Hard on the heels of Friday’s discussion of hourly v flat rate payment for freelancers, Pajama Diaries reminds me of why it’s worth putting up with late pay and low pay and picky people.And the robe is only a symbol. It’s also the ability to slip out to soccer games without having to explain that […]
A couple notes… For the first time in over two years the Sunday In The Bleachers is signed. I’m pretty sure the Marvin and Staff Sunday logo is a first. and some things noted. A few months late, but Dick Tracy celebrates Gasoline Alley’s 100th (November 24, 1918). A few months early, but JumpStart celebrates its […]
The Bloomington Pantagraph is adding 14 comic strips to today’s Sunday Funnies section.We’re launching 14 new strips in our four-page weekly comics section starting with Sunday’s Pantagraph. Our new Sunday lineup will now include favorites, including “Baby Blues,” “The Born Loser,” “Dilbert,” “Garfield,” “Marmaduke,” “Mutts,” “One Big Happy,” “Pearls Before Swine,” “Phoebe and Her Unicorn,” […]
(I don’t mind the time change, but I’m surely about to get tired of two weeks of people bitching about it on social media.)And on a related rant:Meanwhile, I went ahead and did my taxes yesterday, because I also am tired of the bitching about refunds vs. tax cuts, as laid out in this Scott […]
Captain Marvel is in the movie theaters and Shazam is rolling out next month, so let’s take a look at a proposed Captain Marvel superhero comic strip that never made it into newspapers.75 years ago the most popular comic book superhero was not Superman, it was the original Captain Marvel (now referred to as Shazam). […]
The Winston-Salem Journal has joined a couple other newspapers in taking the opportunity to switch out a few comics while replacing Non Sequitur.In this case The Journal will cancel three daily strips that have been in rerun status for years.Three strips that have been entirely in reruns in recent years — Get Fuzzy, For Better […]
Everybody is jumping on the Manafort sentencing, and I like Stuart Carlson‘s take in large part because he doesn’t specify the offense that the defendant was convicted of.We can assume, racists and classists that we are, that the fellow didn’t evade millions of dollars in taxes, but, unlike some cartoonists that compare a sentence for […]
Following the foofaraw of Ilhan Omar’s remarks about a “push for allegiance to a foreign country,” and Meghan McCain’s protest to that statement because, in part, she “verge[‘s] on being a Zionist as well,” cartoonist Eli Valley, who is not a fan of the current leadership in the U. S. or in Israel, drew a […]
The National Women’s Hall of Fame announced their 2019 inductees. Cartoonist Rose O’Neill of Kewpies fame was among the chosen.From the Hall’s O’Neill profile: Rose O’Neill: (1874-1944) As a successful artist, writer, businesswoman, and philanthropist, Rose boldly assisted with the activities of the woman suffrage movements coordinated by the National Woman’s Suffrage Association headquartered in New […]
Seems as good a time as any to drop these recent comic strip articles. Where I’m Coming From by Barbara Brandon-CroftWhere I’m Coming From’s mission as a comic meant to affect change rather than just entertain was twofold. First, Brandon-Croft wanted white readers to fully grasp the struggles of Black Americans as people in their own […]
I was going to post this Mr. Boffo cartoon starring Paul Manafort, but we don’t do politics on Friday. (FWIW, the joke is that he’s completely clear on the concept.)Instead, here are some strips highlighting a week in which a whole lot of cartoonists happened to come up with gags to which I responded personally. For […]
James Allen, in today’s Mark Trail, turned the table on Stephan Pastis. Stephan has been known to mock other comic strip characters in his Pearls Before Swine.James Allen (via Facebook) related a tale of one such incident that led to today’s strip:Last year, in Philly, I sat in on Jeff Keane’s presentation and he showed a […]
It seems letter writing campaigns are effective. The Los Angeles Times announced today that Wiley Miller’s Non Sequitur comic strip will be returning.TO OUR READERS: A month ago, The Times halted publication of the “Non Sequitur” cartoon by Wiley Miller after an illustration in the strip on a Sunday contained a vulgar message. Miller and […]
Matt Davies, editorial cartoonist for Newsday, has won all the big awards in his profession, so the only thing to do now is start repeating.Matt Davies is the editorial cartoonist for Newsday in NY and has won both the 2004 Pulitzer Prize and the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism prize. In 2004 he was awarded […]
Today, I’ll be looking back at things which have resurfaced, but, first, thisJuxtaposition of the Day(Ann Telnaes) (Mike Marland)We try to keep this stuff in the family, but somehow it got out that, during a hearing in the New Hampshire legislature on a bill to allow seizure of guns from people identified as at high risk […]