With the news that The Far Side is returning, in some fashion; and we are only months away from celebrating 40 years since Gary Larson began running the Far Side, the San Francisco Chronicle has dug up that January 1, 1980, Tuesday page, where it debuted.“Laugh in the New Year,” The Chronicle headline read. “The […]
Norm is a realistic good father, since he can summon his childlike alter ego at will and sometimes not at will, yet he can also, as here, be a bit of a curmudgeon. Thank goodness Reine doesn’t take that latter part too seriously.I never went to a pediatrician, even my first few years when we […]
Two years ago, in October 2017, Brian and Karen Fies’ home was among the thousands that burned to the ground in the infamous Tubbs Fire. In late March [2019], nearly 18 months after Fies and his wife Karen fled the wildfire that destroyed roughly 3,000 Santa Rosa homes and more than 5,300 countywide, they finally […]
Some Sunday comic strips (quite a few really) have a set grid of panels. Blondie has a nine-grid, Garfield has an eight-grid – always. Since not long after it’s 1970 debut Doonesbury has been set in a nine-panel Sunday layout.These constant layouts and panel sizes allow Sunday Color Comics Sections the option of squeezing in […]
Ben Garrison is almost certainly the most reviled cartoonist among cartoonists, not because he is conservative — there are several conservative cartoonists in the “agree to disagree” category — but because he is ham-handed and, as seen in this recent piece, prone to concepts that, if not clinically paranoid, are at least doctrinaire to the […]
Newspaper readers are not happy with newspaper cartoonists. “I was shocked and dismayed” Bruce PlanteOur police department protects its citizens each and every day and night. Officers’ lives are on the line. They are dedicated to this service, or they would not be serving. By publishing this cartoon, you are making fun of our entire police […]
We’ll begin with a reminder from Non Sequitur that not everything said for laughs should be taken at face value, or as a deliberate, or even accidental, insult.The topic of “political correctness” came up repeatedly at last weeks’ conference, particularly in connection with social media. Prime example was the cartoon that caused the NYTimes to clutch […]
Some strips that struck a cord this week.It seems both writer Francesco Marciuliano and artist Jim Keefe are having fun with their long October night in Sally Forth. Some scenes: JumpStart on comic strip fans – fantastic or fanatic? The Ghost Who Walks daily: Will Henry plays with his signature: But what have you […]
Somehow, both fans and detractors got it twisted debating last year’s surprise reinvention of Nancy—an 80-year-old newspaper comic strip now in the mischievous hands of a web cartoonist who draws under the pseudonym Olivia Jaimes. For all its extremely online references, tech-centric gags, and metanarrative flourishes, the new Nancy is not a radical departure from […]
(photo: Howard Lipin/The San Diego Union-Tribune)Lalo Alcaraz, like many cartoonists, has diversified. He no longer is strictly a pen-on-paper (stylus-on-wacom?) man for editorial cartoons and his La Cucaracha comic strip.More recently, he’s worked as a cultural consultant on the Pixar film “Coco” and the upcoming animated Nickelodeon show, “The Casagrandes.” He recently met with The […]
The North Platte Telegraph is accepting submissions for comic strips. Simply download the submission form (link below), use one or both of the templates to draw your original comic strip, and mail it (or bring it in) to The Telegraph. Your comic strip could be printed in The North Platte Telegraph*! *The North Platte Telegraph […]
This Andertoons doesn’t require a lot of explanation, though you have to be old enough to remember giant, air-conditioning-required, tape-driven mainframe computers.My first major freelance job was working for a company whose entire business was keeping track of oil and gas leases for landowners on one of those behemoths.I was charged with writing a users […]
Mike Smith is the long-time editorial cartoonist for the Las Vegas Sun, a liberal-leaning paper inserted, due to a JOA, into a conservative-leaning paper. Which may explain:My voicemail message stating that threats will be archived is a reflection of the times. Reaction from readers has become more personal, threatening and angry in nature. I welcome […]
Let’s start with Kal Kallaugher’s response to watching the President break down in front of our eyes.According to “The Final Days,” Woodward and Bernstein’s follow-up to “All the President’s Men,” Nixon became quite unglued as the prospect of impeachment loomed more and more likely, but I suppose the price we pay for Trump’s “authenticity” is […]
September 27, 2019: The first B.C. strip where the Fat Broad is addressed as Jane appeared. From Patti Hart: Last month we told you we would explain the name choices. Pretty simple really. Bobby’s mom was Janie Indiana Finch. Johnny’s mom was Grace Anna Brown. Patti and Perri thought it would be nice to honor […]