Coming soon is Comic Book Cartoonist #1 from Comic Arts Press. Featuring Don Simpson‘s Megaton Man and interview, Graham Nolan‘s Monster Island, Jay Piscopo‘s Adventure Comics, and The team behind Wolverton, Thief Of Impossible Objects. Printed to order so, if you are like me and prefer a physical magazine, order a copy soon. PDF editions […]
I’ve been back and forth on Bill and Monica and #MeToo, but I can certainly endorse Mike Thompson’s take.There are a million layers to this whole thing and ain’t none of them clean and clear, but the one that rises to the surface is that Bubba wasn’t dragged kicking and screaming back into the limelight.As […]
From The Nib: Censored: Ten Anti-Trump Cartoons the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Refuses To Publish. The paper suddenly won’t run the work of veteran cartoonist and former Pulitzer finalist Rob Rogers’ work for being too critical of Trump. But we will.https://thenib.com/pittsburgh-post-gazette-anti-trump-cartoons-rob-rogers?t=recent
More coverage (with photos) of Lynn Johnston’s NCS Medal of Honor Award from GoComics.https://www.gocomics.com/blog/4546/lynn-johnston-receives-honor-from-national-cartoonists-societyHere’s a quote (possibly overheard in Philadelphia) from Lynn on the Reubens that didn’t make the GoComics story:Did you ever see Bil Keane when he was MC? Wow. What a skill he had for comedy. He worked hard on his “roast” and […]
Instagram phenom Lord Birthday was featured a year ago on NPR’s “Invisibilia” and it’s still well worth a listen for all introverted creative types. It starts around the 20:00 minute mark.Check out his book here.Lord Birthday Instagram here.Dumbwich Castle at GoComics here. The Daily Cartoonist is owned by Andrews McMeel Universal.
Pearls Before Swine offers the best possible kickoff for Friday Funnies, and I couldn’t be more pleased to not do politics today.Even if I were in the mood, it’s going to take me a little while to process the apparent fact that Bill Clinton is once again our president. Or something. Anyway, he’s suddenly all […]
Is that right Bruce Haight?
CNN interviewed Pittsburgh Post-Gazette cartoonist Rob Rogers to discuss the paper’s recent decisions not to run Rob’s work.https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/06/06/cartoonist-anti-trump-sketches-cut-from-paper-tapper-lead.cnn
Huffington Post UK is reporting that The Guardian has rejected a Steve Bell editorial cartoon, about the death of Palestinian medic Razan al-Najjar, as being anti-Semitic. Cartoonist Steve Bell denies using anti-Semitic tropes saying in a couple e-mails to the paper:“I cannot for the life of me begin to understand criticism of the cartoon that […]
As the ads inform us, it’s only 10 days until Father’s Day.The same June 17th date will debut Daddy Daze, and there is activity showing that launch is getting closer.King Features has set up the Daddy Daze page at the syndicate’s website, which features some samples of the new comic strip.The Daddy Daze official website […]
Juxtaposition of 15 Years (Ann Telnaes, July 7, 2003) (Ann Telnaes, June 7, 2018)This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a fanfare.Nearly 15 years ago to the day, Telnaes captured an array of horrors, because it wasn’t just Bush and his cronies — Ashcroft in this case — piping a […]
From Vice.com comes an article about The Woman Behind Nancy [who] Has Made an 80-Year-Old Comic Funny Again.The long-running comic was recently taken over by Olivia Jaimes, who’s shifted the focus from boomer humor to jokes about Snapchat, apps, and Twitter bots.Author Grant Pardee, for Vice, says Nancy isfor the first time since the Eisenhower […]
Cartoonist Jim Keefe recently revealed how he released some pressure 20 years ago when he was being laid off from the King Features art department – by way of the Flash Gordon comic strip. Meantime Jake Rossen at Mental Floss has been collecting Things You Might Not Know about various comic strips. These include:11 Fun […]
Waiting for Hogan’s Alley magazine’s fantastic photo feature of the 2018 Reuben Weekend which, if past practice is any indication of future results, will present hundreds of pictures of hundreds of cartoonists; until then here’s a few others from the gala. Lynn Johnston has posted about receiving the NCS Medal of Honor. Can Lynn see the […]
This blank panel represents several cartoons that got the Supreme Court’s decision in Masterpiece Cake Shop v Colorado Civil Rights Commission wrong.As said here yesterday, the decision was only about the hearing before that commission, not about whether the baker had the right to refuse service, though the confusion is not unprecedented.In the 1966 landmark […]