At the moment, Steve Artley may have the best perspective on the elections. There were hopes, as there are always hopes, on both sides, but what was predicted is pretty much what happened.IMHO, Trump’s pretending he pulled some great victory is no more inaccurate than cartoons suggesting that the influx of women is going to […]
Next week David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek will present the 6th Annual Jumble Guest Week.As is their custom they have issued a promotional piece featuring images from the special guest cartoonists but not identifying them.Now the trick is to identify who will be next week’s creators on the Jumble feature.#1 is Crankshaft by Tom […]
I was going to skip politics entirely today, given that some races remain up in the air as I’m writing this and most of the editorial cartoons are either wrong, damned lucky or lukewarm expressions of “Isn’t voting wonderful?” or “And now on to 2020.”There are things we do know, including that a whole load […]
Pogo by Doyle and Sternecky Steve Breen Joe Heller Curtis by Ray Billingsley Peanuts by Charles Schulz Dwane Powell Captain America by Jack Kirby and Syd Shores Shouldn’t the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November be a national holiday?
Non Sequitur lays it out, and I have no argument with Wiley’s analysis.Because, yeah, I have a lot of arguments. Nick Anderson says much the same as Wiley, though in a slightly different tone: Trump never got his wall on the southern border, but he’s managed to build one through the heart of the country.I’ve said […]
After hiring Steve Kelley as its editorial cartoonist a couple weeks ago, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has decided to increase Steve’s P-G income by carrying his syndicated comic strip Dustin. Dustin, syndicated by King Features Syndicate, is a joint effort by Steve Kelley and Jeff Parker.Mr. Kelley, who has performed as a stand-up comedian on stage and […]
A few years ago, I tried an experiment where I made sure not to check social media before starting the blog each morning.I wish I’d kept it up. Starting the day reading posts from sophisticates who advocate not voting because “there’s no difference between the candidates,” to use Satchel Paige’s apt expression, “angries up the […]
Almost ten years after the death of Bruce Lee the Los Angeles Times Syndicate tried distributing The Legend of Bruce Lee comic strip. (Comic strip syndicates have never been renowned for quickly latching onto pop culture phenomena.) The strip was written by Sharman DiVono and drawn by Fran Matera and Dick Kulpa, and lasted a […]
If I’m going to connect comics with the past, I should start with today’s Bizarro, which riffs on the Reality TV notion of pampered, catty women in big houses, comparing them to housewives of earlier days.The 19th Century was about when things began to turn around for “housewives,” which, up to the end of the […]
Hilary B. PriceHilary opens her studio! A new Rhymes With Orange collection! Hilary’s Mom! Hilary visits Rina Piccolo! Hilary and Rina jam on a King Kong comic! And more at Hilary’s infrequently updated blog! Bob Mankoff Bob Mankoff picks his 10 All-Time Favorite Cartoons for Parade magazine. Asterix and Obelix and Political CorrectnessSections of the French press […]
above: Sunday November 4, 2018 Pearls Before Swine Creative Loafing Charlotte Ceases Print, Staff Let Go Alt-weekly newspaper Creative Loafing Charlotte in North Carolina has ceased print production with its October 31st 2018 edition.Creative Loafing, received an email Tuesday night from the paper’s publisher, Charles Womack III. Wednesdays are production days for the paper, which […]
So it’s come to this: Rob Rogers lays out the new rationale for canceling someone’s vote.Because he’s lost his mind. Because he believes a man who lies so often that his greatest success as a “job creator” has been in the area of fact checking.But, of course, that’s part of Trump’s game.By constantly accusing the […]
Cartoonist Keith Knight‘s life is set to be a pilot, and possible series, for Hulu.Titled Woke, the half-hour, single-camera comedy revolves around an African-American cartoonist who is on the cusp of mainstream success when his mild comics take a decidedly provocative tone following a run-in with police. Now, Keef is in an irreversible state of […]
“Heart of the City” is one of my favorite strips, but last Sunday’s touched off a major topic that’s been rattling around in my mind.And, when I say “major,” I mean multifaceted, because, to start with, Heart’s mom suggests that there’s nothing wrong with a girl dressing up as the Man in the Yellow Hat, […]
The Chicago Sun-Times in an effort “to reinvest in the quality journalism you’ve come to expect” will “[pare] back some comics.”Today marks some changes to the comics and classified pages of our Monday-through-Saturday print editions. Rather than three dedicated pages of comics, we’ll be publishing one comics page with the New York Times crossword and […]