A Finnish horse is among the new characters residing in the comic pages of the Johnson Newspaper Corp. In October, Johnson Newspaper Corp., which publishes the Watertown Daily Times and other publications, announced that due to an impasse over fees with King Features, owned by Hearst, it would discontinue content from the syndication service. That […]
John Cole (Times-Tribune) bemoans Bob Dylan’s decision to sell his catalog to Universal Music, and his worry that meaningful songs will become meaningless jingles isn’t off the mark.Still, Dylan is 79 and I can understand if he feels he should get his affairs in order. I guess his choices were to set up a corporation […]
For some reason I have a few stories relating to animation in the queue.A Charlie Brown Christmas at 55 Multiple generations of kids will agree that it doesn’t really begin to look a lot like Christmas until A Charlie Brown Christmas graces the airwaves. Premiering 55 years ago on Dec. 9, 1965, the beloved animated […]
A potpourri of cartoons today, but I’ll start with this commentary by Ann Telnaes (WashPost) on the latest, and perhaps shortest, rejection of yet another Trump lawsuit.The justices declined to hear the case with no more explanation than it merited:The application for injunctive relief presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court […]
Freelance editorial cartoonist Jake Fuller has lost his spot at The Gainesville Sun due to bad timing and an inattentive opinion page editor. A cartoon using domestic violence as an analogy was published two days after a double homicide, but Jake’s deadline, which he met, was two days before the tragedy.WCJB Gainesville reports: A freelance […]
There’s no comic strip that epitomized the ’80s as well as Bloom County.That is how Ultimate Classic Rock begins their article celebrating forty years since Bloom County debuted. Writer Tyler Sage continues:Unlike current nostalgia-laden depictions of the ’80s, what the comic highlights is how acerbically pop culture was riffed on at the time. In this […]
It’s hard to rank all the disparate pieces of news these days, but let’s start with the destruction of the Republican Party, which isn’t really “news,” since it is part of a process that began a generation or so ago, when Newt Gingrich and his cohorts began a transformation that saw a lot of right-leaning […]
Well, since the Christmas tree has gone up, and St. Nicholas was mentioned here today, it seems a good time for an NEA Christmas strip. Presented below is the first of the long running seasonal strips from Newspaper Enterprise Association as listed by Allan Holtz, Merlin Haas, and couple others. Meant to run one panel […]
I retired in June in a combination of newspaper cuts and my boss’s retirement, but before we shut things down we were facing the prospect of a spring workshop for our young reporters in the midst of the pandemic.Today’s Alex (Telegraph) is therefore particularly relevant, because I telecommuted the editing job except for two in-person […]
Journalist and civil servant Paul E. Fitzgerald has passed away.Paul Edward (Fitz) FitzgeraldNovember 26, 1926 – December 3, 2020 From the obituary: He entered the US Army as an enlisted man during WW2, serving as a heavy weapons crewman. After completing Officer Candidate School, he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in charge of troop trains […]
It’s been over two months since I updated what is being dropped from GoComics. So let’s take a look-see now. [First follow that link to the last update to find a correction: it was Bewly, not BFGF Syndrome, that was dropped. BFGF Syndrome remains at GoComics – my mistake.] The features dropped in November include […]
There seems to be quite a number of pantomime panels in today’s strips. So naturally the normally muted Lio has word balloons. From the top:Alley Oop © U.F.S.Animal Crackers © T.C.A.Arlo and Janis © U.F.S.B.C. © J.H.S.The Barn © Ralph HagenBeetle Bailey © K.F.S.Daddy’s Home © Rubino & MarksteinHeart of the City © A.M.S.Heathcliff © CreatorsMike […]
We’ll start with the easy one today: Greg Kearney (Ind) reminds me of when I lived in Maine and you didn’t dare complain about the cold, because the Yankee response was, “Well, ya live in Maine …”They weren’t expressing resignation. I was used to places where, at winter break, everyone fled to Orlando, so when […]
With the growing popularity of digital drawing, original art is becoming a thing of the past. Maybe no one really cares about that anymore. In the end, it’s about the finished work and not the journey that gets you there…right? That’s true, but if you’ve ever held an original inked page by Wally Wood, or a […]
While both Don Wimmer and Wayno do an admirable job of drawing stuffed animals today… Rose is Rose © United Feature Syndicate; Bizarro © Bizarro StudiosI’m still liking Eric Reaves‘ menagerie from earlier this week more: Hi and Lois (and Trixie) © KFS Gannett’s Sun Journal has a nice column of comic strip memories.With the call […]