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 […]
The Portland (Maine) Press Herald may add Non Sequitur and Curtis to their comics page. In order to do that they need to remove two comic strips. By popular demand, we are considering bringing back Non Sequitur, and we plan to introduce Curtis, a highly regarded strip featuring a predominantly African-American cast. To make room […]
(Jack Ohman – WPWG)(Ann Telnaes – WashPo)Here’s a Juxtaposition of two cartoonists whose work I greatly admire, but I’m giving Telnaes the advantage this time around because, while I like and agree with both cartoons, there are times when understated banality is more powerful than comic exaggeration.Besides, wit all doo respeck to Ohman, I’m as […]
Cartoonist Jason Chatfield appreciates occasional collaborator Scott Dooley. In 2018, after 15 years of freelancing as a cartoonist and having been published many times flying solo, I started collaborating with my friend and fellow comic, Scott Dooley to share the frequent anxiety (and sporadic joy) of submitting New Yorker cartoons. I hadn’t done this before […]
Tain’t Funny McGee McPherson © John McPhersonA New Castle News reader finds no humor in a Close to Home comic:I no longer “read” The News but scan for something of local or personal interest, such as Dr. Roach’s “Your Health.” As on Saturday when a “cartoon” of God’s chosen man, Moses, was right beside it. […]
Morten Morland (Times) offers this commentary tying in the coronavirus vaccine with the heroic but somewhat inexplicable return of Victor (ed. No, Alexei) Navalny to Russia, which — in case you hadn’t heard — has touched off massive, nationwide demonstrations in support of him and against Putin’s oligarchy.“Inexplicable” in the first place because Putin already […]
From ComicsBeat:It seems Wildstorm editor Scott Dunbier found an unpublished script by Moore for Gen 13 annual a while ago. Recently he auctioned off the script – which has the tantalizing title “The Coming of the Collector” – to raise money for veteran inker Bob Wiacek who is struggling with a diagnosis of glaucoma. Saga writer […]
The 2020 Reuben Awards were delayed until September last year, and now the winners are finally getting their awards in the mail. Above: Hy Eisman and his Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award With the mail comes another round of recognition, in this case Dave Blazek.In 2019, Blazek, an Erie native, won the [Divisional] Reuben Award [for […]
I find it perversely comforting that, having praised Popeye the Sailor Mensch on Saturday for giving away a million dollars, I find in Monday’s Thimble Theater (KFS) that he’s having trouble doing it.“Perversely comforting” in that, while I wish it were otherwise, it’s clear that even back in 1937, we had plenty of cynics amongst […]
Cartoonist David Aja creates a new comic strip featuring The Batman of 1949.From Comic Book Resources:Writer/artist David Aja’s story for Batman: Black and White #2 is done in the style of the daily Batman newspaper comic strip from 1946 to 1949. DC Comics publicist Clark Bull tweeted Friday, “I’ve been hoping for the revival of DC’s […]