Charles Schulz writing to Walt Kelly (late 1954): My book is filled with so much bad work, that I would consider it presumptuous on my part to send you one. After the first book came out, I wished that they would put out another so that my more recent work would show up. Now that […]
Scott Stantis unintentionally wraps up how I’m feeling about social media specifically and the body politic generally. His intention is almost certainly a “What if?” by which I mean that, when he posted this at Twitter, he commented So this president has taken to coddling and pardoning war criminals. Just when you thought this administration […]
Animation background artist Art Lozzi has passed away. Arminio Guido (Art) Lozzi October 22, 1929 – November 4, 2019 A career outline and a description of Art’s style from Animation Resources: Worked as an inbetweener at MGM and Disney, submitted humorous cartoons to magazines such as the New Yorker, designed holiday cards, worked on Tom […]
Webcomics. Far too many webcomics for me to follow, but there are a few I really enjoy. Among the webcomic creators whose work have touched me is Tauhid Bondia. I got started with his A Problem Like Jamal, and followed him over, laughing all the way, to his current Crabgrass. A recent, relatively speaking, find […]
As long as I’m going off-topic of my self-imposed rules… The Edgar Rice Burroughs Authorized Library For the first time, the Edgar Rice Burroughs Authorized Library presents the complete literary works of the Master of Adventure in uniform hardcover editions. Published by the company founded by Mr. Burroughs in 1923, each volume of the Authorized […]
A bit out of my wheelhouse, but… Though there was no intention to offend, DC Comics has decided that the better part of valor is submission to the vagaries of Mainland China’s whims. From Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post: A new Batman comic book series has landed the Caped Crusader in the middle of […]
I understand there’s an ingredient in jellyfish that improves your memory, which is why I can look at this Reality Check and remember that we recently had a whole discussion of plastic bags that look like big fish. Well, they look like jellyfish, too, and this made me giggle. I suppose at some point grandfathers […]
I am thankful to Bruce Rosenberger for the 1953 black and white comic strips, and to Comics Kingdom and GoComics for today’s color comic strips. (More of today’s Thanksgiving strips can be read at both those sites.)
Today’s Moderately Confused is only confused about what the drama will be, not whether there will be some. A lot of holidays include a big dinner at some point, but Thanksgiving is the only one where the dinner is the entire point, and it tends to focus things on that gathering. Hence the drama. Okay, […]
A collection of news stories and tributes on the death of Gahan Wilson. above: Michael Cavna-Warped News The Washington Post The New York Times The Associated Press (via The Los Angeles Times) 27East – The South Hampton Press CNN Comics Sites The Comics Journal Multiversity Comics Comic Book Resources Four Realities Grand Comics Database […]
The Washington City Paper has a new panel cartoon. Welcome a new cartoon series—here for the next eight weeks. Liz at Large by Elizabeth Montague November 29*, 2019 – weekly panel Washington City Paper [began 2019(?) as webcomic] * The news was posted at the City Paper’s online site on Wednesday November 27; Wikipedia says […]
The American Association of Editorial Cartoonists notes: We got an email the other day from cartoonist Jimmy Margulies, who wanted everyone to know yet another paper has dropped editorial cartoons. Margulies writes, “My first day back at work upon returning from the convention in Columbus [in October], I was told that my newspaper amNEW YORK […]
Lectures, Conversations, and Exhibits. Mark Dery on Nursery Crimes: Edward Gorey’s Morbid Nonsense. In [an] illustrated lecture, cultural critic Mark Dery, author of Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey, reveals the surprisingly serious themes woven through his oeuvre: death, sexuality, the human condition, the meaning (or meaninglessness?) of life, […]
Paul Fell speaks to a specific blasphemy, but his cartoon has wider and deeper significance. The notion of Trump as the Chosen One is ludicrous, but the notion of people of any major religion embracing a vulgar, lying, fornicating etc etc etc conman as a fit leader, even within the secular sphere, is already so […]
Cartoonist Howard Cruse has passed away. Howard Russell Cruse May 2, 1944 – November 26, 2019 Howard’s daughter shared on Facebook earlier today: With sadness I share that my birth father passed this afternoon after a too short battle with cancer, with his dear friend Pam and loving husband Eddie by his side, among […]