Big Nate, Lincoln Peirce, and the Mid-School KidsTuesday saw Nate Peirce entertain and inform the Westbrook Middle School about cartooning. The Phantom Dies in NorwayThe Phantom is very popular in Australia, India, and the Scandinavian countries.Fantomet, the Norwegian translation of The Phantom, a comic strip featuring the feats of a fictional costumed superhero crime-fighter, is the […]
The redesigned Comics Kingdom website went up today (April 3, 2019). At the Comics Kingdom blog Tea welcomes us to the new site:Welcome to the remodeled Comics Kingdom! If you’re a premium subscriber, (and we encourage to sign up here if you are not!) there are no ads and a huge archive of amazing comics that […]
Signe Wilkinson scores with what I’m calling a “Naked Emperor Moment,” wherein someone says what others have had on their minds but didn’t dare bring up.The perfect is the enemy of the good and, while I’m glad to see the DNCC has not pre-approved a candidate in advance this time, the nit-picking does suggest that […]
Calvin County by Watterson & Breathed returned once again for April Fools’ Day.For the fourth year in a row, ever since Berke Breathed, in 2016, announced that “Bill Watterson and myself in Tuscany signing the franchise over to my ‘administration,’” April 1st has seen the yearly revival of Calvin and Hobbes in a mashup with […]
Editorial cartoonist Steve Benson has joined the crew at Arizona Mirror.In late January the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, along with a number of other journalists, was dismissed from The Arizona Republic. He continued practicing his craft as a nationally syndicated cartoonist, but now he has the opportunity to once again turn his pen to local Arizona […]
If Sheldon‘s duck, Arthur, had swallowed an encyclopedia instead of a dictionary, he’d understand electrical wiring.It’s a bit of a disability, being bright enough to ask the question but not bright enough to figure out the answer.He wouldn’t be content with the explanation my dogs have always accepted, either, which is that, when I walk […]
It appears as if a new comic strip has now replaced an older one.In an April 1, 2019 Facebook post Lalo Alcaraz explains to fans:ANNOUNCEMENT: Wanted to let you, my readers, that yesterday was the last day of my long running comic strip, La Cucaracha, but the good news is that my assistant artist from […]
Quotes From CathyCathy Guisewite is on a book tour.“After I quit the strip, so much started changing in my adult life,” Guisewite explains. “I dealt with it by writing it down — and honestly, I always wrote the strip before I drew it. For years I summed up ideas, thoughts, experiences in four frames for […]
I’m going light on the commentary and heavy on the comics for April Fool’s Day. Here’s what people found in their papers 75 years ago, on April 1, 1944:Of course, there was a war on, and D-Day was still two months away, though the Eastern Front was lively:Which didn’t stop the flow of internal politics:Though […]
Comics Changes in the Tampa Bay Times and the Aberdeen American News From the Tampa Bay Times:Want even more evidence that people care about comics? Nearly 10,000 readers completed our survey to help find a replacement for Non Sequitur. That’s more than the number of people who cast ballots for the runner-up in the Tampa […]
Letter to the EditorTom Stiglich provokes a letter.Why does the cartoonist feel Christ should be wearing a crown with those guilty of such disgusting criminal behavior? Those pedophile priests have never associated themselves with Christ’s work… Washington Post accused of Transphobic BehaviorThe Mueller Report cartoon by Mike Lester is being called transphobic on digital news and […]
Let’s dismiss the politics first, so we can talk about the Sunday Funnies instead.Rob Rogers charges that a lot of “It’s over, let’s move on” messages are coming from the Russian troll factories, and you’d have to be pretty foolish to disagree. We know they’re already working on the 2020 elections.But there are plenty of […]
Champion Pluggers contributor Reed Hoover has passed away.Reed Hoover February 16, 1931 – March 25, 2019 From the obituary:In 1952 he joined his father in business at H&S Company. He ran the business until he retired. Reed had a strong interest in history and paleontology. He was published and cited for his work at SMU, including […]
There are all sorts of cartoons about Barr and the Mueller Report, but Tom Toles both made the point and got a laff, so he wins.Looks like we’re gonna need some laffs, because it’s becoming clear that truth is losing whatever toe hold it had, at least in the opposition camp.In Trump’s latest rally, he […]
With March 30, 2019, the Ballard Street comic panel comes to an end. BALLARD STREET by Jerry Van Amerongen daily: March 4, 1991 – March 30, 2019 Sunday: March 10, 1991* – October 17, 2010 Creators Syndicate [began as a daily strip, went panel only in early 1994] *unconfirmed – Sundays began in L. A. Times […]