Jeff Millar, the writing half of the “Tank McNamara” team, died Friday of cancer. I never met Jeff, though his partner on the strip, Bill Hinds, has been an on-line friend for several years. More to the point, Tank McNamara has been on my comics radar since the strip debuted in the mid-Seventies.Cartoons on the […]
An encouraging strip from xkcd.The strip isn’t explicitly autobiographical, but it isn’t not-autobiographical, either, which is a facet of modern cartooning that matters. Some artists are explicitly autobiographical, like Keith Knight, others are implicitly autobiographical, like Adam Huber, and some put the comic on its own footing but are very open about the creative process, […]
There is an emerging consensus about this election, at least among cartoonists, and that is that Mitt Romney is an ever-flowing source of inspiration. And in the few weeks that he doesn’t serve up a lob that can be smashed back across the net, his runningmate will fill the gap by claiming to have run […]
K Chronicles is a font of comic diversity, going from the personal to the universal and back again in a way that makes it like real conversation: Some days, you talk about what you did last night, some days you talk about something you read.This is a “something you read” day, and one of the […]
Keith Knight again. We’ve really gotta quit meeting like this.As occasionally alluded to here, there is a group of cartoonists whose work I like so much that I judge them more harshly than others, in part to avoid getting into a rut where the same people are featured here all the time.Sometimes I think it’s […]
Keith Knight with a dignified tribute to a dignified man. I never quite got how Don Cornelius, who seemed so grown-up and cool-in-the-dispassionate-sense fit in with the music he featured. But that was part of the deal, and, while it was good to bring soul to mainstream audiences, I was old enough by then to […]
Keith Knight has been chronicling his life in “the K Chronicles” for getting onto a couple of decades now, and it is consistently fresh because he rarely reaches into the Bag of Accepted Memes for his observational gags. He just tells you what he’s been thinking and doing lately, with more wit than jokes to […]
Technical storytelling praise first: That final panel is brilliant, combining his horror at what he has done to this poor woman with the triumphant little “got what I wanted” in the lower right corner, which shows some mixed emotions when compared to the larger captioning in the box. In fact, the entire panel is a […]