November 18, 1985 saw……the introduction of one of the greatest comic strips of all time.With 125 years of historic comic strips to choose from Calvin and Hobbes makes almost everybody’s All-Time Top Ten list. And rightfully so.Calvin and Hobbes‘s greatest triumph was its emotional complexity. Strips could simply be funny, sure, but more often than […]
Politics has been leaking all over the funny pages lately, and today’s Non Sequitur (AMS) is a good example.The anti-mask issue is completely political. Nobody seems to object when they are told they can’t smoke in a particular place, or, at least, they don’t threaten violence or make great speeches about freedom.Acceptance of the link […]
Small Newspapers and Freelance CartoonistsSmall Market Sports © Bill CharbonneauDarren Johnson on getting cartoons for small newspapers: Still, when I started publishing newspapers 11 years ago – after working at other publications – I imagined that a cartoonist would be important to this hoped-for media empire. I did an Internet search and found a young […]
Edward Frascino cartoon © The New Yorker/Condé NastOn November 15, 2020 Edward Frascino celebrated his 90th birthday. For the past 55 years of that time Ed has been contributing cartoons and drawings to The New Yorker (and for seven years before that he was a gag/idea man for the magazine’s other cartoonists). MM: You were […]
There’s a bit of a pissing match breaking out on social media over purported plagiarism, which I’m not going to be too specific about because it is inconsequential and it would be nice if it died out on its own, with both parties a little embarrassed by the whole thing.Instead, the above will serve as […]
Ward Sutton moved to Colorado a few years ago. Political cartoonist Ward Sutton, a relative newcomer to Colorado, might have come here to get away from it all, but his handiwork enjoys a national reach, appearing in such publications as the Boston Globe and the New Yorker and, as drawn by his alter-ego Kelly, The Onion. […]
Jan Eliot remembers when she met Selby Kelly. There was a cocktail party on the conference’s opening night, and I walked there to save money. But at the evening’s end, I felt uncomfortable about walking home alone. Someone pointed toward an older woman in a trench coat who was tidying up. “Ask Selby,” this person […]
Join cartoonist, G.B. Trudeau, celebrating the release of “DBURY@50” with fellow contributor, David Stanford on P&P Live!Wednesday, November 18, 2020 – 6 p.m. (eastern) https://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/pp-live-gb-trudeau-dbury50-in-conversation-david-stanford G. B. Trudeau has been drawing his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip for fifty years.David Stanford since1995 has served as Duty Officer of Doonesbury.com.Click here to register for the Live! Event.
Flash Gordon is back!Flash Gordon © King Features SyndicateFrom the King Features Syndicate blog: FLASH FORWARD ORIGINAL COMIC ANTHOLOGY Launching on Sunday, November 15, this all-new, original comic strip anthology project features 40 world-renowned artists and illustrators, each telling the story of Flash Gordon through their own unique lens. Talent includes Tana Ford (LaGuardia, Livewire, Black Panther), Jim […]
Among the special projects coming from King Features isMOTION COMIC SHORTS SERIES – FLASH GORDON: A MINUTE TO SAVE THE WORLD Flash Gordon: A Minute to Save the World, the first-ever Flash Gordon motion comic series, is making its world debut at the Fathom Events theatrical screening on November 15 when the first five 60-second […]
original November 7 post:The Eighth Annual Guest Jumbler Week begin November 16, 2020. (h/t Darryl H)Jumble © Tribune Content AgencyCan you guess the guest cartoonists? updated November 16:Above is the November 16, 2020 Guest Jumble featuring Joe Wos.Here is the full week of 2020 Guest Jumblers:Monday (11/16): Joe Wos (Mazetoons)Tuesday (11/17): Russell Myers (Broom-Hilda)Wednesday […]
As regular readers surely realize, I much admire Clay Bennett (CTFP)‘s work, and I surely wish I thought he had this one right.But his rosy optimism seems misplaced.There’s this much: Once Joe Biden takes his place in the White House, we will have a large and encouraging change in the tone of leadership, and that, […]
Happy 100th Wayne Thiebaud! © Wayne ThiebaudYeah, we celebrated it a month ago but we were dazed and confused. For some reason, though our notebook said November, we honored Wayne in October. Got it right now. The Cavelton Mayoral Election is Over Judge Parker © North America Syndicate (KFS)NPR interviews Toni Bowen speechwriter Francesco Marciuliano about […]
So apparently Trump is bookending Photoshopped pictures of an inaugural crowd that never showed up with Photoshopped pictures of a million protesters who likewise and ain’t that appropriate and while it doesn’t quite close out the fiasco, it’s a good reason to stop obsessing and have some fun.Not that this precludes political cartoons. It just […]
Disasters marked 1937:The Hindenburg Disaster Neville Chamberlain became the Prime Minister of the UK Amelia Earhart Disappeared Japan Invaded China Hitler Notes His Lebensraum PlansAnd, in November of 1937, Li’l Abner MUST return to Dogpatch.November 13: November 15: November 15 (cont’d): November 16: November 19: And so starts the Sadie Hawkins tradition, held this weekend […]