Kevin Siers may have done the unforgiveable and read the decision, written by Justice Kennedy, the concurrence by Justice Kagan, the less striking concurrence by Justice Gorsuch and the passionate dissent by Justices Ginsburg and Sotomayer, as well as Thomas’s concurrence, which emphasizes the art-aspect.Despite a flood of angry, pro-LGBTQ cartoons, this was not a […]
[William Wilson’s] “Wallace the Brave” comic strip, which he pens under the name of Will Henry, is now in more than 100 newspapers across the U.S., including the Houston Chronicle where it begins Sunday.And the Houston Chronicle is where this piece introducing readers to their newest comic strip appears. Will Henry’s Wallace the Brave remains […]
Sports and political cartoonist and journalist Rob Tornoe, who also comments on the media, has an article for today’s (June 4) Philly.com/Philadelphia Inquirer with the latest on the Rob Rogers/Post-Gazette situation.The problems between Rogers and Burris date back to March, shortly after Burris first took over as the newspaper’s editorial director. On his Facebook page, […]
In case you missed it the first time it published, this is a worthy read and/or re-read. It’s especially poignant because of what’s happened with the cartoonist change on the feature in the last few months.My failed attempt to draw the Nancy comic stripwww.gocomics.com/nancyTwitter: @BoingBoinghttp://www.fantagraphics.com/artists/ivan-brunetti/
Terri Libenson has a talent for illustrating serious points with ironic humor, and today’s Pajama Diaries is a spur towards more in-depth thought. And if Jill’s dismissal of her own talent with “I got lucky” is the germ of the problem, I did get lucky in that Terri provided enough of a clue that I […]
Last month Kirk Walters and The Toledo Blade celebrated 30 years of Maumee Dearest, the local weekly comic strip. This weekend the paper and the cartoonist looked back.In 1988, a young cartoonist at The Blade named Kirk Walters submitted a multi-panel strip he’d drawn in the hope the paper would consider running it on the […]
Eulogies honoring the memory of Nick Meglin are appearing.A wonderful tribute came from comics writer. editor, and executive Paul Levitz. With permission:Word is spreading of the sudden passing of Nick Meglin, an insufficiently celebrated but extraordinarily important influence on American culture and cartooning. Nick is close to the last survivor of the offices of E.C. […]
Let’s begin where we left off yesterday, with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s bizarre boycott of their own cartoonist. See yesterday’s blog posting for background, see JP Trostle’s cartoon above for a response I like.And here’s Rob’s latest cartoon. What the hell, if his own paper won’t print them, I will. And they’re still paying him, last […]
Tom Hentjes and Jason Chatfield have both tweeted that MAD Magazine legend Nick Meglin has passed away. Nick was present at last week’s Reuben Awards in Philadelphia.
Michael De Adder penned this brilliant cartoon back in late August, and I wish it had gone out of date but it is more relevant by the moment.I also wish, I suppose, that fear of the mob were the only thing motivating media moguls, because, when it is conflated with their own Murdockesque goals, it’s […]
The National Cartoonists Society has discovered that two awards were given out erroneously last Saturday at the Reubens banquet in Philadelphia.From NCS President Bill Morrison’s note to the membership:When compiling the names of the winners to send to our award manufacturer, I accidentally took the names for the four online voting categories (Newspaper Panel, Newspaper Strip, Editorial […]
Mental Floss has a story on an upcoming auction at Swann Auction Galleries of Charles Schulz’s original “Peanuts” art. One Sunday from 1970 is estimated expected to reach $30,000.http://mentalfloss.com/article/545662/original-peanuts-comic-strip-auction-block-estimated-sell-30000(photo Swannn Auction Galleries)
Lee Holley 1932 – 2018 Lee Holley died earlier this year. Comics historian R. C. Harvey has done a career-spanning obituary for The Comics Journal.
It’s an article from last year, but as his new album releases today, a reminder that Calvin & Hobbes had an important influence on Josh Tillman.From the Exclaim.ca article:“I was so much like Calvin when I was a kid. Down to, like, really intense anthropomorphizing toys and stuff. I was sort of depressed in the […]
Timing is everything in humor and, with a hat tip to DD Degg at The Daily Cartoonist, here’s one I missed yesterday — an Over the Hedge written two weeks ago — and here’s Michael Fry’s commentary on the serendipity.That was cool. Now do it again. Arlo & Janis offers a look at the gracious past, and […]