“A Wealth of Pigeons” by Harry Bliss and Steve Martin will soon be released. [Steve] Martin, who collaborate[s] with New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss, calls cartooning comedy’s last frontier. “It was a completely unique experience,’ he said. “It’s the precision of one thing. This is a one-second link between the picture and the words, or […]
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. — Winston Churchill, Nov 10, 1942Juxtaposition of the Past Four Years(David Rowe, Australian Financial Review, 2016) (David Rowe, Australian Financial Review, 2020)David Rowe bookends the Trump presidency, offering a conclusion to what […]
Piers Morgan explains: America’s new President-Elect, Joe Biden, has a framed cartoon strip on his desk. It features Hagar the Horrible, the red-bearded Viking character created by American cartoonist Dik Browne, stranded on a rock in a violent storm as his ship sinks, lashed by thunder and lightning. ‘Why me?’ he shouts up at God. […]
Kieran Meehan couldn’t have known how funny today’s Pros and Cons (KFS) would be when it hit, or, at least, how timely.We’ve had “news” that someone was caught throwing out ballots, only it turned out he was just discarding a sheet of instructions.And then we had “news” that dead people were voting in Michigan, only […]
Stars can have a mega-hit movie or a short-run television show, either way it don’t matter unless they are featured in a MAD parody. So, after ten years without being satirized in MAD, and no chance for one in the the foreseeable future with MAD down to reprints, what’s a producer to do? Well, […]
Wouldn’t it be nice if they carried signs like this fellow in Macanudo?But we don’t discuss politics on Friday.However, discussing both life and philosophy is permitted and Macanudo (KFS) is often the sort of thing you could spin a whole day from if you slowed down enough.Is a humble-bragger more to be feared than someone […]
Doonesbury © Garry B. Trudeau What was the key turning point for you? After returning from a sabbatical in 1984, I started to move the characters forward in real time, aging them, giving them jobs, families. I realized that by keeping them frozen in time on a college campus, I’d been neglecting all the generational […]
© Grant Snider Grant Snider, whose newest collection “I Will Judge You By Your Bookshelf,” was nominated for a 2020 Goodreads Choice Award gets profiled in The Derby Informer. Once he went off to college at the University of Kansas, Snider began drawing comics for the student newspaper, “The University Daily Kansan.” He was drawing […]
Steve Sack (Star-Tribune)‘s portrait of Sleepy Joe is a delightful hurling of the nickname back in the bully’s face, given that there’s little left for Biden to do but sit back and wait for the final count.Though I suppose it’s like that thing they say about ducks being all calm as seen from the surface […]
Betty Debnam, the creator and editor of The Mini Page, has passed away. Betty Glass Debnam Hunt October 23, 1929 – November 1, 2020 Elementary school teacher, advertising copywriter Creator of the educational newspaper insert The Mini PageFrom the obituary:While teaching in Wake County, Betty had the idea of combining education and journalism into a newspaper […]
I don’t normally begin a post with a Tweet — much less two — but the other day Ann Telnaes said on social media that we should come to an agreement about the difference between a meme and a political cartoon.It’s easy, until you think it over.Memes are amateur and political cartoons are professional, but […]
Mt. Pleasant © Rick McKee & Kent Sligh; distributed by Tribune Content AgencyMt. Pleasant is a forthcoming comic strip from Rick McKee and Kent Sligh. Claude and Eunice Lutum thought they’d be spending their golden years relaxing on their farm, affectionately known as Mt. Pleasant. They thought wrong. Like many folks their age, they’ve found […]
In 2001 Jim Borgman published a popular book that evolved into other forms, such as playing/flash cards and a poster.© Jim BorgmanEditorial cartoonist Kevin Necessary remembers that poster: I woke up from a nap today and immediately defaulted to my baseline state of anxiety. I then thought about Jim Borgman’s “How Are You Feeling Today?” […]
Dick Tracy © Tribune Content AgencyYou may have seen that the November 1, 2020 Sunday Dick Tracy page ended with a notice (and if you hadn’t forget about becoming a detective in the Major Crimes Unit):Mark Barnard had, just two months earlier, written a special Dick Tracy Minit Mystery. Before that short story appeared in […]
The classic political cartoon from the disputed election of 1876 is this Joseph Keppler piece in which NY Senator Roscoe Conking is seen blessing, in a Satanic sense, the union of Rutherford B. Hayes with Columbia, the symbol of the nation.Since I’m working the polls today and don’t have time to post a contemporary blog, […]