Shareholders have approved the merger of Gatehouse (New Media) and Gannett.Below are some outtakes of the Rick Edmonds article for Poynter:The combination will take place Tuesday, Nov. 19. The deal had been announced in mid-August as a $1.4 billion purchase of Gannett by New Media. But New Media shares have declined so much in the […]
SAT, DEC 14 AT 5 PM EST Memorial for Tom Spurgeon The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum The Spurgeon Family and the Billy Ireland are setting up a memorial service for Tom.From the Billy Ireland:Our community is grieving an incalculable loss today. Thomas Spurgeon, friend, donor, member of our National Advisory Council and Executive […]
Ann Telnaes shows off her caricature chops with a portfolio of views from the hearings, and, while not overtly analyzing the proceedings, manages to both capture the moment and slip the knife between the ribs here and there.The hearings brought me back to Watergate days, because while there were a few times you were glued […]
Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon has passed away.From Tom’s brother Whit:R.I.P. to my amazing brother Thomas Spurgeon. He lived one hell of an amazing life, and I love him.Thomas Martin (Tom) Spurgeon December 16, 1968 – November 13, 2019From the obituary:Tom Spurgeon, a writer, editor, journalist and historian whose lifelong passion was not just comics, but […]
Eddie Campbell reviews Screwball for The Comics Journal:Screwball follows an isolated strain of comics history as opposed to those other books that tell the whole lot decade by decade or by lining up a canon of masters. Which is not say it isn’t linear: from Fred Opper to Boody Rogers, editor Paul Tumey locates fifteen […]
Sousa and Machado set the scene today, as I try to reconcile history remembered with history in the making.History itself is a slippery thing, and Stephen Dedalus never quite explained his aphorism about history being a nightmare from which he was trying to awake, but, then again, he lived in Ireland, of which Chesterson said […]
Forget Classics Illustrated, let’s read Classics Cartooned.I’m Katie, and I’ve been drawing single-panel cartoons for the past eight years. I love silly puns, drawing, and reading, and these cartoons are a celebration of great books, authors, and literary tropes. I draw these with felt pens on paper, and then, because I am a bit technologically […]
Earlier this year a Daniel Brannan cartoon caused a bit of a fuss. Well, Daniel is not one to let the dust settle.From the Coeur d’Alene Press at the beginning of this month:Bigoted postcards arrived in Coeur d’Alene mailboxes Thursday, prompting outrage and solidarity from community leaders and candidates. The postcard, postmarked with Tuesday’s date […]
David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek are taking next week off from Jumble (again).Daily Jumble guest creators for the week of November 18 – 23, 2019 are Ron Ferdinand (Marcus Hamilton?) Dan McConnell John Hambrock Lincoln Peirce Scott Hilburn Bunny Hoest and John Reiner As mentioned above this has, since 2013, become an annual event: 2018 […]
Clay Bennett plows no new ground with this piece and, as is often the case with his work, you have to sort through how much you like the art versus how much you like the message, because, aside from the caricature, check out the desk itself, the coloring, etc.But if he’d drawn it with his […]
Ernie Poignant was born a few months after the end of World War 1, which made him of age to serve in World War 2. Today, a few months shy of his 101st birthday, Ernie was a guest of honor at Remembrance Day ceremonies.A legendary cartoonist and Second World War veteran came back to his […]
Current bid is more than $800.https://www.ebay.com/itm/283665656642From ebay:Winning bidder will receive an original Pearls Before Swine comic strip, custom signed to winning bidder by Stephan Pastis, pen and ink on 17″ by 5.5″ paperA Letter of Authenticity for this item will be provided by Homes For Our Troops.Item Details: Cartoonist: Stephan Pastis Cartoon: Pearls Before Swine Size: 17″ x […]
Amid all the cartoons of kids-saluting-ghosts and variations on Iwo Jima, Paul Fell drops an observation which is less cynical than simply realistic.You could write a book called “Whatever Happened To Veteran’s Day?” as part of a series, or bundle it all into a single book called “The Homogenization of America.”I don’t have a lot […]
His whole life, Howard Weistling wanted to be a comic strip artist. But in December 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. And Weistling felt compelled to enlist. He trained to be an aircraft mechanic with the Army in Gila Bend. [Howard Weistling’s grandson] Mike, who lives in Flagstaff, said after flight engineer training Howard was […]
To be recognized in Utah politics one needs to appear in a Pat Bagley cartoon. For a Utah politician, there might be no higher honor than being mocked in a Pat Bagley cartoon. “If you’re the subject of a Bagley cartoon, you must be doing something right,” said former Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Republican who […]