At the early morning hour I should have been blogging today, I was preparing to go work the polls at the New Hampshire Primaries. Fortunately, I am, in fact, the fellow in this vintage xkcd, and have an extensive collection of funny pictures on my hard drive.While they won’t serve as alternative currency — if […]
above: Blondie by Chic Young (1930)Chic Young’s Blondie comic strip first appeared on September 8, 1930.above: the debut of Blondie and DagwoodIn 2012 R. C. Harvey informed us of the history of the strip and it’s creator.The authorized Blondie backstory via The Wayback Machine. It took a walk down the aisle and a family […]
Catherine Gong has won the 2020 Locher Award. The John Locher Memorial Award is a contest for aspiring cartoonists, ages 18-25, whose work demonstrates both clear opinions and strong artistry on political and social topics. Read the 2020 announcement.Thomas Coute is Runner Up
It’s Spring 1982 and The Legend of Bruce Lee by Sharman DiVono and Fran Matera has debuted on the comics pages.But five years earlier the legendary comic masters Milton Caniff and Noel Sickles had joined forces to prepare samples of their version of the comic strip Bruce Lee.Noel Sickles revolutionized daily black and white comic […]
Signe Wilkinson provides nearly the only Labor Day cartoon I was able to find this morning.Her lament over the lack of jobs is an implicit criticism of the current administration, but I like the fact that she focuses on the economic displacement caused by the pandemic and the plight of workers.It’s certainly not hard to […]
Clearing out some bookmarked items.The Blount County Daily Times has a nice write-up about Dave and Doreen Dotson and their long-running (15 years?) weekly comic strip Outzkirts. Unfortunately we only get one look at the article and then it goes behind a paywall. So I am unable to quote from the article.But here’s a profile […]
Steve Breen ties in two related stories with a good news/bad news gag.The good news is that Dear Leader has backed away from a decision to defund “Stars and Stripes,” blaming it on unnamed people in the Pentagon rather than owning it himself.Superficially, the bad news is that he has no respect for the military, […]
Looking back at some comic strips from this past week.But first, since both Beetle Bailey and Stars and Stripes were in the news, here is this weekend’s Stars and Stripes’ comics section where the paper gets a mention in Sunday’s Beetle Bailey. Late add: I don’t know if Mike Peters pulled this one or not. […]
Pat Bagley sets the tone for today, or, more accurately, he comments on the tone set by the White House Press Secretary, who played the ambush tape of Nancy Pelosi on a loop at yesterday’s press conference as she unloaded a diatribe about the (alleged) event.As Bagley notes, there are more pressing issues. At least […]
Kevin and Kell began 25 years ago as a five day a week online comic strip. The first daily was September 4, 1995 (below).But Bill Holbrook, being Bill Holbrook, began the strip with a Sunday page on September 3, 1995:Bill was, at the time, doing his On the Fastrack (1984) and Safe Havens (1988) when […]
Alex notes the slight easing of quarantine and, one hopes, the slight easing of tensions caused thereby.The element of holiday visitors is a lively one here, because, when NYC blew up in the pandemic, a lot of people with second homes in New England skedaddled up here. There was some resentment at first, on the […]
The Salt Lake Tribune cartoonist Pat Bagley is the latest to come under attack for exercising First Amendment rights.The Utah Sheriff’s Association has taken issue with an editorial cartoon published in The Salt Lake Tribune on September 1st:From the Deseret News: A controversial cartoon published this week by the Salt Lake Tribune’s Pat Bagley has […]
On today’s “Three-Word Answer” it’s Part 2 of our chat talking with social/political/pop-culture/jack-of-all-genres Ruben Bolling. Ruben is the cartoonist behind the weekly comic “Tom the Dancing Bug” that can be seen on such august sites as BoingBoing, Daily Kos, The Washington Post and GoComics.If you’ll remember the format of this Q&A, we ask, oh 20 […]
Apparently, while my somewhat well-curated feed was telling me about other, less important things going on in the world, all Hell broke loose in some other corner of the universe, because I woke up this morning to a flood of cartoons attacking Nancy Pelosi for getting her hair done.Steve Breen‘s is the least personally insulting […]
So you’ve been wondering what Dan Piraro has been up to since giving up Bizarro dailies to Wayno? Apparently he’s been experimenting……with a different genre and a different format – a graphic novel in serial form.Dan expands our consciousness with an introduction/explanation: Five years ago a scene from a story dropped into my head from […]