Updated with today’s (September 16) Las Vegas Review-Journal introductory article, but mostly because I couldn’t resist the above fantastic cartoon of Ramirez arriving in Las Vegas.“It’s good that, naturally, I’m an evil, demented individual,” Ramirez jokes. We think. “That helps — having a twisted sense of humor.” As such, Ramirez tends to provoke laughter and […]
Today’s enlightened column comes from a former publisher and editor at the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald Tribune.From the piece:One of my fondest memories as a child is flopping down on the living room rug with my sisters, the Sunday newspaper spread out in front of us as our father read the color comics out loud. Sometimes […]
Sunday’s Red & Rover, which is set in an undefined portion of the early 60s, pinged some memories, though my very best days on swings were set in the strictly defined summer of 1958.I played on the swings every single non-rainy day that summer, on a set of truly bodacious swings in the company housing […]
Publishing juggernaut Dav Pilkey has hit another great height. His “Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas” is the No. 1 book on all of Nielsen’s Bookscan this week — selling more than 135,000 units. Bookscan claims it represents 85% of the U.S. retail market. (including Amazon).Pilkey beat out such publishing luminaries as: Danielle Steele, James […]
Lost between tomorrow and yesterday Between now and then…Now we’re back where we started Here we go round again* And so begins a 100 year retrospective.Jim Scancarelli starts looking back at a hundred years of Gasoline Alley comic strips. The middle panel of today’s (September 13, 2018) strip is Jim’s edited look at a detail of the […]
The Buckets’ cartoonist Greg Cravens appeared on WREG-TV in Memphis this morning in advance of his Special Cartooning Class he’ll be running this Sunday (Sept. 16th). Visit Greg’s Facebook page for more info on the class.Watch him on the WREG video here.
The first week of the National Football League‘s 2018 season had some bad news.The Pittsburgh Steelers’ pathetic performance against rival Cleveland Browns, the Dallas Cowboys‘ continuing inability to score more than 20 points, every new NFL coach losing the first game of the season…and then there was really bad news.New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady […]
Editorial cartoonists Mike Luckovich, Mike Ramirez and Gary Varvel will all be recipients of the 2018 Advancing American Democracy Award. The award is given by the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site and past winners have included author Ron Chernow and Senator Richard Luger. The three cartoonists will receive the award at an event at The Conrad Indianapolis hotel […]
“Over the Hedge” writer and “Odd Squad” author Mike Fry’s new book has a favorable review over at Kirkus Reviews. “Bobby Mendoza Saves the World Again” is available on September 18th and is a sequel to his 2015 book, “The Naughty List.”From the Kirkus site:“… the brevity, pacing, and humor are likely to appeal to reluctant […]
The Small Press Exposition (SPX) is this weekend and the organizers are watching the hurricane, but they’re cautiously optimistic thus far.From their site: Thankfully Hurricane Florence is expected to have little impact on the DC area. The weekend weather looks mild, with a bit of rain. We’ll keep you posted of any change to these predictions.SPX […]
Normally, a hurricane is a disaster not only for those it impacts, but for editorial cartooning as well: It’s one of those events, like the death of a celebrity or, for that matter, a kerfuffle at a tennis match, which makes everyone pick up their pens and say nothing.However, these are not normal times, and […]
Multiple sources reporting the New Yorker cartoonist and Reuben Award-winner Roz Chast is to be inducted into the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame at this year’s New York Comic Con.
You may have heard the NPR piece, you may be one of the hundreds of thousands who follow him on Instagram and/or you may take a business class he teaches at Oregon State University. However and whatever, you should know that Lord Birthday will be appearing at this weekend’s Feast Portland where he’ll be reading […]
This is a single panel from Bob Eckstein’s “A Sketchbook of the Writer’s Digest Annual Conference,” in the current New Yorker, and you should go read that if you want the rest of this to make sense. (Your choice, of course.)Eckstein’s piece is about fiction writing and book publishing, but it applies to a wider […]
A Roll Call editorial cartoon by R. J. Matson equating the 9-11 Al Qaeda attacks of 2001 with the current Russian attacks on the United States’ voting sovereignty has some taking umbrage.From a Conservative Review news item headlined “Sick:”A tasteless political cartoon disgraced Roll Call’s cartoon page Tuesday morning, on the 17th anniversary of the […]