Six weeks ago I mentioned the absence of Roger Mahoney‘s name in the in-strip credits line for the Andy Capp comic strip. Naturally two days later Mahoney was back in the credits. Then things got strange.When the time for the non-Mahoney strips came due for Creators/GoComics’ showing they skipped them and (for the first time?) […]
Speed Bump (Creators) speaks for me.A year can’t be evil, and I refuse to sit around feeling sorry for myself, but I’m certainly willing to call the past year nuts and illogical and silly and, as the little lad about to take over suggests, simply puzzling.I don’t much care if they catch him just so […]
Wayno has revealed the new secret symbol that will soon begin appearing in Dan Piraro’s and Wayno’s Bizarro panels. On January 1, 2021, The Pipe of Ambiguity will join the roster of Secret Symbols. Dan and I agreed that it would be a fun way to continue to leave my mark on Bizarro as I […]
Signe Wilkinson and The Philadelphia Inquirer/The Philadelphia Daily News announced today that Signe will become an occasional contributor rather than a daily editorial cartoonist: Editor’s Note: Signe Wilkinson, the first woman win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, and the cartoonist for The Inquirer and Daily News since 1985, is putting down her pencil at […]
There is a lot of kvetching over how horrible 2020 has been, but cartoonists are going to have to really kick out the jams to do better than Ann Telnaes (WashPost), who not only echoes Mike Dukakis’s Greek saying that a fish stinks from the head, but, working on-line, does not let herself be limited […]
Looks like Dennis and I were on the same page, featuring Comics of Christmas Past, but, as usual, I’ll be more long-winded.Let’s turn the calendar back to 1925, which isn’t a round number but was astonishingly better than 1920. I don’t know what happened in those intervening five years, but newspapers suddenly exploded with comic […]
Historical Comic and Cartoon articles from the past week.Starting with the man who created the modern Santa Claus seems appropriate. Grunge relates The Tragic Death of Thomas Nast. Pamela L. Travers was notoriously hard to deal with, as The Conversation notes in Mary Shepherd: The Artist Who Brought Mary Poppins to Life. It isn’t only us […]
Newspaper graphic artist Dorothy Henry has passed away. Dorothy Alice Henry (née: Leenknecht)October 31, 1925 – December 21, 2020Painter, commercial and advertising artist, newspaper illustrator, cartoonistDorothy was the staff illustrator of the Port Huron Times Herald for some years.From the obituary: Dorothy was employed as Advertising Design Artist and Illustrator at numerous agencies in the […]
This Christmas-themed collection includes works by Daniel R. Fitzpatrick, Robert Lemen, Marguerite Martyn, Bill Mauldin, Robert Minor, Amadee Wohlschlaeger and other Post-Dispatch artists and editorial cartoonists. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch gallery of 50 cartoons through the years.
I suppose Michael de Adder (Ind) sums it up best: We’ve gone off the rails and Dear Leader continues to sit there tweeting away.The question now being not so much “So what?” as “Now what?” Yesterday, I joked about an Oprah-style rally where everyone who attended got a pardon, and Clay Bennett (CTFP) jokes about a […]
The Florida Press Club had announced the winners of their annual competition.Ed Hall took three awards, Steve Borggren one, and team Ryan Sohmer and Lar DeSouza one. Illustration, Artist Illustration, Class A-C Ed Hall, Folio Weekly Ed Hall, Folio Weekly Illustration, Editorial Cartooning, Class A-B Steve Borggren, Anna Maria Island Sun Illustration, Editorial Cartooning, Class […]
Year-end lists are starting to show up.A couple In Memoriam on animation sites have been posted.Cartoon Brew documented obituaries in the animation industry. The past 12 months, in which the spectre of disease and death loomed over everything, saw Cartoon Brew chalk up a sad record: we have never published so many obituaries in one […]
Last night, a whole bunch of cartoons suddenly became, if not obsolete, at least blunted.For instance, Joe Heller (Ind) was absolutely right that, given the financial pressure on people impacted by the pandemic, a relief payment of $600 was ludicrous, if not insulting, but possibly both.He wasn’t the only cartoonist to say that, nor was […]
It seems Canada’s Postmedia and Andrews McMeel Syndication have come to an agreement in which AMS will provide Postmedia websites with syndicated content (comics, columns, puzzles). In a December 21, 2020 announcement that appeared on Postmedia websites:A brand new Puzzles and Comics experience launches Monday on your favourite Postmedia website. All the comic strips that […]