Behind a small window cutout in the front door of the Northeast Portland home sits a furry guard to this New Yorker cartoonist’s upstairs studio. Upon entry, a chair dons a curved sag in its plush cushion, suited for the fluffy multicolored feline, Pumpkin, who, too, makes art in the form of scratch posts. Through […]
Banx offers a wait-a-minute gag. My first response is that it would indeed be good if we could use old, renewable energy in place of the power-suck that happens at data centers. Then the wait-a-minute hit, because, obviously, if we were still running everything on hydropower, we wouldn’t be creating gigantic masses of data. We […]
If you ever wanted to appear smarter by referencing Supreme Court decisions in your conversations, you can now drop the word “Calvinball” and be fluent in American jurisprudence speak thanks to an dissenting opinion by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.In a ruling earlier today, the US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Trump Administration could cancel […]
There she was: a woman in a pose that suggested she was either about to sell me shoes or ask me to subscribe to her OnlyFans. Her legs spread in a way that made me wonder if Skechers had pivoted from athletic footwear to gynaecological equipment. The shoes—ostensibly the point of the advertisement—were an afterthought. […]
Some upcoming events that may be in your area of interest. With Harry Bliss, Edward Gorey, Al Hirschfeld, Ralph Steadman, William H. Walker, and a supporting cast of thousands including members of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and The Usual Gang of Idiots.Motion Lines: How Cartoonists Draw Movement Featuring over 100 examples from the […]
The Mediterranean coastal city of Marbella has banned caricature artists from practicing their trade along public roads citing safety concerns. Caricature artists say they’ve worked there for decades without issue, and their work is very popular.According to Sur in English, the delegation of public roads has decided not to authorise, for the moment, permits for […]
This historic plaque, celebrating a great Civil War battle, can be seen on the grounds of the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia. There are eight “Trump National Golf Clubs,” but the River of Blood Battle didn’t really take place on any of them.As the NYTimes reported a decade ago, it never happened at […]
ImageText, a web-based journal from the Department of English at the University of Florida with free and full public access, has released their most recent and very interesting issue (Vol15 #3) with four feature articles.The articles are: Chris Ware’s New Yorker Covers and American School Shootings by Ryan Banfi The New Yorker commissions and accepts […]
Last weekend saw the release of “the first Peanuts musical in 35 years” on Apple TV+. A summary from Parents: Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical centers on siblings Charlie Brown and Sally, who are heading to summer camp; Charlie Brown is a fan, but Sally isn’t so sure. However, they learn that their camp is […]
We’ll start out with one that knocked me over. Susan had accepted a job, along with her former boss Savreen, only to find it was a soul-killing dead end. She’s been pondering and job searching and getting frustrated, but today seems promising. What jolted me was that several years ago, I dropped into my boss’s […]
Sandra Bell-Lundy has been cartooning Between Friends for 35 years and most of us have thought it was the only comic strip she has done during that time, but there was a four week period when she created a full-page weekly strip for a couple of Canadian broadsheets. It was what comic book fans would […]
Seventeen cartoonists have filed a lawsuit against Cadence Comic Art and its owner Paolo Belfiore claiming the gallery and art dealer of defrauding them of hundreds of thousands of dollars and refusing to return their artwork.The plaintiffs, which include Rafael Albuquerque, Mahmud Anjum Asrar, Alessandro Cappuccio, Elena Casagrande, Danai Christina Kilaidoni, Yildiray Cinar, Becky Cloonan, […]
An exhibit curated to showcase offensive cartoons that was cancelled in May for being too offensive has a new site where the proprietors aren’t quite so milquetoast as the original forum owners turned out to be.From Alex Farber at The Times of London: The curator of a cancelled exhibition of political cartoons is confident that […]
Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.”“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”I’ve used the White Queen’s quote before and it is impossible […]
Last Friday the National Cartoonists Society and King Features Syndicate honored Sy Barry with the Elzie Segar Award during this year’s Reuben Awards ceremony and 97 year old Sy made the 20 mile trip to Boston to accept the trophy in person. Today Ryan Yau at The Boston Globe covered the local celebrity (or here): […]