An odd week of funny cartoons that hit me for specific, personal reasons, so bear with me. As a reward for your indulgence, I’ll start with the most tasteless, from the Barn.Not that crayons themselves are tasteless, though they’re pretty bland. But they also don’t digest and the result is not fully technicolor poop but […]
The Buckets looks at the very deadest week of the year.I mentioned recently how much I hated doing “Year End Wrapups” when I was in the newsroom, but we needed them because nothing happened in the week between Christmas and New Years, and, if it did, you couldn’t find anyone to comment on it because […]
I’m guessing the response older people had to today’s Ziggy was not the one intended.There was a time when we were kids that we were told not to eat snow, though, granted, probably not by the Surgeon General, and this was had nothing to do with eating the yellow snow, either.It was back when we, […]
I think school is out most places now. Both “School’s Out” and “Back to School” cartoons have a problem of timing, since the actual events can vary by about a month depending on location. But they also have a problem of “same old same old,” and Deflocked sidesteps that today with a gag that goes beyond the […]
New Yorker cartoonist and Bliss creator Harry Bliss has been named as a 2014 Sendak Fellow. The Fellowship is a residency program for artists “to nurture the talents of artists who tell stories will illustration”. The Fellowship gives recipients five weeks of country isolation to complete their work. It’s named after notable illustrator Maurice Sendak.From […]
Francoise Mouly, art editor at the New Yorker and editor/compiler of the new book, Blown Covers, featuring art that never made the cover, has posted this strip, a 1993 collaboration between her husband, Art Spiegelman, and Maurice Sendak, who died yesterday.You can click on the picture for a larger version, and then click here to […]