Bill Holbrook has a new graphic novel coming soon, so Hogan’s Alley sat down with Bill and his collaborator daughter Haviland to discuss how the original book, as opposed to comic strip reprints, came about. HA: Can you talk about the genesis of Dethany in “On the Fastrack? You’ve never struck me […]
Comics and cartoons are finding new life outside of the Sunday funnies. As the art form becomes more accessible from artists posting their work online, offering artistic and creative breaks in people’s feeds, Pittsburgh cartoon artist Joe Wos wants to teach anyone, regardless of age, how to get started drawing, too. Cartoonist Joe Wos will […]
There are some good cartoons on the impending impeachment trial, and we’ll start with Dan Wasserman (Tribune) because he sets the scene: It’s going to require at least 17 Republicans to vote guilty in order to convict.Watergate was different in that the actions being investigated were contained within the Executive and there was little Congressional […]
Sam Viviano has devised a wonderful project for the world.Next month (March 13) is Al Jaffee‘s 100th birthday and Sam has an idea that involves very little effort on our part:In normal times, we’d throw a huge party, and invite all fifty billion of Al’s closest friends to attend. Unfortunately, this is not a normal […]
Underground comix creator S. Clay Wilson has passed away. Steven Clay (S. Clay) Wilson July 25, 1941 – February 7, 2021cartoonist, artistLorraine let the world know of the sad news today: S. Clay Wilson 7/25/1941 – 2/7/2021. He’s gone. At 4pm yesterday. I sat next to him all day yesterday, telling him stories…one of arriving […]
Jen Sorenson, new President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, introduces herself to the membership. Dear colleagues, I’m not sure how it happened, but it seems I am now somehow president of this organization. Between the pandemic, a tough economy, the ongoing collapse of the newspaper industry, a violent insurrection, and a war on […]
According to Michael Ramirez (Creators), the fact that Marjorie Taylor Greene lost her committee assignments means that declaring an anti-semitic belief in space lasers, thinking that mass murders of school children were staged and advocating the assassination of legislators is “nutty.”And equally as “nutty” as believing that people who work two jobs should be able […]
The Right Wing Media Research Center was apoplectic over a recent NBC Today show where Left Wing hosts praised Garry Trudeau and his Doonesbury comic strip. After [Al Roker] noted some newspapers placed Doonesbury on the editorial page, [Harry] Smith added: “And sometimes when the subject was particularly volatile, these papers would just black out […]
UpcomingAn Evening with Gene Luen Yang Thursday, March 11, 2021 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. MTJoin the Calgary Distinguished Writers Program for an evening with Gene Luen Yang, the bestselling writer and artist behind American Born Chinese, Boxers & Saints, the Avatar: the Last Airbender comics, and many other iconic works. © Gene Luen YangBestselling […]
Clay Bennett (CTFP)‘s latest inspires a couple of reactions.One is to take it at face value, because it does feel that we’ve put a lot of bad vibes and hard feelings behind us. I’ve said before that I don’t expect a lot from Joe Biden, but a simple Jerry-Ford-like chance to exhale is good enough […]
Who?Now let’s get up-to-date. Last week:Bringing us to February 7, 2021 and #500.From June 5, 2011 – the first strip:© Chester Lauck, Jr. & Donnie PitchfordIf you don’t subscribe to The Mena Star, which runs the weekly strip, you will find Lum and Abner at Webtoons where the latest episodes can be read along with […]
I realize it’s Super Bowl Eve and we’ll get into that later, but it’s also the 11th anniversary of the start of this blog, which, as you see, began with a favorite strip and a single sentence inviting people to enjoy it.Comic Strip of the Day has evolved quite a bit since then, but the […]
One hundred and twenty years after the original Queen Victoria’s reign passed into history, The New Adventures of Queen Victoria comes to an end.February 14, 2021 will be the last installment.Shutting down the strip is the choice of creator Pab Sungenis and not part of the GoComics culling, as explained by Pab in a November […]
Peter Brookes (Times UK) invokes James Gillray’s classic 1805 cartoon to show the controversy between the UK and France over vaccine allotment. Oddly enough, DD Degg ran the original yesterday, in a posting that is not long but is quite deep and that you really should go check out. However, here it is again, the background […]
There has been a persistent myth that Napoleon was a short man, when in fact he was 5 feet 7 inches tall which was above average height at the time. James Gillray, a British cartoonist helped directly influence this myth, consistently drawing the French leader as a short figure surrounded by tall British adversaries. R.K. […]