A reader asks the Winston-Salem Journal, “Has the comic strip Marmaduke been canceled?”And the answer comes back, “Yes.”The Journal is switching out some comics and replacing them with others, resulting in no loss in the number of comics the paper is running.The Argyle Sweater is now appearing in the Marmaduke spot.…and it is the first […]
Cincinnati’s Public Radio WXVU has a piece that features 25 reasons to watch “Bench” the MLB Network documentary on the Reds’ Hall-of-Fame catcher Johnny Bench. Number six in the list cites artwork from legendary Zits creator and editorial cartoonist Jim Borgman. From the piece:6. To see Bench in his office reading scrapbooks sent to him by […]
A reader of The Bowling Green (Ohio) Daily News found the January 25th installment of Wumo to be “disgusting, crude, vulgar and very offensive.” And Betty Reneau wrote into the editors to let them know.
This could have been a much larger Juxtaposition. After ignoring the ones I didn’t like, I had 15 that I did, which I thought would be excessive.I managed to cut the list down to six, which I’m running in alphabetical order. Juxtaposition of the Covfefe(Pat Bagley) (Matt Davies) (Jack Ohman) (Mike Luckovich) (Drew Sheneman) (Tom Toles) (Bottomliners) Whoops. That last one wasn’t a […]
Senator Lamar Alexander (R – Tennessee) honored editorial cartoonist Charlie Daniel by reading a tribute to him into the Congressional Record today.As reported by the Knoxville News-Sentinel:U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Knoxville, spoke on the Senate floor Tuesday about longtime News Sentinel cartoonist Charlie Daniel. … “For over six decades, Charlie’s drawings have been the first […]
Steve Kelley has responded to accusations that a number of his recent cartoons are misogynistic through NEXTpittsburgh and Andrew Conte:Last week, Kelley had agreed to sit down with me to talk about the three recent cartoons that have drawn objections. He then opted to cancel that interview and instead sent me a seven-page letter on Monday […]
Things are quiet at the moment and, as Pat Bagley indicates, the Republican base is restoring its bearings in anticipation of new fights to come.This seems a bit harsh, but only if you are channeling moderate viewpoints.If you keep track of commentary from both sides, what you find is that some moderate conservatives are trying […]
This “Never Was” comic strip began in 1953 as a published comic book. Joe Kubert’s Tor ran for 5 issues in 1953 and 1954 (one of those issues being in a then novelty 3-D format).Joe Kubert, assisted by writer Carmine Infantino, returned to the prehistoric concept around 1959, producing two weeks of comic strips to offer […]
Politics are currently in a state of suspension, as Nate Beeler demonstrates. There are a lot of shutdown cartoons still out there, a day late and a dollar short, while others have gone to more general, less time-critical commentary while things sort themselves out.I like Beeler’s cartoon, by the way. There’s a bit of Pee […]
While the firings of Steve Benson and Charlie Daniel and the hubbub over recent Steve Kelley cartoons have garnered the lion’s share of exposure, there is other news in the editorial cartooning profession. Walt Handelsman visited the University of New Orleans.Handelsman visited the Earl K. Long Library to talk about his experiences as a successful comic […]
Kal Kallaugher pretty much encapsulates the political situation, at least for the next few hours. A lot of good shutdown cartoons have become irrelevant, and there’s some question as to whether they will spring to life again in three weeks.I’m reminded of a bully who picked on a kid for a couple of weeks until […]
New Dick Tracy (comic book)Comic List quotes the press release:IDW Publishing is proud to announce the perfect pairing of acclaimed writer/artist Michael Avon Oeming and pop culture’s enduring icon of law and order in Dick Tracy Forever, a four-issue miniseries debuting in April. “Michael Avon Oeming’s award-winning work in crime comics makes him the perfect […]
I give up. I’ve been waiting for a period when nobody had used the Humpty Dumpty/Wall idea for a while, so that I could say “Ferchrissake quit using the Humpty Dumpty/Wall idea!” without it seeming like a personal jab at a particular cartoonist.There will apparently be no such moment of Dumptylessness, and at this stage, […]
Jules Feiffer was born January 26, 1929, and he celebrates his 90th birthday by offering us The Origins of The Feiffer Dancer.But back to the beginning of Jules.Before he escaped his teenage years he had become, first the office gofer for the acclaimed Will Eisner, and then Eisner’s assistant on The Spirit. By the […]
Alex shows that the British are more environmentally aware than we are, even if it does show it by having its title character whinging over the fact.I actually saw a Hummer the other day. GM quit making them in 2010, but this one was bright and shiny and all I could think was that the […]