Easy warm-up to start: Today’s Zits happens to come the day after 1A had a program about alternative school calendars, and also as I’m realizing my kid-reporters in Colorado will be out of school in about three weeks, a granddaughter will be graduating in four and some kids I work with in New York won’t […]
The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization has announced the winners of its annual awards.Cartoon “Family Separation in Cartoons” KQED News and online news outlets Mark FioreMark Fiore won the cartoon category for his series of child separation animations. Mark will receive the award at a ceremony on Thursday, May 23 at 6:30 pm at the […]
The gag cartoon is in a category by itself: standing alone to evoke a reaction. Is it funny? Is it understandable? Where do we go from here?Comics historian Maggie Thompson discusses gag cartooning. Among single-panel newspaper gag creators was H.T. Webster, who provided gags on a series of topics. “The Timid Soul” was Caspar Milquetoast, whose […]
Rowland B Wilson (1930-2005) was an animator, an ad agency art director and a cartoonist. He is probably best known to the general public (of a certain age) for the cartooning, and that’s what I’ll feature in this post.I was “of a certain age” for the Rowland magazine cartoons.Once upon a time magazines were very […]
Ann Telnaes puts a fun spin on the hoo-hah over the latest royal baby with a cartoon about a baby who is not only American but has a lot more authority than little Goober, who is, I guess, seventh in line to the British throne, ever will.Harry and Meghan haven’t announced the name, and so […]
Led by sales of the graphic novel format, total sales of graphic novels and periodical comics in the U.S. and Canada was approximately $1.09 billion in 2018, according to a joint estimate by trade news sites ICv2 and Comichron.From Publishers Weekly:Although sales via the direct market (aka the comics shop market) were slightly down from […]
The news of The (Racine) Journal Times and the Kenosha News realigning their funny pages to present the same comics in both papers brings forth a disturbing trend in the new age of newspaper consolidation.In February 2019 Lee Enterprises, the fourth largest newspaper group in the U. S., took ownership of the Kenosha News:The Kenosha […]
Mr. Fitz has been dealing a lot of insider-baseball humor lately, which only his fellow-teachers would really get. That’s his role, but sometimes he’ll pop one that anyone should understand and here we are.This is a good comic because, on the surface, it’s a funny pun and a piercing accusation. David Finkle is a teacher […]
After more than forty years editorial cartoonist Chan Lowe has decided to retire.Chan has spent most of that time, 31 years, at the South Florida/Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, the past two years he has been contributing to the Berkshire Eagle.It was The Eagle that announced his retirement:A cartoon’s impact must happen in the reader’s mind, Lowe, […]
above: the famous B. Kliban cartoon, below: W. C. Morris from circa 1908Both the above and many more cartoonist related cartoons at Larry Rippee and Molly Rea‘s site. Here is a Cartoonists Day celebration from Richard Thompson. A couple cartoonist self-portraits: Unbelievably, not everyone loves cartoonists. Of course, when all is said and done…The above panel comes from a […]
In Wisconsin two neighboring newspapers, The (Racine) Journal Times and the Kenosha News (both Lee Enterprises publications), have finished counting the votes of their early 2019 survey and revealed their new comics page line-up.A line-up they are touting as “the Best of the Best.” Nearly 2,000 readers of The Journal Times and Kenosha News voted […]
My father used to get angry with my teenage self over “Yahbut,” which was how I too often responded to his corrections. “Yah, I hear what you’re saying, But here’s what I think.” At those moments, he hadn’t been intending to open a discussion, much less a debate.Well, there’s a lot of that going around […]
above: The Love Life of Harold Teen debuts in the Chicago Tribune May 4, 1919 As Michael Vassallo says:The strip made its debut 100 years ago today, May 4, 1919 in the pages of the Patterson family owned Chicago Tribune (run by News publisher Joseph Medill Patterson’s cousin, Robert R. McCormick) and joined Patterson’s New […]
Every year the second Saturday of May brings the Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive.To donate, just place a box or can of non-perishable food next to your mailbox before your letter carrier delivers mail on the second Saturday in May. The carrier will do the rest. The food is sorted, and delivered to […]
Matt Davies was, for a second time, awarded the Herblock Prize, and much as I dislike awards in general, I like this one for two reasons: One is that it’s kind of an inside job that consistently honors people who live up to Herblock’s traditions and standards.I mean, they don’t require Nobel laureates to be […]