*A government action “that could never happen here.” We start with a couple Letters to the Editor. To the Cleveland Plain Dealer: When it comes to the Comey indictment, cartoonist Dana Summers has trouble telling R’s from D’s Editorial cartoonist Dana Summers, in his “Payback” cartoon in the Sept. 29 Plain Dealer, apparently believes the […]
Alden Global Capital Doesn’t Take No For An Answer Alden Global Capital just can’t understand. Why would any newspaper not want to be the next to pass through its digestive tract? As I wrote on Monday, the DallasNews Corporation recently agreed to be acquired by Hearst at the price of $14 a share. Soon after, […]
Memes as Comics debate; Alden Global tries to snipe the Hearst buy of Dallas Morning News; and six large tablets for reading comics (i.e.: comic books) and one small tablet for not. More about Michelle Ann Abate’s Memes as Comics position It’s undeniable that the rise of the Internet had a profound impact on cartooning […]
Report on 2024 Newspaper Circulation The combined average daily circulation of the 25 largest audited newspapers in the US dropped 12.7% in the year to the end of September 2024, new data shows. The figures, supplied to Press Gazette by the Alliance for Audited Media, show that none of the top US titles increased their […]
Someone emailed me to complain about Thursday’s Barney & Clyde (Counterpoint), not particularly saying it should be forbidden so much as decrying the lack of taste and wondering how it got past the editors. I’ve linked to the specific piece, rather than to the comic’s overall page, in case you’d like to see the comments, […]
We’ll start with a non-political one. I’m disappointed in the new Sunday Ben Bolt (KFS-Vintage) story arc. Ben Bolt is mostly light, semi-humorous stuff on Sundays, but this reminded me of a scene in City for Conquest, a 1940 movie in which Cagney boxes to help support his composer brother. There is a scene in […]