Part Two of the Best of the 2018 Editorial Cartoons. Part One is here. Kevin Siers of The Charlotte Observer An introduction by Taylor Batten, Kevin’s editor. John Cole’s North Carolina Policy Watch cartoonsJohn Cole’s political cartoons on North Carolina topics appear weekly for NC Policy Watch. He is currently the staff cartoonist for the editorial pages […]
Taking the Cartoon Literally A reader is upset that an editorial cartoon took liberties with the pre-Nativity narrative.…the cartoonist completely twisted the biblical event of Joseph and Mary looking for a room in Bethlehem where Jesus would be born… He made them out to be unwelcome immigrants who should have been stopped by a wall. […]
Graeme Keyes finds a way to freshen the stale old “kids play in the box” gag.There’s no gag so moldy that it can’t be made new again, but sometimes it requires turning it completely upside down.Strict analysis of this raises the question of whether those are “kids” and whether they were the recipients of the […]
The Chisholm Kid shows a different color of the American West The title character of this newspaper cartoon, which ran from 1950 to 1954, is decked out in blue trousers held up by a double-holstered gun belt, a red shirt with a white stylized longhorn skull across the broad chest, a blue kerchief tied at […]
I’m enjoying the current Thimble Theater storyline but this panel stopped me in my tracks. Decades before the current move to reframe Popeye for the Teletubbies demographic, Olive Oyl had been reduced to a damsel in distress, while Wimpy simply wandered around asking for hamburgers.They were far more dynamic in 1935, particularly Olive, who was, […]
Got a little distracted the past week, so here’s some catching up. Stone Soup Creator Jan Eliot Donates Collection to Ohio State’s Billy Ireland Library & MuseumMentioned the beginning of this back in August, here’s the Billy Ireland news release:The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at the Ohio State University acquired cartoonist Jan Eliot’s collection […]
Christmas-themed cartoons should be pretty much over on this day of Three Freedom Hens, but Steve Breen notes a post-Christmas part of the story that should be relevant year ’round.And isn’t.Now, even if you take the Bible as folklore, there are all sorts of contradictions or, at least, odd choices of what to include and […]
Editorial Cartoonists get love from newspapers at the end of the year with the annual wrap up of events that made the cartoons during the past 12 months. Here’s a look back at 2018 events as seen by political cartoonists. As usual, the [Cincinnati] Business Courier asked editorial cartoonist Joe Hoffecker to comb through his funnies from the […]
The Dick Tracy comic strip will end the year (and start the next) with a new Minit Mysteries arc.Along with the story twists this one also has a creator twist – instead of a guest artist like the previous Minit Mystery, this one has a guest writer.Cartoonist Donnie Pitchford, of Lum and Abner fame, informs […]
Vox’s Todd VanDerWerff says A mysterious 20-something artist named Olivia Jaimes revived the legacy of a comic that had fallen on hard times – in hilarious fashion.Nancy was running in just 79 newspapers (down from a height of 700 in the 1970s) when Guy Gilchrist signed off in February … Andrews McMeel, the company that […]
I thought Real Life Adventures did a nice job of summing up the holidays.Every Christmas season, auto companies run ads where a delighted wife walks out into the snowy driveway to find a brand-new car with a big bow on top.This year, one of the companies doubled down on the concept with the punchline being […]
At the moment, checking the bestsellers in Amazon‘s Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Comic Strips category, about half of the top 50 are calendars.Shown on this page are the current top 4 calendars in the comic strip category. Here are the Top 100 calendars in Amazon’s Books > Calendars > Humor & Comics category.
Christmas a century ago, as we’ll see, featured many of the same holiday comic strip themes as today, but, as Gustavo Bronstrup’s Christmas cartoon suggests, there was a different tone in a nation barely six weeks out of the Great War. As E. A. Bushnell reminded readers, the end of the war was not the end […]
From 1940 to 1951, excepting the WWII years when he was in the service, Will Eisner devoted a Spirit story to Christmas. This is The 1946 Christmas Spirit. This year Jules Feiffer raised a glass to Will Eisner and The Christmas Spirit. The Christmas images come from various sources, among them:Yesterday’s Papers’ Christmas With the […]
Last month we were told that Intelligent Life would be ending its print syndication.But questions remained:Whether December 22, 2018 (a Saturday) is the end of the print Intelligent Life or not is something that is not verified. Also, will King Features continue as the digital syndicator of Intelligent Life or will David take it on […]