It seems Bruce Tinsley rushed a Mallard Fillmore comic strip in response to Gannett ordering its newspapers to drop the conservative comic. On Monday March 22 the syndicated newspaper strip issued what was an obvious acknowledgement of Gannett’s actions.© King Features SyndicateIt should be noted that soon after Bruce’s return in September of 2020 a […]
Matt Wuerker (Politico) starts us off with the Big Lie, which is that the 2020 election was fixed. However, that central lie is, like the cloud of smoke he draws, a form of pollution that spreads everywhere.That is, it’s obviously bad that people believe the election was fixed, but the metastasizing evil is all the […]
The redesigned homepage of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists website looks good.Clicked on it this morning and was pleasantly surprised.The site is a regular stop, along with their Twitter feed.
So I guess this was a good idea …(Bill Bramhall)I started to feature all 10 of the “Back to Normal” cartoons that popped up on my morning tour, but it felt like I’d be pushing the edges of fair use unless I made substantive critical commentary on each one.And they’re each pretty good, but they’re […]
National Cartoonists Society members are being asked to vote their favorites in five Reuben Award divisions for work that appeared in 2020.There are five divisions to vote on, the top three nominees in each division are what you’ll be deciding. All of these divisions were juried by regional NCS chapters and the results were tallied […]
So last night turned into another of those sessions where reporters tap dance and anchors repeat what we already know and they interview random experts who don’t know anything, while we wait to find out what the hell happened this time.As I write this, we still don’t know anything except that some guy went into […]
Friday The New York Times dropped a story about satire and Facebook’s bots inability to recognize it: Since 2013, Matt Bors has made a living as a left-leaning cartoonist on the internet. His site, The Nib, runs cartoons from him and other contributors that regularly skewer right-wing movements and conservatives with political commentary steeped in […]
Lincoln Peirce offered a bit of critical commentary in Big Nate (AMS) yesterday.It’s no secret that a lot of comic strips have outlived their creators, but, when a cartoonist gives up a strip, what happens next varies. If a strip is not in a lot of papers, the syndicate may shut it down, but if […]
Yesterday we noted that The Keizer Times had signed the Steve Breen’s caption contest Caption It! They also added Dave Coverly‘s gag panel Speed Bump, so now the prospective gag writers of the caption contest will have a professional’s capabilities to compare with their attempts at humor. Coverly is the creator of Speed Bump, a […]
The Minneapolis Star Tribune will start carrying the Baldo comic strip as a replacement for the Buckles comic strip, which ended its run today.The paper doesn’t mention Buckles in today’s interview with Baldo co-creator and writer Hector Cantú … Q: Is Baldo you as a kid? Carlos as a kid? Your third cousins? A: Baldo […]
G. B. Trudeau’s Doonesbury debuted October 26, 1970. The daily, that is.It took another five months for the first Sunday Doonesbury to show up.Fifty years ago: And today:© G. B. TrudeauFrom Comic Book Resources: Top Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Doonesbury.
Mostly not to be.James Allen shows his original vision for the September 25, 2016 Sunday Mark Trail page. We pair it with the published version.© North America Syndicate/KFS Topps has cancelled a Garbage Pail Kids Shammy Award sticker card. From meaww: The Shammy Awards is currently under fire for a violent portrayal of BTS in their […]
John Deering (Creators) offers a chilling combination of “Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it” with the stand-up comics’ critique of being “too smart for the room.”It’s a really good cartoon, except that, in a country where half the people were born after 1982, how many of us even […]
Goofus and GallantPresidential historian and author Michael Beschloss uses the characters Goofus and Gallant, from the comic strip of the same name first created in the 1940s, to seemingly compare Trump and Biden.Goofus and Gallant © Highlights for Children, Inc. The Chief at the Toh-Atin Gallery A few weeks ago, Telegraph opinion page cartoonist Shan Wells […]
An enormous marble structure engraved with the text of the First Amendment used to decorate the facade of the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Now, just over a year after the journalism museum’s closing, the slab is set to find a new home at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Weighing 50 tons and standing 74 […]