Deflocked (AMS) sets the theme for today. As noted yesterday, we’re no longer in Perpetual Panic mode, but it is nice to put the serious issues aside for a moment.OTOH, Mamet doesn’t simply put them aside but keeps his head buried, and it’s depressing to see the absolute garbage available on TV.But take heart, because […]
The Northside Sun of Jackson, Mississippi has partnered with Creators Syndicate to supply comics and cartoons to its readers on the newspaper’s website. It is a unique webpage format that I haven’t seen with other newspapers. Curious if it is the paper’s design or the syndicate’s. Newspapers and comic strips have been intertwined for ages. […]
Differing from those instances when a cartoon is modified by redrawing one portion of the art to change the purpose, here is a case where the entire idea is just redrawn without credit or permission. A US cartoonist has accused a Hong Kong education publisher of “stealing” his work after a drawing depicting a “cultural […]
(Kevin Kallaugher) (Matt Wuerker – Politico)The State of the Union speech was, indeed, a welcome relief from years past. It began on the East Coast well after the bedtime of anyone who has to be up by 4 am, but I decided to catch the first few minutes, hit record and watch the rest in the […]
Here are the questions [Emmy] asked Brian: Where did you come up with the name ‘Pickles’ for your comic strip? Tell me about Opal and Earl. How did you get major newspapers to publish your comic strip and keep publishing it after all these years? How do you come with ideas for a new comic […]
Heart of the City is a sweet slice-of-life strip starring Heart Lamarr, an endlessly energetic middle schooler with Hollywood dreams in her eyes. “I just think she’s living in her own little world,” Steenz laughs, “and reality comes a-knockin’.” The strip centers around Heart’s everyday misadventures with her similarly pop-culture-obsessed friends and her harried but […]
Either Jeremy’s Mom in this Zits (KFS) has a lot more faith in bipartisanship than I do or she has no idea what coffeeshops pay.That’s the last I’ll say about last night’s speech: I’m glad Biden called for a raise in the minimum wage but never mind that the Mocked Turtle was staring straight ahead […]
© Don AsmussenThe last new Bad Reporter was in March. Hope Don Asmussen is okay. © King Features SyndicateBruce Tinsley has increased his weekly share of Mallard Fillmore since commenting on the Gannett cancelling of the strip. He had been doing the Sunday page and two weekday strips, but since the week of March 21, 2021 […]
Shary Flenniken ran away from Seattle and became a cartooning star. In her free time, she started illustrating covers and comics for the fleet of underground newspapers that were springing up around Seattle in those days: the Helix, the Seattle Simpleton and the Seattle Liberation Front’s flagship title, Sabot. After a few false starts, Flenniken […]
One of the advantages for a newspaper of employing a local cartoonist is that, when someone in your congressional delegation says something really stupid, he can quickly bring it to the attention of your readers.I don’t know how well this Andy Marlette (Creators) cartoon is going to go over with readers of the Pensacola News […]
© Andrews McMeel SyndicationSteenz celebrates a year on Heart of the City with a nice promo poster. © Tristan Bancks and Jason Chatfield; Ginger Meggs ™ Winslow Investments Pty LtdJason Chatfield‘s continuing celebration of Ginger Meggs‘ 100th sees a new book on May 4. © Ghazal QadriGoComics celebrates signing Ghazal Qadri’s Salt n Pepper by interviewing the […]
Loss of advertising, loss of readers, loss of jobs. What else?Wood pulp prices increased in January 2021 with further increases announced for March.The price of pulp paper (and ink) will continue to rise.Periodic and moderate changes in the prices of raw materials are expected in the normal course of doing business. Year-long, global pandemics having […]
Military.com is reporting: A movement is gaining steam to recognize a heroic Black sailor from World War II, who towed a raftload of wounded shipmates through shark-infested waters after their ship was sunk in 1942. Social media posts over the weekend began highlighting the story of Petty Officer 1st Class Charles Jackson French of Foreman, […]
There’s a full docket today, but let’s start with something specifically timely: Marc Murphy’s commentary on the start of the Kentucky Derby, which will be run Saturday in Louisville, where Murphy is cartoonist for the local paper.In posting the cartoon, he explained, “It’s almost time to sing just the good parts of the old slavery […]
Steve Bell’s If …, the Monday through Thursday comic strip for The Guardian, will end on Thursday, April 29, 2021 after nearly 40 years. From The Press Gazette: Monday’s column teased the impending end to the long-standing political cartoon, which began in November 1981, with the final edition to be published on Thursday. Bell, whose […]