When I came across this Sarah Glidden piece (h/t Matt Bors) yesterday, I thought about adding it to my Father’s Day post as an update. But I quickly realized it was too well-done and important and needed to be a stand-alone here.Go read the rest. I’ll wait.This is brilliant, insightful, self-deprecating stuff and I wish […]
The press has had a field day pumping the news that a publisher’s firing of a political cartoonist in Pittsburgh is a sign of President Trump’s war on freedom of the press. It’s nonsense. above image via KDKAMonica Showalter at The American Thinker takes a contrarian viewpoint to the cartoonist firing.
Fare Well Evelyn Smith! John Kovaleski reveals that KFS editor Evelyn Smith is retiring. Evelyn spent the 1980s and 1990s as Managing Editor for Tribune Media Services, the 2000s and 2010s as King Features Syndicate editor. The 2017 King Features Directory lists her as Senior Comics Editor. We wish Evelyn the bluest skies. Warner Bros. Announces […]
Alex Hallatt may have just been going for the pun in today’s Arctic Circle, but it struck me another way, which is one of the perils of cartooning.In 2007, I wrote a newspaper serial story for the New York News Association, a piece of historical fiction set in New York City in the 1890s and […]
Daddy Daze by John Kovaleski debuts June 17, 2018
While some cartoonists issue reruns for a couple weeks to get vacation time (or grab some shut-eye), Darrin Bell has come up with a unique method of getting ahead of deadlines so he can clock in some vacation, or do promotional tours, or give him time to do his political cartoons.Darrin does two daily comic […]
“Kurt Vonnegut once compared the artist to the canary in the coal mine, a hypersensitive creature who alerts hardier life forms to toxic gases by kindly dropping dead. Given the steady demise of editorial cartoonists during the past several years, newspapers might begin to wonder about the quality of the air.” – Doug Marlette After […]
Bruce Plante expresses the most honest opinion of the Inspector General’s Report, which is that both sides can find plenty to dislike in it.Though, while he’s certainly right, both sides are instead claiming victory, which generally suggests three things:One is that the report is long and, while not extraordinarily complex, has found problems in how the […]
First and most important: When will Steve McGarry do a page on Ray Davies. quite simply the greatest songwriter of all time? Do people still know the origins of Lalo Alcaraz’s The Beandocks? Does Brooke McEldowney have a one-track mind? Who is In The Bleachers cartoonist “Benz”? (My Guess is Ben Zaehringer.) Berkeley Mews, by […]
From the story: Indeed, chances are, you’ve never heard of Carol Tyler.For the past decade, Tyler, now 66, has been doing the best work of her career. Said Chris Ware, arguably the most acclaimed cartoonist of his generation: “She’s given at least two generations of cartoonists the courage to tell our most painful stories, without any […]
Newsarama is reporting that The Dick Tracy Signal Watch crowdfunding project has blown past its minimum goal.From the story:Designers the Mathis brothers and watchmakers Longio have partnered to create an officially licensed – and fully functional – replica of Dick Tracy’s iconic signal watch.The Mathis’ IndieGoGo campaign is quick to point out that the Signal Watch is not a […]
If you follow comic news at all, you are likely aware that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette finally quit torturing Rob Rogers and fired him yesterday.Rather than recoup it all, here are some links to coverage: Michael Cavna at Comic Riffs, Rob Tornoe at Philly News, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and the Post-Gazette itself.Plus, confirming what I wrote […]
Bubbles: Drawing on Wit These Comics Have Something to Say Bubbles is a special Lee Enterprises tabloid-sized “tribute to the wit of all cartoonists,” as expressed in the page 2 introduction.The insert gathers comic strips and panels from Andrews McMeel Syndication, Creators Syndicate, King Features Syndicate, and Tribune Content Agency (no Washington Post Writers Group […]
Rob has confirmed that he will continue to draw editorial cartoons for syndication and GoComics.Rob reports from Twitter:@Rob_Rogers Sad to report this update: Today, after 25 years as the editorial cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, I was fired. The Daily Cartoonist and GoComics are owned by Andrews McMeel Universal.
To celebrate President Trump’s birthday Steve Brodner and The Village Voice present: A Cartoon History of Trumps, 1869-2018 1. Friedrich Trump is born in Kallstadt, in what was then Bavaria. At the age of thirteen he is apprenticed to a barber. He later leaves for Bremen, and in 1885, at sixteen, departs for New York […]