If I’m going to connect comics with the past, I should start with today’s Bizarro, which riffs on the Reality TV notion of pampered, catty women in big houses, comparing them to housewives of earlier days.The 19th Century was about when things began to turn around for “housewives,” which, up to the end of the […]
Hilary B. PriceHilary opens her studio! A new Rhymes With Orange collection! Hilary’s Mom! Hilary visits Rina Piccolo! Hilary and Rina jam on a King Kong comic! And more at Hilary’s infrequently updated blog! Bob Mankoff Bob Mankoff picks his 10 All-Time Favorite Cartoons for Parade magazine. Asterix and Obelix and Political CorrectnessSections of the French press […]
above: Sunday November 4, 2018 Pearls Before Swine Creative Loafing Charlotte Ceases Print, Staff Let Go Alt-weekly newspaper Creative Loafing Charlotte in North Carolina has ceased print production with its October 31st 2018 edition.Creative Loafing, received an email Tuesday night from the paper’s publisher, Charles Womack III. Wednesdays are production days for the paper, which […]
So it’s come to this: Rob Rogers lays out the new rationale for canceling someone’s vote.Because he’s lost his mind. Because he believes a man who lies so often that his greatest success as a “job creator” has been in the area of fact checking.But, of course, that’s part of Trump’s game.By constantly accusing the […]
Cartoonist Keith Knight‘s life is set to be a pilot, and possible series, for Hulu.Titled Woke, the half-hour, single-camera comedy revolves around an African-American cartoonist who is on the cusp of mainstream success when his mild comics take a decidedly provocative tone following a run-in with police. Now, Keef is in an irreversible state of […]
“Heart of the City” is one of my favorite strips, but last Sunday’s touched off a major topic that’s been rattling around in my mind.And, when I say “major,” I mean multifaceted, because, to start with, Heart’s mom suggests that there’s nothing wrong with a girl dressing up as the Man in the Yellow Hat, […]
The Chicago Sun-Times in an effort “to reinvest in the quality journalism you’ve come to expect” will “[pare] back some comics.”Today marks some changes to the comics and classified pages of our Monday-through-Saturday print editions. Rather than three dedicated pages of comics, we’ll be publishing one comics page with the New York Times crossword and […]
Mike Luckovich Talks Politics …a lot of people now realize how fragile our democracy is…ArtsATL interviews Mike Luckovich about editorial cartooning and The State of The Union. From one side of the fence to the other. Antonio Branco Talks PoliticsI don’t shy away from the fact that I’m conservative…Poynter gave Antonio Branco a call and talked editorial […]
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(Matt Bors) (Darrin Bell)Today’s opening Juxtaposition hit me because I was just in a back-and-forth on social media in which (perhaps late) I had a particular revelation.The topic was not unusual, but what was, was the willingness of the other fellow to hash it out rather than just sling insults and talking points.His point was that […]
Ricardo Caté Cartooning Without Reservations Without Reservations is a daily comic in the Santa Fe New Mexican. Creator Ricardo Caté’s subject material comes from his experience but also deals with political themes.Caté said his overall goal is to keep expanding his comic and be in more newspapers. “I want to make this nationwide,” he said. […]
Excerpts from Bruce Jenkins’ San Francisco Chronicle obituary: Willie McCovey was the gentleman superstar, often described as a man without enemies. McCovey, who died at the age of 80 on Wednesday afternoon, was among the classiest athletes ever to grace the Bay Area. Humble and soft-spoken, always clearly grateful of the life he was able […]
Bob Mankoff is about to launch Cartoon Collections, a new website which will house Mankoff pieces and other material from famed sources including The New Yorker, Esquire, Playboy, National Lampoon and many more.Cartoon Collection will be the largest digital collection of licenseable cartoons in the world. Bob Mankoff on his new concern versus Cartoon Bank, which […]
Earlier today Mike Peterson presented us with the origins of The Great Pumpkin.Linus and The Great Pumpkin was an annual event in the Peanuts comic strip that became a perennial favorite as an animated TV special.And while Garfield’s Halloween Adventure tried to compete as a television tradition, it never rose to the beloved status of […]
There were a lot of cartoons today about the grownups eating the candy and other stalwarts of the season, which kind of made me think maybe after five or six years cartoonists should stop drawing Halloween cartoons and simply rotate the ones in their archives.Halloween cartoons are like obituary cartoons: They’re expected, but they’re not […]