want to talk politics today. However, here’s a cartoon from Jason Adam Katzenstein, so I’m not entirely cynical about things. Not quite. But I laughed, so I guess I’m close. Yesterday, I saw a Fareed Zakaria Davos segment in which a pair of Ukrainian combat…
Several comic strips have been anticipating Christmas with gags about kids trying to clean up their acts for Santa and people decorating their trees, but now we’re getting right down to the real nitty gritty, and Monty (AMS) brings up the topic of Christmas cards as we enter the home stretch. I used to get…
Following 9/11, I used this Peter Schrank cartoon in my school presentations. It’s brilliant not simply because the world was, indeed, traumatized by the event, but because he melded both that horror-stricken face and Munch’s original drawing of the bridge with the image of people fleeing down the street from the collapsing buildings. And it…
Jesse (‘Tex’) Atwell interview. Harvey Awards Hall of Fame. Bill Griffith address. Frazz future?; AI Calvin & Hobbes. John M. Burns retires. CXC awards. Mr. Block, socialist. Tom Falco has ended his ban on interviewing cartoonists by posting a 10 With Tom with Jesse Atwell. Tom: How did the GoComics thing come about? Did you…
Featuring Jimmy Swinnerton, Ernie Bushmiller, Fred Opper, and Rose O’Neill The Many Loves of Jimmy Swinnerton Jimmy Swinnerton’s life was even zanier than the comic strips he created (including Sam and his Laugh, Professor Nix, Little Katy and her Uncle, Mount Ararat, Mr. Batch, Mr. Jack, Little Jimmy, Canyon Kiddies, The Daydreams of Danny Dawes, and…
So gold and rare coin proponent Mike Fuljenz used part of his September 6, 2023 column to discuss how he can, after a few days, decide on a newspaper’s political bias by the editorial cartoons the paper carries. As I travel the nation meeting with other industry leaders and giving insight on issues impacting the…
Mutts cartoonist Patrick McDonnell has written and illustrated a love letter to the comic books of his youth. “The Super Hero’s Journey is a fantastical dream-memory of my childhood infatuation with comic books, and a tale of the spiritual inner journey of reconnecting to the “super being” in us all. The book is a love…
Belated birthday wishes to cartoonist Alan McClure. Also belated is the addition of Mr. McClure to our Senior Strippers list on the occasion of his turning 100, rather than at 90 as is customary. Cartoonist Alan McClure continues to create art decades after finding humour in news stories for Sydney Morning Herald readers. Shuana Foley…
The new book Funny Things: A Comic Strip Biography of Charles M. Schulz presents the story of the creator of the Peanuts comic strip, through over 400 pages of comic strips. It’s a very interesting approach, as authors Luca Debus and Francesco Matteuzzi create comic strips that stick pretty snugly to the format, style, and…
Matt Groening and Life in Hell, Bruce Petty and the Vietnam War, Etta Hulme and Comic Books, Art Evans and College Mascots, Carl Jones and The Boondocks, Tom Batiuk and Chuck Ayers and Roses in December. Before there was Homer, there was Binky Everyone knows that The Simpsons is what made Matt Groening one of…
So yesterday I’m scrolling through Facebook when among the innumerable “suggested for you” posts comes a comic panel so I linger over it – the one below on the left. While it wasn’t a high resolution scan the cartoonist’s name seemed to be blurred even more than the rest of the image. It is of…
Mr. Boffo offers a chance to visit the ungracious past. The idea of pop-up wine tastings out of paper bags reminds me of the Olden Days when the gentlemen of the streets would scrape up enough money to buy something utterly undrinkable, plus a dime for a packet of pre-sweetened Kool-Aid, which they would add…