The one thing all Americans can agree on is that Mick Mulvaney will be starring on “Dancing with the Stars” by Thanksgiving, which is better than sleeping with the fishes but then again much the same thing.Robert Ariail‘s cartoon is only one of several marking Mulvaney’s utterly bizarre press conference in which the only thing […]
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Nickelodeon has spun off “The Casagrandes” from their hit animated television series, “The Loud House.” The new series launched on October 14th and can be seen in regular rotation on the kids’ cable network.Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz is on the “Casagrandes” staff as a writer and a consulting producer. Lalo has also served on the team […]
I always hesitate before using Mo because it only comes out once a week and you really should be giving it clicks yourself. Still, at a time when I feel like we should all be panicking, her muted disappointment in the world echoes my own. By contrast, Jeff Stahler drops some for-real cynicism in today’s Moderately […]
Sid Jacobson was born 90 years ago today, and so joins our Senior Strippers club. Sid, born October 20, 1929, is probably most famous for being a longtime editor, and sometime writer, for the Harvey comic book company. Sid has a claim on creating Richie Rich. Though the Harvey kids are most recognizable, Sid began with […]
Last night The Ringo Awards were presented at the Baltimore Comic Con. Among the winners was Olivia Jaimes’ Nancy comic strip, and Matt Bors’ The Nib site. BEST COMIC STRIP OR PANEL * Amazing Spider-Man, Stan Lee/Larry Lieber, King Features Syndicate * Bloom County, Berkeley Breathed, Andrews McMeel Universal * Doonesbury, Garry Trudeau, Andrews McMeel […]
Original October 19 post: Charles Schulz’ Peanuts is one of the most successful and critically acclaimed comic strips around and for good reason. Schulz didn’t just aim to make simple greeting card jokes but wrote sincerely out of issues and anxieties within his own life, such as his childhood issues in school, complications in relationships, and […]
We’ll start today with an “I told you so,” illustrated by Wiley Miller, because I had been telling people to get up here and look at the leaves by Columbus Day Weekend.It was a very good, not quite spectacular year, with a lot of color though a little bit muted. Dr. Johnson said the Giant’s […]
Editorial Cartoonist Rusins Kaufmanis has passed away. Rusins Kaufmanis March 27, 1925 – September 20, 2019Globe and Mail cartoonist 1960 – ???? Ottawa Citizen editorial cartoonist 1963 – 1989From the Ottawa Citizen obituary:He remained interested in politics, people, and especially humour to the very end. In his last week, when initially told by a doctor […]
Andy Marlette cartoon from January 2019:I don’t remember a lot of fuss over this when it first appeared.But now, going out on Barbara Streisand’s Twitter feed yesterday – Boy Howdy! Renowned entertainer Barbra Streisand tweeted a gruesome cartoon on Saturday in an apparent attempt to express her displeasure with President Trump during his ongoing feud […]
So how is it that a politically potent art form has collapsed in the past few years to the point where perhaps two dozen full-time cartoonists work for US papers, as against hundreds a century ago? Simple, says Ted Rall, the country’s best-known “alternative” cartoonist: It was murdered. We think Ted Rall is right, which […]
Alex neatly answers my usual “where to start” question because I should have pointed out this development when it started, which was Monday. Start there and catch up.I don’t know if it’s a complete game change for the strip, which is generally centered on Britain’s business community, but, then again, it hardly matters because the […]
If you’re not happy with Christmas in stores before Halloween…I’m used to cartoonists getting a week or two into January before pasting the correct copyright notice on those strips. And maybe even getting a bit of a jump by doing it early, say the last week of December. But I think Dana Summers is so […]
Gary Varvel was recently interviewed by a local radio station. He acknowledged the new world of editorial cartooning saying. “We’re going to have to adapt … You want to gain an audience, but you don’t just want to give stuff away.”Gary’s 15 minute WIBC radio interview with Tony Katz. Yeah, as seen above, I lifted this […]
Reply All brings up the concept of wasting time, and, naturally, the answer is to schedule it, making it a cousin of “Let’s do something spontaneous!”My friend Charley’s entire life was spontaneous, and it was exhilarating to be around him, though part of his nature was that he wasn’t around for long. But he’d look […]