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CSotD: Friday Funnies

Janis is right, but it’s hard not to put eagles above buzzards in the Grand Scheme of Things.Buzzards are pretty amazing birds, hunting with their noses as much, perhaps more, than their eyes.I think the preference for eagles is that they tend to be more solitary, and they combine hunting and scavenging. We like to […]

Al Jaffee Hands Fold-In Off to Johnny Sampson

Johnny Sampson notes:I did the “Special Edition MAD 20 Fold-In”, out this week! Some of you know this but @original.aljaffee gave me his blessing a while back, and this is (to my knowledge) the first non-Al Jaffee Fold-in MAD’s ever published. I’m thrilled he got to see it in print for himself. (I think he […]

CSotD: Very random observations

Pat Bagley starts us off with a depressingly accurate look at things. The comment on the tax on services identifies this as a local comment on Utah politics, but it applies nationally as well.I suppose they might listen if they were more beholden to local voters than to corporate contributors, but an Amendment to overturn […]

Seasonal Comic Strip Stuff

The firefighters who battled the Tubbs and Kincade fires received a “thank you” in a popular comic strip published on Monday. above: Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis“Pearls Before Swine” usually is about the misadventures of several animals, but creator Stephan Pastis of Santa Rosa shifted the comic’s focus to show how grateful he is […]

Mark Evanier on Tariffs and Pogo Volume Six

We reported on the tariffs a few months ago.Now the effects are hitting home as the most important American literature is being affected.Co-editor Mark Evanier explains the delay in deliverance:Volume 6 of The Complete Syndicated Pogo — subtitled Clean as a Weasel — was originally going to be printed in China and the materials got […]

Cartoonist “Suffocated” by Political Correctness

An update on our story of an editorial cartoon that made light of a measles outbreak in Samoa that is killing the young and the elderly.After an uproar and street protests the Otago Daily Times printed a mea culpa, and editor Barry Stewart publicly stated a more heartfelt apology.Cartoonist Garrick Tremain at the time gave a […]

And a Prince of a Fella Besides (Michael Ramirez)

When an editor gets a message from a reader about an editorial cartoon, he knows it is not going to be from a happy camper. But every once in a blue moon that editor is surprised:Political cartoonist Michael Ramirez is simply a genius. I have been amazed and entertained for years by Mr. Ramirez’s phenomenal […]

CSotD: Random observations

Michael de Adder picks up on the news that Canada’s athlete of the year and the Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year are both women.Tennis player Bianca Andreescu was the unanimous pick for Canada’s Lou Marsh Trophy, while women’s soccer hero Megan Rapinoe was chosen by SI for her courage as well as her athletic […]

The Best Selling Comic Strips of the Past 40 Years

Allan Holtz’s Stripper’s Guide has provided comics researcher Jeffrey Lindenblatt a platform to present his latest project. Jeffrey has taken 300 newspapers, from large to small. and used them as a source to extrapolate the best selling newspaper comics strips from 1978 to 2019.Says Jeffrey:I decided that I would research 300 different daily papers from […]

More Cartoonists Saying Goodbye

Today Channing Miller said goodbye to The Daily Texan:After six semesters, six comics editors, three different job descriptions and four sketchbooks, it is finally time for me to say goodbye to my beloved corner of the basement. This corner isn’t just a place where I have sat with aching knuckles and a sketchbook in my […]

Mary Worth Artist June Brigman Interviewed

Cartoonist June Brigman (Mary Worth, Brenda Starr, Power Pack, Captain Ginger) is interviewed by Comic Culture’s Terrance Dollard.June discusses taking over a comic strip from an established artist, getting old fans to adapt to her style, collaborating with Karen Moy, her work habits, adjusting from comic strip requirements to comic book layouts. and more.On working […]

Disney Gets 3 Golden Globes Nominations, But…

Cartoon Brew is reporting the nominations for the Golden Globes Animation category.It’s a stellar result for Disney, which picked up nominations for its three animated releases of the year: Toy Story 4, The Lion King, and Frozen 2. For the first time since 2012, the House of Mouse accounts for a majority of the nominated […]

What’s To Replace The Pajama Diaries?

The news of The Pajama Diaries ending broke Sunday when Terri Libenson’s hometown paper The Cleveland Plain Dealer asked readers to help decide what comic strip should replace Terri’s strip. We’re about to lose one of my favorite comics, Pajama Diaries, because the artist is retiring. Which raises the question: What do we do next? […]

Terri Libenson ending The Pajama Diaries

Terri Libenson has announced that she is retiring her The Pajama Diaries comic strip.From Terri:After almost fourteen incredible years, it’s with mixed feelings that I’m announcing the retirement of my syndicated comic strip, The Pajama Diaries. This is truly bittersweet. I’ve always loved writing and illustrating the strip. However, I’ve been fortunate to have other […]

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