Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the […]
Yeah it’s the busy season but don’t forget to reserve your table for the NCS Fest.The Deadline is January 31, 2019 and we hope to remind you again after New Years Day. Coming to Huntington Beach, California, May 17-19, NCS Fest is shaping up to be the biggest FREE comic arts festival in North America. […]
I am writing in regards to the comic article printed in the Courier Traveler on Dec. 5 condemning Catholic clergy… I feel it is so wrong for a local newspaper to comment about a religious denomination. How about an apology to all Catholics and Catholic clergy. This apology should be in large bold print. […]
Letters to the Editor The Sunday Pearls was mentioned here the other day and it got some response in the real world.From the San Diego Union-TribuneI wish to commend the “Pearls Before Swine” cartoonist, Stephan Pastis, for a truly profound strip last Sunday. Pastis lost his beloved dog and the panels depict in small, intimate […]
The Star-Banner (Ocala, Fla.) Managing Editor Jim Ross describes how his paper’s editors select and manage their editorial cartoons.From the column:As a writer, I envy cartoonists. They can summarize a feeling, a sentiment, a controversy, a triumph — anything, really — in a minimum amount of space. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then […]
Tangentially related to syndication, NPR’s Shankar Vandantem looks into how local citizens pay more in taxes when local newspapers go out of business.https://www.npr.org/2018/12/11/675505080/local-newspaper-closures-come-with-hefty-price-tag-for-residents
Ran into a bit of a flashback this morning when I came upon Jeff Boyer‘s latest cartoon for the Albany Times-Union.I was out of the newsroom but living in the area back when General Electric was forced to pay to clean up the PCBs in the bottom of the Hudson River, a legacy of their […]
Voice of America’s web site profiles the editorial cartooning medium with a short video featuring Politico’s Matt Wuerker and Patty Rhule of the Newseum. https://www.voanews.com/a/editorial-cartoons/4693810.html
I’ll break the suspense: It’s “we.”It goes back to that thing about how most Indian tribes got their names from neighbors, while, in their own language, they basically called themselves “the people.”Which worked then, but, in a diverse community, a phrase like, “We, the people,” is more apt to mislead than to instruct.Anyway, let’s check […]
Well THAT was an eye-catching Heart of the City by Mark Tatulli. (And shades of Gahan Wilson!) Another conspicuous Sunday. As much for the coloring as the art, and I got a chuckle too. I’ve become a big fan of Stantis and Allie‘s Prickly City Sunday pages, imaginative layout and art. The coloring of today’s Phantom got my […]
Let’s set a bit of a holiday mood with Barney & Clyde, which has always had a bit of a Frank Capra tone. The difference is that the cartoon strip appears every day and Capra worked in an era in which most movies were self-contained and had finite endings.There was no “It’s Still A Wonderful […]
Chicago Tribune Cartoonist Carey OrrA newspaper cartoon is a combination of two basic arts — the art of writing and the art of drawing — and the best cartoon is one with the best idea expressed by a snappy caption and good craftsmanship, says Carey Cassius Orr, recent Pulitzer Prize winner, who has been drawing […]
Through some bit of snafu I get a preview of comic strips from two weeks in the future… but when I open my local weekend paper I get last week’s Doonesbury:
Here’s a cartoon from Mike Keefe and an explanation from me of today’s headline.We had a pair of brilliant musical wits working as counselors at summer camp who collaborated on a hilarious play in which the King was a tyrannical nitwit, and I wish I could remember all the lyrics to his grand processional, which […]
An actual lesson…How To Be A Cartoonist by Chas. H. KuhnKuhn was a working cartoonist who created freelance illustrations, editorial cartoons, and a syndicated comic strip for half a century, from 1919 to 1969. His comic strip “Grandma,” which I hadn’t heard of, began in 1947 when he was 55 years old and ran until […]