I wasn’t going to post any more New Year’s Babies, but Tom Richmond, who, IMHO, is in a photo-finish with Kal Kallaugher for the title of best caricaturist in the business, offers this one and I just can’t resist.There are many reasons to be optimistic about the coming year, most of them having to do with […]
The fourth and final collection of The Best Editorial Cartoons of 2018. The previous first, second, and third collections, if you missed them. At Legal Insurrection you can vote for your favorite A. F. Branco cartoon. Walt Handelsman of the New Orleans Advocate goes on WWL-TV to discuss his 2018 favorites. From NOLA to Cali. The […]
From Michael Cavna‘s piece:Looking back at the vintage work, it’s easy to see how quickly Trudeau grasped the essence of public Trump — the insatiable hunger for attention, the dizzying sense of entitlement, the playground petulance of one-upmanship, the embarrassing sense of decor and decorum and, always, the ravenous appetite for acquisition of objects and […]
Happy New Year, 1915, from this little feller. Since New Year’s cartoons are interchangeable, I thought instead I’d dip into my files of favorites from before I launched this venture nine years ago. So let’s start with my first posting in rec.arts.comics.strips, nearly 20 years ago, which didn’t keep my numbskull boss from selling off the […]
This is an installment of 2018 Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed. (part 1: Debuts – – part 2: Departures – – part 3: Dearly Departed – – part 4: Detours) 2018 – The Dearly Departed These U. S. newspaper and magazine cartoonists died in 2018. note: I usually only include creators who have […]
This is an installment of 2018 Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed. (part 1: Debuts – – part 2: Departures – – part 3: Dearly Departed – – part 4: Detours) 2018 Detours Detailing some changes in syndicated U. S. newspaper comics in 2018. BIZARRO by Wayno and Dan Piraro Beginning January 1, 2018 […]
This is an installment of 2018 Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed. (part 1: Debuts – – part 2: Departures – – part 3: Dearly Departed – – part 4: Detours) 2018 Departures These comics ceased production for U. S. newspapers in 2018 PIRANHA CLUB by Bud Grace February 1, 1988 – February 3, […]
This is an installment of 2018 Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed. (part 1: Debuts – – part 2: Departures – – part 3: Dearly Departed – – part 4: Detours) 2018 Debuts These comics began appearing in U. S. newspapers in 2018 WALLACE THE BRAVE by Will Henry (William Henry Wilson) March 26, […]
Like Edison Lee, I’m a little dubious about this whole New Year’s Eve thing, though it’s probably because I’m more like Orville in that I’ve seen enough of them to be choosy.Then again, I’m old enough to realize that there probably isn’t a good year to live over again, since the years with the highest […]
The Syracuse Post-Standard picks various cartoons and cartoonists to look back at 2018.Cartoons were drawn by Bill Bramhall, Chan Lowe, Dan Wasserman, Dana Summers, Scott Stantis, Walt Handelsman, David Horsey, Phil Hands and Joel Pett of Tribune Content Agency; and Tim Campbell, Mike Lester, Signe Wilkinson, Lisa Benson, Nick Anderson, Clay Bennett, Jack Ohman and […]
Consolidated Publishing (the Anniston Star and the Talladega Daily Home) will begin printing its Sunday Comics Section locally. Their long time supplier of preprinted Sunday color comics has decided to shut down. Beginning next Sunday, Jan. 6, Consolidated Publishing Company will introduce a new Sunday Comics section. It will be called Hot Blast Comics and […]
Macanudo, because why not? Also because, if you want to read something cosmic into it, it’s there. And if you don’t, it’s not.I don’t say that lightly. When I wrote about Leniers’ appearance at the combined CXC/AAEC convention this spring, I spoke about his puckish willingness to be silly one day and moderately profound the […]
Part Two of the Best of the 2018 Editorial Cartoons. Part One is here. Kevin Siers of The Charlotte Observer An introduction by Taylor Batten, Kevin’s editor. John Cole’s North Carolina Policy Watch cartoonsJohn Cole’s political cartoons on North Carolina topics appear weekly for NC Policy Watch. He is currently the staff cartoonist for the editorial pages […]
Taking the Cartoon Literally A reader is upset that an editorial cartoon took liberties with the pre-Nativity narrative.…the cartoonist completely twisted the biblical event of Joseph and Mary looking for a room in Bethlehem where Jesus would be born… He made them out to be unwelcome immigrants who should have been stopped by a wall. […]
Graeme Keyes finds a way to freshen the stale old “kids play in the box” gag.There’s no gag so moldy that it can’t be made new again, but sometimes it requires turning it completely upside down.Strict analysis of this raises the question of whether those are “kids” and whether they were the recipients of the […]