I’m going to start with an apology to Brian McFadden. Sort of.Until he signed on with Matt Bors’ site, the Nib, I only saw him at Daily Kos. Now I see his work twice, a few days apart, which is not uncommon with independent cartoons.But check this out:Here’s his current piece, from Daily Kos: Now here’s […]
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal puts a fairly common theme in a new package and makes it new. Our perceptions of the world change, and young folks tend to be awfully cock-sure about the nature of reality and how easy it would be to create the perfect society. And then they gain a little more experience. As Twain […]
The inauguration cartoons are mostly in, and, while it’s hard to pick a winner, it’s not hard to see the trend.While a few highlight national debt as a looming presence or a weight on the president’s back, and some riff on the coincidence of a black man being inaugurated on Martin Luther King Day (which […]
Yesterday’s post regarding Bill Watterson’s Mark Twain cartoons caught the eye of Nevin Martell, the author of Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip (my review of Nevin’s book). He passes a long a few more of the cartoons that he’s collected. He notes that the […]
Artist and photographer Thomas Haller Buchanan has posted several cartoons by Bill Watterson that were published during those brief months while Bill was the editorial cartoonist for The Cincinnati Post. I’ve seen a lot of his earlier editorial cartoons, this is the first I’ve seen of a thematic collection.