David Rowe begins today’s conversation with this delightful take on everything.Fauci’s deadpan expression captures his serious intent, while his expertise is shown in the charts on his desk, ready for use in his testimony, his framed degrees and his overflow of books.But despite his having shut the door and put a “closed” sign on it, […]
above: the hard copy cover, the free e-book does not contain a pull-out poster or flip-book animationAndrews McMeel Publishing and the Schulz Museum have joined forces to give away laughs. From all of us at Andrews McMeel Publishing and the Schulz Museum, thank you for nurturing a lifelong love of reading in kids. Please enjoy […]
Don’t do a lot of comic book stuff here, there are a bunch of sites for that, but…The lovely comic book artist of the 1940s, Lily Renée is celebrating her 99th birthday today, and we would like to join in the celebration and wish her well.HAPPY BIRTHDAY RENÉE!
The 2020 Cartoon Crossroads Columbus festival will take place;one way or another, in one form or another.But the organizers would like your opinion on the matter: So what does the pandemic mean for Cartoon Crossroads Columbus? * We can say for sure that CXC is going to happen in some form this October, and that […]
Back in January, when the world was “different,” the Portland political cartoonist submitted entries for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. He became busy with other obvious pressing things to even think about the Pulitzer until Monday morning, May 4. “I wasn’t aware that I was a finalist until about two hours before (the […]
Today’s posting will be big on links, because, for some reason, I’ve suddenly come across a number of really good things you should go explore on your own.And if you are properly locked down and socially distant, you’ve got time for that, right? Right!So we’ll start with Sarah Cooper, who, if you haven’t already discovered […]
A few days ago we mentioned the St. Cloud Times’ website had signed on for the Andrews McMeel Syndication online package. Well, it seems that was only the tip of an iceberg. Over the weekend a number of other Gannett newspapers announced they too were giving their readers free access to the AMS syndication comic […]
Watch as Wisconsin State Journal political cartoonist Phil Hands walks viewers through his creative process as he draws this year’s Mother’s Day cartoon. WiscNews presents Phil digitally drawing this year’s Mother’s Day cartoons.
Comic book writer Marty Pasko has passed away. Martin Joseph (Marty) Pasko né Jean-Claude Rochefort August 4, 1954 – May 10, 2020Friends Paul Kupperberg and Paul Levitz broke the news on social media. covers via Grand Comic DatabaseMarty began writing comic books in the early 1970s, and was a writer and editor into the 2000s. […]
I don’t like to say “I told you so,” because (A) it seems grandiose and (B) it would be much nicer to live in a world where someone had listened and also because (C) I wasn’t the only voice out there, so I can hardly take credit.But let’s look at what is essentially one big […]
Art Young’s Inferno is, unlike Dante‘s before it, not an indictment of sinners per se (hey, we’re all sinners) but the plutocrats and Wall Street criminals that have repeatedly exploited the citizenry through legal legislation with extralegal loopholes. Fantagraphics has just published a superb new edition of this 1934 classic—the “Original Art Edition,” with reproductions […]
Sandra Bell-Lundy is celebrating thirty years of her Between Friends comic strip.When I first began the strip, Maeve was married to Simon. Susan was single. Kim was a white woman named Laura. I had sold my strip to 3 Southern Ontario daily newspapers and a couple of weeklies. I was making $100 per week…and working […]
If I were, for some odd reason, ordered to live in a major city, Pittsburgh would be at the top of the list, not because it’s where Rob Rogers produces “Brewed on Grant Street” but because it provides the material that makes it possible.It’s a bluecollar city, to begin with, but, unlike Chicago, which is […]
Wonderful seems to a word often associated with Patrick McDonnell and his works. His Mutts comic strip and books are wonderful. His charitable and humanitarian efforts are wonderful. Even Patrick’s blog is wonderful, except when it is beyond wonderful, as is one of his latest.In “A Note From Patrick: May 2020” Patrick notes some fan […]
As noted earlier Lee Enterprises had announced there would be a series of pay cuts, lay-offs, and furloughs across its chain. Around the time Adam Zyglis took his two week furlough David Fitzsimmons of The Arizona Daily Star took a single week. Now Fitz is preparing us for a second week without his illustrated view […]