Garfield © Paws, Inc and distributed by Andrews McMeel SyndicationIf you think Garfield is just a gag-a-day comic strip you don’t know Garfield. The Garfield comics reek of a dogmatic ideology. They formulate and endorse a brand of lazy cynicism that not only encourages readers to accept the status quo, but also frames the concept […]
Leading off with John Deering (Creators) today, not because it’s a brilliant cartoon but because it isn’t.While others are either showing an unbecoming wish for revenge or a distinctly unflattering hint of hypocrisy, Deering simply depicts the country waiting for news, with the only moral value attached being a somewhat understated element of sorrow, which, […]
UW–Madison’s Lynda Barry is the recipient of the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year, which is chosen by a secret ballot of the members of the National Cartoonists Society. This recognition is considered by many to be the cartooning profession’s highest honor.The University of Wisconsin – Madison celebrates one of its own getting […]
Famed cartoonist Quino has passed away. Joaquín Salvador Lavado (“Quino”) July 17, 1932 – September 30, 2020 From the Buenos Aires Times:“Quino has died. All good people in the country and in the world will mourn him,” Daniel Divinsky, the head of Buenos Aires publisher Ediciones de la Flor, wrote on Twitter. Under his pen-name “Quino”, […]
© Clay Bennett – Chatanooga Times Free PressB.B. Bell, General, U.S. Army (Ret), for The Patriot Post, is saddened by Clay Bennett‘s “disgraceful political humor” cartoon from early September:…when I looked at your political cartoon depicting the president awarding a “Loser Medal” to a decorated soldier, I welled up with deep sadness for America. While […]
The State of California is now offering Snoopy license plates for cars and motorcycles. The special plates will help raise funds for museums statewide.From the Cal Museums site:Certainly, these stylish plates proclaim your love for the world’s most famous beagle. They also support a great cause by raising critical funds for California’s great museums, including […]
Perhaps the best way to lead off this topic is to direct you to Clay Jones’ site, where he shares various sketches and ponders aloud how to handle the President’s Covid diagnosis. I don’t particularly care for the somewhat celebratory cartoon he eventually came up with, but he explains his feelings in greater depth in the […]
Jerry Craft’s middle-grade graphic novel New Kid broke new ground in more ways than one: it was the first graphic novel to win the Newbery Medal(it also won the Coretta Scott King Author Award and Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature), and it’s the first mainstream middle-grade graphic novel to frankly depict the everyday racism […]
Sheldon (independent) pretty well sums up the hazards of knowing what’s going on in the world, and the last two or three days have been astonishingly toxic and depressing.I woke up this morning and found my newsfeeds full of people trying to decide how they should respond to the president and his wife testing positive […]
Charlie Brown remains my favorite Peanuts character.Peanuts and the characters are © Peanuts Worldwide LLCSeventy years after its creation, and 20 years after the death of its creator, Charles M. Schulz‘s Peanuts remains on of the most popular and influential comic strips of all time. The anniversary is being celebrated across the world (and the […]
A New Ipswich artist who created a political cartoon of a local state representative said his house was vandalized in response. Matt Patterson of New Ipswich mainly creates art of wildlife, with a special interest in turtles and amphibians. But he recently tried his hand at political satire of State Rep. Paul Somero, with a […]
Every October there is a celebration of ink drawing with the surprising codification of Inktober.Many artists go freelance while others take up “prompt” challenges.This year IDW through its Library of American Comics brand has the challenge I’m excited about. We know many of you are artists, cartoonists and illustrators! Many of you have probably participated […]
Exuberant President Trump supporter Scott (“Dilbert”) Adams has taken Trump’s failure to denounce white supremacy as a personal affront, and that cost him Adams’s vote.Mediaite reports: The Dilbert creator explained that he was excited when the “fine people hoax” came up again and expected Trump to shut down “the lie,” but was incredibly disappointed with […]
Over at The (Comics) Beat Avery Kaplan gives a very positive review of Half Full-cartoonist Maria Scrivan’s middle grade novel “Forget Me Nat.” From the review: One of the highlights of the Nat series has been the way Scrivan brings her well-honed skills as a syndicated daily newspaper cartoonist to the drawing table. Scrivan’s skill at spinning a gag […]
We’ll start our look at cartoons from overseas with one from over the river: Bruce MacKinnon (Halifax Chronicle-Herald) cracked me up with this reversal, in which, rather than Trump exploiting racists, it’s the racists taking advantage of his accommodating-one-might-almost-say-submissive nature.Which is to say, if he were any more delighted with praise, he’d pee on the […]