Happy anniversary Leroy and Loretta Yesterday was the 50th anniversary for The Lockhorns, debuting September 9, 1968. But today’s panel seems to be celebrating the occasion. Mars Landing After years of training and traveling… Safe Havens has a (not quite man) landing on the moon. Comic Strip Within a Comic Strip […]
Michael Cavna covers the fallout from Australian cartoonist Mark Knight’s work on the Serena Williams/Umpire U.S. Open flap. From the piece: In doing so, Knight draws facial features reflecting the dehumanizing Jim Crow caricatures so common in the 19th and 20th centuries. Knight’s cartoon conjures up a range of such caricatures that were branded on […]
The Northwest (Fayetteville) Arkansas Democrat Gazette had a recent editorial summoning up some memories of a Lil Abner-based theme park called “Dogpatch USA.” From the editorial: Truth be told, Dogpatch USA was never the grandest amusement park to ever open its gates. Its developers had big visions when the park near Harrison, themed after the […]
A site called JSTOR (a site that reports to mix news and academics) has posted a piece called “The Most Controversial Comic Strip” on the legacy of censorship in comics and found in Walt Kelly’s “Pogo.” From the piece: As a Cold War liberal, Kelly also satirized communists by portraying two beatnik cowbirds as fellow-travellers […]
Okay, I recognize the cartoon character in this one, and I’m inclined to agree with Bill Day that the damage done is pretty negligible. However, a lot of that is due to the overlap with the revelations in Bob Woodward’s book, which comes out tomorrow but was excerpted and discussed in the Washington Post the […]