Back in the day it wasn’t unusual for cartoonists to do specialty drawings for individual newspapers that carried their comics, whether for promotion or as a thank you or an anniversary celebration. Below are Milton Caniff (1984) and Chester Gould (1963) samples. It’s good to see the tradition hasn’t completely gone away.Recently John Rose did one […]
Usually when Stephan Pastis causes tears to roll it’s from laughing too hard. But occasionally Stephan gets serious in his Pearls Before Swine comic strip.Sometimes he gets profound. Sometimes Stephan gets really intense. Michael Cavna, at the Washington Post, took note that a late 2018 Pearls Sunday strip about Stephan’s dog dying tugged at his readers […]
“Reducing our comics section was not our best decision”As you may recall the Boston Globe created a bit of a hullabaloo when it dropped nearly half of its comic strips and a couple of puzzles. Forced to see the error of their way, they promised “to restore some of them.”Their early January note said their […]
Willie is not unlike Ralph Kramden, in that he is a fool in the classic sense and thus, no matter how ridiculous his antics, you can’t help identifying with him.And the classic fool often speaks truth, as in today’s Willie & Ethel, because much of what we know about the CIA, we know from Tom […]
The Prince Edward Island Guardian has signed on to present the editorial cartooning works of Michael de Adder and Bruce MacKinnon beginning February 7, 2019.The Guardian is adding two of Canada’s top cartoonists and their opinionated snapshots, from lighthearted to biting offerings, to its editorial pages. Beginning today, Michael de Adder and Bruce MacKinnon will […]
The state of the union, first of all, is relative, and, just in time, Kal Kallaugher has provided the cover illustration for Freedom House’s state of world freedom report.They feel World Freedom is in decline, but I like how Kal gets Dear Leader off the hook — he’s not adding to the problem. He’s simply […]
San Francisco police released a new sketch Wednesday [February 6, 2019] showing what a serial killer who targeted gay men in the 1970s could look like now in hopes of getting a break in the cold case. The killer was dubbed the ‘Doodler’ after he told a person who later became a victim and […]
Cartoonist and teacher Jim Earle has passed away.James Hubert (Jim) Earle May 2, 1932 – February 4, 2019After completing his architectural design degree, Earle began a 38-year career as a professor (and later department head) in the Department of Engineering Design, now Civil Engineering, during which time he simultaneously pursued a master’s in industrial education […]
Wisconsin State Journal editorial cartoonist Phil Hands drew cartoons live during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address.The WSJ presents the gallery.
Keith Knight of “K Chronicles,” “(th)ink)” and “The Knight Life” has a show based on his life as a cartoonist in the pilot phase at Hulu. Today, The Hollywood Reporter revealed some casting news:Workaholics star Blake Anderson has signed on to the project, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. He will play a longtime friend of Morris’ character in Woke, inspired […]
A February 4th letter into The Cleveland Plain Dealer lamented a recent comics change.From the letter:Just when I thought it was safe to read the comics after all the changes in the “Diversions” section, I opened the Sunday paper to discover that my favorite comic, “Pickles,” had been replaced (with no prior warning) by something […]
Arlo & Janis set the mood as I celebrate nine years of cartoon blogging with a collection of strips that predate CSotD, only a few of which I’ve slipped in over the years.Arlo isn’t so much morbid as realistic with a tendency to brood, and there are any number of strips I might have chosen […]
The Boondocks comic strip ran from its inception in 1996 to 2006 when creator Aaron McGruder decided to explore other venues. Now, with the assistance of Seung Kim, he has returned to The Boondocks comic strip.But on Tuesday (February 5), he called upon Charlamagne Tha God’s Instagram reach to spread a new and relevant comic he […]
Letters to the editor – cartoonists help fill the newspaper opinion pages. “The Girl Scouts are off limits” “Thanks a lot, Steve Breen, for…[putting] a damper on Girl Scout cookie sales” “Linking Girl Scouts to heart disease”Steve Breen: some things are sacred. “editorial leadership needs to exercise more sensitivity and discretion when choosing which cartoons to publish”Michael […]
Clay Bennett sums up the Ralph Northam situation: The dude is screwed, and he pretty much did it to himself.To be fair, there are some issues over the “yearbook,” which Eastern Virginia Medical School shut down five years ago , and I put “yearbook” in quotation marks because it seems that it wasn’t an official student publication.Which […]