E.A. Bushnell gets to lead off as we look back at the holiday — some were still calling it “Decoration Day,” others “Memorial Day” — a century ago, because he did more than a pro forma mandatory holiday cartoon.It’s sentimental, certainly, but he put some work into it, which suggests he took the job seriously. I […]
It seems Comics Kingdom has ironed out a few kinks in their Sunday page. Today most (all?) Sunday strips that have half-page formats are in half-page formats. And if you right click then “view image” the strip will fill your screen vertically; click on the image again and it fills the screen horizontally.It took awhile but Comics […]
Last month Dave Coverly celebrated 25 years of Speed Bump.In 1996, he and his wife, Chris, moved their family to Ann Arbor…They bought a house on Ann Arbor’s west side with a third-floor finished attic that Coverly turned into a home studio. For the past 23 years, Coverly has spent time in the studio also […]
Lemont lays it all out in this morning’s Candorville, and it’s nice to not have to parse through metaphors and symbols for meaning.Really, if you’re not angry, and scared, and fed up with the current state of things, he’s right: You’re a sociopath.And note that he’s not complaining about how the increasing system of injustice […]
Randall Enos has something in common with most cartoonists:Over the span of my career, every now and then, I would suddenly get the urge to create and sell a syndicated comic strip. This would happen every 5 years or so. Nothing much came of it except for the Chicken Gutz strip which was a National […]
Do You Enjoy Comics? Stars and Stripes is considering changes to its Sunday Comics lineup, and they want your help. Let us know which strips you like (or don’t like), as well as comics you might like to see in the future.Stars and Stripes, a tabloid newspaper distributed to American military forces around the world, […]
We’ll bookend this long weekend with Memorial Day cartoons, starting with the present day offerings, which varied from the standard salute-and-weep pieces to the foreboding viewpoint Pat Bagley offers.You could argue that cartoonists who comment on politics in their Memorial Day cartoons are hijacking the holiday for partisan purposes, but, then again, there will be […]
He was so good at imagining overly complicated and outlandish contraptions that his name became part of the English dictionary in the early 20th century to describe anything with an unnecessarily elaborate design. “That’s a real Heath-Robinson!”That’s right. Before those Rube Goldberg Contraptions there were Heath Robinson Contraptions.Messy Nessy gives background and examples.
If you are near Harrisonburg Virginia in the month of June be sure to stop at the Smith House Galleries where, from June 7 to June 27 will be a Barney Google and Snuffy Smith by John Rose exhibit. The cartoonist said an assortment of his comics will be represented in the new exhibit. “I […]
Stephan Pastis gave a memorable acceptance speech after he won the Reuben Award for “Cartoonist of the Year” last weekend in Huntington Beach, Calif.
Arlo and Janis so often reflect my world view that it sometimes barely registers, but this one cracked me up, because I’ve noticed that ad writers have picked up on the term and insert it into commercials in order to assure us that their product is for cool people.Which, as Arlo notes, assumes a fact […]
The local-newspaper giant GateHouse Media is making cuts across US newsrooms for a second time in 2019, following at least 60 layoffs in January and February and first-quarter losses. Business Insider has confirmed more than 65 cuts in at least 22 local newsrooms in Florida, Pennsylvania, Texas, Ohio, and Massachusetts, with potentially more to come […]
The new president of the National Cartoonists Society is a stand-up comedian. Oh, Jason Chatfield is also a magazine and comic strip cartoonist.The young Mr. Chatfield is not a newcomer to being a president of cartoonist organizations. He had earlier been the youngest president of the Australian Cartoonists Association. I think he has now become […]
Yeah, it’s Frazetta. Frank Frazetta’s original art for the cover of Eerie #23 (September 1969) sold for $5,400,000.00 via Heritage Auctions.The Grand Comics Database notes about the cover:Frank Frazetta republished this painting, with slight revisions, as a poster titled “Egyptian Queen.” The face of the woman is different in the poster. In an interview in The […]
Juxtaposition of the Day(Matt Davies)(Ann Telnaes)Juxtaposing this pair is a bit unfair to Matt Davies, because he posted his piece before yesterday’s astonishing tantrum, and so his cartoon is mostly about how much childish behavior the Democrats will put up with in general.But the idea of Toddler Trump setting a fire in the back seat […]