Sean Martin, faithful CSotD supporter and brilliant creator of the “Doc and Raider” web strip, died Monday morning, a little over two weeks after ringing down the curtain on his strip.Randy Riddle reports on Facebook:I’m sorry to say that our dear friend Sean Martin passed away this morning about six am. Sean had been suffering from […]
By some counts, the number of editorial cartoonists remaining on staff at news organizations in the country is down to 20 or 30 pen dippers. But if you take a slightly closer look, you’ll notice the remaining cartoonists on staff overwhelmingly work for locally-owned newspapers: Pat Bagley at the Salt Lake Tribune, Steve Sack at […]
In light of DDDegg’s news that Wyoming is losing all but one of its Monday papers, we’ll start off with Gary Varvel‘s riff on a classic Norman Rockwell illustration. Which I add here for the benefit of those too young to know the original, though cultural literacy should include a heapin’ helpin’ of Norman Rockwell.To which […]
By the end of August 2020 Wyoming will become the only (first?) state in the U.S. to publish no daily newspaper as the Casper Star-Tribune cuts its schedule to five days a week.The Nieman Lab reports: Wyoming has six “daily” newspapers, but now none of them will actually print a paper seven days a week. […]
The Reed Brennan/ Creators Syndicate announcement of Nest Heads ending was off by a day. Instead of ending on Friday, July 31 the comic strip ended on Saturday, August 1; which makes more sense. Creators, for the moment, is sitting on that last strip (a rerun from 2014):While GoComics has begun the cycle over, going […]
People who don’t understand editorial cartooning often look for humor instead of incisive commentary, but the point is to have a point, not to get a laff.However, Signe Wilkinson offers a rare chance to get both with this one. I take Trump’s attempt to corrupt and thereby deny the November elections very seriously, but her […]
Occasionally, over at The Daily Cartoonist Facebook page, we throw in, along with links to items here, a cartoon or drawing that impressed us but didn’t show up here on The Daily Cartoonist site. Here are a few from July.We started with this great Rob Tornoe cartoon celebrating the United States’ birthday from America’s Newspapers. This […]
Over at the YouTube, children’s author and “Savage Chickens” cartoonist Doug Savage reads (in a soothing and delightful Canadian accent) from his book “Laser Moose and Rabbit Boy.”Now, presented by Gotham Reads, here’s Doug Savage reading “Laser Moose and Rabbit Boy in ‘Day of the Aquabear.’”
Matt Wuerker starts off today’s review of conspiracies with the widespread notion that the stock market is reflective of the overall economy.As he notes, the connection between the Dow Jones and how average people live is tenuous at best and, at the moment, we’re not “at best.”The market is inbred: It’s no longer about the […]
Classics Illustrated adapted famous books to the comic book format,R. Sikoryak has done the same with one of the world’s most famous documents.Utilizing comic characters and their creators’ styles Sikoryak has adapted The United States Constitution word for word into comic book format. As Boing Boing says: Cartoonist R. Sikoryak’s talent for mimicking other cartoonists, […]
Trailblazing St. Louis comic strip artist debuts in hometown Post-DispatchThat’s the headline introducing Heart of the City to newspaper’s readers: Beginning on Monday, the Post-Dispatch will carry “Heart of the City,” which Steenz took over drawing in April. It had been drawn by Mark Tatulli since 1998. The strip is about middle schooler Heart Lamar, […]
Welcome to the Comic of The Future, brought to you by Rhymes With Orange, King Features, and Mental Canvas.From Rhymes With Orange:The King Features’ syndicated cartoon Rhymes With Orange has teamed up with Mental Canvas to bring you a cartoon that you can virtually jump into and explore. What’s the cartoon about? No spoiler alert! […]
And isn’t that an enticing headline?Alex made me laugh but, as it often does, also made me ponder, which isn’t the same as making me think.That is, nothing cosmic, but, rather, a question of how much job-hunting and head-hunting happens over the phone these days?In 1999, when I was aching to get out of a […]
A letter in today’s Columbus Dispatch: “While I am sometimes puzzled or not amused by the humor in the comics pages of The Dispatch, on Tuesday I was both shocked and offended by Bianca Xunise’s Six Chix cartoon. In her drawing, a white woman with a shopping cart is standing next to a woman of […]
I’ve held this Mike Thompson piece longer than I like to, but I’m going to use it now because it illustrates, perhaps by what it isn’t, a factor in much of what’s going on.Which is to say that I like it because of its depiction of AOC’s cheerful, stress-free, total obliteration of a bullying caveman, […]