Seven Days, Vermont’s weekly alternative paper, is getting some negative feedback for its choices in rearranging their comics pages. As reported here earlier this month, Seven Days had decided to add Keith Knight’s The K Chronicles to their line-up. It turns out that meant cutting a comic strip, and the one they cut was Mr. […]
Adam Zyglis sets the stage for today’s ruminations, though his cartoon from a few days ago is slightly spoiled by Dear Leader’s sudden realization that his refusal to acknowledge the Covid-19 issue was costing him votes.However, going on TV and noting the importance of masks doesn’t undo the fine job his administration has done of […]
Let’s begin by wishing Disney animation veteran Ruthie Tompson a Happy 110th Birthday! She first joined the Ink and Paint Department. During the next four decades, Tompson worked in various capacities, including reviewing animation cels before they were filmed and scene planning on films such as Fantasia, Dumbo, Sleeping Beauty and Mary Poppins. More about […]
Cartoonist Dan Nakrosis has passed away. Daniel A. “Dano” Nakrosis July 4, 1963 – July 21, 2020 Comic writer, artist, letterer, editorFrom the obituary: Born in Bayonne, Dan’s coloring, lettering and artwork graced the pages of all the major comics publishers across a wide genre of books. His work history included stints at DC, Marvel, Wildstorm, […]
On today’s “Three-Word Answer” we’re 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 20 questions and the answers MUST MUST […]
Mr. Fitz gets to open the discussion because cartoonist David Lee Finkle is a for-real teacher who not only works in the classroom but writes books to help other teachers.And who recently reposted this piece on his blog about the difference between making people behave and making them want to learn, in which he quoted […]
“In response to the Beinecke Library’s invitation to describe the work he is currently pursuing, Garry Trudeau—cartoonist, writer, and creator of ‘Doonesbury’—described the challenges of creating a ‘Complete Digital Doonesbury’ featuring some 15,000 comic strips in honor of the 50th anniversary of the beloved strip. In the process, Garry’s editor David Stanford identified what he […]
Couldn’t decide whether to start or end with Scott Stantis‘ take, but I don’t suppose it much matters.Martin Niemöller is often quoted, though generally in a kind of philosophical, theoretical manner.First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and […]
I guess Scott Adams believes in the old bromide “There’s no such thing as bad publicity.”From Scott’s Twitter feed:The Pop Times article (which cannot be linked to at this time) is, if I am understanding things, a repost of a three week old article from Meaww of July 1. The uproar is (was?) the result […]
There’s a whole lot of mental insufficiency out there, and this Clay Bennett cartoon was filed well before Chris Wallace’s astonishing, dismaying interview with the president (transcript here, video clips everywhere).The Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test is neither an IQ test nor a Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory but basically a quick 10-minute test to see if […]
While I have personal reasons for caring about Joe Sacco’s “Paying the Land”, I don’t think they interfere with my saying that this is a stunning, important piece of work.In it, he travels to Canada’s NWT to report on the Dene people and the impact on them of the modern world and, specifically, the fracking […]
So there’s this Counterpoint site where, being fair and* balanced, they present first-run editorial cartoons, in equal measure, from the left side and from the right side of politics. For example here’s the recent cartoon by Scott Stantis, one of their conservative cartoonists:It is fair to say Scott is not enamored with the Republican choice […]
(Dave Granlund)(Tom Toles)(Clay Bennett)They don’t often cooperate like this.Dave Granlund offers a rejoinder to the conservative cartoonists who have accused Biden of refusing to come out and fight, and … … here are the torpedoes.There’s always been a kind of suspicion that submarines weren’t sporting.Before that, there was a suspicion that sharpshooters weren’t sporting — Nelson […]
Steve Bell joined The Guardian in 1981, next year the paper won’t renew the cartoonist’s contract. From The Jewish Chronicle: The controversial Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell is to leave the Guardian after 40 years with the newspaper. Mr Bell – who has repeatedly faced claims that some of his drawings where antisemitic and racist – […]
John Deering gets the Fortuitous Timing of the Month Award for dropping this Strange Brew from a distance of several weeks and having it land just as Rush Limbaugh was holding up the Donner Party as a model for how we all have to deal with Covid-19.To which I would add that, when you’re getting […]