The National Cartoonist Society will be celebrating their 79th Annual Conference and Reuben Awards in two weeks on August 14 and 15, 2025 (with a little wrapping up on the 16th) in Boston, Massachusetts. The biggest part of the “weekend” is the awards which will be handed out on Friday night, the 15th. There be […]
Might as well start this morning’s collection of funny comics with one that didn’t make me laugh. Harry Bliss often features rural beauty, and this one brought back a memory.I was doing a light Sunday feature about people with side jobs, one of whom was an old guy in Upper Jay whose yard contained racks […]
Memes as Comics debate; Alden Global tries to snipe the Hearst buy of Dallas Morning News; and six large tablets for reading comics (i.e.: comic books) and one small tablet for not.More about Michelle Ann Abate’s Memes as Comics position It’s undeniable that the rise of the Internet had a profound impact on cartooning as […]
There is no reason for Garg, who had earlier complained that Alley never took him on Oop’s time-traveling escapades, to remember the siege at Troy. But there is good reason for Alley Oop to remember it. The Name GameThen Bill Holbrook play’s mind games as On The Fastrack‘s Mars Mission group gets to know each […]
The countermeasures indeed do not seem to be working, though a cynic would suggest that the whole matter might fade and become yesterday’s news if Dear Leader would stop saying things that keep it front and center.After all, we saw a gunman kill a Minnesota legislator and her husband and shoot another legislator and something […]
July saw a few changes in a few comics, including the abandonment of a long-standing (long-sitting?) tradition in a long-running strip.Jimmy Johnson is celebrating 40 years of Arlo and Janis. Today he notes that, other than the very early Arlo, that character’s appearance has changed the least. Which can’t be said for Marvin by Tom […]
Daryl Cagle proudly notes that his syndicate is the exclusive image provider to Cartoons for the Classroom: You may remember Newspapers in Edication (NIE) from decades ago when they would deliver stacks of newspapers to classrooms across America; they are still around and have been partnering with the AAEC (Association of American Editorial Cartoonists) for […]
Matson gets mileage out of Dear Leader’s obsession over windmills, melding it with his obsession over Obama, though neither have much real-world impact on him.The Obama thing likely stems from the fact that spreading birther lies elevated him from regional blowhard and reality TV figure into national politics. Perhaps under stress, he falls back on […]
Fifty-five years ago in 1970 Zap Comix #4 (1969) was adjudged to be obscene. Forty-five years ago (1980) Disney Corp. washed their hands of the Air Pirates Collective (1971).Brought to mind because today the mailman delivered Dummy #2 – the Air Pirates issue.John Kelly with the help of Edwin Pouncey, Mark Newgarden, and Patrick Rosenkranz […]
A local news website run by a disgraced former state lawmaker who has faced child sex charges and espoused racist views is taking fire for posting racist AI-generated cartoons aimed at a Republican state lawmaker. Prescott eNews, which covers news in Prescott [Arizona] and the surrounding communities in Yavapai County, is facing pointed criticism for […]
Jon Farley, a retired teacher, was arrested for carrying an enlarged version of a Private Eye cartoon at a Palestinian solidarity rally. Farley was arrested under the Terrorism Act for suspicion of supporting a proscribed organization. Last month, after the pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action spray-painted two RAF refueling jets, the group was added to the […]
San Diego Comic Con is over, and I had to look up the San Diego Chicken to see if he was still around and he is, though Ted Giannoulas is now 71 and has to limit the physical comedy a bit.I think SDCC is like Grateful Dead concerts (were) and Mardi Gras in New Orleans […]
featuring Sir Quentin Blake, Gluyas Williams, Doug Marlette, Dirk West, Helen Hokinson, and William Hogarth.Quentin Blake Ask ChatGPT to create a portrait of Quentin Blake in the style of Quentin Blake and the results are so preposterously bad, it’s tempting to think that artificial intelligence might not be the death of everything that is pure […]
A cartoon drawn in a small frame can highlight an incident, a context or a political situation in its entirety. Working as a cartoonist in newspapers, I have had a variety of experiences over the years. Once, at an event, a friend of mine was introducing me as a “journalist.” Someone nearby interrupted, saying, “Oh, […]
Back in the days when Art Fleming hosted, Jeopardy had a category called “Potpourri” which mostly consisted of leftovers from previous games. Since they no longer use it, I will.If Molina had run this earlier, I’d have used it with yesterday’s critique of Michael Ramirez’s anti-wind cartoon. But I still like it, because he focuses […]