This is going to be a text-heavy blog, so let’s warm up first with a couple of cartoons. (Oh, it’s also going to feature more cartoons I disagree with than usual, but we can take that up next month in Columbus.) For instance, I greatly admire the work of Jack Ohman, but here he feeds into […]
The Fusco Brothers by J. C. Duffy first appeared on August 7, 1989. It celebrated the anniversary with today’s strip.Duffy has been a cartoonist for “longer than I’d care to calculate,” with this strip appearing in print and online newspapers and other work appearing in publications such as The New Yorker, Mad and The Wall […]
Wiley Miller, the cartoonist behind the popular “Non Sequitur,” told an audience for the first time Monday that he almost lost his livelihood and marriage after he scrawled a vulgar note to President Donald Trump that appeared in newspapers nationwide. He and his wife lost their dream home and moved to another state following the […]
From the 2018 Departures listing:BREWED ON GRANT by Rob Rogers September 10, 1997 – May 23, 2018 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette weekly/irregularI am happy to have to amend that entry. Rob Rogers‘ local-to-Pittsburgh comic strip is returning via the Pittsburgh Current.Since he was fired last year by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers has consistently heard one […]
Over in Prickly City, Carmen has been searching for normalcy and Winslow has been denying it means what she thinks it means.The problem with cynicism — a philosophy I tend to align with — is that, while it can provide a comforting sense of stability, it can also lead to inertia.“It’s always been this way” […]
Spring of 2019 and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell proudly takes on the mantle of the Grim Reaper when Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi uses a prop to show Senate inaction on House bills. “She’s got it right,” McConnell said about Pelosi. “For the first time in my memory, I’m going to agree with […]
“Peanuts,” Schulz once said, “deals in defeat.” At its core, the comic parses existential angst, strip by strip—not Cold War anxiety, a cloud under which “Peanuts” developed and flourished, but the garden-variety anxieties found in everyday life. Charlie Brown is the comic’s everyman, adept at losing one day and still rising the next to see […]
Viacom has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Paws, Inc., the entity that holds all global intellectual property rights to both “Garfield” as well as “U.S. Acres,” another Davis creation, including corresponding rights related to content, consumer products, and location-based experiences. The acquisition is expected to close in the upcoming weeks. Financial terms were […]
Steve Sack lays it out in unmistakable, inarguable terms. The excuses simply don’t stand up to any even half-serious inspection.You can quibble a little over the video game panel, which I’d expand to our vulgar, violent media culture generally. There are some countries that don’t let it in, though a list of those cautious nations […]
95 years ago today Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray appeared.Earlier this year Annie made a guest appearance in the Dick Tracy comic strip. 45 years ago today Tank McNamara by Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds debuted.A look at the tife and hard limes of Tank. Tank McNamara today. Charles Schulz is well-known as a friendly guy, […]
Two of the country’s largest newspaper companies have agreed to combine in the latest media deal driven by the industry’s struggles with a decline of printed editions. GateHouse Media, a chain backed by an investment firm, is buying USA Today owner Gannett Co. for $12.06 a share in cash and stock, or about $1.4 billion. […]
(I’m going to take a day to let the more serious editorial commentary catch up.) I find it most encouraging that Wallace the Brave is of a generation that wears helmets without thinking too hard about it.Helmets came up with the re-emergence of skateboards, so my kids caught some of it, but they had to be […]
It’s a Wiley Miller weekend in Spokane, Washington. Yesterday the Spokane Spokesman-Review featured a couple pages touting the return of the Non Sequitur comic to the newspaper. Today it continues with the return of the comic strip tp the newspaper’s funny pages.But there’s more.First Wiley apologizes:Remorse is an understatement. I’m gutted by my own poor […]
In the fury of reactions to last night’s outrage, Pia Guerra responds with such quiet eloquence that there’s a temptation to simply run her piece and call it a day.Here we are, and the pickup truck behind her might be that of the murderer, judging from what we see on the bumper and what we […]
The 2019 NFL season is a month away, but preseason is here. And so are the Chicago Bears as the Monsters of the Midway, with a new team and a new comic strip.or, as Stan Lee would put it, The new Monsters: Some of the “villains” they will face this season: Can’t find any direct credits, until that […]