After 20 years in suspended animation copyrights have expired on works created in 1923. Congress, bowing to pressure from a few corporations, extended U. S. copyright rights from 75 years to 95 years in 1998. Some details of the results can be read here and here and here.Some creations never had their copyrights renewed under […]
Some serious thoughts, some purely silly ones, but starting with a good insight by John Cole into the impact of the shutdown.There have been several cartoons commenting on the fact that our National Parks are unable to service their trash cans and washrooms, and I’m certainly not going to dismiss that.But I don’t see a […]
Texas is the second largest state in terms of area and population, yet there are no Texas newspapers with staff editorial cartoonists. That is not to say there aren’t cartoonists plying their trade in the Lone Star State. Between El Paso and San Antonio and nearly a hundred miles south of the Pecos River, in […]
Thea Voutiritsas has gathered a list of the three most popular comic strips as sorted into four different categories. These are the favorites of readers who checked in at GoComcs during 2018.24 years after the last new Calvin and Hobbes appeared Bill Watterson‘s brilliant comic made it onto three of the four groups.The four groupings […]
Matt Davies celebrates one of the most hilarious misfires in a very long time, the attempt of conservative trolls to shame Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes by posting a musical video she’d made in college which was so wonderful and winning that I’m not even going to dig up a link because I’m sure you’ve seen it.The recreation […]
A bargain at twice the price.Attempted Bloggery has found a New Yorker 2010 Day to Day Calendar for $7,794.01.That’s the Amazon price, AbeBooks has a few copies ranging from $4,000 to $11,206. And you tore off the pages and threw them away as the days of 2010 went by.Check it out at Attempted Bloggery. McCay – […]
Creating good Trump cartoons is so hard it’s not even funny. The ironic thing is, drawing him is easy. The pursed lips, the puff of golden hair, the iconic hand gestures – they beckon the pencil. A cartoonist might chortle to himself, This is going to be huge! HUGE! We’re going to draw tremendous cartoons. […]
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle has issued an apology for an Elizabeth Warren-related editorial cartoon by Rick McKee.From the column:The best and strongest opinions are expressed without retreating to the weak territory of racially charged expressions. This page will strive to avoid them.You can see the cartoon in question here.
A very basic premise of humor is that it must contain truth. Even a premise as shopworn as the desert island, the psychiatrist’s couch, or, as in this Speed Bump, the mountain-climbing wisdom seeker, can be funny if there is a twist that makes you say, “Yes.”First you see the absurd setup, then you read […]
While expanding their Reuben Weekend to be more available to the public via NCS Fest, the National Cartoonists Society is also expanding its awards categories.A few years ago the NCS added Online Comics – Short Form, Online Comics – Long Form categories to the divisional award categories. This year they have added “the all-new Online […]
Here are just SOME of the cartooning awards and details on submissions and deadlines. After easy holiday days it is time to get frantic if planning to enter some of these. The Jay Kennedy Memorial ScholarshipDEADLINE: ENTRIES MUST BE POSTMARKED BY JANUARY 7, 2019Only days left to enter this scholarship given to the cartoonist judged the […]
I’ll get to politics in a minute, but I’m a little burned out on the topic, so let’s start with some less fraught things, such as fish breath.I’ve never had a sardine omelette, but Wallace the Brave brought back a memory of kippered herring, which my mother liked and which, alongside some scrambled eggs or […]
For 19 years before 2000, and now for 19 years after 2000 (and including the year 2000) Garry B. Trudeau has designed a collectible button for the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival featuring his Doonesbury comic strip characters. Above is the 2019 button. Look at the previous 39 buttons from 1981 to 2018 (2016 had two […]
The 2018 National Football League season has ended, and so has The Monsters of the Midway comic strip I guess. But wait, Da Bears are playing post-season and so is the comic strip! Beginning in 2010, Peirce wrote eight hot-selling Big Nate illustrated novels, based on the 11-year-old wise-cracking hero of his long-running comic strip. A […]
From the Indianapolis Star farewell column by Gary Varvel: After 24 years as IndyStar’s cartoonist, I’ve drawn nearly 8,000 cartoons, including those of Bill Clinton’s boxers, George W. Bush and Barack Obama’s ears and Donald Trump’s hair. Today’s will be my last. I have chosen to take Gannett’s early retirement offer. Though Gary will no longer […]