Chan Lowe perfectly drew what went through my mind Friday morning on the way to the dog park, as I was listening to the radio news of the previous night’s shoot-out.In fact, the day before,I’d been thinking of how black people speak of hearing about a crime and then watching the news saying, “please, no, […]
Today’s “Baby Blues” brings back memories of sports, arts and the ex.We got married her senior year which also would have been mine if I hadn’t dropped out. The following summer, we moved to South Bend so I could take another wack at finishing up my degree. It would only be a year, but, between windswept […]
Major hat tip today to Mike Lynch for bringing to my attention something that makes my brain hurt so much that I’m bending the rules and featuring something, not because of its excellence, but based on the fact that, as the mission statement says, it made me think.It made me think that these people had […]
The 2013 National Headliner?s Award has been announced and in the category of Editorial cartoons, the winner is Steve Breen of the U-T San Diego, San Diego, Calif. This is his second Headliner?s award (previous was 2009). The award was founded by the Press Club of Atlantic City to hightlight the best journalism in newspapers.Second […]
Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants is the number one book most likely to be challenged for removal from a school and library in America according to the annual study released by the American Library Association. The Huffington Post reports that it’s due to “offensive language, unsuited for age group”.From the Post: “It’s pretty exciting to be […]
I just made up that word, a portmanteau of “leavening” and “levity,” both of which I’m in the mood for this morning. And then I took the “A” from “leavening” so it could also include Sam Levenson, a Borscht Belt comedian who, checking Google, is a lot more obscure than he deserves to be.Levenson had […]
Scott Stantis brings Boston into focus, but not in a particularly comforting way.One of what I guess you could call the “geopolitical-psychological” disadvantages of being a very large country and sharing the continent with only a couple of New World buddies is that we have never been forced to develop much empathy with the rest […]
With better special effects and better writing, super-hero movies have been doing really well in theaters in the last decade. Sure there have been some stinkers, but when you think of Batman, The Avengers, Ironman, many have done quite well. Directors finally figured out that treating the comic book movies more like action thrillers make […]
I went through a raft of Boston Marathon cartoons this morning thinking I would end up leading with Nast, since the messages all seemed kind of mundane. Yes, we’re sad. And, yeah, we’d like to find out who did it. I already had Nast on my mind when I came to Matt Wuerker’s take and found we […]
Out of the YouTube archives (also known as old video uploaded 3 days ago), comes a CNN report about the changes Mort Walker made in Beetle Bailey after complaints of sexism. Video was aired in 1997.Definitely a change for the better.
The Eisner Award nominees have been announced. Several nominees are of interest to readers of this blog. Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman are nominated in the category of Best Humor Publication for their collection BBXX: Baby Blues Decades 1 & 2. Also in this category is a nomination for Naked Cartoonists edited by Gary Groth. […]
One of the recurring topics in comic strips is lead time, but Monty couldn’t have placed this one much closer to the mark.We’ve finally got some real spring going here in the Connecticut Valley, and yesterday I became aware that now I can have the doors and windows open while I work. It’s very nice […]
This year’s Pulitzer Prize winner is Steve Sack of the the Star Tribune, Minneapolis For his “diverse collection of cartoons, using an original style and clever ideas to drive home his unmistakable point of view”. Steve was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for cartooning in 2004. He’s no stranger to national awards. He has […]
Today the winners of the biggest award in journalism is announced. I used to get tipped off on the nominees, but alas the Pulitzer committees have kept the lips tight for the last couple of years. I’ll be waiting impatiently as everyone else, except due to air travel, I won’t get the notice until I […]
A lot of the humor at The Gutters is insider, comic-book stuff, which leaves me doubly on the sidelines, but this one is pretty mainstream and awfully funny.This whole dudecentric view of life is not confined to the realm of comic books, nor is it particularly modern, but it’s a lively topic in that world […]