In [E&P’s] featured “E&P Reports” interview this week, Dennis Draughon talks to E&P contributing writer Rob Tornoe about what it means to be a political cartoonist … for Capitol Broadcasting/WRAL. Draughon, incidentally, is the 2019 EPPY Award winner for Best Editorial/Political Cartoon with under 1 million unique monthly visitors.Dennis Draughon discusses being downsized out of […]
Mo Willems is the winner of multiple Caldecott Awards. His kids books are very popular. The other week I took a Little One to the bookstore and said she could get two books. She picked the two Biggie books, though she has at least half of the collected stories in individual editions.Every one of my […]
This is going to look like a short entry, but I’ll be sending you lots of worthwhile places, so pay attention to the links and you’ll have enough cartoons to keep you happy.The thing is, everyone saw this half of the process coming, so they’ve had plenty of time to come up with a commentary. […]
A fellow named Rickey Scott got in touch with me at CSotD and offered to compile a list of Patreon and other support sites.I’ll be putting this on a website in the future; if you are a cartoonist with a support site not listed here (or you spot a typo in yours), put it in […]
The Thimble Theatre celebrates the centennial of its opening today.The Thimble Theatre opened on December 19, 1919 with the premiere of “From Cabaret to Country,” starring Olive Oyl (headliner) and Harold Hamgravy; written and choreographed by E. C. Segar. Thimble Theatre followed a dozen years of comic strip melodramas, beginning most famously with Hairbreadth Harry […]
There’s no pattern today, so we might as well start with Paul Fell’s weather cartoon.We’ve got our first real snow, though most of it passed us by and we only ended up with four or five inches. Doesn’t matter to the dog.He’s agin it.Ridgebacks can follow along with the horses for 30 miles in a […]
The Beaumont (Texas) Enterprise has signed Nancy as their new comic strip.A few days ago the paper introduced the strip to its readers:It’s been nearly two years — April 9, 2018 — since the comic strip created by Ernie Bushmiller got a reboot courtesy of a web cartoonist who goes by the pseudonym Olivia Jaimes. […]
Freelance political cartoonist Clay Jones was recently interviewed by Mike Rhode.Why are you in Washington now? I moved to Fredericksburg in 1998 to work for The Free Lance-Star. I stayed in the area after I was laid off in 2012. What would you like to do or work on in the future? I would like […]
The New York Times interviews Gary Larson to coincide with the launch of the first website to legitimately post his comics.From the piece: Did any cartoons provoke controversy? Man, controversy never seemed too far away from me, especially during my first year of syndication. I truly thought my career may have ended a number of […]
Jimmy Margulies gets the prize for an apt literary reference as we prepare for the alleged trial of the alleged President.The issue isn’t so much that the Republicans are in lockstep. That’s been obvious for more than a decade. But Kevin Siers points out that we can skip the references to the Wizard of Oz, because the […]
Animator/gag cartoonist Stuart J. Knickerbocker has passed away. Stuart James (Stu) Knickerbocker March 10, 1925 – December 14, 2019animator, artist, gag cartoonistFrom the obituary: Stu was a substitute teacher in Detroit before he began his career in commercial art at the Jam Handy Organization in Detroit. He spent most of his career at Portafilms in […]
Around the time I became a fan of the newly refurbished Hardy Boys, there were other simulacra of which I was unaware. One of those carbons was Brains Benton.A few years after the books first appeared in 1959, veteran cartoonist Tom Gill partnered with a writer (probably not Brains creator Charles Spain Verral) to create […]
Danae may be ahead of her classmates in today’s Non Sequitur, but they’ll follow soon enough. The notion that what’s said on-line stays on-line is nonsense.I remember, in about 2003, going to see a principal at an elementary school so rural (How rural was it?) so rural that you could see cows in the pasture […]
Cartoonist Adam Ellis called out a Malaysian company for using his comic strip art in an advertising campaign without permission, notification, or compensation.Shopee Malaysia has apologised after being called out by cartoonist and former Buzzfeed writer Adam Ellis for stealing one of his comics to promote its 12.12. Birthday Sale. In a tweet last week, […]
Peter Brookes leads off today with a cartoon about the UK elections that resonates in the US.There are plenty of political analysts who link Boris Johnson’s stunning victory to the radical policies of his chief opponent, Jeremy Corbin, and American commentators have suggested that Democrats are heading down the same path to defeat if they […]