The documentary about one of the most influential editorial cartoonists in America is now streaming on most platforms. “A Savage Art the Life Cartoons of Pat Oliphant” can now be viewed on most streaming platforms (check link above for list). As I rewrote in my review back in June: Clocking in at 88 minutes, the […]
During the heyday of Pat Oliphant‘s career editorial cartoonists numbered in the hundreds, down from a high count of thousands, today the population of staff editorial cartoonists maybe a couple dozen. Newspapers these days go with the much cheaper syndicated editoons where they do not have to pay salary or benefits or contribute to retirement […]
Variety is reporting that the documentary A Savage Art: The Life & Cartoons of Pat Oliphant has been purchased by Magnolia Pictures. The film will be released to theaters on Sept. 5. The documentary follows the life of Australian-born Oliphant, whose tenure as America’s most celebrated and feared political cartoonist spanned five decades and 10 […]
Tomorrow will be a massively busy day across the United States. The No Kings protests are scheduled in multiple cities in every state. In Washington, D.C. Trump will finally get his “imma-tyrant-too”, I mean, military parade. Despite the congestion that will bring, I highly recommend those living in the DC area to go to the […]
What are we gonna do with this guy?His nonsensical insistence that law enforcement not look into lawbreaking and his posturing as an imperial power “demanding” their obedience is drawing forth think pieces about how “The Constitutional Crisis is Here” and comparisons to Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre.Ann Telnaes makes the most dramatic (American) mockery of him, […]
Dog Eat Doug makes an oblique commentary on the life of a comic strip: It starts out wandering a bit, then finds its legs, hits the groove and, too often, the groove becomes a rut. It doesn’t hurt that Brian Anderson is, when he’s not drawing Doug and Sophie, doing fantasy work and that he […]
I felt like we’d had enough politics for a while and so was delighted to find a funny little cartoon about a rat …And, boy, is he right. Trump finally announced his awards for “fake news” and they don’t stand up to much examination, being, for the most part, mistakes the press quickly recognized and for […]
I’m going to start with the heavy lifting and work my way to more fun stuff, and I’m grateful for Jeff Stahler for this one because it helps illustrate something that struck me yesterday.Some panelists and guests on “OMIGOD! THIS JUST IN! WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!” — or whatever Wolf Blitzer calls his regular daily […]
Today’s Duplex brings back some memories.This is a good example of “kidding on the square,” though, while parasitic credit card companies don’t waste their mailers on people who have a grip on their personal budgets, I doubt they actually target people who pay late.But I’m quite sure they share the news of who signs up […]
Candorville not only strikes a personal note, but prompts some consumer information.I’d like to see some kind of action against deceptive use of “pre-qualified,” but action against deceptive marketing went out of favor in the Reagan years. Caveat emptor, baby!Today, as Lemont learns, “pre-qualified” means you have a mailing address.When I got my first credit […]
No major theme today, but some things I’ve wanted to share … Rex Morgan is, for the moment, leaving the Morgan family to sort out adding another toddler to the brood in order to focus on cartoon forgery. About a year ago, the Morgans moved into a new house and discovered a cache of old comics […]
This morning’s Candorville appealed to me because I am very, very old, and a lot older than Susan or Lemont.I’ve had a couple of “boy are you old” moments lately, including last night when I went to a Charlottesville support rally at Dartmouth and remembered why, back in the Olden Days, I was a freak, […]
I was listening to a Friday news roundup on public radio yesterday and, when they got to the Jeff Sessions segment, one of them called it “the best item of the week” and they all started laughing.Pat Bagley isn’t the only cartoonist to jump on this wounded duck of a target, but I like his […]
Given the number of people predicting that Donald J. Trump will be remembered as America’s worst president ever, I thought it might be interesting to go back to Inauguration Day 1921 and see how cartoonists welcomed Warren G. Harding to the post, given that he is our current Worst President Ever.And I was right. It […]
(Mr. Boffo)(Adam@Home)The pairing here is an artistic juxtaposition, “artistic” in the broad sense, not just of the graphics but of the total piece.With Mr. Boffo, the gag works because we see the scene and anticipate a logical conversation before we read the absolutely ridiculous dialogue, which then touches off a response to all the times […]