“Long Past?” inquired Scrooge: observant of its dwarfish stature.“No. Your past.””Oh, &%^# that,” said Scrooge, and went back to bed.The End. Juxtaposition of the Day(Rex Morgan)(Between Friends)Today’s Juxtaposition gets top billing because it really fires up the Rant Generator and I’m going to have to sort the relevant from the visceral here.To start with, Rex’s sudden […]
Last week a cartoon by Indonesian cartoonist Fonda Lapod depicted Australian Prime Minister as a peeping Tom masturbating while looking behind a curtain labeled “Indonesia” has created a wrinkle in relations between the two countries. The cartoon is in response to news that Australia is allegedly listening in on telephone calls of the Indonesian President […]
Stan Sakai, creator of Usagi Yojimbo is facing financial challenges due to a medical costs caring for his wife who has been battling a debilitating illness. She requires 24-hour home care beyond what insurance will cover. The Cartoon Art Professional Society is creating an auction to raise money for Stan and are asking for any […]
Comic historian Brian Walker talks about his exhibit of cartoon art at Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum and growing up surrounded by professional cartoonists. Looks like the video is shot with a mobile phone, so audio isn’t fantastic, but audible.Via Mike Lynch
Archie cartoonist Stan Goldberg and his wife Pauline are recovering in the hospital after being injured in a car accident on their way home from the OSU Festival of Cartoon Art. According to Comics Beat, Pauline suffered two broken arms and a broken leg while Stan has a fractured vertebrae.Flowers, cards and well-wishing can be […]
Al Plastino, best known for his work with DC Comics and the Superman comic, has passed away at the age of 91. Mark Evanier breaks the news and writes the first obit. Al was a diverse artist who also worked on the comic strip Nancy and there’s a story that he was the artist in […]
Tom Tomorrow with a chatty but point-on commentary about the health care issue.Speaking of JFK (and isn’t everyone?), he used to quote an aphorism, “success has many fathers, failure is an orphan,” and the piling on over the botched roll-out of a main portion of the Affordable Care Act has certainly been a stunning example […]
Bone creator Jeff Smith has been teasing the release of a new webcomic for several months now. Yesterday the webcomic went live. Jeff Smith explores the ice age in this all new mythological fiction of the first human to leave Africa. With the completion of his science fiction noir thriller RASL, Jeff Smith returns to […]
Michael Cavna reports on last Friday’s Cartoons and Cocktails gala in Washington DC which raised $20k by auctioning off 160 or so original editorial cartoons. The proceeds goes to the National Press Club.Among the notable pieces auctioned off was Pat Bagley’s cartoon of Malala Yousafzai (see below). The original cartoon was auctioned off earlier this […]
Buried in a story about Gasoline Alley cartoonist Jim Scancarelli contributing to an anti-bullying comic book is news that yesterday, November 24, the comic strip turned 95 years old. Legacy-strip haters are going to hate, but 95 years is an accomplishment.
Fascinating story out of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the Tom Engelhardt cartoon that was published in 1963 just hours before President Kennedy was shot. The cartoon depicted Kennedy in Texas, in a box, between shooters. Worst possible timing of a cartoon ever.The newspaper, realizing the cartoon had already been sent out, dispatched their trucks […]
/wp-content/uploads/tdc-images/zapiro-india.jpgIndia Times reports that several organizations are calling for a boycott of South Africa by the Indian cricket team because of a cartoon by Sunday Times editorial cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro (“Zapiro”). The cartoon features Cricket South Africa CEO about to be sacrificed on an alter in front of the Indian god Ganesha (labeled Indian Cricket […]
I read Scott Adams’s latest blog post regarding his father’s death. At the time of the writing, his father had not yet passed. It’s an angry post against anyone against doctor assisted suicides. You can feel Scott’s raw emotions as you read it. I don’t want this post to be about the morality or politics […]
Kal Kallaugher confronts a political taboo, and though he does it in the pages of the Economist of London, I haven’t heard very many people in the US criticize Israel as being obstructionist in this process either. There is, of course, the spectre of anyone who criticizes Israel being accused of anti-Semitism, which stems in part […]
Johanna Draper Carlson’s “Comics Worth Reading” currently features a link to a devastatingly insightful review by Chris Sims of the new collection, “Superman: A Celebration of 75 Years,” which sent me back to (A) a conversation I had recently and (B) yesterday’s criticism of modern self-absorption.Start with this bit of child-development psychological whatchamacallit:Certain dirty jokes remain […]