Somebody reposted this David Rowe cartoon from November, 2016.It was bad enough then, the feeling of “What have we done?”, but it felt like just a bad one-night stand, one of those regrettable times when you just throw on your clothes, get the hell out, swear you’ll never drink again and try to forget it […]
From Junkee: The Australian has a long and storied history of just appallingly racist cartoons. There’s something about cartoons being racist that just hits differently — they feel like they should be a more cheery medium, and they are being misused somehow. Anyway, since The Australian’s resident cartoonist Bill Leak went died in 2017, the paper […]
The Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre and Gallery has been presenting a series of webinars (online seminars) about the Covid-19 pandemic. Their latest is the Thursday, June 4, 2020 MLC WEBINAR # 6: Coping with Crisis through Humour, Art, and Performance. What remedies can art and performance offer during COVID-19? What is the role […]
From the Washington Post:Comics will salute essential workers by hiding symbols in their Sunday strips. The idea began with “Baby Blues” co-creator Rick Kirkman, who contacted some of his fellow cartoonists about coordinating a campaign while sheltering in place. Kirkman’s syndicate, King Features, and the National Cartoonists Society helped boost the initiative, as did Andrews […]
RJ Matson offers a great take on “Blind Justice.”Blind Justice is an ideal that we’ve never achieved. The idea of a system in which everyone who comes before it gets equal treatment, in which Justice does not see who is on either side, is something to strive for even if we know in our hearts […]
Newspaper cartoonist and illustrator Joe Yeninas has passed away. Joseph John (Joe) YeninasMay 10, 1934 – May 29, 2020newspaper cartoonist, illustrator, and graphic editor From the Joseph J. Yeninas Creative Arts Fund: In 1953 Joe Yeninas joined the Marine Corps, deciding to pass up an opportunity to play Minor League baseball. Shortly after his return from […]
GoComics has added a new comic by a long-time friend. We’re all in this together…but it helps to see someone else with her face planted in the bowl of mashed potatoes. In the same way that Cathy was a relatable friend during the comic strip years, she’s returned to bring some happy relief now, offering […]
Loretta Lockhorn speaks wisdom, and, certainly, on a Monday morning, we can step back from current events for a bit.As long as we check back once in a while to see what’s going on.Every 10 minutes should be enough. When I used to visit high schools to talk about political cartoons, I’d show Nast’s obituary cartoon […]
Because The Comics and The Kinks are important parts of everyones’ lives … here is notice that Norm Feuti featured the great band in his Gil comic strip today!And thanks to Ray D. (comments below) we can add two more!One from Dan Thompson and one from Mike Seddon original September 19, 2019 item: On Friday (in […]
Juxtaposition of the Day(Bob Gorrell)(Tom Toro, June 2012)And let me add that those who pretend to study history talk about the riots of 1968 in terms of the tumultuous demonstrations at the Democratic National Convention that summer.Which were not riots except in the sense of “police riots,” stirred up by Mayor Daley who explained it […]
Soon after The Daily Cartoonist last week issued a First and Last installment featuring Homer, the Reluctant Soul we received an inquiry from creator Wiley Miller. He thanked us for the story but … “I’ve got to ask…is this mere coincidence, or do you know what’s coming up in Non Sequitur?”Reading between the lines The […]
There’s no point in trying to discuss the current situation chronologically, so let’s start with Matt Wuerker’s cartoon, which assumes a moment midstream.And it assumes an old-fashioned view of calling in the National Guard, because that was how you tamped down vicious local cops back in the days of Little Rock and such.But it was […]
Since March, [Cathy] Guisewite has been capturing our collective pandemic anxieties and ack-worthy quarantine moments in a series of daily “Cathy” posts called “Scenes From Isolation.” Erica Pearson, for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, interviews Cathy Guisewite. Or read the interview via MSN. Q: So is Cathy back in your life for good now? A: It’s […]
Robbins, who grew up in Queens, N.Y., recalls taking her weekly, 10-cent allowance to the neighborhood candy store and after studying the week’s selection, buying any comic that featured young girls and women. At home, she wrote and illustrated her own comics and dreamt of publication. Robbins insists she did not come from a dysfunctional […]
There’s not a lot going on over on the editorial side. Statues of Liberty being knelt upon, but not much new insight.But politics have leaked over onto the funny pages, so we’ll look there.First:Will no one rid me of this troublesome website?This Nick Anderson cartoon was taken down at the Red Bubble site at the […]