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 […]
As near as I can tell, Alcaraz is the first cartoonist to address the sad, disillusioning facts about Cesar Chavez that came out in the New York Times yesterday (gift link). I would hope more would follow, because this is not a Latino story, but I’m not surprised that Lalo leapt upon it first, because […]
Mike started this morning off by giving G. B. Trudeau and Doonesbury the Good Timing Award. Here is the title panel to today’s Doonesbury: Comic Strip Trivia Enjoyed today’s Thatababy and am impressed with Jonathan Lemon’s ability to ape the various named cartoonists’ drawing styles and signing the panel that included one of his current […]
Nice timing on today’s Doonesbury, which was done some time ago but appears just as Dear Leader demonstrates his peacekeeping skills as well as his need for praise.Among editorial cartoonists, it was interesting to see who leapt into the fray and who did not. I recognize that some cartoonists may not be allowed to break […]
This is a lovely picture and I agree with her premise that, unless you can get Canadian TV, you aren’t apt to see a lot of curling until the next Winter Olympics. There are several Olympic sports that don’t get much coverage except then, like biathlon, which does feel like a traditional Olympic sport, given […]
We’re coming up on another obligatory non-holiday which you have to observe but for which you don’t get time off. Blazek is right that the apostrophe belongs before, not after, the S, though if you poke around in the origins of the day you might stumble across more than one St. Valentine, and, besides, as […]
Today is a sort of cartoonists’ holiday. Nobody takes Groundhog Day seriously, except the Chamber of Commerce in Punxsutawney, obviously, but there it is and gag cartoonists can pop out something and enjoy a short day.Editorial cartoonists can get their compensation sometime later in the year by showing Bill Murray waking up to another round […]