DD Degg having reported the facts of the case, we’ll open the discussion with a Homer Davenport graphic commentary. I couldn’t find information on the “anti-cartoon bill” Senator Platt (foreground) was pushing, but most schoolchildren know the story of Boss Tweed and how Thomas Nast took him down with a barrage of cartoons.There are variations […]
From Patrick Chappatte:THE NEW YORK TIMES WILL END ALL POLITICAL CARTOONS I just learned, weeks after they published a syndicated Netanyahu cartoon that caused a scandal. For me, this is the end of an adventure that began 20 years ago. But the stakes are much higher. In 20-plus years of delivering a twice-weekly cartoon for […]
Cartoonist and musician Skip Morrow has passed away. Dennis B. (Skip) Morrow circa 1951 – May 28, 2019cartoonist, illustrator, musicianFrom the obituary:All the while, he loved to sketch. His art mostly consisted of cartoons, although he was talented in several mediums. In 1974, while still playing music on the Cape in the summers, he went to […]
Next to the door of my father’s studio stood a non-functioning lacquered mahogany grandfather clock, which faced down a hall that ran the length of our 10th-floor apartment. If the studio door was closed I would sometimes open the clock’s cabinet and set its brass pendulum swinging to produce a resonant tick-tock that softened over […]
Bizarro explains it all, or, at least, most of it.There are any number of directions you could go from here, starting with a reminder of how daunting it is to come up with 313 daily laffs, plus 52 Sundays.Charles Schulz used to recommend that aspiring cartoonists start by doing a year’s worth of strips and […]
Donald Duck was introduced to the public when Walt Disney and company adapted The Little Red Hen fable as the Silly Symphony short The Wise Little Hen premiered on June 9, 1934. https://zippy.gfycat.com/EducatedImaginativeGrunion.webmabove: via gfycat At the same time Donald Duck debuted in print as part of a Walt Disney partnership with Good Housekeeping magazine. In April […]
It seems newspapers are slowly returning Non Sequitur to their comic pages. After the fubar earlier this year and the accompanying cancellations, editors are listening to their readers who continue to want the comic back in their papers. The latest is The Spokesman-Review.You wouldn’t believe how many notes I still get each week saying that even […]
In Lufkin, Texas the switching of comics, beginning today, rates a front page story – admittedly below the fold at the bottom of the page, but still, front page news!Good NewsStarting today, readers of The Lufkin Daily News can look forward to seeing a few new cartoons on the comics page. ‘‘Nancy’’ and ‘‘Red and […]
Erie native Dave Blazek has written and drawn his daily cartoon panel “Loose Parts” for nearly two decades, and the panel has been collected into five books and counting. But he never considered himself a cartoonist until May. That’s when Blazek and “Loose Parts” received the highest honor a newspaper panel cartoon and its author […]
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 […]