From the story:The August 20, 1913, edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (subscription required) reprinted a cartoon from the London Chronicle about the newspaper of the future. And it serves as a fascinating snapshot of an era when automobiles were still relatively new, powered flight was just a decade old, and broadcast radio was still for early adopters.
After reading the write-up for Colonial Comics: New England, 1750-1775 at Comics Worth Reading, I made a mistake that has both positive and negative outcomes for readers here: I accidentally ordered the Kindle version instead of the paperback.The positive is that I was able to sit down and read it sooner and can report that […]
Cartoonist John Blair Moore has passed away.JOHN BLAIR MOORE 1948 – AUGUST 5, 2018 From John’s autobiography:Born in Tibet in the 1880’s, John Blair Moore was raised by a family of iternant(sic) Yak herders high in the Himalayas, where he spent years perfecting his skills in animation and narrative cartoon strips. Unfortunately, being about forty […]
There are three sketch artists in the courtroom for Paul Manafort‘s financial crimes trial.Reuters is using the artwork of William (Bill) Hennessy, Jr. The Associated Press is going with Dana Verkouteren. NPR has the talents of Art Lien. Network and cable news seem to be gravitating toward the Hennessy drawings.Hennessy was the artist Stephen Colbert used for an […]
Over on reddit.com, this post getting some love.Twitter: @Garfield
Berkeley Breathed restarted “Bloom County” in 2015 and he’s now onto his third collection of those new strips. IDW will release “Bloom County: Best Read on the Throne” this September. It’s available for pre-order here.From the IDW site:Collecting year three of the Bloom County relaunch begun in 2015! The stakes are higher, the punchlines are sharper, and […]
The Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia has announced that New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast is to receive their “Visionary Woman Award”. From their site:Since joining The New Yorker in 1978, Roz Chast has established herself as one of our greatest artistic chroniclers of the anxieties, superstitions, furies, insecurities and surreal imaginings of modern life. Her […]
The Smithsonian.com jumps in on the Olivia Jaimes helmed “Nancy.” From the story:The Revamped ‘Nancy’ Is the Perfect Comic Strip for 2018. The comic’s first woman artist mines her own girlhood experience to make the eternally 8-year-old, cookie-loving grouch even funnier.
Let’s start with a salute to fortuitous timing by Wiley Miller, whose Non Sequitur by, I assume, happenstance hits the comics pages while Wells Fargo’s incompetence, venality and lousy response is in the rest of the newspaper.In another bit of interesting timing, NPR has just started a series on the housing crisis with the observation […]
Drawing Caleeforneeya: Political Cartoons of Rex Babin, 1999 – 2012 The California Museum, in association with the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, is presenting a retrospective exhibit honoring Sacramento Bee editorial cartoonist Rex Babin.The exhibit, running August 14 – October 14, 2018, will coincide with the AAEC Convention in Sacramento, California the weekend of September […]
Dan Saad hasn’t been out of print since college. When U.S. newspaper circulation peaked at more than 60 million in the 1980s, his editorial cartoons graced the pages of The News-Herald. Three decades later, they still do.Dan’s AAEC profile says he “worked as the editorial cartoonist at the student newspaper, The South End, from 1972-1977.” […]
CommentatorsSomeone must have switched Rick Marschall‘s Sanka to real coffee. Suddenly he’s become a dervish of activity. Recently announcing the revival of Nemo, now he is commencing a weekly column of comic related anecdotes and history. The first column is an autobiography of sorts.The column will have its home base at John Adcock‘s Yesterday’s Papers, […]
Scott McCloud released his “Understanding Comics” in 1993. Barnes & Noble has marked the anniversary with this interview.From the site:“I’d like to think that Understanding Comics helped contribute to comics’ broader acceptance by both the general public and by various institutions like libraries, museums, and universities. But guys like me are only half of the solution. We […]
Cartoonist, shampoo actor and noted Australian Jason Chatfield was recently taken to task by a group of individuals who were offended by a recent New Yorker cartoon he created.From Jason’s blog:As a rule, I never engage in social media comments sections– especially when it comes to my work. I like people to just fight among […]
I will confess to going through a burn-out phase at the moment, in which I find today’s Reality Check refreshing.All commentators, including cartoonists, go through these phases where I have of late,—but wherefore I know not,—lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly […]