MAD writer Frank Jacobs has passed away.Franklin (Frank) JacobsMay 30, 1929 – April 5, 2021 The Jacobs family broke the news on social media: I’m sad to announce that my father, Frank Jacobs, passed away this morning. From a 2009 Los Angeles Times article: Just out of the Army, where he wrote for the newspaper Pacific […]
Some headline writer at the New York Times has won the Captain Obvious award for that one, though I prefer Ann Telnaes (WaPo)‘s graphic take on things, which, in turn, is partially inspired by a ghastly, hilarious, horrifying Bulwark piece by Charlie Sykes, headlined “Lordy, There Were Hula Hoops.”And, lordy, there were.That NYTimes hed appears […]
© Bianca Xunise Xunise’s work is funny and thoughtful. Her linework has this playful energy, and she has a masterful talent for playing with tone in different ways, even as her work shifts from moving personal stories to deep political analysis to elegant and perfectly structured gag cartoons. She is part of the great tradition […]
Easter Monday is a bit slack, but that gives me a free space in which to indulge in picking up some things yesterday’s Georgia rant distracted me from, like Sunday’s Non Sequitur (AMS).And I’ll disagree with Wiley’s take, but only because our situations seem reversed: If my pup gets out without her cable attached, she […]
© Tribune Content Agency The most impressive comic on this Easter Sunday has nothing to do with Easter:© King Features SyndicatePrince Valiant is on the inside of my four page Sunday comics section, and when I opened it up there was no denying how Thomas Yeates‘ large joust panel dominated the other comics.Right below the third […]
Ed Hall starts us off with this analysis of how Major League Baseball has learned to be fair to Black players and, ultimately, to Black people.But now the umpires are conferring, arguing over what seemed like a clear shot over the centerfield fence. To repeat an astonishing 1921 cartoon from the other day, the inherent racism […]
Alfred E. Neuman Funky PopFunko has released a Pop figure of MAD mascot Alfred E. Neuman; this one more aligned with the current look of their collectibles rather than the 2012 edition. Though Tom Richmond, with the help of Photoshop, corrected a couple discrepancies.© EC Publications SOI Maurice Sendak Exhibit and Bake SaleThe Society of Illustrators […]
PORTLAND, Ore., March 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The VC comic strip, a parody of the venture capital industry that was a huge hit with Silicon Valley insiders during the 1990’s dot-com era, has offered its very first comic for auction as an NFT (non-fungible token.) The sale of the property, titled The VC 1.0 combines a true […]
While I agree generally with Kate in Grand Avenue (AMS), one of the specific things the weekend means is that I don’t do laundry, because that’s the day all the people who work are crowding the laundromat.But, having retired, Saturday means two things: The post office closes at noon and there will be more dogs […]
A couple weeks ago the news was that hedge fund Alden Media Group “was closing in for the kill” on Tribune Publishing. Now others have entered the fray.From The New York Times via The Baltimore Sun: An octogenarian Swiss billionaire who makes his home in Wyoming and has donated hundreds of millions to environmental causes […]
Here’s a snippet of a longer piece by Ann Telnaes, contrasting the sacrifices Americans made in WWII with the ones certain Americans refuse to make today. Click that link and see the rest. And here’s a reminder that she cut her teeth in the animation business, and also that she has little patience with fools. She […]
Jean Plantureu, better known by his pen name Plantu, has drawn his last cartoon for Le Monde.From Good Word News: As he announced in January, the designer Plantu, who has just celebrated his 70th birthday, has asserted his retirement rights within the daily newspaper. He signs his last drawing in one of Le Monde in […]
Since The Great Comic Strip Switcheroonie of 1997 April Fool’s Day has become a day when cartoonists have traded properties. It certainly doesn’t happen on the original’s scale or even every year. but on occasion a couple friends get together and do it.For example in 2014 it was Mark Parisi and Dan Thompson.© Mark Parisi […]
Steve Eldridge commented earlier today: On occasion, I will look up a cartoonist to see what the real life human who does the work actually looks like. Some cartoonist are recognizable – Telnaes, Pastis, Guisewitz, Davis, Robbins, McCay, etc. Other cartoonists, particularly web cartoonists, don’t get their faces in the news much.So Bored Panda gave […]
The other day we noted that Roger Mahoney drawn Andy Capp comic strips had returned and wondered if they were reruns.It turns out the art and the word balloons are from the past, but the script in those balloons are new.Sean Kleefeld noticed the strangeness: What immediately stood out to me is the thing that […]