Earlier this month HBO’s Vice News did a segment with Rob Rogers.“I think there’s a bigger story in terms of the administration’s attacks on the media and how certain media outlets, including Fox News and Sinclair media, how they’ve sort of gotten in line,” Rogers told VICE News. “You know that’s what was happening at […]
It’s official – the National Cartoonists Society‘s Reuben Awards Weekend will become, at least for one year, The NCSFest. A much more public fan-friendly event than the Reuben weekends have been.The National Cartoonists Society is delighted to announce that it has chosen the city of Huntington Beach, California, to host the inaugural NCSFest, a celebration […]
Donald Trump turned 16 in June, 1962, a few months before the Cuban Missile Crisis in October. He was a junior in high school. I was not quite 13 and in the eighth grade, and I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis as well as the Crisis in Berlin and several other things that made our relationship […]
Not often anymore, but today Bill Bramhall‘s editorial cartoon made the front page of his newspaper.Bill’s cartoon is gaining fame for it’s depiction of the Trump-Putin news conference.From The Hill: Tuesday’s cover of The New York Daily News depicts President Trump shooting Uncle Sam in the head after his jaw-dropping summit with Russian President Vladimir […]
Most fair-minded observers anticipated bromance.Clay Bennett posted this one a few days ago, which didn’t seem much of a shocking prediction but mostly made me wonder when young dorm-dwellers switched from a tie to a sock as a sign that there was a romantic event going on that should not be interrupted.Probably when most dorm-dwellers […]
Fantastic news for fans of comics and cartooning – Rick Marschall is announcing the return of the highly revered comic strip and cartoonist history magazine of the 1980s. nemo: the classic comics library is returning with Rick Marschall as editor!Rick’s full announcement as posted July 16, 2018 on the Yahoo Platinum Age Comics Group (with […]
The 2018 San Diego Comic Con (officially Comic-Con International: San Diego) begins later this week and today a few comic strips celebrated the annual event.Funky Winkerbean (the comic strip, if not the character) is there hoping to win an Eisner Award.While Sally Forth and family remain at the Trystero Con instead of THE Comic-Con.La Cucaracha […]
Today’s Baby Blues, if I were the cartoonist, would have had a fourth panel in which the other shoppers cheer.Savvy shoppers can spot, and avoid, these Coupon Queens by the little accordion folders they carry, full of coupons, as Wanda says, organized and color coded and obsessively catalogued so that they only take an additional […]
Noted comics and cartoon news reporter and historian Robert C. Harvey has opened up his site for all.Usually behind a (minimal) paywall, once a year Bob opens up the current and archived offerings for all to view, and for the next month that time is now!All of the Rants & Raves postings (through August) and […]
But first, Stephen Collins has a funny commentary based on the World Cup, though the tournament may be over before you see this. However, you should go see the whole thing, of which this is a snippet.Glad to see someone, as they say in Britain, taking the piss out of the snobs who brag about […]
Block Island Times publisher and editorial cartoonist Bruce Montgomery has passed away.Royal Bruce Montgomery, publisher of The Block Island Times from1999 to 2006, and editorial cartoonist since 1998, died on Thursday, July 5, at the age of 78. His obituary appears on page 22. ROYAL BRUCE MONTGOMERY August 5, 1939 – July 5, 2018 [Bruce] began […]
Sally Forth writer Francesco Marciuliano has been posting a running commentary about the Sally Forth (Trystero) Comic Con at his Medium Large blog. Since Ces doesn’t tag his posts I’m just going to link to the July 2018 archives, though the comic con commentary begins in June. I recommend reading them, they’re as entertaining as […]
Graeme MacKay uses the matryoshka doll image well here, both because we all recognize the Russian toy and because, in this case, the layers of hiding boil down to that last tiny doll, the one that is just a little wooden nib at the end.Mueller’s indictments are important because they aren’t simply accusations, but proof […]
This week Ted Rall updated the status of his two year old lawsuit against the Los Angeles Times:I sued the LA Times for wrongful termination and defamation in 2016. The Times responded with an anti-SLAPP motion asking the court to order me to pay them hundreds of thousands of dollars in their legal fees. They […]
Lynn Johnston has “produced one of the best comic strips ever,” gushed Evan Panton, the Cleveland Elementary kid with a penchant for the classic funnies, including For Better or For Worse. Well, that flattery was enough to prompt Johnston to pay it forward by offering Panton private cartooning lessons. To say the budding artist was […]