Dick Wright was an editorial cartoonist for 30 years. In 2005 he gave up political cartooning for a higher calling – church pastor. David Astor reported in Editor & Publisher 2005: [Dick] Wright worked for the Union-Tribune, too (starting in 1976) and later joined The Providence (R.I.) Journal, the Nashville (Tenn.) Banner, and The Columbus […]
A new addition to our running tally of Prince Valiant title panels by Thomas Yeates; these are exclusive to newspapers carrying the adventure strip in their Sunday comics section as a third/quarter pager. The Raven panel (below) ran from November 10, 2019 to March 22, 2020. (h/t James Delach for end date) On March 29, […]
above: Earth Day 1970 poster by Walt Kelly via The Billy Ireland Library and Museum April 22, 2020 is the 50th Anniversary of the first Earth Day, and there is a surprising lack of Earth Day comic strips and cartoons today. I was certain that some would join The Other Coast and Mutts and a […]
The Billy Ireland Museum at Ohio State is hosting an online event with Barbara Brandon and Bianca Xunise. Entitled “Where We’re Coming From: African-American Comic Art & Belonging,” the event will start with Washington University associate professor Rebecca Wanzo discussing her new book, The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging […]
We’ll start with David Fitzsimmons’ commentary on the militants who demand the opening of society and who insist that the contagious nature of the coronavirus is a myth or an error or a political gambit. As noted yesterday, there have been a plethora of such cartoons, mostly featuring the notion that those who protest today […]