From the article:“Rex’s death was like the Kennedy assassination of American political cartooning in a lot of ways,” says Jack Ohman, Babin’s longtime friend who took over the cartoonist position at the Bee in 2012. “He was this young, vital guy who was there one minute… it was like, this seems so unfair and inexplicable and wrong.”http://www.sactownmag.com/Blog/2018/California-Museum-exhibit-Rex-Babin/
CongratulationsThe Nib garnered three times more than requested in its Kickstarter bid to produce a magazine. It will join Funny Times and Humor Times as a periodical on the newsstand shelves, though The Nib magazine will be formatted different – a slick ‘bookazine’ instead of pulp tabloid, and featuring long-form political reporting and commentary. It’s Nice […]
L’il Donnie starts us off with a laugh, but the problem, O Best Beloved, is that, no, he really doesn’t get it.Which isn’t funny.The Watergate comparisons are flying, mostly from people who were not around or at least who were not old enough 40-some years ago to follow that scandal in real time.The biggest difference […]
Tijuana Bibles are little 8-panel pornographic comic books that were popular during the Great Depression, and usually starred famous comic strip characters, like Blondie, Popeye, Dick Tracy, and Mickey Mouse, engaging in all manner of carnal congress.Cartoonist Mitch O’Connell has discovered a number of Donald Trump/Stormy Daniels “eight pagers” stashed in a hollowed out copy […]
The Ball State Daily News is celebrating some of their famous alumni – Jim Davis is one.Eventually, Davis studied art and business at Ball State before going to work for Tumbleweeds creator Tom Ryan. Shortly after, Davis began his own strip called Gnorm Gnat. Davis, who still serves as president of Paws, Inc., maintains connections […]
Arctic Circle sends me back to my freelancing days in Colorado, 30-some years ago.I was writing for a real estate magazine, which meant that every Wednesday, I’d go to the Holiday Inn and have breakfast with about 300 Realtors, lenders, title people and assorted others. Some Wednesdays, we’d have a speaker who would talk about […]
Comics Kingdom has announced that Darrin Bell’s editorial cartoons will start running on their site starting next week.The obvious next question is: does this mean Bell is leaving The Washington Post News Service and Syndicate for King Features? Will Bell’s work continue on GoComics? The only KFS feature that currently runs on both Comics Kingdom […]
Kevin Siers offers the most iconic cartoon on this day, when editorial writers and editorial cartoonists have been called upon to voice their support and concern for the free press.A few editor’s notes of my own: I decided ahead of time that I would feature six cartoons from however many came across my desk, because […]
Gerard Jones, long-standing comic book writer, was sentenced yesterday by a San Francisco court to six years in federal prison on child pornography charges. Jones, 60, pleaded guilty to the charges in April and was remanded on bail until sentencing. The charges were in regard to distributing and possessing child pornography.…As a result, DC Comics cancelled planned […]
The Comics Kingdom blog today presents the entirety of “Katz”, Bill Griffith‘s 1978 comic strip for the Berkeley Barb. And Ron Ferdinand shares a few critiques by Hank Ketcham of Ron’s Dennis the Menace. Isabella (“Six Chix”) Bannerman, Jeff (“Dustin”) Parker, and John (“Snuffy Smith”) Rose also contribute what Tea calls, “some stories about cartoonist (and character) […]
Jeff Mallett and his comic strip alter ego Frazz are triathletes.Jef may be a bit less accomplished, but is no less dedicated than Frazz.Jef is interviewed about his upcoming 4.2-mile swim on Labor Day across the Straits of the Mackinac between Michigan’s peninsulas that runs along the Mackinac Bridge.Of the triathlon activities, swimming is not […]
Noted Oregonian and long-time “Stone Soup” cartoonist Jan Eliot recently posted on social media about her permanent contribution of 10 years of “Stone Soup” comic originals to the Billy Ireland Museum at Ohio State University in Columbus. The Daily Cartoonist asked her some probing follow-up questions.**TDC: You recently donated 10 years of Stone Soup comic originals to Ohio […]
Steve Breen leads off today because he’s covering the news and not the noise.There are plenty of Omarosa cartoons, and we’ll get to them, but Breen is the first to pick up on this bit of news that is only news because the question it raises is “How many times can a man turn his […]
Ron and Shirley met in 1957, in 1958 they became Mr. and Mrs. Bugos. They are longtime fans of Rex Morgan, M.D., and the current creator of the feature Terry Beatty helped them celebrate their 60 anniversary in the comic strip.With their 60th anniversary approaching, the Bugos’s five children and 17 grandchildren wanted an appropriate […]
Juxtaposition of the Day(Clay Jones) (Jeff Koterba)As noted elsewhere on the Daily Cartoonist, newspapers are standing up to the forces of repression this Thursday, and Clay Jones is backing a client with the above cartoon.Meanwhile, Jeff Koterba’s Omaha World-Herald is a bit ahead of the movement with an editorial marking its 133 birthday with a declaration […]