Editorial cartoonists Mike Luckovich, Mike Ramirez and Gary Varvel will all be recipients of the 2018 Advancing American Democracy Award. The award is given by the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site and past winners have included author Ron Chernow and Senator Richard Luger. The three cartoonists will receive the award at an event at The Conrad Indianapolis hotel […]
“Over the Hedge” writer and “Odd Squad” author Mike Fry’s new book has a favorable review over at Kirkus Reviews. “Bobby Mendoza Saves the World Again” is available on September 18th and is a sequel to his 2015 book, “The Naughty List.”From the Kirkus site:“… the brevity, pacing, and humor are likely to appeal to reluctant […]
The Small Press Exposition (SPX) is this weekend and the organizers are watching the hurricane, but they’re cautiously optimistic thus far.From their site: Thankfully Hurricane Florence is expected to have little impact on the DC area. The weekend weather looks mild, with a bit of rain. We’ll keep you posted of any change to these predictions.SPX […]
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 […]
Multiple sources reporting the New Yorker cartoonist and Reuben Award-winner Roz Chast is to be inducted into the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame at this year’s New York Comic Con.
You may have heard the NPR piece, you may be one of the hundreds of thousands who follow him on Instagram and/or you may take a business class he teaches at Oregon State University. However and whatever, you should know that Lord Birthday will be appearing at this weekend’s Feast Portland where he’ll be reading […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Northwest (Fayetteville) Arkansas Democrat Gazette had a recent editorial summoning up some memories of a Lil Abner-based theme park called “Dogpatch USA.”From the editorial:Truth be told, Dogpatch USA was never the grandest amusement park to ever open its gates. Its developers had big visions when the park near Harrison, themed after the satirical “Lil’ […]
A site called JSTOR (a site that reports to mix news and academics) has posted a piece called “The Most Controversial Comic Strip” on the legacy of censorship in comics and found in Walt Kelly’s “Pogo.”From the piece:As a Cold War liberal, Kelly also satirized communists by portraying two beatnik cowbirds as fellow-travellers constantly revising […]
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 […]