Joe Heller‘s cartoon suggests that Jeffrey Epstein’s death has ended what would have been a series of scandals and downfalls.However, I would point out that anyone familiar with cemetery vandalism knows otherwise and that this is a simple case of Fudd’s First Law of Opposition: “If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.”But […]
The National Cartoonists Society is celebrating Popeye‘s 90th year (and Olive Oyl‘s 100th) by auctioning off a number of specialty drawings and other art and comic books for the benefit of the National Cartoonist Society Foundation.The National Cartoonists Society is celebrating the jubilees of these two beloved comic strip and cartoon characters with an auction […]
Once again going down the trail Mike blazed. Earlier in the story: The Ghost Who Walks walks a little slower this morning. Tawky Tawny… makes a guest appearance in Little Oop. 50 years ago, on August 8, 1969, The Beatles strolled across Abbey Road. I gotta believe Dan Thompson knew about that anniversary eight weeks ago. The […]
Either this was an outstanding day on the comics page or my new policy of reading the funny stuff before I dive into political diatribes and get all hostile and depressed is working.Possibly both. I did find a couple of good political cartoons, but they’ll wait until tomorrow.Let’s read some funnies! And, to start things off, […]
Earlier today Mike Peterson mentioned some events happening in non-Upstate New York. Well, if you are headed to Upstate New York sometime in the next two months you may want stop by the Ellenville Public Library and Museum for R. Robert Pollak‘s “A Cavalcade of American Newspaper Comic Strip Art” exhibit.It features Pollak’s collection of […]
Timing is everything, and while this Kevin Siers cartoon references something happening in his hometown of Charlotte, it comes as the apartment house next door to me is on the verge of being converted to an independent living home for special needs people.Which is a worthy cause and they’ll be good neighbors, but they’re displacing […]
The Palatka (Florida) Daily News ran Joe Heller‘s first cartoon following the weekend slaughter.TV in Jacksonville couldn’t believe the newspaper in Palakta would print such a cartoon “just days after – what a weekend of – violent weekend of mass shootings.” (I think that was the idea.)So they sent a reporter out on the streets […]
Comic book artist Ernie Colón has passed away.Ernie Colón (Ernesto Colón Sierra de Cordobes y Lopez) July 13, 1031 – August 8, 2019ME: If I’m not mistaken, your complete name is Ernesto Sierra de Cordobes Y Lopez Colón , isn’t it? Can you explain to our readers its origin? ERNIE: My name is Ernesto Colo’n […]
Real Life Adventures comes as close to politics as we’re going to get today, because it’s Friday Funnies. But it’s a reminder of why we have Friday Funnies.I’m starting a procedure which worked well for me during the 2016 election season, which is to read the funnies — i.e., the strips as opposed to the […]
Above is the last issue of MAD. (Or not.)#9 is dated October 2019 and on the shelves of bookstores, grocery stores, and newsstands now.Somehow I find it fitting that the latest issue of MAD has a television satire of a fake series.This is the big Tarantino issue with my cover and a 5 page parody […]
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” […]