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Wallace the Brave Creator Will Henry Interviewed

  Fresh off winning a divisional Reuben Award for Newspaper Comic Strip, Will Henry sits down with Dave London and Pete Chianca.It always sounds like Dave London and Pete Chianca are having fun on “Strip Search: The Comic Strip Podcast,” but it’s rare that they seem to have this much fun recording a new episode. But […]

$15,000 for Pepe the Frog Copyright Infringement

Alex Jones and Infowars have agreed to pay Pepe the Frog creator Matt Furie $15,000 to settle a lawsuit concerning misuse of the cartoon character.Infowars included Pepe the Frog in a poster by Jon Allen featuring right-wing public figures in a campaign to earn money for the conspiracy-theory website. Both sides claimed victory in the struggle.“What […]

CSotD: In a snarky mood

“Just the place for a Snark!” the Bellman cried,   As he landed his crew with care;Supporting each man on the top of the tide   By a finger entwined in his hair.“Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:   That alone should encourage the crew.Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:   What I […]

Cartoonists React to New York Times Cartoon Ban

 As expected political cartoonists are registering their disgust with the New York Times’ response to a New York Times International editor picking a cartoon that produced some blowback.Above Clay Jones draws his reaction, but also uses his column to explain the good editorial cartoons do for newspapers and society.  Below Joep Beltrams shows that the New […]

CSotD: Grey Lady Down

DD Degg having reported the facts of the case, we’ll open the discussion with a Homer Davenport graphic commentary. I couldn’t find information on the “anti-cartoon bill” Senator Platt (foreground) was pushing, but most schoolchildren know the story of Boss Tweed and how Thomas Nast took him down with a barrage of cartoons.There are variations […]

Skip Morrow – RIP

 Cartoonist and musician Skip Morrow has passed away.  Dennis B. (Skip) Morrow circa 1951 – May 28, 2019cartoonist, illustrator, musicianFrom the obituary:All the while, he loved to sketch. His art mostly consisted of cartoons, although he was talented in several mediums. In 1974, while still playing music on the Cape in the summers, he went to […]

The Trudeau Chronicles

 Next to the door of my father’s studio stood a non-functioning lacquered mahogany grandfather clock, which faced down a hall that ran the length of our 10th-floor apartment. If the studio door was closed I would sometimes open the clock’s cabinet and set its brass pendulum swinging to produce a resonant tick-tock that softened over […]

CSotD: My ‘I don’t have to run’ day

Bizarro explains it all, or, at least, most of it.There are any number of directions you could go from here, starting with a reminder of how daunting it is to come up with 313 daily laffs, plus 52 Sundays.Charles Schulz used to recommend that aspiring cartoonists start by doing a year’s worth of strips and […]

Donald Duck is 85

 Donald Duck was introduced to the public when Walt Disney and company adapted The Little Red Hen fable as the Silly Symphony short The Wise Little Hen premiered on June 9, 1934. https://zippy.gfycat.com/EducatedImaginativeGrunion.webmabove: via gfycat At the same time Donald Duck debuted in print as part of a Walt Disney partnership with Good Housekeeping magazine. In April […]

Spokesman-Review Readers to Decide the Fate of Non Sequitur

 It seems newspapers are slowly returning Non Sequitur to their comic pages. After the fubar earlier this year and the accompanying cancellations, editors are listening to their readers who continue to want the comic back in their papers. The latest is The Spokesman-Review.You wouldn’t believe how many notes I still get each week saying that even […]

Front Page News: Comics Switch in Lufkin

In Lufkin, Texas the switching of comics, beginning today, rates a front page story – admittedly below the fold at the bottom of the page, but still, front page news!Good NewsStarting today, readers of The Lufkin Daily News can look forward to seeing a few new cartoons on the comics page. ‘‘Nancy’’ and ‘‘Red and […]

Dave Blazek – Loose Parts and Tight Reuben

 Erie native Dave Blazek has written and drawn his daily cartoon panel “Loose Parts” for nearly two decades, and the panel has been collected into five books and counting. But he never considered himself a cartoonist until May. That’s when Blazek and “Loose Parts” received the highest honor a newspaper panel cartoon and its author […]

CSotD: Very random thoughts

Given that it’s Sunday, we’ll start with a Sunday cartoon.Betty is something of an oddity, because Betty and her husband are Salt of the Earth types, which, in both Comics Land and TV Land, usually doesn’t involve terribly thoughtful humor.However, the strip sustains a level of humor that is reflective, despite a strongly blue-collar vibe […]

Cartoonist Andy Marlette vs. State Rep. Mike Hill

 Mike Hill is the Florida State Representative for the Pensacola area. Andy Marlette is the editorial cartoonist and columnist for the Pensacola News Journal. So, as one would suspect, they butt heads on occasion. Their latest started with Rep. Hill, a Godly man, speaking of banning abortion because life is sacred.News Journal Publisher Rick Outzen reports […]

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