Wiley gets to lead off today because this Non Sequitur sparked two — count them, two! — personal memories of no particular significance.The first involves names, because everyone named “Peterson” gets called “Pete”at some point. My son was Pete in the Navy in his day, his son-in-law is Pete in the Navy now because he […]
The National Cartoonists Society is noting that Garry B. Trudeau will be presented the Society’s the Gold T-Square.From NCS President Jason Chatfield:On behalf of the board of directors of the National Cartoonists Society, It is my great pleasure to announce that Garry Trudeau will be awarded the Gold T-Square award at the 74th Annual Reuben […]
In the first cartoon Elizabeth Montague published in the New Yorker, two black women stand on a rooftop that overlooks a darkened cityscape. Above them, a Batman-inspired spotlight beams a message into the night sky: PER MY LAST EMAIL. Beneath them, the caption reads: “We’ve done all we can. It’s out of our hands now.” […]
Well, perhaps not so much of a bang as a whimper, but I like David Horsey’s take on the Iowa Caucus tech failure because the donkey has a full cloud of balloons in hand but is focusing on the one that burst, or fizzled, or whatever.There’s been a lot of chatter over the failure of […]
Awwww.Avery’s Pikmin Adventure is a comic by cartoonist Chris Furniss. The Pikmin story is a “daily procedural comic, written and drawn on the fly”, with Chris’ son starring as the main character in the Pikmin universe. It’s actually made up of little note cards which are left for his [seven-year-old] son to read over lunchtime, […]
Cartoonist David Sipress recently had one of his New Yorker cartoons co opted for use in a conceptual art exhibit. Or as David says, “I wuz robbed.”David, in The New Yorker, tells of the appropriation:This is my original drawing of the cartoon. Haendel took my cartoon and reproduced it exactly in a different medium: graphite, […]
Twenty years ago the bootlegged decal was ubiquitous, and illegal (still is).First things first—Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson says he has nothing to do with the lewd caricature of his beloved Calvin. Watterson was vehemently against licensing his creation for merchandising, and that includes the stickers that “cheapened and corrupted” the comics. Watterson never gave […]
The (Spokane) Spokesman-Review is acting on their comics poll from last summer.First, we asked our readers to rate all of our current comics. Then we had our readers rate several new comics. We were blown away. Thousands and thousands voted. And not just online. The U.S. Postal Service nearly made its 2019 budget numbers simply […]
I haven’t done an exact count, but there appear to be approximately a kabillion political cartoons this morning explaining that the technical failures in reporting the results of the Iowa Caucus show that the Democrats are doomed, Trump will win and we can all go home now.Only Pat Bagley draws my point of view, which […]
Editorial and sports cartoonist Bil Canfield has passed away.William Newton (Bil) Canfield October 8, 1920 – January 30, 2020sports cartoonist, editorial cartoonist The New Jersey Star-Ledger is reporting the death of Bil Canfield:William (Bil) Canfield, who entertained millions of newspaper readers as an editorial cartoonist, died peacefully on January 30th at his home in Phoenix, Ariz., […]
The Spokane Spokesman-Review is adding Planet to Earth by Jody Zellman as a weekly panel.The Spokesman-Review announced the signing:Zellman competed with nine other artists during autumn to score a weekly gig as the new cartoonist in The Spokesman-Review. “Earth to Planet,” which turns 3 this the summer, won the reader’s choice competition and will run […]
Cartoonist Kenneth Mahood is a Senior Stripper! Born February 4, 1930.From the Irish Comics Wiki:After working at a solicitor’s office and as an apprentice lithographer, he became a full-time artist in 1949. He sold his first cartoon to Punch at eighteen, and became a regular contributor. As a painter, he had his first one-man exhibition […]
Matt Wuerker admittedly picks a bit of low-hanging fruit on this one, going for an obvious commentary on a ridiculous Trump blunder, but it beats hell out of the more obvious, less detailed wisecracks involving a Sharpie and harking back to Dear Leader’s ridiculous re-drawing of a weather map.Both play upon the fact that the […]
Animator, and vital Astrodome/Astroworld figure, Ed Henderson has passed away.From the opening of the Dome in 1965 through 1983, Ed Henderson’s entertaining animations were featured centerfield on the “Astrolite” screen. Edgar Baum (Ed) Henderson, Jr. November 14, 1924 – January 25, 2020 From the obituary:Ed returned to Houston in the early 1960s and joined forces with Judge […]
Posting this Joy of Tech is a bit of a cheat, given that they’ve posted a new cartoon since, but it states the situation so well that I’m giving myself permission to break my own rules.I have two elements of concern with Facebook.Privacy is one, though I continue to subscribe to the theory that the […]