Gene Weingarten, best known for his Below the Beltway humor column in the Washington Post and his comic strip Barney & Clyde, has been nominated for the 2014 Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award. The award is conferred by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. He’ll receive the award next June during their annual conference.
Yesterday I noted that Mort Walker turned 90 years old and his comic strip Beetle Bailey turned 63. Also taking notice is Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who is quoted as saying: “Your contributions to the nation and our military men and women through your comic strip Beetle Bailey are […]
This blog is generally chicken one day and feathers the next. This was definitely a day of chickens, with such a banquet of good stuff that I had to eliminate some that would have been the only focus on another day.Let’s start with some interesting beginnings: “Mark Trail” is not generally known for incisive storytelling […]
The good folks over at GoComics continue to hold regular live tweet interviews with notable cartoonists. This month they have five scheduled. On deck this month:September 6: Lola creator Todd Clark (#AskToddClark) September 13: Bloom County creator Berkeley Breath (#AskBerkeleyBreathed) September 20: Stone Soup creator Jan Eliot and For Better or For Worse creator Lynn […]
A date to dedicate the bronze statue entitled “Gitty-up Daddy” to commemorate the life and work of Family Circus creator Bil Keane has been set for November 8. ABC15.com also reports that a possible museum dedicated to the legendary cartoonist is also being discussed.
The Independent (Massilon, OH) talks with cartoonist Chuck Ayers who draws the comic strip Crankshaft (written by Tom Batuik). Q. Is this a labor of love for you? A. “Sometimes it’s relatively easy. It depends on just what Tom has written and how much drawing it takes to convey that. There are times when, because […]
Michael Cavna has written an excellent post marking Mort Walker’s 90th birthday and notes that Mort’s iconic comic strip Beetle Bailey turns for 63 years today. Today, Mort Walker celebrates his 90th birthday. And tomorrow, he marks the 63rd anniversary of the launch of his most famous comic strip, “Beetle Bailey.” All these decades later, […]
Author and editorial cartoonist Matt Bors has announced that he has taken a full time job with Medium.com to draw comics, write and manage The Nib – a collection of cartoons, comic journalism and non-fiction.From his post on Medium.com: Expect new editorial cartoons from me every week, as well as longer opinion comics, illustrated journalism, […]
Award winning illustrator Mo Willems is on sabbatical for a year. While he’s in Paris, he’ll be posting doodles and sketches on GoComics.com
A great video story from the Economist about British illustrator and satirist Ralph Steadman.“I go straight in with ink and that’s in, you know. That’s it. I don’t believe in penciling in first in anything. But people say, ‘don’t you make a mistake?’. Oops” I say, ‘there’s no such thing as a mistake. A mistake […]
Keith Knight addresses the plight of the Oppressed White Man, deprived of his civil rights by, well, the rise of civil rights over the past half-century.Which is to say most of the whiners weren’t even born when their right to be ignorant was revoked.Or at least watered-down by being shared. Today, thanks to the progress […]
I remember, back in the days when I believed good work would find a spot, and when I believed I knew how to define good work, and when I believed that the world needed one more introspective novel about college, being particularly incensed when a genuinely-bad-by-any-measure college novel was published not only to some fanfare […]
Dylan Horrocks posted a link to this comic on Facebook, with the brief message “Read this comic by Pat Grant right now. Just read it, OK? Now. (you won’t forget it, ever)”I’m tempted to just say “I agree” and sign off, but I’ll take things a little bit further. However, any substantive commentary on the piece would […]
By the time this posts, I’ll be somewhere over the Atlantic heading back home after 10 days in Norway. While I’ve been outside of the U.S. (Canada, Mexico, Guatemala), this was my first trip overseas. It’s been a fantastic experience and I can’t wait to share it with anyone that will listen. I don’t think […]
Foxtrot — which is still new on Sundays, though in reruns the rest of the week — scores with a poke at the exaltation of stupidity on televisionAs much as we may rail at the poor nutrition in fast food (including yesterday’s yogurt/yoghurt rant), at least, if a food company makes a bogus claim about […]