This Maddie Dai cartoon from the New Yorker struck me at an opportune time, which is to say, just after CXC, which featured a large collection of young cartoonists hawking their books, many, many of which fall into that third category.I remarked to someone closer to my demographic that it made me once more grateful […]
So we’ve reached the point where only purveyors of altie-comics like Tom Tomorrow have the chops to handle the absurdity of this mess.I wish people would stop talking about whether Kavanaugh and his pal assaulted this particular girl on that particular date in that specific house. It’s not that I don’t believe her, but, as […]
Fox News reports:A left-wing editorial cartoonist faced backlash over the weekend for drawing a cartoon that critics say mocked Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh‘s 10-year-old daughter, Liza.A right-wing “anonymous Twitter user” was upset over a recent Chris Britt cartoon reworking a portion of Brett Kavanaugh’s opening statement before the September 27 Senate Judicial hearing, and […]
After 75 years America’s maid is no longer being regularly published. September 29, 2018 was the date of the last Hazel panel distributed by King Features Syndicate. above: the last syndicated Hazel panel (odd choice in this age-of-assault climate) Hazel was a cartoon panel created by Ted Key that first appeared February 13, 1943 in the […]
It isn’t really anywhere; It’s somewhere else instead. — A.A. MilneJamestown is probably classified as “Western New York,” though it has many aspects of “The Southern Tier,” as well, both of which are good things. You can get beef on weck there and you’ll see rolling hills and, in about another week, some good leaf […]
Daddy Daze Gets Spot in Local Paper John Kovaleski and his new Daddy Daze comic strip will get a spot in The Gettysburg Times.Kovaleski has served on the board of the National Cartoonists Society and has ghost-written for well-known strips. His work has appeared in Mad magazine and many other publications. He has illustrated sequences […]
I was hoping to post a bunch of cartoonists recapping their attendance at the 2018 AAEC Convention in Sacramento, but there seems to be a dearth of such retrospectives. I guess they had to rush to this week’s CXC festival where Mike Peterson is detailing the AAEC’s participation even as we type.However there are a […]
I expected Rob Rogers‘ session — the second of two “Cartooning in the Age of Trump” presentations at CXC — to be the highlight of my weekend, and it was. The above two panels from his 24-panel Nib cartoon, “I Was Fired For Criticizing Trump,” which ran in July, provide an insight into why.Some cartoonists […]
Annie’s Li’l Orphans by Stan Drake and Bill YatesAround the early 1970s(?) bigfoot partnered with realistic to produce a strange hybrid comic strip.Annie, drawn by Stan Drake, was a counselor at Wanderland Orphanage, whose kids were drawn by Bill Yates. According to Bill Yates’ introduction to the strip Stan Drake drew Annie using a model and […]
I shouldn’t have promised CXC coverage for today, since, while I don’t believe in jinxes, my GPS apparently does, turning a five-hour final stretch into eight, which means I arrived late for the opening speeches and then found that the after-dealie was too loud and crowded for much conversation anyway. However, this gives us a chance […]
Cartoonist Jim Sizemore has passed away. JAMES EDWARD (JIM) SIZEMORE OCTOBER 3, 1937 – SEPTEMBER 24, 2018 From the obituary:Jim had been a Visual Information Specialist in the Social Security Administration’s Art Department in Woodlawn for 23 years until he retired early, in 1988, to become a free-lance cartoonist. above: Jim’s National Cartoonists Society mini-bio card [Jim] […]
The Modern Comics Page – 1964 From Keith Handley:Hello. I just got the August-September 1964 issue of the Gannetter (a magazine for staff members of Gannett newspapers, radio stations and television stations). In it were a series of articles by newspaper editors describing some of the experiences and decision-making methods in editing a comics page.None […]
The Smithsonian.com is reporting on a group archeologists’ discovery of ancient “comics” featuring characters drawn on cave walls and speaking with “speech bubbles.”From the piece:Perhaps the most striking feature for modern viewers are the little captions that appear next to some of the figures. “These 60 or so texts painted in black, some of which […]
If you came here for refuge from the storm, apologies, but, since I’m locked into CXC coverage starting tomorrow, we need to look at yesterday’s weirdness a little today or it’ll be totally outdated. We’ll get to to the funnies in a minute.Adam Zyglis takes the prize for this cartoon that wraps up a very […]
Marcus Hamilton was trained by Hank Ketcham to take over the Dennis the Menace daily panel in the 1990s. Robin Easter, for the Savannah College of Art and Design recently interviewed Marcus.Hamilton: One night I was channel surfing when I came across a promotional interview with Hank Ketcham. Mr. Ketcham mentioned that he wanted to retire, […]