Cartoonists are keeping busy with fun, health, and charity. The Seattle Times and cartoonist David Horsey offer downloadable bears to color. KBIR Knoxville checks in with 90 year old Charlie Daniel while he shelters in place.“I was beginning really to enjoy retirement. I was meeting with people for lunch every day and meeting old journalist […]
It’s getting really hard to avoid politics on Friday, and Rabbits Against Magic provides a demonstration.I suppose there were people who listened to FDR’s Fireside Talks or Churchill’s encouragement during the Blitz and dismissed them as partisan politics, but not many.Anyway, the “pollution” analogy holds for me. It’s everywhere. Granted that Non Sequitur runs on the […]
Wha..?? A last Cats With Hands? Yes. It seems Joe Martin has stopped producing new Cats With Hands strips and panels. (Joe continues creating Mr. Boffo and Willy ‘n Ethel comics.)Last month Neatly Chiseled Features started issuing “The Best of Cats With Hands” dailies beginning March 16, 2020. That strip was a rerun of the […]
Joy of Tech has me nailed fairly well.Their site is currently polling visitors to ask how much their lives have changed and I ticked the box for “It’s different, but not that different.”I haven’t done a videochat in a couple of years and never even bothered to mount Skype on my last several computers, while […]
In the beginning the “Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year” was presented not with “The Reuben”, but with “The Barney.”When the National Cartoonist Society formed after World War II, one item on their agenda was an awards dinner to publicize the members and their craft. In 1947 the biggest Big Name among comic strip cartoonists was […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for April 2020 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Addams’ Apple: The New York Cartoons of Charles Addams Ed Leffingwell’s Little Joe by Harold Gray Nat Enough I Think He’s Crazy […]
I’ll start with the above Dunkin’ Donuts commercial for the benefit of readers either too young or living too distant from these shores to catch the reference.Today’s headline is a portmanteau of that commercial along with the well-known wisecrack that one should not watch the making of laws or the making of sausage.I can attest […]
Earlier this year Lee Enterprises bought The Buffalo News and the BH Group. That purchase became final in mid-March 2020, two weeks later Lee Enterprises announced there would be a series of pay cuts, lay-offs, and furloughs across its chain. Yesterday it hit home as The Buffalo News’ Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Adam Zyglis announced he […]
Jeff Danziger is correct: Lousy policy and foolish choices are making things worse, and hence killing people, in the current crisis. And Stuart Carlson correctly casts Donald Trump in the role of Lady Macbeth, unable to get the guilt off his hands, though he seems a bit premature in that Trump has not yet hit her […]
Updating the earlier Moose and Molly post.It seems a certainty that Bob Weber has ended his Moose and Molly comic strip.Moose and Molly by Bob Weber dailies: September 20, 1965 – March 28, 2020* Sundays: September 26, 1965 – April 5, 2020 King Features Syndicate [titled “Moose” September, 1965 – May, 1971 titled “Moose Miller” […]
This is the second installment of an exciting new feature called “Three Word Answer” here on The Daily Cartoonist where we’ll ask a cartoonist 20 questions. We politely request that they answer each of the questions in three words (or fewer). But of the 20 questions, the cartoonist may chose three questions (of the 20 […]
Starting with a cheat: This is yesterday’s Brewster Rockit, but I’m featuring it today because it contains an important factor, which is defiant accuracy.The pop-culture-overused-cliche-quote is “Houston, we have a problem,” but that’s not what he said, which matters for two reasons.One is that no test pilot — and that’s what astronauts were in those […]
After nearly 55 years Bob Weber is taking weekends off. The last Sunday Moose and Molly appeared April 5, 2020.The first Moose and Molly Sunday strip appeared September 26, 1965 (below).The strip itself debuted on September 20, 1965 as ” Moose.” above: the first Moose comic strip starring “Moose Buttons”Mark Johnson tells us it was […]
Doug Turnbull, For the Atlanta Journal Constitution:As the years pass — now there have been six — since 95.5 WSB traffic-reporting legend Captain Herb Emory’s tragic death, the remembrances of his life are as poignant as the memories during his philanthropic, larger-than-most-of-ours life. Certain phone calls and messages received still materialize in the brain with the […]
Easter Games People Play Breaking Cat News and Thatababy both have activities for kids of all ages. 33 Eggs!! The first thing I thought when Dagwood suggested a melted cheese meal: Then I came upon today’s Sally Forth…and thought of Noel Sickles taking over Scorchy Smith.Like Sickles and Terry, Jim Keefe is too good to fake […]