Spring is the season for picking favorites, so let’s look at some choices.The Phantom is a popular comic character around the world, and in Sweden the publishers of Fantomen choose their favorite stories that ran in the comic book in the year of 2019. The Chronicle Chamber reports:As we saw in the Frew best adventure […]
I’m tempted to simply post Dave Brown‘s cartoon and walk away.Dear Leader’s childish speculation about UV light and disinfectants drew a lot of cartoons, many of them very funny, but, as absurd as his rambling word salad was, there wasn’t anything humorous about it, or about the way he continues to be enabled, not simply […]
In July 1960, at the age of 26, Jane Goodall traveled from England to what is now Tanzania and ventured into the little-known world of wild chimpanzees.With the 60th anniversary of Jane Goodall entering the forest of Gombe coming, stories of Jane are starting to appear. One of those stories is Jane developing a friendship […]
“I have very little adult supervision.” Matt Wuerker, POLITICO’s Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, enjoys a colorful career sketching Trump, Pelosi, and other characters. [Politico goes] inside the wonderful world of Wuerker as he shares some of his best stories… including that one time he tried using a Rumsfeld cartoon to negotiate troop withdrawals.Politico delivers a […]
The Cartoon Art Museum is continuing its “A Boy and His Tiger” fundraising auction with two sought-after items.A Bill Watterson signed print of the last Calvin and Hobbes … And original art from Patrick “Mutts” McDonnell …
Advertising artist and executive Don Schnably has passed away. Donald James (Don) Schnably September 12, 1936 – April 20, 2020 From the obituary:He graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art and went on to have a highly successful career in advertising, winning countless CLIO and Addy awards. He has a TV commercial for National Boh […]
I try to avoid politics on Friday, but when La Cucaracha, working in advance, manages to hit the timing jackpot, it’s worth a mention.The latest bit of presidential quackery seems almost as if someone at Fox & Friends was working for the opposition: “I know! Let’s say shooting up bleach will cure it!”Sure enough, Ruprecht […]
Tim Menees and Rob Rogers have been announced as finalists for the 56th Golden Quill Awards.Judging has been completed for The Press Club of Western Pennsylvania‘s 2020 Tri-State Golden Quill Awards for Excellence in Journalism, Media and Communications in Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and Northern West Virginia. The 56th competition recognizes professional excellence in written, […]
While Cathy hasn’t returned to syndicated comics, she has returned.Cathy Guisewite features the cartoon Cathy in her book Fifty Things That Aren’t My Fault, Guisewite also features cartoon Cathy in a series of panels on her Instagram account. And these days the topic is “sheltering in place.”As Heather Schwedel at Slate explains:Though the syndicated newspaper […]
Jason Chatfield the National Cartoonist Society President (as well as the cartoonist for syndicated comic Ginger Meggs, The New Yorker, others) has published a comic journal detailing his journey with Coronavirus (and his better half Sophie).Check it out here.
The National Cartoonists Society has announced the cancellation of the 2020 Reuben Awards Dinner and Convention and Festival.From NCS President Jason Chatfield:It is with a heavy heart that we must announce the official cancellation of this year’s NCS Reuben Awards and conference weekend in Kansas City. Those wanting any additional detail on our difficult and […]
I often identify with Arlo, but I don’t have to get water down my windpipe to do this. I have a scratchy throat, plugged sinuses and random coughs every spring.It used to be hay fever. Now, of course, it is Impending Death.The advantage of living alone is that I don’t have a Janis freaking out […]
Dick Wright was an editorial cartoonist for 30 years. In 2005 he gave up political cartooning for a higher calling – church pastor.David Astor reported in Editor & Publisher 2005:[Dick] Wright worked for the Union-Tribune, too (starting in 1976) and later joined The Providence (R.I.) Journal, the Nashville (Tenn.) Banner, and The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch. […]
A new addition to our running tally of Prince Valiant title panels by Thomas Yeates; these are exclusive to newspapers carrying the adventure strip in their Sunday comics section as a third/quarter pager.The Raven panel (below) ran from November 10, 2019 to March 22, 2020. (h/t James Delach for end date) On March 29, 2020 […]
above: Earth Day 1970 poster by Walt Kelly via The Billy Ireland Library and MuseumApril 22, 2020 is the 50th Anniversary of the first Earth Day, and there is a surprising lack of Earth Day comic strips and cartoons today.I was certain that some would join The Other Coast and Mutts and a few others […]