Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. — Matthew 23:24 This pair of tweets appeared together in my feed. Rob is a friend and a good guy and he’s right about the number, but he’s wrong about “great.”There have already been several fly jokes, and I say “joke” because they are […]
Among the many articles celebrating Peanuts 70th anniversary is the Nashville Tennessean telling the story behind Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron. No, not the Charles Schulz comics, rather the Dick Holler/Royal Guardsman song. From The Tennessean interview with songwriter Dick Holler: A long time ago, there was a huge hit record called “The Battle […]
This xkcd (Ind) illustrates a lesson I learned a few decades ago, when I attempted to raise money at Denver’s St. Patrick’s Day parade for a non-sectarian job training center in Belfast that was making inroads in defusing the violence there.All I asked for was a quarter. A quarter from one-twentieth, even one-fortieth, of the […]
Wall Street Journal cartoon editor Charles Preston has passed away.Charles M. PrestonNovember 6, 1921 – October 2, 2020 Instigator, idea man, and long-time editor of the Wall Street Journal cartoon panel “Pepper … and Salt” Charles Preston passed away Friday.From the Wall Street Journal: Seventy years ago a Columbia undergraduate named Charles Preston pitched a daily […]
Robb Armstrong has created more than 10,000 “Jumpstart” comics over his 30-year career. To celebrate the comic strip’s XXX anniversary, Robb has selected more than 500 strips that look back at some of the highlights of his three-decade run. Check it out on Amazon here.From Robb’s Amazon page:One of the longest-running African-American comic strips in […]
Venerable “Doozies” cartoonist and “Simpsons” producer Tom Gammill tours the temporarily closed Bushmiller Museum and Research Center with a very special guest, Irish whisky and Sluggo on blues guitar.
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists announced Rob Rogers, and his “Brewed on Grant” in the Pittsburgh Current, has won the 2020 Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning. From the Pittsburgh Current notice: “Brewed on Grant,” a strip with musings on local politics and current events, originally ran for more than 20 years […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists announced its 2020 award winners during its (delayed and cancelled and now smaller and virtual) “convention” held the first weekend of October.The John Locher Memorial Award, for promising young cartoonists, was announced last month but made official this month.© Catherine Gong The AAEC/John Locher Memorial Award — Congrats to Catherine […]
RJ Matson (CQ Roll Call) provides a starting point today, as Trump cheerfully bounces out of Walter Reed, possibly Against Medical Advice, though he’s going “home” to a White House with a medical facility that’s better than some hospitals, and also possibly high on steroidal optimism, since that’s one reported side effect of the unprecedented […]
Vulture presents one hundred animation sequences chosen by a knowledgeable group that deemed these worthy of showcasing the magic of animation. “[A]nimation is the art of manipulating the invisible interstices between frames.” Animated cartoons fool the brain into believing that static images can move; characters are “brought to life” by putting pen to paper or […]
A young political cartoonist asked the hive mind if things have always gone at this pace.It was a good question: You can barely address one scandal before another comes along and so we forget about Dear Leader’s taxes in order to discuss his lunatic behavior at the debate but then drop that subject to talk […]
above: Seth Boyes, Dickinson County NewsFrom NationalNewspaperWeek.com: This year’s observance will be held Oct. 4-10. This 80th annual National Newspaper Week is a recognition of the service of newspapers and their employees across North America and is sponsored by Newspaper Association Managers. Among the editorial and graphic material available to newspapers are cartoons. The cartoons […]
Thatababy © Paul TrapCongratulations to Paul Trap on ten years of Thatababy.The entire 10 year archive is available at GoComics. Bringing Up Father © King Features SyndicateIn the vintage section of Comics Kingdom Jiggs is running for mayor. Two days after our September 29 Presidential Debate the 1946 vintage rerun seemed as current as any editorial […]
Garfield © Paws, Inc and distributed by Andrews McMeel SyndicationIf you think Garfield is just a gag-a-day comic strip you don’t know Garfield. The Garfield comics reek of a dogmatic ideology. They formulate and endorse a brand of lazy cynicism that not only encourages readers to accept the status quo, but also frames the concept […]
Leading off with John Deering (Creators) today, not because it’s a brilliant cartoon but because it isn’t.While others are either showing an unbecoming wish for revenge or a distinctly unflattering hint of hypocrisy, Deering simply depicts the country waiting for news, with the only moral value attached being a somewhat understated element of sorrow, which, […]