For 19 years before 2000, and now for 19 years after 2000 (and including the year 2000) Garry B. Trudeau has designed a collectible button for the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival featuring his Doonesbury comic strip characters. Above is the 2019 button. Look at the previous 39 buttons from 1981 to 2018 (2016 had two […]
The 2018 National Football League season has ended, and so has The Monsters of the Midway comic strip I guess. But wait, Da Bears are playing post-season and so is the comic strip! Beginning in 2010, Peirce wrote eight hot-selling Big Nate illustrated novels, based on the 11-year-old wise-cracking hero of his long-running comic strip. A […]
From the Indianapolis Star farewell column by Gary Varvel: After 24 years as IndyStar’s cartoonist, I’ve drawn nearly 8,000 cartoons, including those of Bill Clinton’s boxers, George W. Bush and Barack Obama’s ears and Donald Trump’s hair. Today’s will be my last. I have chosen to take Gannett’s early retirement offer. Though Gary will no longer […]
I wasn’t going to post any more New Year’s Babies, but Tom Richmond, who, IMHO, is in a photo-finish with Kal Kallaugher for the title of best caricaturist in the business, offers this one and I just can’t resist.There are many reasons to be optimistic about the coming year, most of them having to do with […]
The fourth and final collection of The Best Editorial Cartoons of 2018. The previous first, second, and third collections, if you missed them. At Legal Insurrection you can vote for your favorite A. F. Branco cartoon. Walt Handelsman of the New Orleans Advocate goes on WWL-TV to discuss his 2018 favorites. From NOLA to Cali. The […]
From Michael Cavna‘s piece:Looking back at the vintage work, it’s easy to see how quickly Trudeau grasped the essence of public Trump — the insatiable hunger for attention, the dizzying sense of entitlement, the playground petulance of one-upmanship, the embarrassing sense of decor and decorum and, always, the ravenous appetite for acquisition of objects and […]
Happy New Year, 1915, from this little feller. Since New Year’s cartoons are interchangeable, I thought instead I’d dip into my files of favorites from before I launched this venture nine years ago. So let’s start with my first posting in rec.arts.comics.strips, nearly 20 years ago, which didn’t keep my numbskull boss from selling off the […]
This is an installment of 2018 Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed. (part 1: Debuts – – part 2: Departures – – part 3: Dearly Departed – – part 4: Detours) 2018 – The Dearly Departed These U. S. newspaper and magazine cartoonists died in 2018. note: I usually only include creators who have […]
This is an installment of 2018 Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed. (part 1: Debuts – – part 2: Departures – – part 3: Dearly Departed – – part 4: Detours) 2018 Detours Detailing some changes in syndicated U. S. newspaper comics in 2018. BIZARRO by Wayno and Dan Piraro Beginning January 1, 2018 […]
This is an installment of 2018 Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed. (part 1: Debuts – – part 2: Departures – – part 3: Dearly Departed – – part 4: Detours) 2018 Departures These comics ceased production for U. S. newspapers in 2018 PIRANHA CLUB by Bud Grace February 1, 1988 – February 3, […]
This is an installment of 2018 Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed. (part 1: Debuts – – part 2: Departures – – part 3: Dearly Departed – – part 4: Detours) 2018 Debuts These comics began appearing in U. S. newspapers in 2018 WALLACE THE BRAVE by Will Henry (William Henry Wilson) March 26, […]
Like Edison Lee, I’m a little dubious about this whole New Year’s Eve thing, though it’s probably because I’m more like Orville in that I’ve seen enough of them to be choosy.Then again, I’m old enough to realize that there probably isn’t a good year to live over again, since the years with the highest […]
The Syracuse Post-Standard picks various cartoons and cartoonists to look back at 2018.Cartoons were drawn by Bill Bramhall, Chan Lowe, Dan Wasserman, Dana Summers, Scott Stantis, Walt Handelsman, David Horsey, Phil Hands and Joel Pett of Tribune Content Agency; and Tim Campbell, Mike Lester, Signe Wilkinson, Lisa Benson, Nick Anderson, Clay Bennett, Jack Ohman and […]
Consolidated Publishing (the Anniston Star and the Talladega Daily Home) will begin printing its Sunday Comics Section locally. Their long time supplier of preprinted Sunday color comics has decided to shut down. Beginning next Sunday, Jan. 6, Consolidated Publishing Company will introduce a new Sunday Comics section. It will be called Hot Blast Comics and […]
Macanudo, because why not? Also because, if you want to read something cosmic into it, it’s there. And if you don’t, it’s not.I don’t say that lightly. When I wrote about Leniers’ appearance at the combined CXC/AAEC convention this spring, I spoke about his puckish willingness to be silly one day and moderately profound the […]