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 […]
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 […]
Radio Patrol is, granted, a Vintage strip I read for its camp qualities, but today’s final panel knocked me out of my chair because “Cheese it! The cops!” is a stock phrase like “23 Skidoo” that I can’t believe anyone actually said in real life.Though I’ll admit to having said “Far out” until it became […]
In a seismic shift for the book trade, Elliott Advisors (UK) Limited have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Barnes & Noble in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $683m (£537m), including the assumption of debt. James Daunt, chief executive of Waterstones, will assume also the role of c.e.o. of Barnes & Noble following […]
Cartoonist Joe Lanier has passed away.Joseph Phillip (Joe) Lanier November 19, 1937 – May 26, 2019 From the obituary:After finishing time in law enforcement, Lanier’s security industry career began in 1968 as an installing dealer and then progressed in 1973 with the formation of Texas-based Defensive Security Southwest, a wholesale distributor that became one of the […]
King Features Licensing has signed on to be the North America representative of the Scandinavian Moomin characters and the Icelandic Tulipop. King Features Syndicate, a unit of Hearst, has reached an agreement with Bulls Licensing to represent classic literary and art-based brand Moomin for merchandise, advertising, and promotions in the U.S. and Canada. Moomin is the latest addition […]
The April cartoon that appeared in the New York Times International Edition continues to elicit response and conversation.What makes more sense is the possibility that the cartoon made it into print because the paper’s staff—whether singular or plural—saw it as “a political issue and not religious,”… Yet the conventional wisdom on the left that anti-Zionism […]
I don’t do a lot with comic books, but I’ll happily refer you to this Comicsbeat article about the original Fantastic Four, because it explains why in a charmingly roundabout way.Everything about Fantastic Four is ridiculous. Deliciously ridiculous. If you’re wondering how four people got such dramatically different super powers from the same incident, the answer is […]
“We had a thing, where there were four of us, I don’t know if we ever mentioned this, I would get together with Sam Gross, Bill Woodman… once a month we’d all meet at Sam’s apartment, and we would sit down and we would open the phone book— we’d get the yellow pages, and then […]
Matthew Inman is suspending The Oatmeal production for the nonceMatthew lets fans know of the coming hiatus and why (scroll to the bottom):I am happy to announce that I am in development on my own animated feature for Illumination. In short: I got a movie deal. The good news: I’m making a movie and it’s […]
In the early 1940s Dr. Seuss, as an editorial cartoonist, was advocating for U.S. intervention in Europe, opposing the isolationists.A two year old article, showcasing Dr. Seuss’s cartoons against the America First crowd. hat tip to Matt Wuerker for bringing this back.(updated)
Epic, the digital reading platform and library for kids, is teaming up with Andrews McMeel Publishing, home to Big Nate and Calvin & Hobbes, to produce a line of children’s books. Under the new arrangement, AMP will publish print editions of Epic Originals digital books, a content line that Epic debuted in March. Epic! began its […]
Charles Schulz, creator of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy van Pelt and the other “Peanuts” characters, entered the 1990s as an elder statesman in American popular culture… On June 6, 1993, Schulz drew a comic strip that had little visual relationship to anything that had previously appeared in “Peanuts.” In three grim panels, the cartoonist depicted […]
Peter Brookes holds up the mirror with a cartoon so simple that I almost passed it by as obvious.But sometimes “obvious” is the best message, the clearest possible image, and Trump makes it obvious himself, and not only by adopting the “America First” slogan that our bund leaders and isolationists used when they were sympathizing […]
Editorial cartoonist and illustrator John Latham has passed away.John David Gavin Latham May(?), 1959 – May 25, 2019 John was a political cartoonist for the Stratford (Ontario) Beacon Herald during the 1980s.From the Beacon Herald notice:For a period of time in the ‘80s, long before the advent of social media and residents’ ability to regularly comment […]