TCJ: In your experience, how has the role of a syndicate changed from 2008–2009 to now? TEA FOUGNER: I’d just like to set the stage a little bit for folks who aren’t familiar with how syndication works. Syndication is a way for syndication clients (usually newspapers, but increasingly websites and other digital clients) to bring […]
I’m picky when it comes to variations on the old fish-swallowing-fish concept. First, it needs to be applicable, and, in this case, it is: Trump has swallowed the Republican Party — as demonstrated by the confirmations of his unqualified cabinet — and Musk is clearly in charge of Trump, as demonstrated by that jaw-dropping spectacle […]
The first issue of The New Yorker was cover dated February 21, 1925. But as we all know periodicals are on the newsstands, and newsstands were prolific in 1925 unlike today, several days, sometimes even weeks, before the date printed on magazine covers. From Defining New Yorker Humor by Judith Yaross Lee: [T]he first issue […]
Editorial cartooning, caricaturing, graphic noveling, webcomicing, comic stripping – we cover the bases.Martin Rowson, British cartoonist for The Guardian who occasionally shows up in Mike Peterson’s columns, has deceided to celebrate his 66th birthday by reducing his output to once a week: Just so you know, from 15th February 2025 I’m cutting back to one […]
There’s plenty of politics, so we’ll do comedy instead. The woman in Batch Rejection echoes my thoughts even without the Doge Boys penetrating government sites. My computer continually pesters me to put everything up in the Cloud, and even though I don’t, I’ll occasionally start to pay for something and discover they know my credit […]
A while back a request was made (and I apologize to whoever made it for losing the message and name) to update our Prince Valiant Title Panel 2014 – 2020 post. A promise was made to do so when Thomas Yeates created a new title panel for the Prince Valiant comic strip. After 22 months […]
Unfortunate TruthsAn unfortunate truth from WuMo: Background on lorem ipsum from Jack Shepard. Not to be confused with Charles Brubaker’s Lauren Ipsum. On a related journalistic note from Susie MacNelly and Ben Lansing and Shoe: The above comes with my repeated plea for GoComics to replace the Gary Brookins credit above the comic strip with […]
The Indian weekly magazine Vikatan is allegedly been blocked by the Indian government due to a complaint filed by the Bharatiya Janata Party president after an unflattering cartoon was published on the cover. The cartoon, responding to reports that Indians deported from the US are being handcuffed, depicts Prime Minister Narendra Modi in handcuffs alongside […]
The first of three cartoons by comic journalist Joe Sacco and graphic novelist Art Spiegelman, part of a collaboration on the topic of Gaza, has been published. Last month, news broke that the two had teamed up on a major graphic novel about Gaza. However, Art later clarified that his comment was misunderstood—the work he […]
Yesterday I featured JD Crowe’s cartoon of Musk with baby Trump on his shoulders, noting that there were several variations going around. I’ve seen so many of them that I was tempted to do a whole day of nothing else, but decided that sarcastic repetition doesn’t make much of a point.Ditto lately with cartoons of […]
AdExchanger “facilitates the exchange of ideas between all members of the ecosystem, including marketers, agencies, publishers, data providers, advertising and marketing technology companies, analysts, the investment community and the press.” As such it is, on the whole, non-political, wishing to be a resource for all advertisers. On Friday though… I wonder if this is cartoonist […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for February 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. The Life and Art of Mort Walker by Bill Janocha Mort Walker, the “Dean of […]
Remember that brief moment during the campaign, when progressives began describing Trump and his coterie as “weird”? It had tangible impact, but it seemed unpleasant and unconstructive so they quit saying it and focused, instead, on arguments that were more pleasant and constructive.And that had no tangible impact.Jones points out the number of people who, […]
On Wednesday, February 12, 2025, the Jeopardy television game show featured “The New Yorker at 100” as an opening Jeopardy category, with The New Yorker editor David Remnick reading the answers. Here is a closer look at The New Yorker at 100 “answers: And here is David Remnick reading the answers via The New Yorkers […]
Storyboard artist and character designer Jerry Eisenberg has passed away. Jerome Theodore (Jerry) Eisenberg December 14, 1937 – February 11, 2025Animation historian Jerry Beck’s post on the death of Jerry Eisenberg with a link to Mark Evanier’s notice: We lost a giant today – and I was a friend in his later years. He was […]