This Pearls Before Swine (AMS) starts us off with something silly.But silly isn’t stupid. After all, Isaac Asimov wrote silly limericks, and nobody would call him stupid. And speaking of limericks, Oliver St. John Gogarty, James Joyce’s roommate in that Martello Tower, wrote very clever, dirty limericks — including the one ending “they argued all […]
The other day we mentioned this year’s Reuben Award weekend: [T]his year’s 75th Annual festivities are still being finalized. When and where have not been made public other than “late summer 2021.” It is hoped that by that time the pandemic will have eased enough to allow the usual gathering rather than a virtual gala […]
The Washington Post this morning announced Michael de Adder will be joining the newspaper as part of its editorial cartooning team. Washington Post Opinions today announced Michael de Adder will join Ann Telnaes as a political cartoonist. Beginning March 31, de Adder will draw three cartoons a week for The Washington Post in print and […]
I don’t know which is worse, that Ann Telnaes (WashPost) has so well critiqued yesterday’s press conference, or that her colleagues Margaret Sullivan and Jen Ruben called it before it happened.I quoted Sullivan in yesterday’s CSotD as saying that, first of all, the White House press corps know more about political jousting than about the […]
Autobiographical comic strips are appearing at the moment. We mentioned Lennie Peterson winding down his The Big Picture with a history. And The Daily Cartoonist Facebook page recently showcased the 1948 series of comic strip creators doing graphic autobiographies for Collier’s magazine. Meanwhile last Saturday (Friday prologue?) saw Bill Griffith sit down with Bill Griffith […]
It seems Bruce Tinsley rushed a Mallard Fillmore comic strip in response to Gannett ordering its newspapers to drop the conservative comic. On Monday March 22 the syndicated newspaper strip issued what was an obvious acknowledgement of Gannett’s actions.© King Features SyndicateIt should be noted that soon after Bruce’s return in September of 2020 a […]
Matt Wuerker (Politico) starts us off with the Big Lie, which is that the 2020 election was fixed. However, that central lie is, like the cloud of smoke he draws, a form of pollution that spreads everywhere.That is, it’s obviously bad that people believe the election was fixed, but the metastasizing evil is all the […]
The redesigned homepage of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists website looks good.Clicked on it this morning and was pleasantly surprised.The site is a regular stop, along with their Twitter feed.
So I guess this was a good idea …(Bill Bramhall)I started to feature all 10 of the “Back to Normal” cartoons that popped up on my morning tour, but it felt like I’d be pushing the edges of fair use unless I made substantive critical commentary on each one.And they’re each pretty good, but they’re […]
National Cartoonists Society members are being asked to vote their favorites in five Reuben Award divisions for work that appeared in 2020.There are five divisions to vote on, the top three nominees in each division are what you’ll be deciding. All of these divisions were juried by regional NCS chapters and the results were tallied […]
So last night turned into another of those sessions where reporters tap dance and anchors repeat what we already know and they interview random experts who don’t know anything, while we wait to find out what the hell happened this time.As I write this, we still don’t know anything except that some guy went into […]
Friday The New York Times dropped a story about satire and Facebook’s bots inability to recognize it: Since 2013, Matt Bors has made a living as a left-leaning cartoonist on the internet. His site, The Nib, runs cartoons from him and other contributors that regularly skewer right-wing movements and conservatives with political commentary steeped in […]
Lincoln Peirce offered a bit of critical commentary in Big Nate (AMS) yesterday.It’s no secret that a lot of comic strips have outlived their creators, but, when a cartoonist gives up a strip, what happens next varies. If a strip is not in a lot of papers, the syndicate may shut it down, but if […]
Yesterday we noted that The Keizer Times had signed the Steve Breen’s caption contest Caption It! They also added Dave Coverly‘s gag panel Speed Bump, so now the prospective gag writers of the caption contest will have a professional’s capabilities to compare with their attempts at humor. Coverly is the creator of Speed Bump, a […]
The Minneapolis Star Tribune will start carrying the Baldo comic strip as a replacement for the Buckles comic strip, which ended its run today.The paper doesn’t mention Buckles in today’s interview with Baldo co-creator and writer Hector Cantú … Q: Is Baldo you as a kid? Carlos as a kid? Your third cousins? A: Baldo […]