Michael Ramirez and the Advancing American Democracy Award Ten days ago we latched on to the Mary Tucker Jasper Speaker Series and the Icons of Political Art from the perspective of Mike Luckovich’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution. A few days ago we mentioned Michael Ramirez and his new staff position with the Las Vegas Review-Journal.Now we combine […]
A September 16th Letter to the Editor at the Washington Post cited a 2017 Prickly City as the source of writer’s formerly held political stance.From the letter:When last year’s flurry of kneeling and other protests during the national anthem at the start of National Football League games took off, my view was best summarized by […]
Fresh off his head-scratching performance as Selsun Blue’s Dandruff, “Ginger Meggs,” New Yorker and MAD Magazine cartoonist Jason Chatfield, will be a contestant on NBC Universal’s “Doodle Wars.”
Today’s Mo offers a chance to update yesterday’s comments on the limited social skills of Catholic prep-school alums.The parallel between Kavanaugh and Thomas still holds up, but, now that Kavanaugh’s accuser has come forward and elaborated on her story, the specifics have made the parallel less direct.While I’m not going to get into the debate […]
Feature article by Matt Blitz at Today I Found Out on Peanuts becoming the popular comic strip it is.[W]hen the comic strip first appeared in the 1950s, [Snoopy] and his Peanut friends were considered, to quote Time Magazine’s David Michaels, “the fault-line of a cultural earthquake” due to the way the comic depicted life, real […]
In a September 15th letter to the Telegram & Gazette editor, a couple of readers are quite effusive in their “love” of “Wallace the Brave.”From the letter: My husband and I are long-time Telegram & Gazette subscribers. We *love* Wallace the Brave: we love the style of its drawing, the characters, and their adventures. It reminds […]
Let’s ease into the topic with Edison Lee and the perfect political speech.If you envision Orville and Edison in that final panel as a bar graph instead of as a pair of characters, you may have some sense of how such tautological, meaningless focus-group-tested drivel impacts elections.However, while little Edison is not yet old enough […]
Coming in March 2019 is an impressive tome. DETECTIVE COMICS: BEFORE BATMAN (VOLS. 1 AND 2) HC Written by JERRY SIEGEL, MALCOLM WHEELER-NICHOLSON and othersArt by JOE SHUSTER, FRED GUARDINEER, BOB KANE and others DETECTIVE COMICS exploded in 1939 with the debut of Batman in issue #27—and now, for the first time, DC reprints the first […]
Frank O’Neal was a successful freelance magazine cartoonist of the 1950s and, like many gag cartoonists before and since, he thought a syndicated comic strip was the ticket to ride. So following the likes of Mort Walker, Hank Ketcham, Johnny Hart and others, O’Neal came up with an idea and signed with the Newspaper Enterprise […]
Arizona Daily Star cartoonist David Fitzsimmons spent part of last week in Mexico City attending The Line of Fire international conference.La Línea de Fuego was hosted by the Cartooning For Peace organization. As this Google translation explains:18 press cartoonists from 14 countries meet for several days at the Memoria y Tolerancia Museum in Mexico City to discuss the […]
Over the Comics Kingdom blog, they’ve sampled a few cartoonists for the words of encouragement that most affected their careers.From the post: Jim Borgman: … when every aspiring editorial cartoonist was falling under the spell of Jeff MacNelly’s work, I sent him samples of my fledgling college cartoons, which were struggling to stand on their own […]
For the love of God and Thomas Nast and Woodsy Owl, can we please, please stop with the paper towel cartoons?Yes, Trump once disgraced himself and showed his lack of compassion by tossing out paper towels at a photo op in the wake of Hurricane Maria.We all know that, and, in fact, a short time […]
The Walt Disney Hometown Toonfest in Marceline, Missouri is celebrating its 20th year. This year’s guest speakers include writer and illustrator Ken Alvine, New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly, sculptor and art director Ken Melton and “Thatababy” syndicated cartoonist and illustrator Paul Trap.Click here for more info and speaker bios.https://www.facebook.com/events/268339700451960/Radio interview about Toonfest.
Eisner-nominated Michael Cavna does a follow-up piece over at the Washignton Post Comic Riffs section to the Serena Williams editorial cartoon controversary by talking to a few professionals about how they would have handled illustrating an unhappy Serena Williams.From the piece:DARRIN BELL (King Features): “It’s not hard to caricature a black person. Just don’t do it […]
Cartoonist and worship leader Lorraine Williams has passed away.After moving to Homer, she attended and graduated from Alaska Bible Institute in 1985. That same year, she married her husband, Darren Williams. Moving back to California in 1987, she became an adored worship leader with a wonderful community of friends. She was sent back to Homer […]