Looking back at some comic strips from this past week.But first, since both Beetle Bailey and Stars and Stripes were in the news, here is this weekend’s Stars and Stripes’ comics section where the paper gets a mention in Sunday’s Beetle Bailey. Late add: I don’t know if Mike Peters pulled this one or not. […]
Pat Bagley sets the tone for today, or, more accurately, he comments on the tone set by the White House Press Secretary, who played the ambush tape of Nancy Pelosi on a loop at yesterday’s press conference as she unloaded a diatribe about the (alleged) event.As Bagley notes, there are more pressing issues. At least […]
Kevin and Kell began 25 years ago as a five day a week online comic strip. The first daily was September 4, 1995 (below).But Bill Holbrook, being Bill Holbrook, began the strip with a Sunday page on September 3, 1995:Bill was, at the time, doing his On the Fastrack (1984) and Safe Havens (1988) when […]
Alex notes the slight easing of quarantine and, one hopes, the slight easing of tensions caused thereby.The element of holiday visitors is a lively one here, because, when NYC blew up in the pandemic, a lot of people with second homes in New England skedaddled up here. There was some resentment at first, on the […]
The Salt Lake Tribune cartoonist Pat Bagley is the latest to come under attack for exercising First Amendment rights.The Utah Sheriff’s Association has taken issue with an editorial cartoon published in The Salt Lake Tribune on September 1st:From the Deseret News: A controversial cartoon published this week by the Salt Lake Tribune’s Pat Bagley has […]
On today’s “Three-Word Answer” it’s Part 2 of our chat talking with social/political/pop-culture/jack-of-all-genres Ruben Bolling. Ruben is the cartoonist behind the weekly comic “Tom the Dancing Bug” that can be seen on such august sites as BoingBoing, Daily Kos, The Washington Post and GoComics.If you’ll remember the format of this Q&A, we ask, oh 20 […]
Apparently, while my somewhat well-curated feed was telling me about other, less important things going on in the world, all Hell broke loose in some other corner of the universe, because I woke up this morning to a flood of cartoons attacking Nancy Pelosi for getting her hair done.Steve Breen‘s is the least personally insulting […]
So you’ve been wondering what Dan Piraro has been up to since giving up Bizarro dailies to Wayno? Apparently he’s been experimenting……with a different genre and a different format – a graphic novel in serial form.Dan expands our consciousness with an introduction/explanation: Five years ago a scene from a story dropped into my head from […]
Jan Bosman in the Northwest Herald: The last several months, I have noticed obvious differences among [the Herald’s comic] strips. Some cartoonists frequently incorporate coronavirus references into their submissions, while others stay with their basic story lines. For example, Tom Thaves shows Frank & Ernest wearing masks when they’re out in public. And those amiable […]
I tend to avoid cartoons that simply mock someone without making a salient point, but Clay Bennett is spot-on in noting that Trump has begun to step over the line from deeply prejudiced to deeply disturbing.The cartoon is insulting, but meaningful. Best tradition of the format.As noted often, most presidents have put experts on their […]
The National Cartoonist Society has released its schedule for the September 12, 2020 NCSFest and Reuben Awards. Streaming broadcast begins at10am Saturday, September 12 at NCSFest.com Official Welcome to NCSFest 2020 from NCS President & thank you’s. From Panels to Publishing (90 mins)Guests: Mark Tatulli, Terri Libenson, Maria Scrivan, and Rob HarrellHosted by: Jason Chatfield 74th Annual Reuben AwardsJoin […]
Most comics historians, in writing about Jackie Ormes, note her Torchy Brown comic strip for which she is justly famous. But Ormes’ biographer Nancy Goldstein notes that “it is Patty-Jo that the readers of the Courier whom I talked to seem to remember most vividly.”Goldstein continues: That a girl child expressed wisdom, exposed folly, and […]
“That New Carl Smell” cartoonist Carl Skanberg was profiled in a feature story on MLB.com.From the Michael Clair piece:Skanberg is a lifelong White Sox fan who has a long history of covering the team’s exploits through his comics work. After losing his job right before the pandemic hit, the veteran cartoonist decided to devote his summer […]
Today (September 1) cartoonist Jackie Ormes is being honored with a Google Doodle slideshow. Jackie Ormes was born Zelda Mavin Jackson on August 1, 1911, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She taught herself to draw at an early age and showcased her skills with a page of cartoons in her high school yearbook. After graduation, she entered […]
Besides, as the vilest Writer has his Readers, so the greatest Liar has his Believers; and it often happens, that if a Lie be believ’d only for an Hour, it has done its Work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come […]