Genesis 4:8 – Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go for a walk.” (Contemporary English Version) Unlike today’s Pearls Before Swine, which I instantly figured out what was going on, it took a double take for me to transliterate the words in Pluggers to names and figure out what was what. Bragging rights: I […]
Drew Litton’s Slippery Slopes, Dan Thompson’s Comic Stew, G.B. Trudeau and Nicole Hollander and Doonesbury, In Person: Keith Knight, Phil Hands’ Mendota Marsh, The Sunday Post comics are Inkredible, and then it’s decision time: Mickey or Snoopy? Drew Litton Presents… Drew Litton’s Beyond the Drawing Board Substack presents a baker’s dozen of Slippery Slopes comic […]
Mike Peterson’s Comic Strip of the Day brings up a sore spot with me: the quickly vanishing same day online sources where one can find the Sunday Doonesbury title panel. At the beginning of this year I had three online sites to find that panel. Pete Hegseth took the Stars and Stripes (scroll down) opportunity […]
Dark Side of the Horse doesn’t get a lot of exposure here because it’s not fair use to republish a cartoon without commentary, and there’s rarely anything to say except, “This made me laugh,” which doesn’t count as a critique. But it often makes me laugh.My commentary is that the cartoonist is a Finn, and […]
Movie News In August 1958 Charlie Brown first took pen to paper to write to a far away friend. That relationship lasted for forty years. Now, as they did with The Little Red-Haired Girl, the animated Peanuts is about to show us Charlie Brown’s mysterious pen pal. From Mark Kennedy at The Independent: The identity […]
I like Chilton’s art (which comes from the New Cartoonist), but both the subject matter and the setting are a reminder that the Whole World Is Watching, and it isn’t cheering us on. There are worse things to export than Disney films, but this is still an indication of how much our culture, such as […]
Rolling Stone has published an excerpt of the upcoming biography Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography (non-paywall link). The subtitle of the article would make me read it, even if I wasn’t already interested: “How cartoonist Garry Trudeau embraced the counter-culture, became a Rolling Stone writer, and pissed off Hunter S. Thompson so much that the gonzo journalist mailed […]
Mrs. Olsen is a lot more understanding than a lot of commenters on GoComics and Comics Kingdom who seem to be in a constant state of aggravation over a lot of comic strip characters. Some more than others: Comic strips are visual first script second and when Mallard Fillmore came up my first reaction was […]
I got a particular laugh out of this RWO, because I worked at a paper where they had mugshots of the staff on a bulletin board in the break room. It was handy, because you could learn the names of people in other departments who you ran into in only a superficial way.But it became […]
Fell cuts through the analysis and legal deconstruction and reminds us that racism is real, which, at heart, is all you really have to know. Some racism is intentional and conspiratorial, like redistricting to keep Black candidates out of office or requiring bogus literacy tests to keep Black citizens from qualifying to vote. But it […]
Garry B. Trudeau biographer Joshua Kendall for The Boston Globe (or here) compares the attitudes of Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton with the current resident of The Oval Office. [In 1974 Nixon] wrote Trudeau to request a signed copy of the “ill health resignation” comic strip. And it hung in his office ever since. In […]
Origins IssuesThe story of how Kit Walker became The Original Phantom continues into its 12th Sunday, while the story of how Ming became The Merciless continues in the daily and Sunday Flash Gordon. And King Features/Comics Kingdom celebrates the 80 anniversary of the Mark Trail comic strip. We’re proud to mark this 80th anniversary. And […]
Hank Kennedy at Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) writes of the pressure being seen by U.S. political cartoonists to suppress cartoons critical of the Trump Administration in an article looking at the United States section of Under Pressure: US’s Erosion of the Right to Cartoon Is No Laughing Matter. Pointing out examples from Ann […]
The responses to Dear Leader’s weird, profane Easter message are arriving, but most offer nothing you didn’t see here already. Also, it turns out Ed Wexler’s “Pottymouth President” cartoon that I led with yesterday was a repost from 2019; it’s still a good cartoon but that’s how little news value there is in questioning Dear […]
For the second time in a month Koko is Out of the Inkwell and into a Zippy strip. Bill Griffith has always referenced classic comics but he seems to be it it more since working on his graphic autobiography. Though not as often as A.I. in Carpe Diem. Those robots are now the de facto […]