David Horsey avoided the two obvious approaches to Fourth of July cartoons: Those simply waving the flag and cheering, and those pointing out the various hypocrisies of celebrating at all.It’s almost as if he walks around actually talking to people instead of sitting in his cubbyhole absorbing and illustrating political rhetoric.The two little kids in […]
13 Ingenious Facts About Rube Goldberg Celebrating the 135th anniversary of the man’s birth Mental Floss‘ “…Things You Might Not Know About…” takes a turn at Rube Goldberg. Also, a quick Rube profile. “My Job is to Make People Smile” Cartoonist Jerry Scott, of Baby Blues and Zits comic strip fame, is on vacation in Alaska. […]
Selected color Independence Day comic strips by Jim Scancarelli 2018 (and 2006) 2003 2014 2005 2012 2011 2015Images via GoComics
July 4, 1954, came just less than a month after Senator Welch spoke the famous lines at the Army/McCarthy hearings, “Have you no sense of decency?” All the talk about “Making America Great Again” makes it seem like a good time to take a look back at those Olden Days of Greatness on Independence Day, and […]
Winsor McCay, Little Nemo, and The Fourth of July. 110 years ago Winsor McCay had 330 square inches to work with! July 5, 1908 July 4, 1909 July 3, 1910 hat tip: The Comic Strip Library
I was basically my own editor for 25 years at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. And then the publisher decided he didn’t like what he saw.Rob Rogers, in comic strip form, details his Post-Gazette story for us at The Nib. Since Rob’s Brewed on Grant strip has seemingly ended, maybe we can get a different weekly comic strip […]
Rob Rogers finally tells the whole story over at the Nib, and it’s both fascinating and unsurprising. Go read the rest of it.There are elements of the story that should seem familiar, but it was, on the whole, outrageous enough that it’s a lesson in Where We’re At.Any time you have a change in management, […]
A few Hey Look comic strips by Harvey Kurtzman via The Bristol Board. From The Saturday Evening Post comes gag cartoons by comic strip cartoonists before they made the newspaper syndicates. A look back at The Great Comic Switcheroo of April Fool’s Day 1997 courtesy Neil Robertson. Above image from the instigators’ Baby Blues page. […]
A few Walt Disney news items via Cartoon Brew.Released tomorrow, July 3, 2018, is ‘A Mouse Divided’ by Jeff Ryan – A New Book Exploring How Success Tore Apart Mickey Mouse Creators Walt Disney And Ub IwerksCartoon Brew’s Amid Amidi explainsThe book…explores how Walt Disney’s colleague Ub Iwerks was never given the credit he deserved […]
Journalist Jean Godden, writing for Westside Seattle, reveals that she hasalways had a secret love affair with editorial cartoonists and wish I’d had the talent and training to be one. It’s one thing to be an editorialist trying to right the world in 700 words or less. It’s far, far better to slay dragons in […]
The best part of the 2018 World Cup is that the US team didn’t make it, so we haven’t had a lot of coverage and, thus, we haven’t had a lot of handwringing by Old Fartstm who feel compelled to hate the world’s most popular sport.It also means that I accidentally watched a really good […]
Back here we wished the lovely Evelyn Smith a future of happiness on her retirement.Sally Forth (and past Flash Gordon) cartoonist Jim Keefe also wishes her well:I worked with her during her King Features’ stint – first as a colorist – and more recently as the artist on Sally Forth. She’s one of those people who […]
Artist and cartoonist Paul Miller has passed away.Paul Rader Miller January 20, 1935 – June 18, 2018 From the Marin Independent Journal obituary:Paul was a Marine from 1954-56, and a 1958 graduate of UCLA, earning a B.A. and a Masters. His passion was being an artist of many media and styles, including caricatures. He treasured teaching a […]
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal today begs for pardon:The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal published an editorial cartoon this past Monday – a cartoon which deserves an apology. The editorial cartoon caused anger and hurt for many in the community, including the law enforcement community – and for that we are regretful. We apologize for publishing the editorial cartoon, and […]
Yesterday was the opening of the “Cartoons from the New Yorker” exhibit at the Laumeister Art Center at Southern Vermont College in Bennington, and you really should have been there, because Bob Mankoff is extremely funny and wise and, in the space I’ve got, I’ll only be able to skim over a bit of what […]