The Spokane Spokesman-Review on Sunday (July 28, 2019) gave readers a two-page color center spread in the their first news section to a look at the history of comics in the newspaper. Put together by Charles Apple the piece opens with the purpose of comics:The first newspaper comic strips developed about 124 years ago — give […]
Matt Wuerker, I’m quite sure unintentionally, provides a catalyst for today’s political rant.I grew up on Hoppy and Cisco and other TV heroes who rode into town, confronted and defeated the bad guys, and then accepted the thanks of the grateful citizens and rode off into the sunset.However, as I grew older, I realized that […]
In 1979 Steve Carpenter, an artist for Hallmark Cards, Inc. created a curly haired dog for a greeting card. A Hallmark executive saw the drawing and thought it had possibilities … as a comic strip.Card companies had had a long association with comic characters. In 1960 Hallmark itself began a very successful relationship with Charles […]
Ed Wexler explains it all, again, clearly, for those who weren’t paying attention:Mueller testified to what was in the report, as he said he would.He was clear about this in the weeks leading up to his appearance, and he was quite clear about the limits of his testimony in the hearing itself:So why all the […]
It really is not surprising how many cartoonists grew up with MAD magazine.On July 3, I lost a childhood friend who was the greatest influence in my cartooning career. Mad magazine is dead at 67. We first met in the magazine aisle of Danner’s five-and-dime store in Danville. It was June of 1969 and I […]
Jim Davis, through Heritage Auctions, is offering up a bunch of 20th Century Garfield strips for bid – it is being called The Jim Davis Collection.The items are listed in auction #7211, which also includes a number of Charles Schulz Peanuts strips and the historically important tenth Prince Valiant Sunday page by Hal Foster (“Nowhere […]
Engineer and political cartoonist Bob Cope has passed away.James Robert (Bob) Cope February 6, 1937 – July 18, 2019 Bob’s impressive accomplishments as an engineer for 60 years are far too extensive to list here, but his cartooning career is easier.From the obituary:As a hobby from 2001 through 2018, Bob prepared and published a total of […]
Lalo Alcaraz pretty well sums up the response to Mueller’s testimony the other day, though I might like it better if he’d set it in an elementary school, with the audience as the press.Which is to say that he came close to a cartoon I’d have drawn, in which a kid asks for help with […]
[Las Vegas] Review-Journal editorial cartoonist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Ramirez shared his illustration process and stressed the importance of a free press during a talk to kick off FreedomFest, an annual gathering for conservatives held at Paris Las Vegas. Ramirez explained to a crowd of a few dozen that most of his work […]
Newspaper readers look at America from different Vista Points than cartoonists. Joe Heller cynicism is a bit too much:I know the Sun has a contract with syndicated cartoonist, Joe Heller, but sometimes the cynicism is a bit too much. Like this past week, when millions of Americans were inspired by the 50th anniversary of human reach […]
This isn’t a political cartoon. We don’t do political cartoons on Friday.It’s a New Yorker cartoon, a wry observation by David Sipress on life in the city and its more comfortable suburbs.And it cracked me up just as if it were a regular cartoon and not political at all, because my social networks are flooded […]
Last Sunday’s (July 21, 2019) Popeye’s Cartoon Club was by cartoonist Randy Milholland.It seems Randy worked up and offered King Features Syndicate a number of submissions, and now he is posting the “rejects” on Twitter.They all show Randy having a knowledge of Popeye’s 90 year history from the comic strips to the animated cartoons; and […]
Several [Idaho] state lawmakers have received an anonymous postcard, which lampoons new Boise State University President Marlene Tromp and calls campus diversity and inclusion programs “clown world.” “Idaho taxpayer ticket price: $425,000 and sacrificial children,” the postcard reads, in an apparent reference to Tromp’s annual salary as president.The Idaho Ed News elaborates on the opposing […]
A word about today’s headline: “Great Expectations” is one of my favorite novels. It’s about how easily a decent young boy can be turned into a snobbish, ungrateful little shit. David Rowe comments on the disappointment from those who, like young Philip Pirrup, had more exalted thoughts about themselves and their fortunes than reality was willing […]
A month after the staff of Esquire was let go, Bob Mankoff has bounced back as the cartoon editor of Air Mail, a new digital weekly magazine.Welcome to the world of Air Mail—the perfect addition to your weekend reading. Every Saturday at 6:00 A.M. E.S.T., a new issue will arrive in your in-box. We like […]