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 […]
Some TimesEarlier this year the Portuguese cartoonist António Moreira Antunes drew one of the most controversial political cartoons in history. His cartoon about U.S.-Israeli relations sparked so much controversy that The New York Times, whose international edition published it in April, decided to fire its two staff cartoonists, neither of whom had anything to do […]
Joe Heller is out in Wisconsin, where they have some pretty fabulous autumns, but his cartoon works equally well here in New England, though our heat wave was nothing like what I sweated through in Columbus this past week.However, I came home to find sweatshirt weather and a lot more color than I had left. […]
In cartoonist lingo, a “baby” is a cartoon. Cartoonists often speak of finding homes for their babies, or places of publication. However, the term “babies” in this exhibition has other meanings as well. They refer to the artists themselves, young in age or their careers.In its nearly 100-year history, the [New Yorker] magazine has published […]
Far from being admired as an extraordinary genius, Leonardo da Vinci was repeatedly lampooned and teased about his unusual red hair and his unconventional sexuality by other leading artists of his day. Although the work of the great Italian was popular in his time, an extensive new study of the artist to be published this […]
Sports reporter, writer, and cartoonist Hype Igoe is among those on the ballot for the 2020 International Boxing Hall of Fame in the Observers category.ESPN reports:The International Boxing Hall of Fame, which in July reduced the wait for eligibility to three years, released the ballot for the 2020 election cycle and it is loaded with […]
After nearly a week of odd isolation — five days with no company beyond some of the most brilliant editorial cartoonists in the country — Ann Telnaes and Mo come home to find something strange rolling down the street.I don’t know about the other attendees, but I had enough of a superficial view of the […]