Great West Media’s St. Albert Gazette welcomes Ralph Hagen as its new editorial cartoonist. The Gazette is launching a new ongoing weekly cartoon, which will feature the talents of Stony Plain cartoonist Ralph Hagen. Albertan cartoonist Ralph Hagen will juggle humour, satire with local happenings. Most of us know Ralph Hagen as the creator of […]
Today’s cartoonists paying homage to the cartoonists of yesteryear. Bushmiller and Cash, Nancy and Sluggo On Monday Caroline Cash celebrated the debut appearances of Nancy and Sluggo down to the minute. Not sure about that last measurement being accurate but the years and days were right on.By the time Sluggo showed up Nancy was the […]
Basil and Monte Wolverton; Flash Gordon by Alex, Jim, Dan, and a bunch of others; public domain Popeye and Olive; a hint of next winter’s Doonesbury special art; plus actual comic strips and panels from this week.Let’s start with the news for the indexers. This week sees the King Features Weekly Service dropping Dan Schkade‘s […]
There are times when a strip hits it so squarely that I have very little to add, like today’s the Barn. I’ve said in the past that printers were sold as an excuse to sell ink, but it was a joke, because they were still expensive enough that this wasn’t quite true. But I bought a new […]
The joke here is that, if I had used pen-and-ink instead of doing this on the computer, the results, given my artistic skills, would be pretty much the same.The point is more serious, though only my opinion and perhaps more of a kvetch than a critique. The old guys in the backshop at one of my […]
The Barn, one of my two favorite comic strips starring a sheep (that’s not a joke, but it’s funny anyway), is in the early stages of an arc about field trips.I’ve told the story before of seeing a cow on exhibit at the Lincoln Park Zoo, and I observed then that it’s not just poor, […]
And Don Asmussen makes the choosing easy today by executing a flawless triple-play.I’ve mentioned this before, but Bad Reporter sets up a tough challenge for itself, and there are many days when I read it and two are good and then, like watching a long field goal drift to the right, there’s that “doink” as […]