Signe Wilkinson leads off with the most trivial of today’s topics, the legalization of sports betting, or, more precisely, the ruling that you can’t forbid states from legalizing it.Most of the professional leagues and the NCAA are against it, because they feel sports betting can breed corruption.And, aside from the 1950 college basketball point-shaving scandal, and […]
The New York Daily News has replaced the recently ended “Soup to Nutz” with Hector Cantu’s and Carlos Castellanos’ “Baldo.”
The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons: A Semi-serious A-to-Z Archive :This monumental, two-volume, slip-cased collection includes nearly 10 decades worth of New Yorker cartoons selected and organized by subject with insightful commentary by Bob Mankoff and a foreword by David Remnick. “…the most ingenious collection of New Yorker cartoons published in book form, The New […]
Beloved cartoonist Nicole Hollander reflects on a life after ‘Sylvia’ in a 30 minute radio interview. above Nicole Hollander and Justin KaufmannGroundbreaking syndicated cartoonist and writer Nicole Hollander (“Sylvia”) joins Justin [Kaufmann] to discuss her new illustrated memoir, “We Ate Wonder Bread.” Nicole talks about her illustrious career, why she decided to write a graphic […]
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Wallace the Brave is really growing on me. It’s been around for three years, so I can’t say that it’s because Will Henry is finding his niche. I think it is just a subtle enough comic that it takes a little while for it to really get under your skin.I’ve had it on my daily […]
Innovation and Tech Today has a short Q&A with Jim Davis on how he got his start in the business and how he’s created the comic for almost 40 years.Jim Davis from the Q&A:In college, I majored in art and business (I took the business classes to appease my parents), and shortly after college, I got […]
The Chattanooga Times Free Press proudly informs readers that Clay Bennett, their editorial cartoonist, won that divisional award at The Reuben Dinner. Mark Evanier took a vacation and spent the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (with a postscript) of Memorial Day weekend in Philadelphia with fellow National Cartoonists Society members. R. C. Harvey was also there […]
Depending on your perspective, these letters to the editor of The Washington Post are either hurtful, absurd and/or funny.W. Luther Jett takes issue with Hagar the Horrible using books for kindling.Read Luther’s letter here.While Asher Roth addresses what he thinks is a drop in quality in Mark Trail and Judge Parker.Read Asher’s letter here.
Coming soon is Comic Book Cartoonist #1 from Comic Arts Press. Featuring Don Simpson‘s Megaton Man and interview, Graham Nolan‘s Monster Island, Jay Piscopo‘s Adventure Comics, and The team behind Wolverton, Thief Of Impossible Objects. Printed to order so, if you are like me and prefer a physical magazine, order a copy soon. PDF editions […]
I’ve been back and forth on Bill and Monica and #MeToo, but I can certainly endorse Mike Thompson’s take.There are a million layers to this whole thing and ain’t none of them clean and clear, but the one that rises to the surface is that Bubba wasn’t dragged kicking and screaming back into the limelight.As […]
From The Nib: Censored: Ten Anti-Trump Cartoons the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Refuses To Publish. The paper suddenly won’t run the work of veteran cartoonist and former Pulitzer finalist Rob Rogers’ work for being too critical of Trump. But we will.https://thenib.com/pittsburgh-post-gazette-anti-trump-cartoons-rob-rogers?t=recent
More coverage (with photos) of Lynn Johnston’s NCS Medal of Honor Award from GoComics.https://www.gocomics.com/blog/4546/lynn-johnston-receives-honor-from-national-cartoonists-societyHere’s a quote (possibly overheard in Philadelphia) from Lynn on the Reubens that didn’t make the GoComics story:Did you ever see Bil Keane when he was MC? Wow. What a skill he had for comedy. He worked hard on his “roast” and […]
Instagram phenom Lord Birthday was featured a year ago on NPR’s “Invisibilia” and it’s still well worth a listen for all introverted creative types. It starts around the 20:00 minute mark.Check out his book here.Lord Birthday Instagram here.Dumbwich Castle at GoComics here. The Daily Cartoonist is owned by Andrews McMeel Universal.
Pearls Before Swine offers the best possible kickoff for Friday Funnies, and I couldn’t be more pleased to not do politics today.Even if I were in the mood, it’s going to take me a little while to process the apparent fact that Bill Clinton is once again our president. Or something. Anyway, he’s suddenly all […]