Before I forget: We’ve had a couple of additions to our list of Patreon and similar fundraisers for cartoonists. If there’s someone whose work you appreciate, here’s where you can find out how to show that appreciation.Now, on with the show:I mentioned recently that it’s hard to produce a multi-panel political cartoon that doesn’t include […]
original January 19, 2020 item:Norm Feuti has announced that he is ending his Retail comic strip.After a little more than 14 years, I’ve decided to retire my comic strip, RETAIL. The final installment will run on Sunday, February 23, 2020. I’ve been lucky in recent years to have multiple opportunities creating children’s books, and have […]
It is strange the inordinate amount of time it took me to figure out how they transmogrified the Prince Valiant half page into a tabloid page. Far longer than it should have. Frazz, B.C., and Over The Hedge, on weird winters. I mentioned last week about James Allen‘s new art style. Well… this week the […]
The Morning Star, a British daily, apologized Sunday for a cartoon it ran Tuesday:The Morning Star apologises unreservedly for the publication last Tuesday of a cartoon which was offensive to trans people. The cartoon had not been authorised for publication and its appearance in the print edition represents a failure to follow our own procedures […]
original February 17 item:In The New Mexican Rhymes With Orange will move into Feuti’s Retail space. The comic strip Retail, a fixture on The New Mexican‘s daily comics page for years, is closing up shop. Saturday’s strip will mark the end of Retail‘s daily syndication run after more than 14 years. The strip’s creator, Norm […]
Lio may be on the right track.One advantage of a parliamentary system is that elections can be called anytime but then they only last a few weeks.Yes, Brexit went on — has gone on — forever, but that’s an exception.Under a parliamentary system, the Democrats and Republicans would each choose a party leader and then […]
James Thurber‘s first drawings appeared in the The New Yorker dated ninety years ago today.In the New Yorker issue dated February 22, 1930 a short James Thurber contribution included two illustrations, the first Thurber drawings to appear in the magazine.[James Thurber’s words first appeared in the February 26, 1927 New Yorker, but since prose and […]
The Society of Illustrators has announced their 2020 Hall of Fame Laureates. Among this year’s inductees are a couple with comics backgrounds. 2020 Hall of Fame Inductee: Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (Mœbius)French artist, writer, and cartoonist Jean Henri Gaston Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim under the pseudonyms Mœbius and Gir. Born in the suburbs of Paris in […]
Snoopy (Peanuts Workdwide LLC) tweeted out a message to Franklin this morning and then quickly deleted it as some found it offensive (racist).The tweet was deleted so quickly that Truth or Fiction took it up, explaining the trouble:The phrase “You’re one of the good ones” is a backhanded compliment often proffered in racist or misogynist […]
We’ll lead off today with aJuxtaposition of the Day(Retail)(Rob Rogers)Transposed like this, the connection between the penultimate Retail strip and Rob Rogers’ piece of Bill Barr is more obvious than I expected it to be.Back in the glory days of PBS, Ebert & Siskel used to criticize what they called an Idiot Plot, defined as […]
Cartoonist Nicola Cuti has passed away.Nicola (Nick) Cuti October 29, 1944 – February 21, 2020 News of Nick’s passing was made public on his Facebook page:Legendary comic creator Nicola Cuti, whose career has spanned over fifty years, has died. Sources close to the family have reported that Cuti passed in Tampa on Friday, February 21, 2020, […]
Arlo plays the old gaffer yet again.I was going to make a joke about how “Seven O’Clock Straight Up” means “without ice,” but, then again, we’re living in a world where people assume a martini is made with vodka.And I grew up in a world in which not only is a martini, by definition, made […]
When I opened my annual “American Association of Editorial Cartoonists Notebook”, our trade journal, the bell tolled for my profession, page by page, cartoonist by cartoonist. The Golden Age of Oliphant, MacNelly and Paul Conrad is long gone. This year our annual AAEC convention will convene in Ottawa with our Canadian colleagues because our numbers […]
Ed Hall offers a commentary on an item from Dear Leader’s budget, which eliminates funding for Stars and Stripes, the newspaper that has kept the military informed since the Civil War, operating out of the Department of Defense but with full First Amendment rights and a separate congressional ombudsman to protect them.It is, of course, […]
Lincoln Peirce‘s multimedia success (popular comic strip, best selling comic collections and illustrated novels, musical theatre) is now getting a Nickolodeon animated series.Animation Magazine reports:On Wednesday, Nickelodeon detailed its new, wide-ranging content slate for 2020-21, with a brand-new book-inspired animated series amid several live-action originals… Greenlit for 26 episodes, Big Nate is an all-new animated […]