In 1843, the periodical Punch introduced the word cartoon to refer to comic drawings. By the mid-19th century, periodicals around the world were using cartoons to express publishers’ and cartoonists’ thoughts on politics. Ohio State University’s History Teaching Institute notes that editorial cartoons are based on current events and have an educational purpose as “[t]hey […]
Let’s start this comic strip stuff with panel nonsense. © Scott Hilburn Boing Boing, who regularly features collections of comics they discover to their liking recently put the spotlight on thirty “Absurd And Humorous One-Panel Comics By Scott Hilburn.” Unfortunately the it appeared before the above issue of The Argyle Sweater. Thomas Yeates created […]
Hurricane Ian has made landfall in Florida and there’s little funny in what this powerful storm is doing, but, then again, it is producing a lot of material for cartoonists like Clay Jones, largely because of the Republican Party’s track record, in Florida generally and on storms and climate change specifically. Several people have noted […]