Earlier this month The Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman-Review asked readers to rate the comics that currently run on their funny pages. That was part one of their comics poll. Now, they are beginning phase two:[There are] 10 artists Spokesman-Review readers will soon put through a wringer. Beginning today – when the first batch of five comic […]
The Times West Virginian of Fairfield is moving Mallard Fillmore from the comics page to the opinion page, “where we believe it is more suited.”That is opening a spot on the daily comics page, and they have given the readers a choice of one of four comic strips as a replacement. The paper has offered two […]
If Bob Gorrell hated the NYTimes special section on the impact of slavery on America’s history, he’d hate my alternative even more.I think it should have been a series, not a doorstop.We can dismiss as paranoia or snowflakery his assertion that it’s part of an attack on Trump, though it’s nice to think that the […]
As Mike Peterson mentioned the other day Gahan Wilson still draws a bit. While the GoFundMe page is no longer soliciting donations, stepson Paul Winters continues to send out updates on the cartoonist. In the latest Paul shares an illustrated letter 13-year-old Gahan sent to illustrator J. R. Neill. Read the August 19, 2019 update for […]
Some newspapers readers, and their letters to the editors. I want to thank Jeff Darcy for finally giving me the courage to say enough is enough… Jeff Darcy…with “I Really Don’t Care, Do U?” emblazoned on the the back of President Donald Trump’s jacket, in regards to the recent shootings. The Plain Dealer has become a […]
Damien Glez offers a clever variation on a too-common visual gag, proving that there’s no cliche that can’t be revitalized, and if plastic bags had a different style of handle or were more rigid, this wouldn’t work at all.Which is sort of a backhanded way of explaining why it does.Our co-op is phasing out plastic […]
By now you know The Nib got cut loose from its publisher earlier this summer — rather than fold, Matt Bors and his crew decided to go independent.The Nib runs political cartoons, journalism, essays and memoir about what is going down in the world, all in comics form — the best medium.The Comics take the […]
Famed Illustrator Charles Santore has passed away.Charles Santore March 16, 1935 – August 11, 2019 From the Philadelphia Inquirer obituary:He began his career in 1956 working as a freelance illustrator for local advertising agencies and publications such as the Saturday Evening Post, Life, Redbook, and the Ladies’ Home Journal. Starting in 1972, he illustrated magazine covers […]
United States House of Representives Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota shared a cartoon on their Instagram accounts that is being described as anti-semitic. above: Carlos Latuff cartoon and Israeli flag As Forward reported:A couple of days into the social media storm that erupted following Israeli government’s decision not to let Representatives […]
I’d sworn off cartoons based on Emma Lazarus, but Steve Artley took me by surprise with this “New Yorker in Hell” offering.The standard New Yorker cartoon offers an affectionate look at the upper middleclass foibles of its readers, with a smile and a bit of a whachagonnado shrug.I remember one — can’t recall the artist […]
Noe we know why Andy Marlette had gone missing for a few weeks.Congratulations to Andrew and Dahlonega on Waylon!
By the 1980s I had pretty much given up on superhero comic books, preferring non-spandex adventure, western, detective, and humor comic books. Pretty much. Of the few I continued to follow were a couple of Mike Baron comics. The insane Badger, and Baron and Steve Rude‘s science fiction hero Nexus.One part victim, one-part hero, Nexus […]
For some reason, maybe the heavy Jewish influence on early comic books, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman was contracted to write the introduction to Marvel: The Golden Age 1939 – 1949, a high end reprinting of five early Marvel superhero comics.Says Art:so it all started innocently when i accepted a gig to write the introduction […]
Let’s kick off the day with something silly, as Betty brings a needed word into being.It’s a little unfair to real chefs, but, then again, real chefs are only a subset of people who want the waiters to call them “Chef” instead of “Hey You” or, god forbid, “Dave.”And this tip to people who take […]
Clay Jones gives the best response to the decision of Israel to follow Dear Leader’s suggestion, re-casting António Moreira’s cartoon of a Netanyahu dog leading a blind Trump, for which two cartoonists who had nothing to do with it were fired.And the editor who approved it was … well, we don’t know, because the NYTimes […]