Best way to start this off is with a Jimmy Margulies cartoon that admittedly is not his most recent, but which does seem to capture the Trump administration’s policy, to the extent that they have an actual policy at all.It’s an oversimplification: Trump is actually rolling back policies that go at least to Richard Nixon, […]
(Gary Varvel) (Bob Gorrell)These two conservatives were fast out of the gate with a pair of cartoons that seem to go deeper into the DACA issue than the more liberal response so far, much of which has been plays on “dreams” and “nightmares.”Pointing out that Dreamers are in a tough spot is like pointing out […]
A whole-word reader is, in contrast to a phonics reader, someone who sees the entire word as an entity rather than as a series of syllables to be sounded out and assembled. At least, theoretically, since you can’t be exclusively one or the other.That is, a phonics-taught reader would certainly learn to recognize some words on sight. […]
There are a lot of “Godspeed, John Glenn” cartoons and, while they’re all sufficiently heartfelt, none of them stands apart from the rest. However, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum has shared this February 2, 1962 panel by Karl Hubenthal, which brings back the hero worship that the Mercury astronauts inspired.I was home from school sick […]
Hundreds showed up to a ballroom in Oakland to offer their respects to Wee Pals creator Morrie Turner who passed last month.From the Contra Costa Times: Hundreds of fans, family members and friends dropped by the ballroom of Claremont Hotel on Sunday afternoon to say their final goodbyes to the well-known Oakland-born cartoonist. Turner broke […]
Here’s a page from “Wee Pals,” the barrier-busting comic strip (and also a short-lived but interesting Saturday morning cartoon) by Morrie Turner. Launched in 1965, “Wee Pals” was the first truly inclusive strip syndicated by a mainstream syndicate, and it literally changed the face of the comics pages. Morrie Turner died Saturday, not quite six weeks after […]