I mentioned this event back in November, but if you’re in the San Francisco Bay area don’t forget to put the Cartoon Art Museum’s Black and White and Read All Over exhibit on your calendar. The museum is also hosting Keith Knight and Stephan Pastis on the 12th of January wherein they’ll discuss their comics […]
A few newspapers have shuffled their comic page offerings to start the new year.The Morning Call (Allentown, PA) picked up Cul de Sac on Sundays. The Sun News (Myrtle Beach, FL) picked up Cul de Sac for both daily and Sunday.The Bakersfield Californian dropped Fred Basset to pick up Cul de Sac and readers nearly […]
If you ask Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson who were some of his greatest influences, he’ll mention Ronald Searle. After the news broke of Ronald’s passing yesterday, Michael Cavna asked Richard about his influence:Searle’s style was so powerful that any other artist who mimicked its effects was pretty quickly overwhelmed by it and exposed […]
Today’s “In the Bleachers” takes aim at a sports cliche so ingrained in the game of football that it seems more like terminology than jock talk.The sports department is an oddity at any daily paper. Even at a morning paper (as most are these days), the sports guys come in later and work later, because […]
The nomination of Thomas Nast to the New Jersey Hall of Fame as another opponent. Assemblyman Scott Rudder (R) has openly requested the founding father of editorial cartooning to be removed from the list.“Thomas Nast’s depictions of Santa Claus are beloved, but his portrayal of Irish Catholics was deplorable,” Rudder, an Irish-American, said. “Nast’s inclusion […]
Radio Netherlands Worldwide has interviewed Syrian cartoonist Ferzat Ali, whose hands earlier this year were beaten by Syrian Authorities to silence him. He reports that his hands are healing and when they do, he will return to Syria to continue cartooning. He is currently living in Kuwait.Mr Ferzat is busy retraining his fingers. Once he […]
Norm Feuti and King Features Syndicate launched Gil yesterday. The strip dates back to 2008 when Norm ran it as a webcomic after a first round of rejections by syndicates. After a couple of other submissions, Norm resubmitted the strip to King and was green lighted for a launch. From USA Today:“I don’t think the […]
The New York Daily News has named one of their own as their News Sportsman of the Year. Bill Gallo has worked for The Daily News sports department since 1960. He passed away this last May.Daily News’ Filip Bondy writes:It isn’t hard, really, to understand why so many people adored Bill Gallo and his cartoons […]
Beloved cartoonist Ronald Searle has passed away at the age of 91 on Saturday after a short illness. From the Guardian:Best known for his spiky comic drawings depicting the outrageous antics of the St Trinian’s girls, and for his illustrations of the Molesworth series, written by Geoffrey Willans and which, as any fule kno, tells […]
Matt Wuerker brings up an interesting — which is to say, potentially troublesome — issue in editorial cartooning.When you are a witness at a trial, it’s important that you only answer the question that was asked, lest you inadvertantly raise another question you didn’t want to be asked.Same rule applies in cartooning: Tread carefully.I’m in […]
Tom Spurgeon points readers to this collection of Winsor McCay editorial cartoons. They are presented without context and appear to be illustrations for editorials rather than freestanding cartoons, but they do have their years attached to their file names, and this one is from 1914.It immediately put me in mind of this passage from Jacob […]
I saw a couple of strips today that referenced the tradition that whatever you do on New Year’s Day is what you’ll do for the whole year.To which I can only add that, if so, it’s gonna be one helluva year for Jeff Corriveau’s Deflocked.There are plenty of strips that sometimes consist mainly of a […]
Actually, just about any caption would have worked with this Non Sequitur headstone gag. After an hour or so of reading strips in which the characters fall asleep before midnight on New Year’s Eve, I was beginning to chuckle over the “This feature did not update” messages.But I’d have liked this one anyway. Headstone gags […]
I had a brief struggle this morning, because I felt like doing something kind of light and breezy and there were a couple of pretty funny strips to consider. But I got to Cartoon Movement and there was Sarah Glidden with this engrossing look at the Iraqi refugee community in Syria.Not what you’d call “light […]
Speaking of highway safety and the drivers you will never be able to reach, Frazz has an arc going about a kid from Florida coming to Frazzland (presumably Michigan) to see snow for himself.For those who live in more tropical climes, yes, the first snowfall brings out the idiocy in drivers, as well as revealing […]