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Comic Strip of the Day: Storm Warnings

Normally, a hurricane is a disaster not only for those it impacts, but for editorial cartooning as well: It’s one of those events, like the death of a celebrity or, for that matter, a kerfuffle at a tennis match, which makes everyone pick up their pens and say nothing.However, these are not normal times, and […]

Comic Strip of the Day: Want vs Need

This is a single panel from Bob Eckstein’s “A Sketchbook of the Writer’s Digest Annual Conference,” in the current New Yorker, and you should go read that if you want the rest of this to make sense. (Your choice, of course.)Eckstein’s piece is about fiction writing and book publishing, but it applies to a wider […]

R. J. Matson 9-11/Vote Cartoon Brings Outrage

by D. D. Degg 3 comments September 11, 2018

A Roll Call editorial cartoon by R. J. Matson equating the 9-11 Al Qaeda attacks of 2001 with the current Russian attacks on the United States’ voting sovereignty has some taking umbrage.From a Conservative Review news item headlined “Sick:”A tasteless political cartoon disgraced Roll Call’s cartoon page Tuesday morning, on the 17th anniversary of the […]

Rob Harrell Talks About His ‘Monster on the Hill’ Graphic Novel as a Paramount CGI Film

The Daily Cartoonist recently sat down (virtually) with cartoonist Rob Harrell. Rob’s resume includes the much-beloved gone-too-soon syndicated comic “Big Top,” taking over for Brian Bassett on “Adam at Home,” a series of “Zarf” graphic novels from Penguin Random House and a CGI film from Paramount based on his Top Shelf Comix graphic novel “Monster on […]

Comic Strip of the Day: The Reign of Folly

There’s a lot going on today, much of which does not reflect well on civilization.My Kindle edition of Bob Woodward’s “Fear” was delivered at midnight, but, for the moment, I have only the Washington Post coverage of the other day and a few other early reviews to go on.However, I suspect there will be some […]

Monday Funday

by D. D. Degg 0 comments September 10, 2018

Happy anniversary Leroy and LorettaYesterday was the 50th anniversary for The Lockhorns, debuting September 9, 1968.But today’s panel seems to be celebrating the occasion.  Mars LandingAfter years of training and traveling…Safe Havens has a (not quite man) landing on the moon.  Comic Strip Within a Comic Strip Perhaps most famously would be Al Capp’s Fearless Fosdick.Today Tom […]

Comic Riffs Covers Controversial Serena Williams Cartoon

Michael Cavna covers the fallout from Australian cartoonist Mark Knight’s work on the Serena Williams/Umpire U.S. Open flap.From the piece:In doing so, Knight draws facial features reflecting the dehumanizing Jim Crow caricatures so common in the 19th and 20th centuries. Knight’s cartoon conjures up a range of such caricatures that were branded on memorabilia and […]

Comic Strip of the Day: Monday Mix

Okay, I recognize the cartoon character in this one, and I’m inclined to agree with Bill Day that the damage done is pretty negligible.However, a lot of that is due to the overlap with the revelations in Bob Woodward’s book, which comes out tomorrow but was excerpted and discussed in the Washington Post the day […]

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