Raina Telgemeier‘s graphic novels are very popular. And they have the full confidence of her publisher Scholastic/Graphix. Raina’s forthcoming graphic novel Guts, which will continue her memoirs of grade school, will get a first edition print run of 1 million copies.Before the September 2019 publication of Guts, Scholastic and Raina will release a half million […]
Cartoonists have spoken about the fire hose issue, that the crises are coming at us faster than they can be drawn, and I’m not sure why the woman in Joe Heller‘s cartoon isn’t wearing gloves and carrying two rakes, but I’m certainly willing to step away and focus on fall for a bit.It’s becoming very […]
Millions missing. Elder-abuse allegations. The last days of Marvel wizard Stan Lee have been mired in controversy. Here, Lee—alongside his daughter—speaks out for the first time.A new interview with 95-year-old Stan Lee, not about his career but about his recent troubles and the headline making charges on those surrounding him.Today, Lee’s hearing is almost shot, […]
Moderately Confused mostly got a chuckle today because, while I don’t play the fiddle, or even the violin, I am convinced that “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” is probably an annoyingly simple song to play.I base this theory on the number of clearly crapola garage-country bands that feature it, and the fact that, while […]
Return with us to those thrilling days of yesteryear…specifically the 1950s.The Western was King in the 1950s – books, movies, magazines, TV, store shelves, and comics.The Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, Red Ryder, The Cisco Kid, and Gene Autry were all on TV and all had comic strips. And there were dozens more western […]
(David Fitzsimmons)(Drew Sheneman)And so here’s a juxtaposition of where we’ve landed, which is a strong message of partisanship and power over justice and mercy.We’ve had, in addition, a large helping of whataboutism, which requires ignoring the timeline and ignoring the number of progressives who have said that, had Bill Clinton’s personal flaws come to the […]
For 24 years, Bruce Quast scoured the latest goings-ons in and around Rockford for opportunities to make people laugh — or think. The political cartoons he produced for the Register Star picked apart the news under four Rockford mayors and five Illinois governors. Bruce Quast‘s editorial cartoon has appeared weekly on the opinion page of […]
Wilmington sport cartoonist Charley Burns has passed away.Charles Kennedy (Charley) Burns January 10, 1923 – September 29, 2018 From the obituary:[Charley] graduated in 1949 from the John Hussian School of Art in Philadelphia, which launched his art career with the E.I DuPont & de Nemours Company for over 30 years. After retirement, he started his […]
Ann Telnaes gets it absolutely right on a level that hits me personally, and perhaps it’s a chance to talk about the system, because I’m sure tired of talking about the issue.For about a year and a half, I edited a small, twice-weekly community paper in western Maine.Back in 2006-8, Maine had two Senators noted […]
Since Mike reminded some of us how old we are, let’s prepare ourselves with the recently released first print issue of The Nib, which deemed it apropos to debut with a Death Issue.The Nib has previewed a bit of the premiere issue’s contents at its site.For the younger generations, who plan to stick around on […]
Tom Cheney gets the top spot for drawing a tin-can telephone with a taut string.He’s originally from my part of the world, which is a good thing in itself, but the important thing is that he’s old enough to remember when comic books were for kids and had instructions for a tin-can telephone in about […]
Walt Kelly’s Pogo first appeared in a comic strip 70 years ago today. hat tip Tom Heintjes for abovePogo, of course, first showed up in a comic book seven years earlier. On the other hand Ripley’s Believe It or Not first (digest) comic book was 70 years ago this year.It was a hundred years ago this […]
So here we are, and, as Jim Morin notes, we’ve even had an FBI investigation of the latest charges against Brett Kavanaugh, which was conducted along the same lines as the administration uses in exploring environmental science: Round up the stuff that supports your position and avoid the parts that don’t.Which would just be liberal […]
Rocko Jerome was there (see comment below)!Rocko, who is a freelance writer not an artist, so don’t let that above image scare you, gives a detailed (written) report of his attendance at the Olivia Jaimes panel at the CXC festival.The moderator of the discussion was a woman named [Shena], the editor of Nancy on behalf […]
Chris Britt‘s former newspaper, the Springfield (Illinois) State Journal-Register, reports that the editorial cartoonist…has received multiple death threats in connection with his recent cartoon depicting the praying 10-year-old daughter of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.In an interview Chris told the State Journal-Register:“The reaction is unbelievable,” Chris Britt told the SJ-R in a phone interview […]