(RJ Matson)(Nick Anderson)Matson and Anderson use two popular elements of Dear Leader’s West Point speech to note the impact of his slipping polls. (Ed Hall) (Steve Sack)Hall and Sack skip the metaphor and simply point out the way the shoe is suddenly on the other foot, as Trump becomes vulnerable to the same schoolyard bullying he has […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for June 2020 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. DC Goes to WarBig Nate Stays ClassyScary Godmother OmnibusSpeed Bump: A 25th Anniversary CollectionThe Tea Dragon Society (paperback)Jake the Fake Keeps His CoolTails of Tottering […]
A rash of newspapers are being taken to task by their readers for printing cartoons that are objectionable to some. The Roxboro Courier-Times is the latest to sever ties with a cartoonist over an editorial cartoon the newspaper freely chose to publish.We have decided to cut ties with the editorial cartoonist who provided the offensive […]
On June 11 the Florence Morning News editor chose and published a controversial Gary McCoy editorial cartoon.After receiving negative feedback the newspaper apologized two days later: The Morning News erred badly in its choice for a syndicated editorial cartoon that was published Thursday on the Opinion page. The cartoon was in extremely poor taste and […]
Happy Birthday Frank Thorne, born June 16, 1930! Stroud: You’ve done syndicated strip work on Perry Mason. How did that come about? Thorne: I was 20 years old and walked in to King Features with my samples, they gave me the Perry Mason Daily and Sunday. Stroud: Was it a good gig? A strip seemed to be the […]
Steve Sack gets the lead-off today because he nailed the target amid a forest of lukewarm rainbows.It’s all well and good to draw a rainbow flag or show the Supreme Court building or the nation or whatever swathed in rainbows, but Sack makes two critical points:First, by using Justice hugging that rainbow flag, he emphasizes […]
John Pritchett and Arnie Bernudez are now doing political cartoons, both for digital platforms.In Hawai’i John Pritchett has returned, after a six year absence, to Honolulu Civil Beat.From Civil Beat’s intro for John: Editor’s note: Longtime Hawaii political cartoonist John Pritchett returns to Civil Beat this week. John has created thousands of cartoons and illustrations […]
Jan Eliot has announced the end of her Stone Soup comic strip: Dear gentle readers… For those of you who saw this Sunday’s strip, I know you can see that I have decided to retire Stone Soup. I can’t imagine turning the strip, which is so personal to me, over to anyone else, and my […]
The Gray Lady profiles the retiring Al Jaffee.From reporter George Gene Gustines‘ piece:The latest edition of the smart-alecky bible (MAD Magazine) of Boomer humor, billed as the “Special All Jaffee Issue” and available Tuesday, is filled with reprinted and previously unpublished work by or about Mr. Jaffee, the creator of two signature features in the […]
Coming up later this week, multidimensional cartoonists Ed Steckley and Jason Chatfield will be “webinar-ing” on the Internet at noon (PT) on Thursday.From Wacom’s site:Join New York based cartoonists and illustrators, Jason Chatfield and Ed Steckley, as they share their illustration chops and wonderful sense of humor. Jason and Ed will delight you with their […]
The Sydney Sun-Herald has dropped the Ginger Meggs comic strip without notice.Steve Panozzo reports on the Ginger Meggs Facebook page this weekend: Today, the editorial collective at the Sun-Herald decided to drop Ginger Meggs forthwith. It did not appear in the paper this morning, as it has for the last 99 years. They have not […]
Joy of Tech is pretty firmly on record as not respecting either Facebook or Twitter, but here they acknowledge not just the general scumminess but the addictive nature of unbridled social media.I’m admittedly on the record as recognizing my own need for such places to both collect material for my writing and to promote the […]
above (from left): Brian Walker, Mort Walker, Jerry Dumas, Neal WalkerFilmmaker Dave Walker, grandson of Mort, made a short film about the creation of a Beetle Bailey daily strip – from idea to finished comic strip, with early Mort cartooning thrown in for icing.Says Brian Walker in his introduction to the short: Since its launch […]
Read the comments generated by today’s Stone Soup:And then go to the Stone Soup Facebook page: Gentle readers… how many ways can I say I love you? Jan Eliot is neither confirming nor denying!
Having railed against inaccurate history the other day, let’s relax a bit and note humor that relies on either not knowing much about the topic or not caring about it.If you’re going to read comics at all, you have to have a well-developed willingness to suspend disbelief, not only to accept talking animals but to […]