Dr. Seuss Enterprises (DSE) issued a statement: We are committed to action. To that end, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, working with a panel of experts, including educators, reviewed our catalog of titles and made the decision last year to cease publication and licensing of the following titles: And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry […]
Gannett responded to The Washington Times article about Gannett cancelling Mallard Fillmore. Amalie Nash, senior vice president of local news at USA Today Network, the Gannett newspaper brand, said the decision to stop running the 27-year-old cartoon was based on a recent review. “We made a decision last month to discontinue the Mallard Fillmore comic […]
Stuart Carlson (AMS) leads off today with a commentary on the Republicans who are dropping mask mandates around the country.The weakness in his examples being that it took a lot of effort on the part of liberals to get companies to stop dumping toxins in our water and to even recognize the dangers of smoking, […]
Johnny Sampson began his comics career with a sideways tribute to Al Jaffee. In Tru-ly MAD-ly, the Chicago illustrator gets an assignment in 2013 from the editors of Pitchfork’s new magazine, The Pitchfork Review, to duplicate MAD‘s secret weapon: the Fold-In, an intricately designed transformer painting invented by MAD‘s scientist of cartooning, Al Jaffee. Like […]
Matt Davies (AMS) cartoons for Newsday, which makes Andrew Cuomo his governor, which gives him standing to address the current issue.There are 23 Democratic governors and 27 Republican governors, by the way, which is relevant within their states and not all that relevant elsewhere.In the case of NY, it means that, if Cuomo resigned, he’d […]
Archie Andrews first appeared 80 years ago in a couple comic books dated December 1941. promo from Top Notch Comics #22 and first Archie page from Pep Comics #22The feature was an instant hit and before the next year was over Archie had his own comic magazine. But it would take five years for his […]
I’m pretty much aligned with the grandfather in Barney & Clyde (WPWG) these days.It’s getting good in that we’ve nearly passed the “Oh, god, what’s he done this time?” factor, though CPAC provided a warning that we shouldn’t turn our backs entirely.But I don’t feel I have to tend the news constantly anymore. I watched […]
Cartoonist Bruce Tinsley is saying that the Gannett Group of newspapers has dropped his Mallard Fillmore comic strip en masse.Bruce Tinsley, creator of the 27-year-old cartoon, said he was told this week by his syndication company that Gannett newspapers across the country simultaneously dropped the comic over two strips critical of President Biden and transgender […]
The Worcester Business Journal published an editorial cartoon critical of the local Table Top Pies factories which drew a complaint from the company.Cartoonist Don Landgren shared the complaint that asserted the cartoon was racist:“We are deeply concerned about the recent editorial cartoon that was published on December 8, 2020 depicting an African American worker on […]
(Matt Davies — AMS)Rick McKee (Counterpoint) We’ll start the examination of the Great Dr. Seuss Crisis with a Juxtaposition that contains both the plaint and the answer.First of all, I am not the only one who suspects that the rightwing was desperate to distract us when they leapt upon the decision by Seuss Enterprises to cease […]
Since we have been tracking comics dropped from the GoComics site, it’s only fair we let people know when they add features. And two enjoyable features have recently been added.Last week (February 22) a comic panel by a couple of high-profile cartoonists appeared. Mannequin on the Moon is by Ian Boothby and Pia Guerra. A […]
From the Stockton (Ca.) Record: Also, last week we made a change to the comics by dropping “Mallard Fillmore.” Years ago, The Record originally published “Doonesbury” and “Mallard Fillmore” as counterpoints in the Opinion pages and later, both were moved to the comics pages. When “Doonesbury” creator Garry Trudeau stopped creating new daily strips in […]
Less is more, and John Deering (Creators) has, IMHO, the best take on Andrew Cuomo because he isn’t dancing on the political grave or even pushing Cuomo into it.Nor is he going on about the statistics on nursing home deaths, a scandal that wouldn’t have disappeared but would likely have been more of a campaign […]
It is being reported that cartoonist Liz Berube has passed away.Elizabeth Ann Safian (Liz) BerubeJanuary 7, 1943 – January 15, 2021 Writer/artist for comic books, Liz spent most of her comics career as a comic book colorist. From the late 1960s to the early 1970s and signing as “elizabeth” she contributed pages to the DC romance […]
Lola (AMS)‘s stubbornness notwithstanding, the start of March hardly marks the start of Spring.Except in Australia, where seasons begin the first of the month instead of on the solstices and equinoxes which should probably be equinoces.The more important thing is that Spring doesn’t start there on March 1 because it starts on September 1.So I […]