This silly cartoon by Alistair Findlay may seem an odd kickoff to a post about the upcoming elections, particularly since he’s South African, but stick with me.First of all, it might not be all that silly. Not that I would expect NASCAR or Formula One to kick out their drivers, but a separate race among […]
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Publisher and Editor-in-Chief John Robinson Block has announced the appointment of Steve Kelley as the Post-Gazette’s new editorial cartoonist. Said Mr. Block: “Since my grandfather acquired the Post-Gazette in 1923, cartooning has been a hallowed tradition of this newspaper. It is with great pride and pleasure that I welcome Steve Kelley. I am […]
As Mike Peterson reported (and others had suspicioned) cartoonist Darrin Bell has combined the print editions of his Candorville and Rudy Park comic strips into a single project. Mike’s observation was spot on (I have a feeling he had met Darrin at the recent CXC), but now Darrin has confirmed and further clarified the reasons for […]
Surprise #1 today came when Stephen Collins served up what, in the first panels, looked like yet another “wedded to tech” gag with a “Motel of the Mysteries” homage, but then turned into something much more specific and quite funny. You should go read the rest.Or it might just be me: I’ve got a couple […]
Cartoonist Stan Mack responded to a New York Times piece with an illustrated letter of comment or, as the N. Y. Times is calling it, a “comic strip to the editor.”
For the month leading into the US midterm elections the School of Visual Arts is hosting “Art as Witness: Political Graphics 2016 – 18,” an exhibition of over 200 satirical and politically charged illustrations, cartoons and animations from 53 artists.Ann Quito, for Quartz, reviews the exhibit. As the illustrator Victor Juhasz writes in the exhibition catalogue: “We […]
Walt Kelly and PogoIn 1977, four years after Walt’s death, The Museum of Cartoon Art issued a A Retrospective of Walt Kelly and Pogo The Cartoonist Guild of America (1936 – 1939) B. K. Munn inquires into the little known history of an attempt at a cartoonists’ union. America’s First Color Newspaper Supplement (1892)From the archives of […]
Paige Braddock has, at least for the time being, decided to end her Jane’s World comic strip. above: Jane’s World ending on a happy high note Paige earlier this year, after years with the company, was promoted to Chief Creative Officer at Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates. The added duties may have played a role in […]
Do geeks dream of electric meters?Today’s xkcd offers a hint for Christmas shopping if you have someone as geeky as Randall Munroe on your list, and, while the strip is often thought-provoking, it sent me back to Earth Science, which I took in 1963-64, but not because of a hygrometer, though we probably had one.Nay, […]
Translator Anthea Bell has passed away.Anthea Bell May 10, 1936 – October 18, 2018From the above linked obituary:In 1970 Anthea Bell found herself with the tricky task of translating Asterix in Britain. The eighth adventure in the comic book series about everyone’s favourite Gaul rested on a French view of the English that was not […]
Darrin Bell leads off today because the major issue facing us is that we might be better off if we had a deliberate, Machiavellian liar in the White House.But it’s becoming increasingly clear that this is not some cunning plan.We knew Trump was devoid of empathy, but it’s not just that he can’t identify with […]
The following are some comic strip related books released or scheduled to be released in October. Links lead to the books’ Amazon page. Pearls Takes a Wrong Turn: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury Mother Is Coming: A FoxTrot Collection Adult Time: A Baby Blues Collection Dance Like Everybody’s Watching!: A Zits Treasury Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips […]
First, this note to editorial cartoonists: If Elizabeth Warren had — without claiming any advantage for it — said that her family spoke of African-American heritage, was mocked and called “Aunt Jemima” for it, but then took a DNA test that bore out her claim, would you depict her as a triumphant minstrel-show mammy?Don’t put […]
Liza Donnelly TCJ: And during this time you were submitting cartoons to other magazines and selling there? Liza: By then I had met a bunch of other cartoonists. There was a cartoonists association. I met Sam Gross and Roz Chast and George Booth around that time. Particularly from Sam you learned about the other publications. […]
In-Cumbria magazine has a recent news piece on cartoonist Luke McGarry’s art exhibition at the University of Cumbria (UK) running from Oct. 12th through Nov. 2nd.From the piece:Luke, best-known for internet meme sensation, Sad Chewie and cartoons for American humour magazine, Mad, is putting on his ’31 at 31’ retrospective exhibition at the University of […]