I’m already sick of responses to the Mueller Report and have begun sarcastically asking people to share their copies, since they obviously couldn’t be so sure if they hadn’t read the whole thing.So I like Ann Telnaes‘s take, which nicely combines the little information Barr has released with the fact that, even if he is […]

 Comic artist Ken Bald has passed away.Kenneth Bruce (Ken) Bald August 1, 1920 – March 17, 2019 From the obituary:Upon graduating Pratt in 1941, Bald’s talent landed him a job at the Jack Binder Art Studio in Englewood, NJ. Quickly recognized for his flair for main characters and a smooth inking style, the young Bald moved […]

 Tillie the Toiler and Rosie the RobotThe era immediately following WWI is rightly known as the period of womean’s emancipation, so naturally a string of working girl strips met the apparent need. Somebody’s Stenog by Alfred Hayward led the way in 1918, followed by Wood Cowan’s Miss Information in 1919, and the big breakthrough in […]

Sousa and Machado‘s commentary on the Barr Report of the Mueller Report is a bit light on metaphor, but, first of all, sometimes being direct is the right choice. Too much subtlety can obscure the point.Second is that they understood that point, and I’m gobsmacked by the number of political cartoonists on both sides who […]

“I like to think of it as the Venn diagram of graphic design and poetry, and right in the middle there’s comics,” he said. “The poet is sussing words . . . but the graphic designer is directing the eye. Once I realized that, it wasn’t about drawing so much but more about thinking about […]

Pantalone: What are we to make of this fellow? Is he knave or fool? Lombardi: I really don’t know. Probably a little of both.                                        — Carlo Goldoni, “Servant of Two Masters”If I had a little more […]

 Sally Forth (and former Flash Gordon) artist Jim Keefe noted the temporary end of new Spider-Man comic strips.With the Amazing Spider-man comic strip going to reprints for the time being, Roy Thomas and Alex Saviuk’s run on the strip has come to an end. March 17 was the last Sunday with March 23 being the […]

 As the signature shows, Harry Bliss has partnered with a famed comedian for some cartooning.Says Harry:Yes, it is that Steve. Steve was having dinner with Francoise [Francoise Mouly, the New Yorker’s Art Editor]  and others and mentioned he had a couple dog cartoon ideas, also mentioned he was a fan of my work, so Francoise […]

For the moment, Barry Blitt owns the Mueller Report, and I think he’s got it right though I wish things were otherwise.That is, I wish people did hear the mic drop, but expecting that much of the public is a flaw shared by Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama, who seemed to believe that people might […]

 With the (temporary) end of new Amazing Spider-Man comic strips it seems a good time for this.Stan Lee had a few runs at comic strips earlier in his career. In the early 1950s he wrote My Friend Irma and Hoody Doody. Later in The Fifties and stretching into the early Sixties he was trying his […]

I like Ed Wexler‘s cartoon, but only because I take the Donald Trump figure as a kind of collective metaphor. That is, I agree the bar has been lowered, but Wexler jumped the gun in assuming Trump would proclaim his own innocence.He sure ain’t the only one to be making assumptions at this stage.There have […]

Tumbleweeds creator Tom K. Ryan has passed away.Thomas Kreusch (Tom K.) Ryan (aka T. K. Ryan) June 6, 1926 – March 12, 2019 From the above linked funeral home obituary:Tom began his career as a commercial artist in Muncie, Indiana. His love of the old west and his creative vision merged in 1965 as he created […]

Today’s roundup of things that are more complex than people seem to think will begin with Pat Bagley‘s astute analysis of the Meuller Report.My junior high science teacher had an atom in a box, or, at least, that’s what it said it was on the outside of the small, taped-up carton.And there was something in […]

 Patrick Chappette Wins the Not The Thomas Nast Award80th Annual Overseas Press Club Awards Recognize Finest International Reporting THE BEST CARTOON AWARD [formerly The Thomas Nast Award] Best print, digital or graphic journalism on international affairs Patrick Chappatte The New York Times Judges: Patrick Chappatte’s cartoons for the New York Times were a model of […]

  Comics Kingdom is excited to welcome Maritsa Patrinos to the Six Chix family! Check out her first comic, live on ComicsKingdom.com Maritsa Patrinos becomes the new Friday Chick starting today March 22, 2019. Maritsa is a Brooklyn-based illustrator who most recently worked as a staff writer and illustrator at BuzzFeed. She was born in […]