Last weekend, I wrote about satire and how nobody really wanted to defend Hustler Magazine but they recognized the need to defend the First Amendment.This weekend, we have a more complex issue at hand, as exemplified here by the contrasting responses of Ann Telnaes and Steve Kelley to Michelle Wolf’s monologue at the WCHA dinner.And if […]
Welcome, cartoon friends! We’re “soft launching” the “new” Daily Cartoonist this week. The site is now owned and operated by my colleagues here in Kansas City (Mo.) at Andrews McMeel.Our plan is to restart/continue the great cartoon news site that Alan Gardner built. Alan has been a great help in the transition and we’re thankful […]
Among the many regular occurrences in the Sally Forth comic strip is the morning breakfast cereal Powdered Toast Crunch. This was a sort of salute to the 1990s Ren and Stimpy cartoon show where the cereal originated.Unfortunately a month ago allegations were published that the creator of Ren and Stimpy had engaged in sexual abuse. […]
For six years, from 2007 – 2013, cartoonist Mike Holmes contributed “True Story” to the Halifax alternative newspaper The Coast. It adapted reader stories into a weekly comic strip.Now he has revived and reworked the concept into a regular feature for the new (improved?) Mad magazine as “Real, Dumb.”About the new feature: “That title also […]
I find most generational/technical-gap gags pretty lame, but I really like today’s Zits, and would be curious to know how postcard sales have been impacted, first by digital cameras and second by the Internet.According to Wikipedia, there was a craze for postcards touched off by the Columbian Exhibition, which opened 125 years ago this coming […]
I held back a few days on the Bill Cosby conviction because I wanted to see the cartoons that would emerge. Steve Breen has, I think, the best take.Attempts to be humorous — to cite Jell-O pudding pops or contrast his flamboyant sweaters with prison garb — seem to fall flat. Had he been convicted […]
2018 Eisner Awards Nominees for this year’s Eisner Awards have been announced. Results of the voting will be revealed the evening of Friday, July 20 at Comic-Con in San Diego. Among the categories isBest Archival Collection/Project—Strips The nominees are:Celebrating Snoopy, by Charles M. Shulz, edited by Alex E. Fajardo and Dorothy O’Brien(Andrews McMeel)Crazy Quilt: Scraps […]
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Okay, now I’m completely confused. Just as Judge Parker was getting somewhere in the business of tying up any loose ends it couldn’t simply eliminate, semi-celebrity Godiva Danube has reappeared, Neddy is freaking out over being seen waiting tables and her fellow-waitron suddenly drops a wall-shattering piece of patented Marciuliano dialogue on us.Careful, fellas. It […]
We’ll warm up with this bit of gallows humor from On the Fastrack, which happens to coincide with a spate of layoffs from McClatchy papers in the West, primarily at the Sacramento Bee, where 15 newsroom employees and 8 production types are being cut.But, of course, it could have run any time and coincided with […]
I could start and end with this Tom Toles piece, which not only summarizes our incoherent, solipsistic foreign relations stance but also captures the same tendencies in Dear Leader.It’s no surprise that a man who lies incessantly about things a third-grader could prove were false — like claiming not to have spent the night in […]
Juxtaposition of the Day (Prickly City) (Ann Telnaes)Bring it on, Dear Leader.Scott Stantis, who wasn’t at the Satire Symposium but whose name came up, and Ann Telnaes, who was at work on the above piece even as things went on around her, both pull the nose of our would-be dictator. Let’s point out that Hustler v […]
In his introduction to the event, Pat Bagley, president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, demonstrated both the theme of “The State of Our Satirical Union” symposium and the passion behind the mission of those cartoonists who attended it. The reason the gathering mattered, he said, was that “the American people decided to elect a […]
The one criticism of the “State of Our Satirical Union” symposium I heard from several people was that it was too short, that another half day would have helped spread out the vast amount of information, and, while I don’t intend to quote every word here, I think I’ll take the time we didn’t have […]
The two-day symposium on satire in political cartooning at the University of Minnesota began last night with a meet-and-greet and a short panel presentation, including local cartoonist Steve Sack, seen here with fellow panelists Ann Telnaes and comics historian and attorney Michael Kahn.The cartoons are fun, but the topic is serious and the occasion, the […]