A couple strips are taking me back.© Stephan PastisWho else, when reading Pearls Before Swine,thought of the old B. Kliban classic?© B. Kliban © North America Syndicate (KFS)Back when cars weighed more than they cost and gas was a quarter a gallon (which got you about ten miles). Nice reproduction (front, back, and side)Terry. “She’s got ducks, […]
So you’re feeling good about acing that Jeopardy category, eh?Let’s go deeper into the woods and see what you know about The Phantom. 1. What is the name of The Phantom’s wolf/dog? 2. What is the name of The Phantom’s horse? 3. What is the name The Phantom uses when away from his jungle home? […]
As noted here yesterday, the GameStop gambit was not pulled off by youngsters, but I got a laff out of Dave Whamond (Cagle)‘s cartoon anyway, because, regardless of whodunnit, the targets were, indeed, pigs.Not because they are rich. I know some rich people who got there honestly and ethically. But I’m not the only newspaper person […]
It is July 1947:The Wheels of Justice move slowly. A Cartoonist’s Frustration rises quickly.October 19, 1947: October 26, 1947 – The Des Moines Register which knows syndicates, giving its name to one, recognizes what is happening and informs their readers and issues a warning to Capp:That Sunday’s Li’l Abner:The pertinent panels: The Wheels of Justice […]
It’s been three and a half months and, by the response here at TDC to the Portland Press Herald comics survey, the Trailheads are not adjusting. And those are not the only ones. (To be fair there have been accolades.) I, not being a big fan of Mark Trail since Ed Dodd and Tom Hill […]
I’m not going to make a habit of commenting on things I’ve drawn, but I think I do need to say a few things about “Club Nematoda,” a kind of Village Vanguard I had imagined for some hipster worms. Saying nothing would have been like a cartoon hit-and-run; I had to go back and explain […]
The Gamestop/Reddit gambit creates one of those “Where do I start?” sorts of days, but certainly Alex (Telegraph.UK) is an excellent place, even though he wasn’t commenting specifically on that.I often — perhaps too often — admit that Alex can be kind of nerdy for those who have not been immersed in the business world, […]
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At the beginning of December 2020 we reported on the Gannett newspapers of The Carolinas setting up a poll in anticipation of rearranging their Sunday Funnies and bring them all into alignment.The results are in and take effect this weekend.From Regional Editor Pam Sander for The Jacksonville Daily News: In December, we asked for your […]
A little politics on a nonpolitical day, and BTW, while this is a Friday and we’ll be having Funnies, it’s purely coincidental. I start each morning with a wander through Facebook and Twitter and this felt like a good day not to engage.But then I got to the comics and Candorville (WPWG) stopped me short, […]
(Eight years to get out of Pittsburgh)I guess George Clooney could play Buck Rogers. Rumors are that George Clooney may star in a new Buck Rogers television show … But Variety picks up a ray gun and shoots that idea down. Through his production company Smokehouse Pictures, Clooney has signed on to executive produce a […]
“The art editor asked if I would try to develop an animal character that would be distinctively Canadian,” illustrator James Simpkins told Maclean’s magazine in the July 6, 1963, issue. The editor added one condition at that time in 1948. No beavers. The artist accepted the challenge. A bear would fit the bill. A bear […]
Prickly City (AMS) offers an intelligent view of our current dilemma, and offers a hope that there are more than a handful of intelligent conservatives out there observing this mess.But Winslow is right in that, while elections are the traditional and obvious correction in a democracy, the Treason Caucus encourages its Deplorable Army to distrust […]
With the release of the poster and the buttons for the 2021 Saranac CarnivalThe Adirondack Daily Enterprise interviewed Garry Trudeau by way of email. Q. Can you walk me through your thought process on coming up with this year’s poster and button design? A. I had just finished another project in which I had used […]
Cartoonist Dan Gola has passed away.Daniel Brian (Dan) GolaSeptember 27, 1944 – January 25, 2021 From the obituary: Professionally, he worked as a Marketing Director before retiring and moving to NC and as cartoonist of “Claude & Ernie”, a recurring strip he created in 1992 for the Echo Journal in Pequot Lakes, MN. The cartoon ran […]