Heller addresses the matter of taking Donald Trump seriously but not literally. Some of what he says is clearly ridiculous, some seems unlikely, some is frightening. As the woman suggests, the combination forms an endless cycle of distraction.However, while he didn’t keep his vainglorious promise to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, some […]
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Before the Golden Age comic book size of 7½” by 10½” became the accepted standard there were various sizes. What some consider “the first American newsstand comic book of all original material,” The Funnies, was published in the tabloid dimensions of 10.5″ x 15.5.” By the late 1930s the size of stapled comic books were […]
I wasn’t sure which end of the Joni Ernst cascade to start with, but I like how Wuerker lays the debacle at the feet of the Republican Party. Ernst was challenged at a townhall by someone calling out that people would die as a result of GOP cutbacks to Medicaid, to which she responded that […]
From Jason Sanford’s Substack: For months there have been rumors in the science fiction and fantasy genre that the traditional “big 3” print magazines – Asimov’s Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and Fantasy and Science Fiction – were being purchased by new owners. Confirmation of this has now appeared on the websites of […]
While we noticed that the Gannett, Lee, McClatchy, Advance, Horizon, PostMedia, and Wicks newspaper groups all unified their comics pages across the lines, with some signing exclusively with one syndicate or another, we missed following up on the Paxton Media Group signing with King Features at the time change from 2024 to 2025.I noted a […]
Major Strasser: Captain Renault, are you entirely certain which side you are on?Louis Renault: I have no conviction, if that’s what you mean. I blow with the wind, and the prevailing wind happens to be from Vichy.Tom Tomorrow unleashes a torrent of nonsense, almost entirely things Donald Trump never said, but much of which echoes […]
I got an explanation from Andrews-McMeel about the repeated errors in posting images to GoComics on Sundays. Turns out it’s not a GoComics error but a problem within a much larger corporate context.The company — which handles an immense number of projects going back many years — has been in the process of a major, […]
Saturday, June 14 (2025) will see the world premiere of the documentary film by Bill Banowsky at the DC/DOX Film Festival of A Savage Art: The Life and Cartoons of Pat Oliphant. Patrick Oliphant was a giant slayer, bravely taking on presidents, popes and the American corporate class with his mighty pen. An Australian transplant, […]
As print continues its decline, a new challenge has emerged for this workforce: the rise of AI image generators. The first major text-to-image models were released back in 2022 and quickly ignited debates about copyright infringement and labor displacement among illustration communities. In recent weeks, this debate reemerged after ChatGPT rolled out a new image […]
Time in cartoons tends to be vague. Some strips are forever in place, some move glacially, others keep up a relatively realistic pace. Readers accept, for instance, that kids get out of school, have a summer vacation, and then return to the same classroom, same teacher, same curriculum. But they can also follow, on the […]
While GoComics has developed a habit of not including the black plate on a Sunday strip or two this year since their Great Reset, that oversight is usually corrected within hours or at least before the day is over.What continues to irritate me is their refusal to post the complete Sunday of a lot of […]
The Serendipitous Timing Award today goes to Jeff Stahler, for a piece done in advance but that struck home anyway. I got Wordle in 4 today and I don’t play Connections, but, like her, I was completely flummoxed by Trump’s latest social media post:Yes, the leader of our nation has endorsed a theory that Joe […]
I used to assemble color comics regularly. It is not particularly difficult.
Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall has proclaimed May 31, 2025 Pat Bagley Day! Bagley recently depicted Mendenhall in one of his illustrations. In the cartoon, the mayor is holding new official flags Salt Lake City adopted an effort to comply with a new Utah law banning pride flags from government buildings and schools. A […]