Some quick hits about strips in today’s colored comics supplement. My mornings: It’s a vicious circle as previewed in Garfield‘s title panel with the results in Take It From the Tinkersons. “Leaving on a jet plane” “Don’t know when I’ll be back again” Some synchronicity between Judge Parker and Willy Black today. More Marciuliano… I […]
As it now stands the newspaper cartooning career of Darrin Bell has come to an end. The egregious charges against him resulted in papers carrying his comics to drop them as soon as they could, some in mid-week. The syndicate continued to distribute Candorville to newspapers willing to wait for a final verdict. But Bell […]
First, this note to editorial cartoonists: If Elizabeth Warren had — without claiming any advantage for it — said that her family spoke of African-American heritage, was mocked and called “Aunt Jemima” for it, but then took a DNA test that bore out her claim, would you depict her as a triumphant minstrel-show mammy? Don’t […]
I don’t think you could have a better Labor Day commentary than this Clay Bennett cartoon. It could have run just about any time in the past year and a half, because Trump repeatedly takes credit for things that haven’t happened or that he had nothing to do with. But Trump has been particularly vocal […]