Politics are currently in a state of suspension, as Nate Beeler demonstrates. There are a lot of shutdown cartoons still out there, a day late and a dollar short, while others have gone to more general, less time-critical commentary while things sort themselves out.I like Beeler’s cartoon, by the way. There’s a bit of Pee […]
While the firings of Steve Benson and Charlie Daniel and the hubbub over recent Steve Kelley cartoons have garnered the lion’s share of exposure, there is other news in the editorial cartooning profession. Walt Handelsman visited the University of New Orleans.Handelsman visited the Earl K. Long Library to talk about his experiences as a successful comic […]
Kal Kallaugher pretty much encapsulates the political situation, at least for the next few hours. A lot of good shutdown cartoons have become irrelevant, and there’s some question as to whether they will spring to life again in three weeks.I’m reminded of a bully who picked on a kid for a couple of weeks until […]
New Dick Tracy (comic book)Comic List quotes the press release:IDW Publishing is proud to announce the perfect pairing of acclaimed writer/artist Michael Avon Oeming and pop culture’s enduring icon of law and order in Dick Tracy Forever, a four-issue miniseries debuting in April. “Michael Avon Oeming’s award-winning work in crime comics makes him the perfect […]
I give up. I’ve been waiting for a period when nobody had used the Humpty Dumpty/Wall idea for a while, so that I could say “Ferchrissake quit using the Humpty Dumpty/Wall idea!” without it seeming like a personal jab at a particular cartoonist.There will apparently be no such moment of Dumptylessness, and at this stage, […]
Jules Feiffer was born January 26, 1929, and he celebrates his 90th birthday by offering us The Origins of The Feiffer Dancer.But back to the beginning of Jules.Before he escaped his teenage years he had become, first the office gofer for the acclaimed Will Eisner, and then Eisner’s assistant on The Spirit. By the […]
Alex shows that the British are more environmentally aware than we are, even if it does show it by having its title character whinging over the fact.I actually saw a Hummer the other day. GM quit making them in 2010, but this one was bright and shiny and all I could think was that the […]
The Lockhorns debuted in Newsday on Sept. 9, 1968 as the “The Lockhorns of Levittown.”After Bill Hoest died in 1988 at age 62, Bunny Hoest and John Reiner kept the Lockhorns alive. Newsday has a nice article about the local cartoon that made good and the 50 years of comics donated to the local university.[Bunny] has […]
The longstanding animus between the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh has now drug editorial cartoonist Steve Kelley into the conflict.The union has written a letter about what it calls are the “misogynistic editorial cartoons” of Steve Kelley’s that have recently appeared in the newspaper.Steve Kelley is not a member of the union […]
Gannett, continuing its recent actions, has cut loose dozens of journalists today including editorial cartoonists Steve Benson and Charlie Daniel.From Poynter:Another brutal day for journalism. Gannett began slashing jobs all across the country Wednesday in a cost-cutting move that was anticipated even before the recent news that a hedge-fund company was planning to buy the […]
Eighty-five years (and a couple days) ago the daily strip portion of Alex Raymond‘s January 1934 trilogy of newspaper comic strips debuted. But young Raymond wasn’t the *BIG NAME* used to promote the new feature.A bit over two years earlier Dick Tracy had appeared and become a comic strip sensation. King Features reacted by hiring […]
Bill Bramhall uses a familiar symbol — heck, I just cited it the other day — and this time, it’s no joke and not much of an exaggeration. Perhaps none.(Bloomberg) — Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, has postponed his testimony to Congress citing concerns for his family’s safety.On the surface, we […]
Sunday’s Nancy’s Gets Some Notoriety Olivia Jaimes‘ fourth wall (and gutter)-breaking January 20th Sunday strip for Nancy is getting some hand clapping around the internet. (The twitter link shows more comic strip samples of the concept.) 11-Year-Old Ezra Gets Comic Strip in Newspaper It’s not every day that Boise Weekly accepts a new submission from a […]
Matt Bors reflects the battle now raging over whatever happened at the Lincoln Memorial, which seems at this point to be outrage over young people being used as political pawns, which seems to involve using the young people as political pawns.And as Bors suggests, it’s less about what happened than about politics, and let me […]
Maybe I’m just in a bad mood or maybe events are making any other mood difficult, but I’m going to start by breaking a rule and using yesterday’s Candorville instead of the current one.I thought it was pretty cool that this particular strip dropped on the day Harris announced her candidacy.And I found myself taking […]