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 […]
Derf Backderf on the recent report from the National Transportation Safety Board about cell phone use in cars. The third panel alone makes the whole comic a winner.This is a rich topic for cartoonists, but most will take on the more logical aspects. There are already a raft of editorials online making the argument for […]
Pirate Cove has been taking a breather from its usual four-panel color absurdist shoot-em-ups to comment on comic conventions, at greater length than usual (this is only half of today’s episode, f’rinstance).It’s an interesting balance of insider and insight, and, if you’ve never been to a con, you’ll learn a few things about them here […]
I always like it when you leave comments, though the every-day pace of this blog often makes it hard to get into extended discussions here. We’ve had a few.But here’s one I’d like your thoughts on, and not necessarily in the comments section here. Over at Daily Ink, editor Brendan Burford has an entry about […]
This “Rhymes with Orange” from 2000 remains one of my favorite holiday strips.When it came out, not only did I happen to drive by one of these places every evening on my way home, but it was in a town where General Electric had a major effort going on in coming up with explanations for […]
Terri Libenson’s “Pajama Diaries” is about a mother who works at home, and one aspect of her life is that she is Jewish. That aspect isn’t what the strip is about, but it’s a key component of the family, as religion tends to be in real families that practice a religion.And I think that, for […]