Cartoonist Tom Ward has passed away.Thomas Roland (Tom) WardJune 1, 1928 – August 14, 2020designer, cartoonistFrom the obituary: After high school in 1946, he asked if the Indianapolis Times would buy his cartoons. He picked up jobs at the Indianapolis Speedway drawing the drivers and cars. His drawings helped him to land a job with […]
Ann Telnaes marks the 100th Anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment at a propitious moment, as nasty women are really stepping up to take their places in society.The suffrage movement offers a lot of opportunity to study history in a holistic manner, because it didn’t happen in a bubble, or all at once, […]
Dark Side of the Horse by Samson will soon(?) be released into worldwide syndication by Andrews McMeel Syndication, but the comic strip is seeing print in an American newspaper pre-syndication.The Mansfield (Mass.) Sun Chronicle announced that it has added the strip to its pages: Recently, we’ve added “Dark Side of the Horse” by Samson, a […]
DD Degg covered the basics of the uproar over the Australian’s anti-Biden cartoon, though things haven’t settled down yet.The editor-in-chief has called upon on those who work at the paper to defend the piece on the basis of comradeship, because we’re all in this together and so forth, and News Corp Australia’s CEO then passed […]
above: Mutts by Patrick McDonnell Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for August 2020 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. The Flapper Queens: Women Cartoonists of the Jazz Age a short review of Trina’s new comic history book […]
Cornered touches on the fact that birds have a close evolutionary link to dinosaurs.I’ve been referring to the visitors at my feeders as “feathered dinosaurs” for some time and, by the way, they have really begun crowding in for the past week or so, which I would put down to fattening up for the trip […]
Gary Larson turned 70 this past week, and quite a week it was.Leading up to his August 14th birthday Gary treated humanity with more New Stuff! Then on his birthday Gary was “honored” by being the subject of an editorial cartoon by The Onion’s Stan Kelly celebrating that we got New Far Side Stuff.Celebrate Gary’s birthday […]
Mark Trail dailies went rerun earlier this year, Sundays go rerun with August 23, 2020. No word has been forthcoming from King Features Syndicate, so for the nonce Mark Trail has ended.Mark Trail, created by cartoonist and outdoorsman Ed Dodd, debuted on April 15, 1946 along with Andy and the signature ball:A few days later […]
You may be aware that New Zealand has largely escaped the pandemic, due to (A) being an archipelago, and (B) having a competent head of state.However, they’ve had a breach and as of this morning have 56 active cases among their 4.5 million people, prompting this Rod Emmerson cartoon.Apparently, even in the far-off Antipodes, there […]
Once again The Australian has published a controversial cartoon.From Huffington Post Australia: The illustration was printed in The Australian, one of the country’s only two nationally distributed daily newspapers. The cartoon, which imagines Biden giving a missive to heal America’s racial divisions, depicts him deferring to Harris and saying, “I’ll hand you over to this […]
This story arc from Wallace the Brave — which starts here — is so totally ridiculous from beginning to current moment that it would be futile to try to point out where it went so wonderfully off the tracks, were it not for this segment.To set the scene, Spud was been picked up by a […]
The Rev. Mike Morgan, who will lead Gainesville First United Methodist Church come September, likes to say that being a pastor is his vocation and being a comic strip artist is his avocation. The Gainesville (Ga.) Times welcomes a new preacher to town and a new comic strip to it pages. The Times will be publishing Morgan’s cartoon in the Life […]
Pittsburgh Yinzer Greetings, creator of Yinzer Cards and Yinzer Bars, has created a special chocolate candy bar to salute Pittsburgh’s essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceeds from the sales of the “Thank You” Yinzer Bar will benefit Pittsburgh Emergency Medicine Foundation’s Pandemic Grant Program.Yinzer Bar was founded by Pittsburgh comedian Jim Krenn, KDKA Radio’s […]
(We’ll be looking at a lot of cartoons today. Please consider visiting this list of Patreons and giving the cartoonists a little $$ to sweeten your applause.)Drew Sheneman kicks off this review with a cartoon that might also have been the punchline at the end.I usually flip on the news channels in the midafternoon for […]
International cartoonist and illustrator Kiraz has passed away.Edmond “Kiraz” KirazianAugust 25, 1923 – August 11, 2020 From the notice: The cartoonist, known in particular for his illustrations of “Parisiennes” published in many magazines, died on Tuesday at the age of 96, his companion told AFP. “Edmond Kiraz, born in Cairo on August 25, 1923, passed away […]