As noted before, David Rowe has the advantage of being 14 hours away from Washington, but this is a very well-finished, timely commentary anyway, so there’s no point, in this case, of my waiting for everyone else to catch up.Details of the shooting didn’t emerge until late last night, but it was obvious at the […]
The new New Yorker cover is by 99-year-old Pop Artist Wayne Thiebaud.The New Yorker interviews their cover artist, who will turn 100 this November. Tell me a little about how a boy who wanted to be a cartoonist became a painter. Well, I still do cartoons for myself. I love cartoons—they are so much a […]
The week begins at Candorville with Lemont facing the start of school for his son and making a decision.It’s long been hard to time Back-to-School gags, because the start of school, once pretty much pinned as “just after Labor Day,” is now scattered all over the calendar.That’s still true during the pandemic, so that, while […]
It seems Adam Zyglis’ homage to Bob Mankoff was just the tip. Not long after Ed Wexler also used a classic comic image, with attribution.And while this kind of stuff is fairly common, today seems to be particularly guest-starry.Mike’s Comic Strip of [To] Day already mentioned the Barney and Clyde strip of August 9:Mike also […]
Graeme MacKay makes more of an observation than a wisecrack, and, since he’s Canadian, it’s not simply based on party affiliation.Trump definitely falls under the category of “Sometimes in error, never in doubt,” and it’s an open question of how much of his misinformation is deliberate and how much is misremembered facts or wishful thinking.It […]
Mary Worth artist June Brigman talks to SYFY Wire mostly about her comic books (Power Pack, Captain Ginger) but does speak of her comic strip work: We also talked about her present-day work as the artist on the newspaper strip Mary Worth, which she does in concert with her husband and inker/colorist/letterer Roy Richardson. Working […]
Woke, the Hulu series, debuts August 9; here’s the extended trailer: In Woke, Lamorne Morris plays Keef, a Black cartoonist who is on the verge of success. He is aware of his cultural identity, but doesn’t want it to define him but when he has an unfortunate run-in with the police while minding his own business, things […]
Betty Boop debuted 90 years ago with the August 9, 1930 release of Dirty Dizzy Dishes.Animation Magazine has a slight overview of Betty Boop at 90.The Forward has a look at creator Max Fleischer.Via YouTube is that introductory Dirty Dishes:After the Hayes Code toned down Betty’s scandalous behavior her popularity never recovered, though she has […]
There used to be a thing floating around the Internet about how no two nations that had McDonalds had ever gone to war. A more serious observation was that China had such major holdings in the American bond market that, if they ever cashed out or called them in, our economy would fall to pieces.Kal […]
This week I think we’ll start our Friday Funnies with a Jason Chatfield cartoon that seems likely to piss off some people but gave me a laugh of recognition.I’ll admit he doesn’t have a caption reading “This is set in NYC,” but, then again, I’d suggest he doesn’t need one. Maybe other cities have more […]
Potty mouths are rare, if not nonexistent, in syndicated newspaper comics. Potty humor, on the other hand, has become a modern-day standard – usually involving dogs or other animals.Sometimes cartoonists feature humans and their bathroom habits.above: Oh, Brotherabove: MarvinGreg Evans and his Luann comic strip has been known to dive into that area:Showing a baby […]
Editorial cartoonists often take universally recognizable images and twist them into a useful satirical drawing for sarcastic and humorous purposes. So it was that Adam Zyglis appropriated a very famous Bob Mankoff cartoon for an effective lampoon of current events. Said Adam:I believe Trump’s desire to postpone the election was really his way of saying […]
“All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people.” — Alexander Bullock (My Man Godfrey)Ed Hall‘s cartoon has gone so viral that it would be a little pointless to feature it here, except that it’s a good example of combining a pop culture reference — always a […]
Erik Larsen will parody comic strips in issue #252 of his Savage Dragon comic book.On Twitter Erik announced the comic strips he would be highlighting: Finally nailed down the 11 comic strip parodies that’ll appear in Savage Dragon #252. They are: Family Circus Peanuts Cathy Doonesbury Foxtrot Dick Tracy Thimble Theater Calvin & Hobbes Rex […]
A news site ran an article about the current foofaraw over a Six Chix panel headlined The url for the Black Enterprise article also included that bit of misinformation:Over 100 Newspapers Drop Pro-BLM, Pro-Mask Comic by Black CartoonistThe article itself notes only thatA comic panel was removed from several newspapers [emphasis added] after readers called […]