Today’s lead-off was an odd coincidence, since it appeared the day after a conversation at the dog park with a Spanish teacher and my friend who speaks Brazilian Portuguese, about the need to not only teach kids a second language but to teach them about the culture in which it is spoken.One of the oddities […]
Remember 60, 70 years ago when annotated collections of Mauldin and Herblock cartoons were published with appreciated regularity? Truth be told I got most of mine later on from used bookstores. But I was reminded of those when the Tribune Content Agency offered up a pdf of Kevin Kreneck‘s “Dangerous Days and Really Long Nights: […]
Editorial and alternative cartoonist Tim Eagan has passed away.Timothy Charles (Tim) EaganMay 31st, 1944 – August 25th, 2025From the obituary: …The Government major carried him to Hastings College of the Law and to a brief career of practicing law, most notably as a Deputy District Attorney in and around San Jose, California. But he was […]
Pickles provides us with an excellent starting point, because, as noted here yesterday, we should keep some sense of humor amid the wreckage of a fine country. Not only does it give us the spirit to keep going, but it gives us the strength to keep resisting.Most Americans aren’t in any great danger of being […]
NEW YORK (PIX11) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams took jabs at Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in a political cartoon posted on his X account Saturday evening. Matthew Euzarraga for PIX11 reports that NYC Mayor Eric Adams and his team has posted a (what looks to be an AI generated Joseph Nebus, below, has […]
[Jerry] Dowling was The Enquirer’s sports cartoonist from 1967 to 1995, covering the best period of Cincinnati sports. The Reds of the 1970s, the Bengal’s beginnings and two Super Bowls, the rise and fall of Pete Rose. At 85 he’s still drawing. I noticed on his drawing table unfinished caricatures of Courtis Fuller and the […]
I’ve seen this Paul Noth cartoon before, but he’s run it on his current blog and it seems timely though I wish it didn’t. There’s also a social media comment that seems applicable: “Elect a clown, expect a circus,” though he’s wrong: We’re not the only ones who don’t find things so funny.This Sipress piece […]
A roundup of various news items about comic strips and comic strip cartoonists. Synchronous Syndicate Symposium First is Comics Kingdom throwing a spotlight on Mort Walker’s Beetle Bailey. Seventy-five years. That’s how long Mort Walker’s Beetle Bailey has been making readers laugh, wink, and occasionally nod in recognition at life’s small absurdities. From his very […]
Before we get too far away from last Sunday… WallpaperA few “wallpaper” (where the image remains the same) strips Sunday with Macanudo, Slylock Fox, and Doonesbury. The Slylock Sunday included the above Two Scenes Alike feature plus Spot the Differences and How to Draw components so it had a lot of sameness on their Sunday […]
Parodies of official seals are a standard tool in the cartoonist’s magic box, but they can be hit-or-miss. Boris nails this one largely because the purpose of the FCC is so at odds with its current execution, so the irony of its malfeasance is striking and mockery of it is darkly humorous.Today’s headline is a […]
A few cartoonists of late have paid tribute to the giants that preceded them. For example: Lalo Alcaraz doing Jack Kirby. Michael de Adder does Joe Shuster. Dan Piraro memorializes Ernie BushmillerLalo Alcaraz, again, riffing on Gary Larson.And RJ Matson reworks Norman Rockwell. Finally Berkeley Breathed interrupts his The Bloom County Boys for a throwback […]
Award winning editorial cartoonist Jack Ohman (Sigma Delta Chi, RFK Humanitarian, Thomas Nast, National Headliner, Scripps Howard, and on and on, including The Pulitzer when it meant something) and former president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and a fly fisherman has been a political cartoonist for nearly 50 years. Jack has seen the […]
The Chinese have their water torture and the Australians, well the National Cartoon Gallery anyway, have their own form of torment. This year’s Rotary Cartoon Awards were held two weeks ago but the disclosure of the winning cartoonists and the runners-up were announced one day at a time since the ceremony. But we finally have […]
The Walt Disney Co. will acquire a 2% equity stake in Webtoon Entertainment Inc., a digital comic and novel platform operator owned by South Korea’s internet giant Naver Corp., as they team up to build a new digital comics platform featuring the US entertainment giant’s marquee brands, including Marvel and Star Wars. Sookyung Seo at […]
The Constitution turned 238 yesterday, including the first 10 amendments, aka “The Bill of Rights.”In case you’ve forgotten, or went to a school that didn’t teach history, it was a struggle to come up with a governing document that everyone could agree with. There was a substantial debate in the newspapers between Founders who believed […]