(RJ Matson)(Rob Rogers)We’ll start with an optimistic Juxtaposition that is at the heart of Liberal/Progressive thinking, which is that, if you do a good job of explaining things to people, they will make good choices.I say that only as an observation, not a condemnation, because, as a writer, I devote all my energy to explaining […]
National Cartoonists Society President Jason Chatfield has sent out a State of The Society message to members with a look to the future of the NCS – and the brand new website. With permission, here is Jason’s letter to the members: Hello, NCS! Well, here we are. Just another American job outsourced to an immigrant. In all […]
Before Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson was a freelancing cartoonist. Around 1983 one of his clients was the Mark Twain Journal. Recently Kirk H shared some of Watterson’s Mark Twain art on the GCD-Chat Google Group. A personal subscription to the Mark Twain Journal in 2019 includes a limited edition Mark Twain Journal mouse pad. The commissioned image […]
Start with an old man’s correction to a lot of Moon Landing cartoons.It was not the Moon landing that made people aware of the need to preserve the Earth. It was Apollo 8, seven months earlier, from which this iconic photo of the Big Blue Marble was taken.Seeing the Earth rise over the Moon’s horizon […]
It is being reported that Paul Krassner has passed away.From Politico:Paul Krassner, the publisher, author and radical political activist on the front lines of 1960s counterculture who helped tie together his loose-knit prankster group by naming them the Yippies, died Sunday in Southern California, his daughter said. Paul James Krassner April 9, 1932 – July 19, […]
Another Amazing Spider-Man story started today (July 21, 2019) in the newspaper comic strip. I was about to say a new story but this is a strip originally published March 15, 1915 2015. above: the July 21, 2019/March 15, 2015 Amazing Spider-Man Sunday stripIf they continue to run the entire Marvella/Hobgoblin/>spoiler<Black Widow sequence it will […]
Mark Streeter, a Savannah Georgia cartoonist for 45 year with over 25 of those on staff with The Morning News, is bid a fond farewell by the newspaper.Today marks the end of an era at the Savannah Morning News as Mark Streeter’s editorial cartoon is his last as a staffer. Streeter has been a part […]
But first, one of my excursions into barely semi-relevant commentary, because today’s Speed Bump reminded me of the last dogsled race I went to.Dogsled races are basically an excuse to stand around, drink hot chocolate and talk to your neighbors, and in snow country in February, you don’t have enough of those.You send all the […]
NEW YORK, July 15, 2019 – King Features Syndicate, a unit of Hearst and home to some of the world’s most popular entertainment characters, today announced its newest international agent, Lovatts Media, who will be representing its syndication business in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, New Guinea, Papua and the Solomon Islands.King Features’ new partnership with […]
The Eisner Awards were handed out last night at the San Diego Comic Con.Some comic strip and cartoon related winners and nominees (winners in bold):BEST ARCHIVAL COLLLECTION/PROJECT — STRIPS * Pogo, vol. 5: Out of This World At Home, Walt Kelly, edited by Mark Evanier and Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics) * Sky Masters of the Space […]
This Robert Cenedella poster seems like a kind of Grinchy way to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, but stick with me here, because the topic today is spin, lies and professionalism.I’m seeing a lot of political cartoons based on the idea that the Apollo landing united a fractured nation, which it did.For […]
Continuing the coverage of the New York Times cartoon ban. Swaha By now, even many who don’t normally pay attention to inside-journalism stories, have taken notice of the recent decision by The New York Times to cut all editorial cartoons from their international edition. In recent weeks, friends and strangers have messaged, and have even stopped […]
“That’s really all you can hope for. To make somebody, just for a second, take their mind off the worries and pressures of the day and just get a chuckle …”John Rose gets a nice nod from his alma mater. John Rose (James Madison University, ’86)
Jimmy Johnson is selling Arlo and Janis strip originals.Original art is becoming a rare commodity these days.As Jimmy explains:Did you know that original comic art is an endangered artform? Many young cartoonists and a rapidly growing cadre of established cartoonists produce their work digitally. There is no ink or paper, only a file. Even I […]
I don’t know if this Francis counts as “funny,” but it’s certainly apt.I have often noted, in discussing the increasing crudity and cruelty of our entertainment choices, that these medieval street shows pandered to the worst instincts of the mob, but that it didn’t matter, because the mob didn’t vote or otherwise have a say […]