Steve Brodner (Ind) starts us off with the State of the Disunion.It’s a touchy situation, because, on the one hand, people still need to show up and vote or we’re back where we landed in 2016.On the other hand, it’s encouraging and uplifting to see how the people appear to be rising up against the […]
Art Spiegelman artwork © Art SpiegelmanIn the age-old discussion about when comics finally “grew up” Maus is often exhibit A. The New Yorker called it “the first masterpiece in comic-book history”. It’s the comic that people who don’t read comics have read, and the only graphic novel ever to have won a Pulitzer prize. Forty […]
After fallout from a liberal cartoonist’s political opinion The Lewiston Tribune sampled various conservative editorial cartoonists and polled their readers about preferences. The results are in. The Lewiston Tribune has added A.F. Branco of Creators Syndicate to its lineup of political cartoonists. That decision reflects the preference of Tribune readers. Among those who responded to […]
Tom Toles (WashPost) gives a warning about the scary times to come in the next two and a half weeks.Facing what appears to be total disaster, Dear Leader and his acolytes have thrown caution and taste to the winds in a desperate attempt to do something or other.It’s not clear what. Mike Thompson (USA Today) cites […]
Comic strip and magazine cartoonist Bob Weber, Sr. has passed away. Robert P. (Bob) Weber, Sr. June 26, 1934 – October 17, 2020It is being reported on social media that Bob Weber has passed away:Just heard that gag cartoonist and longtime King Features’ Moose and Molly comic strip artist Bob Weber, Sr. passed away in […]
Publisher Nat Gertler is a go-to guy for Peanuts trivia. He recently published a new edition of Miss Caroline, and while doing so he noticed our obituary of Miss Caroline creator Gerald Gardner.Again, go-to guy for Peanuts trivia. Our obituary reproduced an October 6, 1963 Gerald Gardner article from The Chicago Tribune about mass market […]
Rick Edmunds at Poynter is reporting: Gannett, the nation’s largest newspaper company with more than 250 daily titles, will begin offering another round of newsroom buyouts next week. It has not yet said how many…. The changes were announced by CEO Mike Reed during a companywide virtual town hall Wednesday, two Gannett journalists told me. […]
Tea Fougner, Editorial Director of Comics for King Features Syndicate, was recently interviewed by Heidi MacDonald on the Publishers Weekly Comics World podcast; and they covered a lot in the 30 minutes.Ecomics – Tea, the guiding force behind Popeye’s Cartoon Club, discusses King Features recent dive into webcomics (Rae the Doe, #Sales).Career – The needs […]
Apparently, Minnesota is where we’re at in New Hampshire, because this Steve Sack (Star-Tribune) cartoon pretty much sums up our world, too.Despite the horrors that surround us politically and socially, the leaves are lovely, which is almost, as the fellow here says, enough to send you into an Anne Frankian optimistic view of most people […]
original October 12 post:Five weeks after The Atlantic article detailing alleged remarks by President Trump where he is unable to fathom military service, Garry Trudeau featured the contents of that article in his October 11, 2020 Doonesbury.Because the article has been disputed, or because of the last two panels (“Nobody wants to see that”), at […]
Macanudo © Liniers, distributed by King Features Syndicate Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for October 2020 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1919-1921 Frankie Comics BB3X: Baby Blues: The Third […]
A(nother) belated notice that Paul Frank Gray is now a dues-paying member of the Senior Strippers club. We wish the Reverend Paul Gray a happy and blessed belated birthday, born October 10, 1930.From Assemblies of God last December: Since 2002, Gray has drawn the faith-based cartoon “Shades of Gray” for the religious page of the […]
October 2, 1989. What better way to celebrate 31 years of JumpStart than to issue a 30th Anniversary book.The October 4, 2020 JumpStart made a sideways note about the book.JumpStart © Ruff Sketch, Inc. Robb Armstrong is the first Black cartoonist to have a comic strip run for 30 consecutive years. To honor the 30th […]
Let’s not ponder any important points until we start seeing cartoonist reaction to last night’s dueling town halls.Though I suppose you could classify this Brewster Rockit (AMS) as referring to at least one of the participants.Chuck Barris used to propose a show in which the host would bring out a small child with a puppy […]
Thursday, October 15, 7 pm Eastern Standard Time. Book your spot now!Eminetra: Award-winning political cartoonist Michael de Adder will join Zoom tomorrow TODAY and take us to his world. Planned as a “subscriber-only” event, we launched this event in response to the high demand for more information about de Adder and his work. Today we […]