An embarrassment of riches today, but Jeff Stahler gets to lead off with this calm summation of things. I also liked Clay Bennett‘s piece, and the pair could have run as a Juxtaposition, except today’s blog is all a Juxtaposition.I like this piece because it suggests the criminality of turning in a false alarm, which I […]
above: Liò by Mark Tatulli Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for February 2019 release.Images and links via Amazon (though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.) Just Fore Laughs Lucy The Comics Journal #303 (“bookazine”) The Complete Funky Winkerbean Volume 8, 1993 – 1995 Evil Inc: Under New […]
Fridays are supposed to be politics-free, non-contentious days here, and there’s nothing less contentious than a Bizarro that simply made me laff and, so far as I can tell, has no greater meaning than being silly.I have indeed seen the mess that ensues when you fire off one of these things, and it’s not to […]
When the unfortunate error in judgment in the Sunday Non Sequitur was revealed to the public earlier this week reaction from newspapers was swift. Also, unexpectedly, was the quick response from a salesperson competing with Andrews McMeel Syndication for real estate on The Funny Pages.Sent to newspaper editors on Monday was this message from the […]
The Society of Illustrators has announced the inductees to their class of 2019 Hall of Fame and, as has been customary for the past 60 years, cartoonists are among the chosen. Mary Petty (1899–1976) was a self-taught, prolific illustrator of books and magazines whose works appeared regularly on the covers of The New Yorker. In total, […]
Ann Telnaes leads off on a day that will be a combination of political commentary and Valentine’s Day cartooning with her own combination of political commentary and Valentine’s Day cartooning.I saw another of those videos the other day where some schmuck proposes to his GF on the Jumbotron at a crowded sports event, and, when […]
A few days later I got calls from the highway department AND The Famous Artists Schools both saying that I was hired. What a dilemma. H-m-m-m, sweat all day in the broiling sun in a road gang … OR … sit at a drawing board all day and draw cartoons? Randy Enos‘ latest Caledonian […]
This will be a day of juxtapositions, so let’s start with a string of non-political thematic coincidences:(Red and Rover)(Pooch Cafe)(Argyle Sweater)(Frazz)I’m not claiming any great significance for these, but the convergence amused me and, if you agree with me and with Frazz about the dubious attempt to connect “esoteric” and “sophisticated,” you may also agree […]
Point: While I have long thought “Mallard Fillmore” to be not funny and in poor taste, the Feb. 2 strip surpasses all previous ones: “Not ‘Congresspersons.’ It’s ‘Persons of Congress.’” Besides the fact that I have never heard of the new term for our representatives, it would be abbreviated POC, which is a term I […]
Seems cartoonist Jerry King has a new gig. The Fast Lane Truck site is enjoying Jerry’s humor. Coloring CamouflageI had a bit of a breakthrough when coloring this one. Initially, I tried to fill in the individual areas on each item of camouflage clothing with different colors, which quickly became overwhelming.While coloring the above daily Bizarro […]
Clay Bennett has a refreshingly neutral commentary on the number of Democratic candidates lining up for the 2020 Presidential race.It’s a lot of lanes, but at least the groundskeeper is keeping them even, which is more than I’m seeing elsewhere, in both cartoons and social media commentary.Someone was trashing Kristen Gillibrand on Twitter, for instance, […]
The Butler Eagle dropping Non Sequitur over the F… Yourself Trump hidden message in the Sunday February 10 comics sections was only the tip of a growing iceberg. Other newspapers are also banishing the Wiley Miller’s comic.Among the papers ending their association with Non Sequitur are: The aforementioned Butler Eagle“We apologize that such a disgusting trick […]
As my colleague DD Degg noted recently, Stephan Pastis has been getting more philosophical at Pearls Before Swine lately, with his tribute to his dog getting a great deal of attention.This shift means that the strip doesn’t always produce the belly laughs it did when it was new, but it probably wouldn’t anyway.We’re oversupplied with […]
From the Butler Eagle:“A reader brought to our attention that one of the syndicated comic strips which appears in the Sunday Butler Eagle may contain a hidden message which was apparently placed there by someone in the creative department of the creator of the comic strip or the syndication which controls it,” said Ron Vodenichar, […]
As reported here the Cleveland Plain Dealer, without notice, dropped the Pickles comic strip and replaced it with Animal Crackers.Response from indignant readers was immense and immediate:Oh, no, my very favorite comic, Pickles, gone! Why on earth would you drop Pickles from your comics page? The decision to replace “Pickles”… is tantamount to trading in […]