Tagged as: wiley miller

One cannot understate the influence Wiley Miller has had on newspaper comics and in ways far beyond artistic style.

This week Greg and Karen Evans are bothering me. I’m used to King Features and Comics Kingdom updating the copyright dates on their reruns. And at least Patrick McDonnell erases the original copyright year without replacing it with the current year. I do give Greg and Karen credit for giving fans a heads-up. A couple […]

TributesLalo Alcaraz thanks Jules Feiffer for his service to cartoonists and humanity in today’s La Cucaracha. While cartoonist John Hambrock riffs on Rube Goldberg in The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee.Then Greg and Karen Evans recall a famous Philippe Halsman photo shoot from 1952 in Luann. Prince(ss) Val(entina) and The AdventurersIt seems Prince Valiant has […]

I’m off getting a magical new hip that will allow me to leap tall buildings in a single bound. While I’m recuperating in a place of dubious connection, here’s an interview I did in 2003 for the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY. The cartoons were added in 2010 when I replayed the interview for Comic […]

So here’s the thing: I didn’t have to wait until the final panel of today’s Barn (Creators) to know what musical selection the ducks were performing.I could attribute that to my educational and cultural upbringing, and I do, but only to the extent that cartoons used to be a lot more educational and cultural. Like […]

Pat Bagley opens today’s conversation with the accusation the lawmakers intentionally remain uninformed, tossing in the idea that, not only do they reject facts, but that they find the distortions and selective reporting of Fox News comforting.It’s not entirely clear whether Bagley, who comments on both national and local issues, is speaking of Congress or […]

At the early morning hour I should have been blogging today, I was preparing to go work the polls at the New Hampshire Primaries. Fortunately, I am, in fact, the fellow in this vintage xkcd, and have an extensive collection of funny pictures on my hard drive.While they won’t serve as alternative currency — if […]

There are many things that Dear Leader can’t seem to understand, and Jimmy Margulies captures two of them here: One is that Trump genuinely has no sense of empathy. It’s not that he ignores or downplays the suffering of others. He genuinely does not get it.So he can cheerfully toss paper towels to people during […]

As noted earlier, a highlight of the AAEC Convention this year was a chance to tour the Billy Ireland’s “Front Line: Editorial Cartoonists and the First Amendment” exhibit with its two curators, Lucy Shelton Caswell and Ann Telnaes.Sharing a few samples of the exhibit today not only allows me to show you more than I […]

Non Sequitur lays it out, and I have no argument with Wiley’s analysis.Because, yeah, I have a lot of arguments. Nick Anderson says much the same as Wiley, though in a slightly different tone: Trump never got his wall on the southern border, but he’s managed to build one through the heart of the country.I’ve said […]

 Leading off today with Non Sequitur and a bit of a fantasy.Not the Godzilla part. The cutting yourself off from the world part.I’d like to retreat back to the 19th Century, when you worked hard, yes, and I’d have probably died from my appendicitis 30 years ago, but it’s attractive to think of living back […]

It’s entirely possible that Dave Blazek was inspired by the same thing that made me laugh at today’s Loose Parts: Those sanitary wipes at the grocery store, which keep you from getting bubonic plague from touching a shopping cart.My solution is that, when the cart wranglers get a train of carts together, they should shove […]

xkcd couldn’t have hit me with this one at a better time. My inbox management is bad enough, but after two back-to-back road trips, it’s totally out of control and, while I don’t quite feel a need to craft a long, sincere response to everything in it, I do suffer from “I’ll take a look at […]

Someone recently said that the Internet has ruined April Fool’s Day by pummeling us with a constant barrage of untruths for no apparent reason.I had a friend who would cheat at anything, which made some less-than-admirable sense when he had his kids lie about their ages to shave money from ticket prices, but made very […]

Gonna start and stop the political chitchat with this Jack Ohman piece, not so much because I like the overall concept and use of “suspense” — which I do — but because I particularly like the fact that he didn’t drag out the poor Statue of Liberty, who has been getting a real workout lately, or […]