Featuring Beetle Bailey (now updated), Peanuts (this too has an update), Hogan’s Alley, Nemo, Comics Revue, Extra Ordinary Comics, MazeToons, Popeye, and I Hate Fairyland with corresponding cartoonists.75 Years of Beetle Bailey “Beetle Bailey” is the rare popular culture touchstone that has been embedded in daily life since its debut on Sept. 4, 1950. CT […]
David Rowe, who, incidentally, was recently named Australia’s cartoonist of the year, gets right to the point of Dear Leader’s latest astonishingly sociopathic incitement of his brown shirt crew.Rowe specializes in making politicians look ugly, but this is a particularly ugly moment. It’s not just that Trump was tweeting out messages of hate from a […]
(David Horsey) (Clay Jones)I probably cite the work of David Horsey and Clay Jones here more often than I should.Having directed readers to their work, I could simply sit back and assume people are going there and seeing what I’m seeing. There are several other cartoonists whose work I like, but they tend to have hot […]
Hilary Forth has been trying to come up with clever, creative ways to get her parents to face up to and discuss the obvious tension in their relationship. Today, she makes the only move she has, and it’s a good one.It’s hard to say I’m “enjoying” this storyline, if you believe comics should be funny […]
After yesterday’s rant about cartoonists who don’t leap into action, Clay Bennett nails one that reminds me that some things are worth waiting for. This doesn’t erase my impatience with a system in which the response is “But I don’t do a national cartoon until Wednesday.” I continue to believe that political cartoonists need to be […]
It’s not so much that this Dr. Jack and Curtis panel says anything that hasn’t been said, but if nothing else, South Africans have a unique viewpoint in that they live in a nation which is Western in many senses and Third World in others.Americans and those in Western Europe tend to think of places like […]
The Knight Life ponders the weird gap between the role models we offer our kids and the roles we expect them to model.Thus was it ever, Keefe, though you do have to differentiate between the characters parents provide to their children versus the characters kids find on their own.When I was researching a story about […]
Friend-of-the-Blog Brian Fies passed along an educational comic about an interesting woman of whom I had not heard, Gertrude Bell, in large part because she reminded him of Nellie Bly, of whom I did a children’s biography a few years back.Bell and Bly come out of a period in which a lot of very intelligent […]
Stuart Carlson offers a refreshing change from the Inkpot Generals who are inundating us with cartoons about how sanctions are for pantywaists and that real men send other people’s children out to die.There has been a thing floating around the Internet for a few years about how no two countries with McDonald’s have ever gone […]
Brace yourself for negativity. The flood of “Fred is Dead” cartoons is about to hit.But one of the first out of the gate was this refreshingly decent take by Joe Heller.”How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world,” Portia observed.Joe has it right, but, based on […]
Rob Rogers is first off the drawing board with this post-Super Bowl commentary, and I think it’s going to be hard to top. The flap over Coke’s commercial has pretty much shunted aside the fact that Cheerios not only brought back their interracial couple, but now with the news that the woman is pregnant. Apparently, either new […]
Granted, Tom Tomorrow isn’t likely to highlight the happy, cheerful elements of 2012. As a social critic, he’s sort of locked into a fairly negative format.But I think the world could have made him work a little harder, don’t you? That is, a person looking for rotten things to write about can always find plenty of […]