The Sydney Sun-Herald has dropped the Ginger Meggs comic strip without notice.Steve Panozzo reports on the Ginger Meggs Facebook page this weekend: Today, the editorial collective at the Sun-Herald decided to drop Ginger Meggs forthwith. It did not appear in the paper this morning, as it has for the last 99 years. They have not […]
Joy of Tech is pretty firmly on record as not respecting either Facebook or Twitter, but here they acknowledge not just the general scumminess but the addictive nature of unbridled social media.I’m admittedly on the record as recognizing my own need for such places to both collect material for my writing and to promote the […]
above (from left): Brian Walker, Mort Walker, Jerry Dumas, Neal WalkerFilmmaker Dave Walker, grandson of Mort, made a short film about the creation of a Beetle Bailey daily strip – from idea to finished comic strip, with early Mort cartooning thrown in for icing.Says Brian Walker in his introduction to the short: Since its launch […]
Read the comments generated by today’s Stone Soup:And then go to the Stone Soup Facebook page: Gentle readers… how many ways can I say I love you? Jan Eliot is neither confirming nor denying!
Having railed against inaccurate history the other day, let’s relax a bit and note humor that relies on either not knowing much about the topic or not caring about it.If you’re going to read comics at all, you have to have a well-developed willingness to suspend disbelief, not only to accept talking animals but to […]
Life With Kurami Official Website UpA recent note from Dee Parsons:I guess it’s a good time as any to officially announce that Life With Kurami’s official site is up! I’ll be continuously uploading past strips up for your viewing pleasure. I’m really excited to have this up as it’s been a long time coming! www.lifewithkurami.comSome […]
Melinda Kay Keane Melinda Kay Keane, 59, passed away on the morning of May 29, in Dana Point, CA. She was the wife of Family Circus cartoonist Jeff and a loving mother to her three children – Spencer, Matilda, and Olivia. Melinda was an accomplished costume designer, seamstress, and educator at St. Margaret’s Episcopal School […]
Bob Moran and I appear to be on opposite sides of the “tearing down statues” issue, but his commentary opens the question to a potentially fruitful discussion.The matter is more complicated in Britain not simply because they have more history to process but because, over here, we’ve focused on a relatively straight-forward false-history concocted in […]
Comic book writer Denny O’Neil has passed away. Dennis Joseph (Denny) O’Neil May 3, 1939 – June 11, 2020I don’t mark a lot of comic book creators here, but Denny was making highly readable comic books during my prime comic book reading years. He will be remembered better by those who knew him, I will […]
Animation and gag cartoonist Dan Danglo has passed away. Daniel R. (Dan) Danglo March 1, 1925 – June 6, 2020 (There is also a Dan A. Danglo, and a March 26, 1925 birthdate. I hope to get that cleared up.)animation, comic books, gag cartoonistAn autobiography from Dan’s website:Dan Danglo was born in Brooklyn with a […]
A slight departure from Friday Funnies, but, while Joe Heller is a political cartoonist, this one is more about life itsownself.I was never particularly thrilled with school, but it was like a job that pays reasonably well and doesn’t suck.Except a few years when it did: If you got a toxic teacher in grade school, […]
Yes, there are comic strips, mostly of a political nature, that reflect real world actions. But most comic strips are fantasy: children as philosophers, talking animals, armed forces never going to war, ageless people, ghosts who walk. There is even one where a conservative and a liberal care for each other!But what happens when history […]
It’s a Bizarro World.As a recent Al Goodwyn cartoon is embroiled in controversy, Al has concurrently received an award for his editorial cartoons.The Washington, D.C., Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists on June 9 announced the recipients of its 2020 Dateline Awards for journalism excellence in 2019. “These awards recognize some of the […]
Famed sports cartoonist Murray Olderman has passed away.Murray OldermanMarch 27, 1922 – June 10, 2020SPORTS CARTOONIST (yeah, he merits the upper case), sports columnistFrom the notice: Marty Appel posted that Murray Olderman died at the age of 98.Murray Olderman profiled and drew sports cartoons of every major sports figure of the past 60 years, from […]
The Seneca (SC) Journal apologized for running an editorial cartoon deemed hurtful and insensitive. Political cartoons are powerful tools that are designed to make you laugh or think about a given situation. But they’re not supposed to make you hurt. Wednesday’s depiction of an African-American family did just that. It made you hurt — many […]