Comments on: NYT: The sports cartoon is dying

By: Mike Peterson

Mike Peterson — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:32:42 +0000

Tank and In the Bleachers are a different genre. The local cartoonist — pure editorial or sports-editorial — gives a voice to local concerns, whether it’s the mayor’s plan for beautification or the local franchise’s plan to win the division.

Unfortunately, while TV stations responded to the cable explosion by beefing up their local news coverage, newspapers have responded to the Internet by abandoning all identity with their own communities.

Sad and stupid, but there you have it.

By: D. D. Degg

D. D. Degg — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:54 +0000

Girls And Sports ended just about one year ago.
How Gil Thorp instead?

By: Rich Diesslin

Rich Diesslin — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:27:05 +0000

Here are some good examples from Jerry Dowling, long time Cinci sports cartoonist – http://jerrydowling.com/DOWLING_2/SPORTS_HOME.html

By: Darryl Heine

Darryl Heine — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:47:42 +0000

We still have for sports comic strips:
Tank MacMarara
In The Bleachers
Girls and Sports

By: Gerry Mooney

Gerry Mooney — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:42:16 +0000

That’s a very interesting article, especially the comments about Bill Gallo’s passing taking the tradition of sports cartooning with him.

But the most pleasant surprise was seeing Mike Ricigliano as the centerpiece of the article. Mike and I worked together at a crappy paste-up job on L.I. around ’74 I think. He was a hoot and was doing some very funny self-promo pieces for his cartooning work, which I still have somewhere!

Then at some point in the ’90s I came across one of his cartoons in that racing paper (The Racing Form? Racing Sheet? something like that), hunted him down and we had a nice chat on the phone.

Now this. I have no doubt that he’ll figure something out and land on his feet. He’s a sharp guy, very funny, and he’ll find a niche he probably never even knew about before.