When I can do a mix, I usually start with the funny stuff and then do politics, but somehow they’re becoming indistinguishable. Clay Jones has a most excellent rant to go with this cartoon, which is basically that Trump would rather talk to Fox & Friends than Mueller, but he can destroy himself in either […]
Comic Strip Cartoonist #7 Snuffy Smith cartoonist John Rose interviewed Rina Piccolo says goodbye to Tina’s Groove Justin Thompson and his MythTickle comic strip Visiting the Charles M. Schulz Museum Corbett Features’ self-syndicated cartoonist Barry Corbett and more. Now available in print or in PDF: http://www.comicartspress.net/Hogan’s Alley #22 Cartoonists of the old Open Road for […]
First, let’s sweep up the WCHA business with this Matt Wuerker cartoon that even includes actual pearl-clutching and beautifully captures the faux outrage, or the hypocrisy, however you want to frame it.I’m not sure the weeping snowflakes are sufficiently self-aware to be hypocrites. Their outrage, however misplaced and misconstrued, seems perfectly sincere, in the same way […]
Once upon a time, in the 20th century, cartoonists submitted gag cartoons to the top magazines – The New Yorker, Esquire, Playboy. Gags rejected by those editors were recycled to the next tier – SatEvePost, Collier’s, True. And so on down the line to trade journals and then to those joke and cartoon magazines. By […]
The University of Virginia is the new home of the papers of Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Patrick Bruce Oliphant.The archive…includes more than 6,000 of Oliphant’s daily political cartoon drawings, including the plate used by the Denver Post to print the cartoon that earned him the Pulitzer Prize.University Librarian and Dean of Libraries John Unsworth said, […]
The National Cartoonists Society is wanting to expand its Reuben Awards weekend into a full blown public festival for the host city.As they explain: For the past few months, we’ve been exploring the feasibility of staging a free Comic Arts Festival, based on the kind of event that is so popular in Europe in places […]
There is no way we can catch up on all the news that happened during this site’s two year hiatus. Just this year alone there was: Wayno taking over the daily Bizarro panel, the end of Bud Grace’s Ernie/Piranha Club strip, the death of superstar Mort Walker, the end of Chris Monroe’s Violet Days, Will […]
Last weekend, I wrote about satire and how nobody really wanted to defend Hustler Magazine but they recognized the need to defend the First Amendment.This weekend, we have a more complex issue at hand, as exemplified here by the contrasting responses of Ann Telnaes and Steve Kelley to Michelle Wolf’s monologue at the WCHA dinner.And if […]
Welcome, cartoon friends! We’re “soft launching” the “new” Daily Cartoonist this week. The site is now owned and operated by my colleagues here in Kansas City (Mo.) at Andrews McMeel.Our plan is to restart/continue the great cartoon news site that Alan Gardner built. Alan has been a great help in the transition and we’re thankful […]
Among the many regular occurrences in the Sally Forth comic strip is the morning breakfast cereal Powdered Toast Crunch. This was a sort of salute to the 1990s Ren and Stimpy cartoon show where the cereal originated.Unfortunately a month ago allegations were published that the creator of Ren and Stimpy had engaged in sexual abuse. […]
For six years, from 2007 – 2013, cartoonist Mike Holmes contributed “True Story” to the Halifax alternative newspaper The Coast. It adapted reader stories into a weekly comic strip.Now he has revived and reworked the concept into a regular feature for the new (improved?) Mad magazine as “Real, Dumb.”About the new feature: “That title also […]
I find most generational/technical-gap gags pretty lame, but I really like today’s Zits, and would be curious to know how postcard sales have been impacted, first by digital cameras and second by the Internet.According to Wikipedia, there was a craze for postcards touched off by the Columbian Exhibition, which opened 125 years ago this coming […]
I held back a few days on the Bill Cosby conviction because I wanted to see the cartoons that would emerge. Steve Breen has, I think, the best take.Attempts to be humorous — to cite Jell-O pudding pops or contrast his flamboyant sweaters with prison garb — seem to fall flat. Had he been convicted […]
2018 Eisner Awards Nominees for this year’s Eisner Awards have been announced. Results of the voting will be revealed the evening of Friday, July 20 at Comic-Con in San Diego. Among the categories isBest Archival Collection/Project—Strips The nominees are:Celebrating Snoopy, by Charles M. Shulz, edited by Alex E. Fajardo and Dorothy O’Brien(Andrews McMeel)Crazy Quilt: Scraps […]
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