There are always a lot of turkey-pardoning cartoons at Thanksgiving, but this year they had the Khashoggi murder to work in, which lifted them above the usual, though not necessarily above each other.What was more interesting was to see how many conservative cartoonists broke ranks to criticize Trump over this murderous buddy-buddy act.But L’il Donnie […]
Tampa Bay Times Executive Editor Mark Katches notes:There is an openly shared sentiment among top newspaper editors that changing comics is like touching the third rail. Readers tend to react with fervor.But that doesn’t stop newspapers from updating their comic strips occasionally, usually after a reader poll so they can deflect any blame.So the Tampa […]
Cartoonist Werner Wejp-Olsen has passed away.The Wejp-Olsen family has informed the world:It is with our deepest sorrow that we share this news with you; our beloved father, husband, and brother Werner Wejp-Olsen has passed away on November 15, 2018. We miss him sorely but try to find solace in the beautiful memories of the loving […]
Dog-walking in the city is different than dog-walking in the country. Our dog walkers pile their gang into the back of the car and take them out to a trail somewhere. It means they have to keep their numbers down, because four or five dogs running loose is enough keep track of, but the dogs […]
Cartoonist Redesigns Turkey Cartoonist Kevin Cannon has redesigned the Star Tribune turkey.For the 40th “Oh, You Turkey” coloring contest Kevin becomes the second artist to draw the page, replacing Bruce Bjerva. The Star Tribune interviews the new cartoonist. Science is FunVery soon a spacecraft will, if all goes well, land on Mars to perform a very […]
An interesting nuance of the business of syndicated comics is the Thanksgiving comic. It seems like an easy day to say “thanks” to your readers and/or maybe do a family dinner, turkey or pilgrims based comic.But, what if you have clients outside the United States?We frequently get substitute requests from newspapers in Canada looking for […]
I don’t often argue with Frazz, but I’d take a spoonful of the candied yams and several of the green bean casserole, neither of which I would ever want on any day but this. (Well, on Christmas, but that’s a culinary instant replay.)Eldest son is scaling down the feast this year, but I hope he’ll […]
…a few days ago I saw a really interesting cartoon, and I want to talk about it today. The cartoon, which is about the California wildfires, was created by Ed Hall, an established political cartoonist whose work has appeared in major newspapers and magazines for many years. The notable thing about this one is that […]
It’s easy enough to aim chants of “Lock Her Up!” at Ivanka, and several cartoonists have, but Tom Toles wins for drilling down to the appalling level of blind, egocentric privilege in which this little girl has lived all her life.The Trump loyalists are explaining about how it’s different if you have a server in […]
A “Classic Nancy” comic from Ernie Bushmiller was pulled by GoComics in reaction to the strip’s “negative” and “racist stereotypes” content. While the strip has been replaced, the comments from earlier in the day remain.https://www.gocomics.com/nancy-classics/2018/11/20EDIT: The strip can still be seen at UExpress.com https://www.uexpress.com/go-comics?amu=/nancy-classics/2018/11/20EDIT: The strip has been removed from UExpress as well.
We’re hearing from sources that Executive Editor Diana Smith is no longer at King Features. Details of the move are not known but Ms. Smith’s LinkedIn profile seems to confirm.
The Solano County/Fairfield (California) Daily Republic is adjusting to economic realities:It costs a great deal of money to report, write, illustrate, design and ultimately pull that local news and information together for each day’s print edition. The changes we have made – and continue to make – keep the focus on what’s local. As such, […]
Today’s Agnes is just plain silly, but it made me laugh because, I thought, there probably is a reason for the poofy hats, only I just looked it up and the reason, as I kind of suspected, is a combination of tradition, pretension and dubious folklore.But it put me in mind of the National Comedy […]
By the early 1960s Wally Wood was a known comic artist. His EC science fiction and MAD work was hailed. Early on he was good enough to draw Will Eisner’s The Spirit and spell Frank Frazetta on the Ace McCoy comic strip. His fantasy illustrations for pulps and his adventure sequences for the Valor comic […]
This coming weekend Gasoline Alley will celebrate its 100th anniversary, having first appeared November 24, 1918 in the Saturday edition of The Chicago Sunday Tribune.The writer-artist behind the ongoing strip today is Jim Scancarelli of Charlotte, N.C. He is just the fourth cartoonist to [sign] the comic. The North Michigan Christian Voice talks to Jim Scancarelli […]