Most weeks, Friday Funnies are things that made me chuckle, perhaps snicker, occasionally LOL, but this Rhymes With Orange channels some really good existential dread.Which made me really laugh, but only because I’ve embraced my inner slacker and I don’t have those dreams anymore.I don’t know if it’s a sign of achieving inner peace or just […]
From The Texan: A cartoon depiction of a police officer which tacitly compared him to a member of the Ku Klux Klan and slave owners was distributed as part of an assignment given by 8th grade social studies teachers in Wylie ISD, a school district primarily in Collin County northeast of Dallas. The school district […]
Young cartoonist Davian Chester is getting his Real Toons comic into print. The weekly Miami Times newspaper is taking on the comic beginning August 19, 2020 (I think).From the Miami Times introduction: A rising cartoonist making a splash on the internet and on social media will now be a regular contributor to the pages of […]
In 1973, during a period of time which was described as being dictated by “feelings of great anger,” David Lynch created his comic strip ‘The Angriest Dog in the World’. The comic, which was first published by the LA Reader in 1983, ran through to 1993 and always followed the same formula with the following […]
It would be too easy to say “The jokes tell themselves,” but, yes, Kayleigh MagaNinny really did explain to reporters yesterday that Dear Leader would wait until after the election results were in before deciding whether to accept them as valid.Jokes are funny, and this isn’t, but, assuming you share my love of gallows humor, […]
A political cartoonist put [his] spin on Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have A Dream speech. It was published in the Southeast Missourian and some readers are not too pleased with the paper for publishing it. “Satire is meant for humor, but they’re making light of something that’s not meant to be made light about,” […]
Bill Bramhall illustrates what FDR was talking about in his oft-quoted, rarely contextualized remark that “we have nothing to fear but fear itself.”It was in his first inaugural, as he took the reins from Herbert Hoover and began the task of rebuilding a shattered economy. Specifically, he was making a promise that honesty and transparency […]
With over 70 years of drawing and writing and teaching comics, Hy Eisman can certainly fill a documentary. The current cartoonist of the Popeye Sunday page is the subject of a documentary … with our help.Marco Cutrone and Vincent Zambrano are organizing a fundraiser to complete the production of a film celebrating Hy’s achievements. The […]
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 […]