Saturday September 14, 2019: Keith Knight has spent the past week hinting that he was ending his The Knight Life daily strip. Beginning the week with a fortune cookie, and ending the dailies with fulfilling a Make-A-Wish type grant on Saturday September 14, 2019 (above).It was probably inevitable, what with Keith heavily involved in his […]
Starting with a blank panel this morning because I don’t want to single anyone out, nor do I want to run a half-dozen or more cartoons all pointing out that Bernie Sanders sure does talk loud.I guess they hadn’t noticed before.When I moved back East a little over 30 years ago, Bernie was already mayor […]
Artist and cartoonist Mary Zins has passed away.Mary Catherine (MC) Zins ?June 2, 1964? – August 22, 2019 From the obituary:…our sister will always be remembered as a gifted and talented artist that eventually blossoms into an outstanding, Internationalist Fine Art Cartoonist e.g., cartoonmovement. Whom mimicked her father, Chuck Zins, a great commercial illustrator with an […]
Editor and Publisher recently asked a couple of young editors for their thoughts on the recent firings of editorial cartoonists by a few newspapers.Firing editorial cartoonists for their controversial art not only violates their right to free speech, but it robs the public of the full story. What newspapers choose to publish, or not to […]
From Fine Books & Collections:Washington, D.C. — A new exhibition at the Library of Congress explores the fascinating evolution of visual storytelling styles in comic art – from panels in early newspapers to contemporary images of some of the most famous and funny characters in print. Comic Art: 120 Years of Panels and Pages opened […]
The Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., for the next four months, is presenting The Comic Art of Lynn Johnston.The Embassy of Canada is pleased to present The Comic Art of Lynn Johnston, an art exhibition exploring the career of Canadian comic artist Lynn Johnston and the themes of her popular comic strip For Better or […]
Bizarro offers more politics than usual, but maybe this has been on Wayno’s mind as much as it’s been on mine.This meme from Occupy Democrats has been popping up regularly on my feeds. I don’t trust the group — they rarely give sources for their frantic accusations and, as with most of the ones I’ve […]
From the site:Uncommon, unreal, and (soon-to-be) unfrozen. A new online era of The Far Side is coming!
Mike beat me to the famous Walt Kelly phrase, but here are a few examples of Churchy’s paraskevidekatriaphobia. An early superstition strip: A week of Pogo and a weak Churchy: Whistling past the graveyard. HORRA-BLATZ! More of the wonderful Walt Kelly at Thomas Haller Buchanan’s Pogo in Pandemonia and Whirled of Kelly and Fantagraphics’ Complete Syndicated Pogo by […]
Last night I pulled out two bankers’ boxes of old manuscripts and published works and papers from college and high school and began sorting them, mostly into “recyclable paper” and “recyclable cardboard” and “trash.”I ended up keeping a modest 4-inch stack of stuff that I think will not drive my heirs and assigns to ask, […]
From The Daily Mirror in the United Kingdom:After today’s comic showed Andy Capp joining an anti-Brexit march, [The Daily Mirror] went straight to the man himself to clear up what he really thinks about the biggest issue in British politics.Andy Capp responds:When you live your life in a blissful boozy haze as I do, there […]
While a mix of creativity and comics might suggest a family-friendly atmosphere — and as always, that depends on the family — Tuesday’s appearance by writer, illustrator, playwright and editor Lynda Barry might not be for more delicate tastes.In a statement that ponders why people crave art, Barry concludes with “Please note: There will be […]
above: the last editionExpress, a free daily tabloid published by The Washington Post and meant for the young commuter crowd, has printed its last edition today.The Post says WiFi in the Metro has made it easier for riders to read on their phones instead, and falling ridership on Metro hasn’t helped matters. But at the […]
Michael Ramirez salutes the victory of Osama bin Laden, who managed to both undermine our freedom and to keep us firmly in his grasp nearly two decades later.Not sure that was the intent of the cartoon, but look around.Our misplaced priorities are based on pre-existing, irrational Islamophobia, given a semi-rational basis by the horrors of […]
Lincoln Peirce, the creator of the “Big Nate” comic strip, spoke in front of a sold-out crowd at One Longfellow Square Tuesday about his love for “Peanuts,” his career as a cartoonist and the inspiration for some of his characters. Peirce was interviewed by the Portland Press Herald’s digital director and resident comics fan Chad Gilley […]