Mike Thompson leads off today’s roundup of graphic commentary on Congressional Republicans’ assault on the United States government, not only because it’s a dramatic image but because he points out the hypocrisy of the GOP pose of favoring “law and order” when the law is on their side, and ignoring it when it is not. And, […]
Now playing in the local Bijou Theater are some movies that would seem custom-made for advertising in a comic strip format. That supposes movie companies spend money on print advertising these days. In the past comic strips were used to promote movies, though I don’t want to imply that it was a frequent occurrence.Elsewhere on this […]
Edison Lee provokes a great deal more thought than I had been planning to pour into anything, but this question actually came up in my hometown a quarter century ago.A microburst ripped through the Adirondacks July 15, 1995, taking down half the trees on a 100,000 acre swath of destruction that included Star Lake. The most […]
Business Insider reports: The “book channel” – which includes chain bookstores and online retailers – is projected to surpass comic shops as the the largest channel for comics sales this year. There are two major reasons why this is happening: Graphic novels are growing in popularity primarily through the book channel and children’s comics, which […]
Ashlie D. Stevens:In March, Special Counsel Robert Mueller submitted the “Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election” to Attorney General William Barr. There had been a tremendous amount of speculation about its contents and what it would reveal about President Donald Trump and his relationship with the Russian government. The […]
Noted Minnesotan and caricaturist Tom Richmond is adding dates and cities to his Caricatures Workshop Tour. Burbank, Calif., Jan. 10th-12thLas Vegas, February 7th-9thTempe, Ariz., March 27th-29thChicago, April 17th-19thhttp://bit.ly/32UnpZb
Adam Zyglis offers a good jumping off place this morning, since, from here, we can go in a couple of different directions.The first is, of course, the arrogance of wealth combined with a sociopathic lack of empathy, and we don’t have to go back to Marie Antoinette to find a parallel. Though, to be fair, he’s […]
Cartoonist Ivan Brunetti:Charles Schulz exposed me as a fraud. Nearly two decades ago, upon hearing of Mr. Schulz’s impending retirement, I drew a clumsy comic strip tribute to Peanuts, fancying myself a halfway-decent mimic. I attempted to copy the strong, fluid lines of his mid-’50s work, which I long admired (idolized), but I quickly realized […]
On Oct. 17, 2018, almost exactly one year ago, I wrote a cover story about Jacksonville-born and –based political cartoonist Ed Hall, who had recently undergone treatment for colon and liver cancer. So I felt a twinge of déjà vu when I found myself on the phone with Hall last week, again discussing cancer treatment. […]
Even if you don’t know Gahan Wilson’s name, chances are very good that you’ve laughed at his creations. As one of the most legendary cartoonists of the last half century, his work appeared often in magazines like Playboy, and in National Lampoon, where his regular comic strip, “Nuts,” delved into the world of childhood trauma. […]
“I was appalled. I was very disappointed to see that our local paper put something like that in there,” Sheriff Spangler said. above: the offending Mike Thompson cartoon.KVLT8 in Knoxville continues:Sheriff Spangler comments reflect those mentioned in a formal letter that the sheriff’s office released in which he called the cartoon “wildly inappropriate.”The Letter to […]
Ah, trust David Rowe to capture the grotesque, self-centered ignorance that would lead Donald Trump to describe the investigations of his self-dealing corruption as a “lynching.”It is part of the “poor pitiful me” rightwing snowflakery we hear whenever someone is caught doing something wrong.As noted before, the Trump loyalists are protesting the fact that material […]
Here’s where it begins for me:When I say begins for me, I mean it figuratively; that strip ran on November 12, 1959, nearly two years before I was born. What I’m describing, rather, is a sensibility, a way of looking at, or engaging with, the world. I still remember the moment I stumbled across that […]
Bob Eckstein, cartoon editor of a new book, sits down with cartoonist Michael Maslin.Fittingly, when Michael Maslin sat down and interviewed Bob Eckstein it began with criticism of the current gag cartooning market.There are more cartoonists and cartoons than ever, and quite frankly too many to support in shrinking real estate for the work, in […]
Cartoonist Chris Wildt, who for decades has supplied local editorial cartoons for the Lewes, Delaware Cape Gazette and its readers, has amiably resigned from that position.This week marks the end of an era for readers of the Cape Gazette and for all of us who produce it for you. Chris Wildt, our longtime cartoonist, has […]