Another of those where-do-we-start days, but fortunately Tom the Dancing Bug has not only provided the big picture, but has done so in explain-it-as-if-I-were-in-kindergarten fashion.If we wanted, we could just run in circles offering theories and insights for everything here until the cows come home, or, more appropriately, until the chickens come home to roost, […]
Marty Two Bulls, Sr. won the 2025 Herblock Prize. The award ceremony was held on March 28, 2025 at the Library of Congress and photographer Bruce Guthrie was there to record the reception, the exhibit, the accompanying lecture, and the presentation itself, Hundreds of photos from the presentation and of the exhibit/reception featuring Marty Two […]
I admit that I don’t follow Brooke McEldowney’s 9 Chickweed Lane religiously due to the weird (to me) arcs. But this week’s amusement with Edda and Amos is sweet and endearing (so far). We’ll see if Brooke can keep it on course, meaning the course I want. Though my favorite individual comic of this week […]
Heller addresses the matter of taking Donald Trump seriously but not literally. Some of what he says is clearly ridiculous, some seems unlikely, some is frightening. As the woman suggests, the combination forms an endless cycle of distraction.However, while he didn’t keep his vainglorious promise to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, some […]
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Before the Golden Age comic book size of 7½” by 10½” became the accepted standard there were various sizes. What some consider “the first American newsstand comic book of all original material,” The Funnies, was published in the tabloid dimensions of 10.5″ x 15.5.” By the late 1930s the size of stapled comic books were […]
I wasn’t sure which end of the Joni Ernst cascade to start with, but I like how Wuerker lays the debacle at the feet of the Republican Party. Ernst was challenged at a townhall by someone calling out that people would die as a result of GOP cutbacks to Medicaid, to which she responded that […]
From Jason Sanford’s Substack: For months there have been rumors in the science fiction and fantasy genre that the traditional “big 3” print magazines – Asimov’s Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and Fantasy and Science Fiction – were being purchased by new owners. Confirmation of this has now appeared on the websites of […]
While we noticed that the Gannett, Lee, McClatchy, Advance, Horizon, PostMedia, and Wicks newspaper groups all unified their comics pages across the lines, with some signing exclusively with one syndicate or another, we missed following up on the Paxton Media Group signing with King Features at the time change from 2024 to 2025.I noted a […]
Major Strasser: Captain Renault, are you entirely certain which side you are on?Louis Renault: I have no conviction, if that’s what you mean. I blow with the wind, and the prevailing wind happens to be from Vichy.Tom Tomorrow unleashes a torrent of nonsense, almost entirely things Donald Trump never said, but much of which echoes […]
I got an explanation from Andrews-McMeel about the repeated errors in posting images to GoComics on Sundays. Turns out it’s not a GoComics error but a problem within a much larger corporate context.The company — which handles an immense number of projects going back many years — has been in the process of a major, […]
Saturday, June 14 (2025) will see the world premiere of the documentary film by Bill Banowsky at the DC/DOX Film Festival of A Savage Art: The Life and Cartoons of Pat Oliphant. Patrick Oliphant was a giant slayer, bravely taking on presidents, popes and the American corporate class with his mighty pen. An Australian transplant, […]
As print continues its decline, a new challenge has emerged for this workforce: the rise of AI image generators. The first major text-to-image models were released back in 2022 and quickly ignited debates about copyright infringement and labor displacement among illustration communities. In recent weeks, this debate reemerged after ChatGPT rolled out a new image […]
Time in cartoons tends to be vague. Some strips are forever in place, some move glacially, others keep up a relatively realistic pace. Readers accept, for instance, that kids get out of school, have a summer vacation, and then return to the same classroom, same teacher, same curriculum. But they can also follow, on the […]
While GoComics has developed a habit of not including the black plate on a Sunday strip or two this year since their Great Reset, that oversight is usually corrected within hours or at least before the day is over.What continues to irritate me is their refusal to post the complete Sunday of a lot of […]