Nick Anderson captures the moment, and I would add that not only has Facebook (and Twitter, for that matter) become a seething cauldron of coronavirus stupidity but seems to be ramping up the political idiocy as well.And while I chuckle, too, at all the cartoonists saying they’ve practiced social isolation all their lives, part of […]
Kids’ author Mo Willems is here to make Mondays a little better for a while: Starting today, he’ll release a new “Lunch Doodle” video each Monday at 1 PM.The Kennedy Center and Mo Willems informs:When I became the Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence, I didn’t realize the most impactful word in that title would be ‘Residence.’ With […]
Cartoonist Basil Wolverton made a name for himself as a comic book artist, with weird humor and art. Like most cartoonists of the time he tried to create a syndicated newspaper comic strip. But he never made it – well, he did make it for one panel.One of Basil’s attempts at syndication was a Buck […]
The 2020 Reuben Awards Weekend and Dinner is being held in Kansas City, Missouri.The choice of Kansas City has to do with it being the home of Andrews McMeel, and has been since the company started 50 years ago. So it is A Golden Anniversary for the syndicate.Origins from ReferenceForBusiness.com:The company that became Andrews McMeel […]
Ben Jennings scores.This is one of those pieces where the only real response is, “Good for you,” because there are plenty of paintings that depict crowds but this is the right one. Here’s the original, not that you haven’t seen it but I wanted a second look to see how crowded the scene really was and […]
Six weeks ago Little Oop, the Sunday Alley Oop, began a time travel story. Three weeks later (a week earlier than in our timestream) the strip jumped ahead, and the snarkers had a fit.Me? I’m not married to continuity, so have been enjoying Little Oop in general and this bit in particular. (And the snarkers […]
In 2019, more Americans went to the library than to the movies.A Coronavirus Library Update from Publishers Marketplace:Overdrive tells libraries it is “assembling a series of digital content options to respond to the challenges your communities are facing.” For academic libraries and customers, Proquest issued a list of over 50 publishers that have joined in […]
Kal Kallaugher gets away with the tired iceberg metaphor for two reasons: One is his art, through which he can draw just about anything and make it fun and fresh, and the other is his ability as a storyteller.A couple of years ago, the featured speaker at the final banquet of the AAEC convention couldn’t […]
I’m going to try to be mostly critical in a literary rather than a social sense today, starting with Steve Breen’s simple expression of the situation.I had our next issue planned with a review of “My Spy,” but the reviewer dropped me an email to say she’d gone to the screening, but the release date […]
Tea Fougner is the Editorial Director for Comics at King Features Syndicate and joins [Graphic Policy] to talk about comics strips past and present. As Tea says, “Comics is a format, not a genre.”Tea has been with King Features for over 11 years and was promoted to Editorial Director of Comics about a year and […]
REMINDER: Only two days left for NCS members to vote for the Reuben Divisional awards. As conventions are being cancelled or delayed the National Cartoonists Society updates the current status of The 2020 Reuben Awards:We have received a number of enquiries about the feasibility of this year’s Reuben Awards weekend in light of the spread […]
Pros and Cons offers some math problems as well as questions of age. Samuel wants to be a kid, but this is a fairly simplified version of “Mr. Green lives in a red house” puzzle, given that 10 years ago he was 30 and now he wants to be 23 years younger.Which would make him […]
Al Jaffee, the cartoonist responsible for you not being able to find a mint condition copy of MAD Magazine, celebrates his 99th birthday on March 13, 2020. Happy Birthday Al! Thanks for the laughs.The Official Al Jaffee Website.Al Jaffee’s Twitter Feed. Al Jaffee’s comic book credits from 1942 up. A selection of Al Jaffee Tall […]
REMINDER: Four weeks to deadline for the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists’ The Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning submissions. As conventions are being cancelled or delayed the AAEC discloses their current plans:At this point we are 10 weeks out from the gathering in Ottawa, and one month from the hotel and registration deadline. That’s still […]
Columbian cartoonist Andrés J. Colmenares’ heartwarming panel has made its debut on GoComics. Click here to see a collection of his work or here to see his GoComics page. Andres’ Instagram page is here.