For Charles Schulz and Peanuts fans this year’s San Diego Comic Con (July 19-22, 2018) is the place to be if you absolutely need to have a bunch of exclusive collectibles. A comic book, patches, t-shirts, lanyard, bandana, and pop sockets are only some of the items available exclusively at The Con. Speaking of Cons… Ted […]
Steve Christensen, who formerly served as executive editor of the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, which at its height sold more than 140 features in more than 100 countries around the world, has died.Steve Christensen November 18, 1953 – June 20, 2018 During his 1985 – 2000 tenure at the Los Angeles Times Syndicate he served […]
In 2011 David Horsey left Seattle for a six year vacation in Southern California. Now, upon his return to Seattle, he finds that the city didn’t just go into hibernation mode waiting for its wayward son to return. No, the city has changed. Original May 24, 2018 post:Late in 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist David Horsey […]
There have been a flood of cartoons about the Capital Gazette murders, but Marshal Ramsey offers the sentiment that matters to me.I also like Liza Donnelly’s quiet, controlled tribute, because she didn’t overplay it, though she added a commentary that spoke of sorrow, which I appreciate, saying, in part: We don’t know yet the motive for the […]
Mark Streeter Dana Summers Andy Marlette Bob Englehart Jeffrey Koterba Gary Varvel Steve Artley Signe Wilkinson Jim Morin They did what they could. They drew. Editorial cartoonists drew from the heart as the mass shootings they so often have to convey hit close to home.David Beard at Poynter on “how a few AAEC members represented the […]
The character of Anthony “Buck” Rogers first appears in Philip Nowlan’s 1928 novel ARMAGEDDON 2419 A.D. (itself a combination of two novellas that appeared in the AMAZING STORIES magazine) and serves as an origin story for the character. Rogers, after a mine cave-in, falls into a state of suspended animation and wakes up in the […]
Milt Priggee Gary Huck Clay Bennett Darrin Bell Steve Breen J. D. Crowe Pat Bagley Clay Jones Kevin Necessary Joel Pett Michael Ramirez Marc Murphy “We stand with our brothers & sisters at the Capital Gazette. Journalism is the only profession specifically protected in the Constitution, yet our lives are under daily threat these days from […]
Friday Funnies were never so welcome. For those just joining us, I’ve been posting humor-only on Friday, which not only gives me an excuse to use strips from the past week that didn’t fit into that day’s narrative, but provides one day a week when I do not have to gaze into the void in […]
Actor/comedian Jim Carrey has long had a talent as an artist.Carrey, who says he began painting six years ago to “heal a broken heart” following his split from Jenny McCarthy, primarily paints in his studio in downtown Manhattan, and his art has been featured in a number of galleries, including the Wyland Galleries in Waikiki, […]
Ask A Cartoonist: Where Do You Find Inspiration?James Allen: “Mark Trail stories are inspired, initially, from actual news stories.” Bill Holbrook: “…the process is a mystery to me even after all these years.” Alex Hallatt: “I always gain inspiration from walking, especially uphill…” (??!!) For the full responses from the above, and more, go to […]
Deflocked sure won the Serendipitous Timing Award this morning.I was at the park yesterday with about a dozen dogowners and our pooches.Somebody had brought ice cream to celebrate a birthday and we were having a lot of fun until a woman showed up who had just heard the news of Kennedy’s retirement as she pulled […]
A Tom Stiglich ed-op cartoon taking the conservative position about MS-13 and immigration and family separation for the Daily Gazette drew wrathful liberal responses to the editor.The Daily Gazette newspaper based out of Schenectady, New York, received dozens of irate letters over the June 20 cartoon from the syndicated, controversial and conservative-leaning cartoonist Tom Stiglich.“I’m […]
Mental Floss‘ comic strip series of Things You Might Not Know About… goes Before Christ (or was it After the Apocalypse?) with Johnny Hart and 8 Things You Might Not Know About B.C. Add the above strip to the #6 Thing about the problems with religious content.
I wasn’t planning to revisit the topic of civility so quickly, but here we are and I like Joe Heller’s commentary for a number of reasons, the first one being that the owner of the Red Hen is its owner, not its caretaker. So there’s a contrast right there.Another is that Heller distinguishes between denying […]
WOUB/NPR talks with Pultizer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Jack Ohman.Jack talks about the creative process of being a political cartoonist, some of the restrictions and some of the dangers of his profession. He gives us a view of how he goes about formulating a cartoon from the germ of the idea that starts the process […]