Joy of Tech speaks for me and I’m grateful not only for the laff but for the assurance that I’m not the only one and that it has nothing to do with my being old and not a digital native. I’m convinced that Facebook has a system of showing you things you don’t give a damn […]
One hundred years ago, November 1918, saw the debut of Gasoline Alley.So in this celebratory centennial of Gasoline Alley, the oldest comic strip still in new production (is Jim Scancarelli still producing new material?), comics historian Allan Holtz has a shocking new revelation.Updating the history of Chic Jackson’s Roger Bean comic strip Allan has uncovered […]
Cartoonist Phil Collins has passed away.James Phillip (Phil) Collins October 6, 1931 – April 29, 2018From the Toronto Star obituary:Throughout his life he was always seeking ways to express himself through various creative pursuits. As a young man, he was a member of The Three Reeds, a harmonica trio. Their musical comedy act played in […]
Washington Post’s Michael Cavna profiles and interviews 2018 Herblock Prize winner Ward Sutton of The Boston Globe.“I’ve spent my entire professional career as a freelancer — it is a fun and liberating way to work, and I’ve come to take the insecurities that come with it in stride at this point,” Sutton says. “It can […]
The Boston Globe and The Nib cartoonist Ward Sutton will be honored by the Herb Block Foundation tonight as the 2018 winner of their eponymous prize.According to the Herb Block Foundation site: “We were greatly impressed by the quality and breadth of submissions, with so much outstanding work being done in all types of political cartooning. But […]
Please consider helping your mail carrier Stamp Out Hunger this Saturday.
Pat Bagley brings the latest terrorist weapon into his commentary, with Trump driving over our allies by cancelling America’s participation in the multi-nation deal to control Iran’s nuclear program.Two things to note:He doesn’t include Russia and China in this line-up, though they were signatories to the deal and are likely as unhappy with the feckless, […]
“Here, George!” by Sandra Boynton and George Booth was released last week.George Booth began his cartooning career 70 years ago after World War 2.Recently George sat down with The Wall Street Journal to talk about those beginnings.That September, when the war ended, I was in Oahu waiting to be shipped home when a telegram arrived […]
Better to headline today’s blog with the hopeful words of Musa Kart than the more pragmatic words of HL Mencken: (T)he whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.Not that Kart doesn’t […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists’ statement on Musa Kart and the oppression of journalists in TurkeyThe oft-repeated statement “an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us” applies to political cartoonists worldwide after Turkish cartoonist Musa Kart was sentenced to prison. Why should Americans care about the fate of a […]
A couple months ago cartoonist Greg Cravens endured a life threatening medical emergency.Thankfully all is well now. Greg did, however, turn the episode into a sequence for his The Buckets comic strip.The “comic” story started a week ago.
Heart of the City wanders into the new Nancy hubbub.For those who have been living under three rocks, the old strip was taken over a month ago, garnering a lot more attention than I would have expected, though GoComics did make a big deal out of it, and it coincided with publication of a book […]
Priya Sridhar had the optimism of youth.I wanted to make a webcomic when I was a kid. Rather, I wanted to submit my work to a syndicate and produce a daily newspaper strip. Bill Watterson’s story inspired me, as did Charles Schulz’s success with Charlie Brown. At the time, my career path seemed simple. After […]
“You must be looking through my windows!” is a common remark made to cartoonists, but mostly about domestic comedy strips. However, today’s Carpe Diem makes me suspect that Niklas Erikson was following me around at one newspaper I worked where, at the department head meetings, I made myself unpopular by, when someone mentioned an uptick or […]