George HW Bush has died and Bob Englehart offers my favorite obituary cartoon on the topic, which is pretty muted and not terribly specific, but then so was GHWB.Bush always struck me as a behind-the-throne type, not a Number One Leader sort of person, and that’s not a slight: Somebody needs to keep all the […]
The recent talk of man traveling to Mars and of man-made objects landing on Mars, it is easy to forget that one hundred and fifty years ago John Carter went to Mars. The Civil War veteran, after entering a cave, was mysteriously transported to the red planet. His fantastic adventures there were finally made public […]
It’s no particular secret to Constant Readers that I’m a fan of Ann Telnaes, but when, quite some time ago, she began to simply add stacks to her “Nothingburger” cartoon base, I felt she was overplaying the concept.However, I may have missed the value of patience and of a sort of quiet relentlessness. This piece […]
Just before his birthday cartoonist Ruben Bolling was interviewed (this being posted a day after the birthday). But no special occasion is needed to talk to the Herblock Prize winning cartoonist. If the opportunity presents itself, grab it; and Stephen Roth did.Stephen starts with what everyone has been wondering about.Q: Is “Ruben” a family name, […]
Greg Cravens Gets StonedThe Buckets and Hubris cartoonist Greg Cravens and writer Gabriel DeRanzo’s latest paths have dovetailed into a joint effort: Stoned Ninja.What did the inexperienced DeRanzo possess that nobody else had? A completed script. According to Cravens, who’s been around the block a time or two, that made all the difference. “Other people […]
In the comic strip Bilge, two bald eagles are having a conversation while perching on the cross atop St. Michael’s Cathedral. “Bilge is kind of a stupid name for a comic strip,” says one. “What do you suggest?” says the other. “How about Peanuts?” “How about Just Sue Me Now?” A kingfisher sitting just below […]
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Over at Comics Kingdom Vintage Strips, Big Ben Bolt has just wrapped up one adventure and is off on another. It’s a good time to jump on board, but it also made me wish life and international diplomacy were as simple as this fellow thinks.The strip is from August, 1958, so a certain young boxer […]
Too Much of a Good Thing? Letter to the Editor of the Arizona Daily Star:But only one thing really bothers us: the lack of civility of your editorial cartoonist. I expect cartoonists to skewer those needing it; I don’t think it requires eviscerating them, and eating them for lunch. For example, I didn’t vote for […]
The 50th year of Doonesbury (including the Bull Tales years) marks the first time journalist Jane Pauley will interview cartoonist husband Garry Trudeau.From the CBS press release: To mark the 50th anniversary of the famed cartoon strip, Pauley and Trudeau traveled to Yale University, where it all began when Trudeau was a 20-year-old college student, […]
Autumn Years, the Bergen County magazine for over sixty types, cover featured an eight page story about cartoonist Hy Eisman for its Summer 2018 issue. Detailing his life and career from Depression Era child to 91 year old Popeye cartoonist and everything in between. From Little Lulu to Little Iodine, from never-was comic strips (Joe […]
There have been a raft of cartoons using the Statue of Liberty to comment on the tear-gassing at the border, some quite good, others quite predictable, but I like Jim Morin‘s because it is unapologetic in admitting that we’ve left our values behind.That is, I get a nice emotional surge from the idea that the […]
Longtime/former New Yorker cartoon editor and current Esquire humor editor Bob Mankoff announced earlier in the month he was launching a new cartoon site in the same mold as The Cartoon Bank (a site he created and later sold to Conde Nast).He spoke to Michael Cavna at The Washington Post’s Comic Riffs about the new site […]
Apollo Magazine muses on the “genius” of Charles Schulz as it uncovers more details on the Peanuts Exhibit running through March at Somerset House in London.From the piece:The final section of the exhibition looks at the treatment of particular themes in Peanuts. Lucy – ‘the most terrifying character in the history of comics’, according to the […]
Let’s at least start with something uplifting: Doc and Raider‘s lovely portrait of Montreal this time of year.Somebody was celebrating the resurgence of independent bookstores the other day and I made the point that, for all NYC types celebrate the original anchors, once Barnes & Noble and Borders went corporate, their big box stores did as […]