Let’s start by acknowledging the disconnect. As Ratt points out, we’re in Looking Glass Land, where everything is reversed, including the New Testament. The good thing is, we’re not dealing with people who say one thing and do the opposite. They say the opposite and that’s exactly what they do.In the words of the late […]
Friday on the comics page seemed to be a preview of National Cartoonists’ Day as a number of comic strips had guest appearances by other comic strip characters. Lio featured Snoopy, Over The Hedge guested Wednesday Addams, and Ziggy had Superman. Cartoonist Gary Varvel utilized a famed Charlie Brown image to represent the flurry of […]
A little bit of politics before we dive into humor: The NFL has removed “End Racism” from the endzone, not starting next season when most changes happen, but starting right now for the Super Bowl, which, completely coincidentally, will have Dear Leader in attendance. They’re replacing it with “Choose Love,” and just as taking “End […]
Over the course of his nearly 80-year career, Jules Feiffer tried his hand at everything–comic books, political cartoons, editorials, comics history, plays, films, animation, children’s books, graphic novels … and he was hard at work on his next book when he passed away on Jan. 17, just shy of his 96th birthday. In celebration of […]
In the debate over whether Dear Leader is a knave or a fool, Peter Brookes chooses the latter, aping Rembrandt’s painting, though I use the term “aping” advisedly.I like the pun on Homer, but it would be a cheap gag if it weren’t accompanied by the self-satisfied smirk on the face of the other dunce […]
It is looking more and more like the February 2, 2025 will be the last Candorville distributed to print newspapers. Stars and Stripes weekend edition for February 7, 2025 has been issued and the comics section does not include Candorville. The Stars and Stripes Sunday Comics is a strange animal. Starting with the masthead that […]
Joe Sacco and Art Spiegelman; Nina Allender and Suffrage Cartoons; Clyde Peterson at The Paris Post-Intelligencer; Keith Knight and The Scrap Exchange; and Sage Stossel and Art Spiegelman. Never Again!.. And Again…And Again…And“Never Again!.. and Again” Joe Sacco and Art Spiegelman‘s three page collaboration of commentary, “a graphic conversation,” on the Gaza situation has been […]
As I’ve mentioned before, Red and Rover takes place in an indistinct past, one evidence of which is that Red can throw a newspaper from the sidewalk to someone’s porch. Well, that and the fact that most newspapers quit hiring kids as carriers because afternoon papers switched to mornings and sending kids out in the […]
Some silly stuff and nutty nonsense in the comics world.The Far Side Teases a Three-Panel Comic “Coming Soon” Robert Wood at ScreenRant reports: In a now-deleted post on TheFarSide.com, Larson shared a mysterious image. Under the website’s ‘New Stuff’ tab, Larson posted an image of three tall, empty comic panels on a totally white background. […]
Famed magazine cover artist and illustrator Mort Künstler has passed away.Morton (Mort) Künstler August 28, 1927 – February 2, 2025Newsday reported the death of the painter and illustrator: Although Mort Künstler once told an interviewer that he would prefer to be remembered as a great athlete, he had to settle for being hailed as America’s […]
I give Chip Bok so much grief so often that, when I do agree with him, it’s only fair that I say so and give him the lead-off spot. And I agree with his summation of our foreign policy, at least in its outcome if not its conscious intention.At this stage, I’m not sure if […]
KFS has got their 2025 King Features Syndicate Directory up for viewing. Also included, along with the comic strips and panels and political cartoons, are King Features’ syndicated columnists and puzzles (Hey Joe!) and other promotions.The King Features 2025 Directory is available online as an Issuu edition or as a pdf.Notes on the 2025 editionUnlike […]
King Features Syndicate and Comics Kingdom are deleting any references to Darrin Bell. Mike Peterson gave notice that within a day of loading the February 9, 2025 Candorville comic strip Comics Kingdom had removed that strip and further everything Candorville on the site. Also disappeared was the Comics Kingdom page featuring Darrin Bell political cartoons. […]
Despair was on the national menu in October, 1973. Paul Conrad described the state of the presidency in the words White House Counsel John Ehrlichman had used when, as Watergate investigations began, he said that, rather than confirming Patrick Gray as head of the FBI, they should leave him “slowly, slowly twisting in the wind.”By […]
The Hinson Art Museum at Wingate University is hosting an exhibit focusing on Peanuts character Franklin. Franklin was the first African American character in Peanuts. Charles Schulz added the character to his strip after assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. at the behest of a school teacher with the hope of promoting tolerance and interracial […]