Bizarro got a laff the other day, but then it became strikingly relevant as I hit the road and, as I went through airports realized how many people have, indeed, been transformed into Bros.It’s a sort of uniform, and it goes beyond the backwards ball cap and goatee. Wayno has captured it quite well, in […]
Alex Deuben interviews Dana Simpson.This spring saw the publication of a new collection of strips, Unicorn of Many Hats, and Today I’ll Be a Unicorn, Simpson’s first board book. In August Andrews McMeel is publishing a collection of some of Simpson’s Ozy and Millie comics, and this fall will see the publication of a second […]
Shocking. Offensive. Truthful. These are all words that have been used to describe the work of controversial cartoonist Mr. Fish – aka Dwayne Booth.I think outrageous is also applicable, because Fish seems to be outraged at the state of our country. And he explains why in this July 19, 2018 Yahoo Unfiltered article and video.A […]
First I need to add to that San Diego Comic Con list of the other day.I overlooked the Spotlight on Macanuda: Introducing the World of Liniers for Sunday July 22. One of Latin America’s most acclaimed cartoonists, Liniers (Eisner Award nominee and Comic-Con special guest), talks about his popular Argentinian daily strip Macanudo, which begins […]
Kevin Siers proves that you can breathe life into any tired trope if you are clever and the facts align.The Pinocchio gag may, like Hitler references, have been rolled out too early and used too often, beaten into cliche before we realized how much we were going to need it. Or maybe it’s just that […]
Earlier this month HBO’s Vice News did a segment with Rob Rogers.“I think there’s a bigger story in terms of the administration’s attacks on the media and how certain media outlets, including Fox News and Sinclair media, how they’ve sort of gotten in line,” Rogers told VICE News. “You know that’s what was happening at […]
It’s official – the National Cartoonists Society‘s Reuben Awards Weekend will become, at least for one year, The NCSFest. A much more public fan-friendly event than the Reuben weekends have been.The National Cartoonists Society is delighted to announce that it has chosen the city of Huntington Beach, California, to host the inaugural NCSFest, a celebration […]
Donald Trump turned 16 in June, 1962, a few months before the Cuban Missile Crisis in October. He was a junior in high school. I was not quite 13 and in the eighth grade, and I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis as well as the Crisis in Berlin and several other things that made our relationship […]
Not often anymore, but today Bill Bramhall‘s editorial cartoon made the front page of his newspaper.Bill’s cartoon is gaining fame for it’s depiction of the Trump-Putin news conference.From The Hill: Tuesday’s cover of The New York Daily News depicts President Trump shooting Uncle Sam in the head after his jaw-dropping summit with Russian President Vladimir […]
Most fair-minded observers anticipated bromance.Clay Bennett posted this one a few days ago, which didn’t seem much of a shocking prediction but mostly made me wonder when young dorm-dwellers switched from a tie to a sock as a sign that there was a romantic event going on that should not be interrupted.Probably when most dorm-dwellers […]
Fantastic news for fans of comics and cartooning – Rick Marschall is announcing the return of the highly revered comic strip and cartoonist history magazine of the 1980s. nemo: the classic comics library is returning with Rick Marschall as editor!Rick’s full announcement as posted July 16, 2018 on the Yahoo Platinum Age Comics Group (with […]
The 2018 San Diego Comic Con (officially Comic-Con International: San Diego) begins later this week and today a few comic strips celebrated the annual event.Funky Winkerbean (the comic strip, if not the character) is there hoping to win an Eisner Award.While Sally Forth and family remain at the Trystero Con instead of THE Comic-Con.La Cucaracha […]
Today’s Baby Blues, if I were the cartoonist, would have had a fourth panel in which the other shoppers cheer.Savvy shoppers can spot, and avoid, these Coupon Queens by the little accordion folders they carry, full of coupons, as Wanda says, organized and color coded and obsessively catalogued so that they only take an additional […]
Noted comics and cartoon news reporter and historian Robert C. Harvey has opened up his site for all.Usually behind a (minimal) paywall, once a year Bob opens up the current and archived offerings for all to view, and for the next month that time is now!All of the Rants & Raves postings (through August) and […]
But first, Stephen Collins has a funny commentary based on the World Cup, though the tournament may be over before you see this. However, you should go see the whole thing, of which this is a snippet.Glad to see someone, as they say in Britain, taking the piss out of the snobs who brag about […]