Yesterday Tea Fougner, Editorial Director of King Features Syndicate (KFS) comics since 2018, posted on her LinkedIn page that she has stepped down from her position at KFS and from the company itself. Tea wrote: Today was my last day at King Features. I was offered a choice between a reduced role and a severance […]
We try to avoid duplication and stepping on each other’s toes around here, and by now you’ve likely seen DD Degg’s coverage of Ann Telnaes’ resignation from the Washington Post. And if you haven’t seen his coverage here, you’ve almost certainly seen some coverage because it is all over the Internet, with regret and praise […]
I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now. Cartoonist Ann Telnaes has ended her relationship with The Washington Post. On Telnaes’ Open Windows Substack she goes into detail about why she HAD to do it, and presents the full cartoon that offended the […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novelist Art Spiegelman and comics journalist pioneer Joe Sacco are teaming up for a new graphic novel about Gaza. Art mentioned the collaboration during the premiere of a documentary film about his career during the DOC NYC festival. The collaboration is a natural fit for two the acclaimed storytellers. Art, a non-practicing […]
Bob Gorrell last November announced he was retiring after a half century of cartooning. For almost 50 years, I’ve had the incredible privilege of foisting my personal opinions on the innocent public through my editorial cartoons. Now is the perfect time to retire from that and move on to other interests and passions in my […]
As Gary Varvel (Creators) points out, the terrorist attack in New Orleans has every American praying, or, at least, it has every American who prays praying. And Clay Bennett (CTFP) says that the ISIS attack has taken the happiness out of the New Year. While Walt Handelsman, who lives in the Crescent City, rallies his […]
My opinion is to stand foursquare behind Michael Cavna, who closed out 2024 with a five part Warped statement, starts here, on the dangers we face without political cartoonists and the dangers political cartoonists face from authoritarian governments. My other opinion is that Andrews McMeel should collect this series and submit it to the Pulitzer […]
Got distracted by the changing of the year stuff. Now we’ll catch up on some recent comic strip news. Here’s something that is news to me. Apparently The Arizona Daily Star prints an extra page of comic strips as a bonus to the Lee Enterprises regular half page. I had assumed the extras were relegated […]
Dave Whamond offers a thought-provoker that would make a good prompt for a government seminar. The Founders took steps to prevent an immigrant from heading the government, but they assumed a nation guided by the votes of responsible citizens. They made no law about race, gender, age or wealth of voters, though individual states subsequently […]
Missed a day so here’s a bucket load of 2024 in review cartoons. Al.com and JD Crowe has six dozen Alabama-centric, but nationwide extremist, Drawing 2024 to a close. Here it is: The full, final list of the Top Ten Tom the Dancing Bugs of 2024. The top ten were determined by a rigorous, scientific, […]
This is an installment of 2024 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: the Dearly Departed) 2024 – THE DEARLY DEPARTED These U. S. newspaper and magazine cartoonists, and selected others, died in 2024. DAVID MARK KUNZLE April […]
Jeremy Banx’s old couple welcomes in the New Year with the same attitude I did, having seen it several times. I just went to bed at my usual time and the calendar managed to do its thing without my assistance, as it often has. So no cartoons today about people falling asleep before the ball […]
This is an installment of 2024 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: the Dearly Departed) 2024 DETOURS & DEVIATIONS Some changes to U. S. newspaper comic strips and panels in 2024. But first a missed 2023 change: […]
This is an installment of 2024 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed. (part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: the Dearly Departed) 2024 DEBUTS These comic strips and panels began appearing in U. S. newspapers in 2024. BREAK OF DAY by Nate Fakes […]
Not sure either event is particularly “inspiring” except to the wrong people, but Brewster Rockit (Tribune) does a good job of choosing the finalists and summing up the year, and I think he made the right choice. The election was like finding out your lover has been cheating on you. On the one hand, you’re […]