Happy Birthday Vic Carrabotta, born June 24, 1929! Vic becomes the latest creator to join the Senior Strippers roster. A list of cartoonists who for 90+ years continue to survive “the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to.”Below is, as best as I can determine, a list of cartoonists who continue to carry on […]
Doc and Raider is starting a new arc that I’ll be watching with interest, because I’m increasingly unsure about any kind of normality, much less “heteronormativity,” which Wikipedia defines as “the belief that heterosexuality, predicated on the gender binary, is the norm or default sexual orientation.”Teen Vogue, which tends to tackle hard topics, has this […]
The New York Daily News is celebrating its centennial today, a couple days early. The first issue of The Illustrated News appeared June 26, 1919. Today, the Sunday Daily News celebrated with a 120 page anniversary insert. New York newspaper collector and historian Michael Vassallo describes the insert:It weighs in at 120 pages although 65 of those pages […]
Wishing Frank Bolle a Happy 95th and hoping he is well.Over decades Frank has given us so much:Debbie Deere Encyclopedia Brown Best Seller Showcase Children’s Tales Plus Frank did, assisted on, or ghosted The Girls of Apartment 3-G, Rip Kirby Winnie Winkle, Annie, Prince Valiant, The Heart of Juliet Jones, Annie, Mary Perkins On Stage, […]
When Dan Piraro handed over the Mon-Sat Bizarros to Wayno, it was so he could concentrate on Sundays, and this one shows the value of that.You can, if you wish, start with the detail on the parrot and the pigeons, but I’d direct your attention to the variation in coloring on the sky, on the […]
Paul Winters has updated the status of Gahan Wilson showing him drawing.From Paul:He has been talking about how happy he is to be alive. I think he channeled it into his drawing. He called the creature a “happy monster”.The fund to provide care for Gahan has stalled at around 60% for a while now. If […]
It was a warm October day in 1962. I was a sophomore at South Side High School in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, excelling in art class, in other subjects, not so much. I was on the staff of the school newspaper as a cartoonist and illustrator. My goals in life were to be an illustrator like […]
The problem with creative people is they get more ideas than they can use in their regular line of work. Cartoonists are no exception. It was seven years ago this month when Leigh Rubin got the initial idea. Now, most of Rubin’s ideas get channeled into “Rubes,” the cartoon panel he creates that appears daily […]
The mirror-polished, stainless steel’s gleam is impossible to miss in Encore Boston Harbor’s garden esplanade. The Popeye sculpture bought by former Wynn Resorts CEO Steve Wynn in 2014 has made it to its intended home five years later. The 6-foot-5, 2,000-pound sculpture was installed earlier this [month] by the garden esplanade and will remain wrapped […]
I recently likened Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to the middle-school bully who repeatedly pokes his finger in someone’s chest, hoping to get a response so he can say “He swung first.”Darrin Bell reverses things, and I don’t disagree. Can you imagine if Iran flew a drone off our Atlantic Coast and then tried to argue over […]
Michael Maslin celebrates 50 years of George Booth contributing to the New Yorker, from June 1969 to June 2019, with some history and a bunch of visual treats.
I thought, since Mike mostly foregoes politics on Fridays, today would be a good time to update the reaction to the New York Times cartoon ban. But the AAEC beat me with their roundup earlier today. Though I think I can find a few cartoons if not editorials..It’s easy when Keith Knight puts out The […]
Hogan’s Alley magazine has released their annual photo album of the Reuben Awards.Along with The Dinner they also cover the NCSFest weekend, and add a Sergio Aragonés display.Almost 200 photos of cartoonists having fun.
I’ll start by not directing you to a particularly silly article by an academic type who explains why we’re all wrong to think political cartoons still matter, in the middle of which she mentioned political cartoons in the New Yorker, which made me guffaw and post a tweet about how ridiculous it was that she […]
Your life is extremely busy these days, with the production of both editorial cartoons and two daily comic strips. Which is more difficult—the editorial work or the strips? I’d have to say the editorial cartoons. It’s almost performance art—something breaks on the news, and you only have a few hours to respond, to make deadline. I […]