Earlier this month Tom Richmond gave a timeline of MAD magazine’s past eight years – from New York-based original material to Burbank-produced (mostly) reprint issues. October 2013– DC Comics announces they are closing their New York offices… Feb 2018– MAD #550 drops on news stands. This is the final New York produced issue… February 2021- […]
The Chronicle Chamber is passing on the news that Claes Reimerthi is retiring from The Phantom. Claes Reimerthi is retiring and it is going to leave a huge gap in the Phantom world. There will be questions on everyone’s lips after the news broken by stalwart Kari Lappanen who posted on his own website that […]
Andertoons (AMS) rekindles a real hatred of mine, because, when I was a little kid, I looked forward to the part of Art Linkletter’s House Party where that simpering sack of s*** rewarded children for showing off.Bill Cosby took over the franchise in later years, but by then (A) I’d recovered from the notion that […]
A Case For Pencils recently got Hilary Price and Rina Piccolo, famous for Rhymes With Orange and other cartooning assignments, to respond to their survey.First is Hilary. Tool I wish I could use better: I’d like to get more comfortable with a chainsaw… but did you mean drawing tools? In that case: a fountain pen. […]
The Wrap is reporting that Jim Carrey will put away his slings and arrows as a political cartoonist. “For the past 4 yrs, among other commitments, I put considerable effort into this collection of political protest cartoons. It truly feels as though you and I have crossed an ocean of outrage together…but something tells me […]
A couple newspaper editors broke down the processes of how comic strips and editorial cartoons appear in your local gazette.First up is The Oregonian explaining their Sunday Comics section. Why would The Oregonian cut the first two panels from the Feb. 14, 2021, “Doonesbury” comic? Is this a regular editorial practice? This is indeed regular […]
But Is It Op Art? Rose is Rose © UFS, Inc.; Wallace the Brave © William WilsonNot the common definition, but Don Wimmer and Will Henry present wonderful optics. Rebuttal?© Tribune Content AgencyRussell Myers offers another angle of a section of today’s CSotD column. Good Timing or Just Winter Comics?Mister Boffo © Neatly Chiseled Features; Arlo […]
Seems like a quiet day in the cartooning universe, but a lack of stark drama allows for some more quiet appreciation.For example, in his weekly taking-of-the-wheel at Bizarro (KFS), Dan Piraro touches on one of my pet peeves — see what I did there? — which is “Lady and the Tramp Syndrome,” a bit of […]
Coin of the RealmForget Bitcoin and Game Stop, invest in gold – 999.9 Fine Comic Gold. Initially inspired by the simple question of a child – “What does a tickle look like?” – the Mr. Men Little Miss characters have become some of the most instantly recognisable in the world. Featured in more than 90 […]
Cartoonist Brian Turner (aka Renrut) has passed away. Brian William Turner December 15, 1949 – January 31, 2021writer, cartoonist, researcher, and educatorFrom the obituary:Brian was a prolific writer who worked diligently on his novels, articles, books, and research projects right up to the weeks before his death. One of a handful of baseball historians […]
I noted yesterday that I could have done a full day of nothing but “Ted Cruz in Mexico” cartoons, and, as it turns out, I’d have still had enough left over to do it again today.Someone complained that people are forgetting the far more significant horrible things he’s done and maybe so, but I used […]
ZED is walking, talking dryer lint. ZED by Duane Abel has been around for 25 years (last Fall) and has now gained its 25th newspaper in eastern Montana: Now the 41-year old artist has added Montana to his list of two dozen small town weekly newspapers, from as far as away California, to New York […]
© The Ashville Citizen, 1928 Reactions to cartoons about Rush Limbaugh’s death are starting to come in,including this Power Line take on the comparatively mild Steve Sack obitoon.© Star Tribune/Steve Sack The Star Tribune observed the death of Rush Limbaugh with an editorial cartoon … By editorial cartoonist Steve Sack — I think of him as […]
(Ann Telnaes — WashPo)(Matt Davies — AMS)We could have a full day of nohting but Cruisin’ Cruz cartoons, but here are two and they pretty much tell the story (nice snow shovels), though it’s important, I suppose, to note:(A) Cruz lied about having promised his daughters a vacation and simply taking them there and coming […]
Cartooning the Mid-20th Century Newsroom Cartoonists and other artists, working in newsrooms, captured and caricatured their working lives, including their colleagues, in these places. What follows is a small sample of the images I have gathered in my research for my new book on the history of the American newsroom from the 1920s through the […]