Paul Fell seems to echo my thoughts of the other day when I recalled how Jay Leno torpedoed Bob Dole’s presidential campaign not by satirizing his policy proposals but simply by mocking him as too old for the job.Fell isn’t the only commentator to note the disarray in Democratic ranks, and to suggest that there’s […]

Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood takes place in 1969 and it is filled with meticulously researched and re-created period detail. Leonardo DiCaprio plays television star Rick Dalton, whose western series was once a big hit but whose career has faded. How bad is it for Rick? He’s relegated to doing guest shots on […]

…Then there’s Non Sequitur. It’s typically witty. Often irreverent. Sometimes laugh-out-loud funny. And nearly always a little weird. Or a lot weird. Its creator, Wiley Miller, has never been afraid of using his obscure humor to poke fun at presidents representing both sides of the aisle. But many felt Miller went too far back in […]

Take this quandary from Munroe’s latest book, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems (Riverhead, Sept.): “How to Move.” On the surface, the problem is simple enough: transporting stuff from one place to another presents no immediately confounding issues, beyond the obvious. “At some point in the move,” Munroe writes, “many people take […]

Thanks, Greg Cravens.It’s always particularly nice when a cartoonist puts one of the things you’ve thought to yourself into graphic form, and even nicer when it’s a wise-ass observation.And even nicer than that when it’s a wise-ass observation you never get to share because it occurs to you when you are, if not alone, at […]

The Fort Hood Sentinel welcomes back the Another Monday comic panel by Chaplain (Maj) Stephen Dicks to its pages.“Another Monday” is back. Due to a recent permanent change of station back to the Great Place, Chaplain (Maj.) Stephen Dicks, 1st Cavalry Division Artillery chaplain, will be a regular contributor to the Sentinel, injecting his artwork […]

Young cartoonist Colby Stith has snagged a spot in Colony Magazine, a monthly distributed to the coastal area north of Los Angeles. Colby’s Tales From Eno panel will appear monthly beginning in August 2019.Colby said that he’s been drawing comic strips since he was in the second grade and worked with his cousin on a […]

In just four months Counterpoint has been so successful that it has added a second weekly edition to its output. As explained when they opened it up to us:We are more than just a roundup of recycled editorial cartoons from syndication; Counterpoint pays for original content. When we publish our newsletter, these are a collection […]

When I was a lad of 16, I trained to earn the Red Cross’s Junior Life Saver designation. It required passing a variety of swim tests, with the finale being a simulated rescue of a drowning swimmer.My “victim” was a camp counselor who, during the school year, played lacrosse at Cornell and, while lacrosse players […]

Earlier this year the Ruston Daily Leader switched out some of their comic strips. Sounds like they had a few complaints.A few months ago, we changed the comics (or “funnies”) package that runs in the printed Ruston Daily Leader each day. We’ve heard much feedback from the community… So please take the time to check up to […]

The famous 1,000-to-1 words-to-picture ratio may be understated when it comes to the political cartoon. A case can be made that public opinion has, over time, been more often shaped by these artists than by the words of their polemicist colleagues on the nation’s editorial pages. A salient political point made with humor can pack […]

Harry’s, a UK-based toiletries company, has added comic strips to their mystery item program.Harry’s introduced the Mystery Item programme to their online retail experience in 2018, one year after the brand was founded. It has now become a permanent offer and has risen to become their second most popular product. Items that the customer has […]

I’m not prepared to anoint David Fitzsimmons as the next Nostradamus or even Jeanne Dixon, but he did run this cartoon before last night’s debates.I started to watch the debates, but the Jeopardy! format put me off.Actually, a Jeopardy! format might have been kind of fun: Each candidate could select a question from a column […]

AMP Kids has reinvigorated their blog with a new series – Comics 101.Amp Kids is Andrews McMeel‘s publishing arm for young readers. Among others things they have recently started a more or less weekly series about Comics for Kids. Why Comics are Great for Kids (and Libraries)The numbers speak for themselves: When libraries add a comics/graphic […]

On Friday, July 26 (above), Ray Billingsley started a story line in his Curtis comic strip.This week Ray introduced a new character.  My disappointment comes from, after two days of “Quincy Shearer,” none of the commenters mentioning the origin of that name.Quincy by Ted Shearer was a classic, and one of a small group of […]