The Baltimore Sun ran a letter from a reader requesting replacement of comic strips in rerun status. The “Get Fuzzy” comic strip that recently ran in The Baltimore Sun, a rerun from 2008, inspired me to send this letter (”Get Fuzzy” by Darby Conley). I generally like the comics pages in The Sun, but I […]
We’ve talked a lot about how politics have been sneaking over onto the funny pages, but now the funny stuff is sneaking over onto the editorial pages, as witness this K Chronicles (Daily Kos).The punchline particularly put me on the floor since, as I think I’ve mentioned, Trump began his reign with a lie about […]
A couple of recent changes to the Pacifica Tribune – a change of ownership in October and a new cartoonist that same month. Don’t know if the two have any connection, but a few days after the new ownership took control a new cartoon panel debuted.What I’m Inking by Deb Wong first appeared October 21, […]
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum is closing again: Beginning Friday, November 20, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Galleries and Lucy Shelton Caswell Reading Room will temporarily close in compliance with the Franklin County Stay-At-Home advisory issued on November 18. This decision to close, made with careful guidance from The Ohio State […]
Cartoonist and author Lincoln (Big Nate) Peirce is interviewed as his 2nd Max and the Midknights book is soon to be released. [H]ow are Nate and Max different? Nate has a much bigger ego than Max and is convinced of his own exceptionality. He’s older than Max is, but not as emotionally mature. He’s impulsive […]
Accounts of comic/cartoon history that we stumbled on this past week.Eustace Tilley: Origins of an IconAlex Jay’s short pictorial… leads us to R. C. Harvey’s 2017 True History of Eustace Tilley essay at The Comics Journal. Eustace Tilley is the name given to the 19th century boulevardier languidly inspecting a passing butterfly through his […]
Having recently discussed how often cartoonists land on the same concept, here’s Adam Zyglis (Cagle) with an example of accepting the fact and making it work.Rockwell’s painting is “Freedom from Want,” one of his four freedom classics, celebrating the best of American culture and tradition, and, specifically, the Four Freedoms laid out in FDR’s 1941 […]
It seems that Roger Mahoney, at age 87 and after about 65 years of cartooning, has retired.first a note about Andy Capp U.S. dates: the Andy Capp comic strips that appear in the United States are on a one week delay from when they first appear in the Daily Mirror.The Saturday, November 14, 2020 (November […]
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 […]