The Bay Area News Group posted a brief notice that Loose Parts by Dave Blazek was the overwhelming choice to fill the newly created space on their comics pages. Said the note: Dear readers, Two weeks ago, we asked you to help us choose a newcomer — one of four contenders — for our comics […]
It doesn’t get much simpler than Ann Telnaes depicts it: Donald J. Trump has been indicted. We don’t, as I’m writing this, know the specific charges, and, of course, as a political cartoonist, Telnaes is free to show Trump dressed as a classic Thirties criminal. It may not be entirely accurate, but she did get […]
Sasha Wooten, Trina Robbins, Roz Chast, Barbara Brandon-Croft, Alice Harvey and Liza Donnelly. Sasha Wootten is named 2023 Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship winner! The National Cartoonists Society Foundation (NCSF) is happy to announce the winner of the 2023 Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship – Sasha Wootten. Sasha is an Animation major at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, OH. She was chosen from […]
Thirty years ago: Two out, bottom of the ninth. The eternal goat (not G.O.A.T.) Charlie Brown steps up to the plate. And… The greatest day in the life of Charlie Brown. Jump to today and it’s Opening Day for Major League Baseball 2023 and Arlo and Janis bring us up to date. Or as knowledgeable […]
We’ll start the day with a rebus rather than a joke, though a rebus is, really, a form of joke. Best of all, this is an old rebus and thus an old joke and it has flummoxed a lot of people over the years, I think, because they search for deep meaning in a shallow […]
Kevin Necessary got a letter asking why he is no longer drawing editorial cartoons. He tore up the first draft because he didn’t want to feel that way. I began to feel pretty [effing] bitter. What Kevin finally wrote in a Twitter thread: I’m not going to share what I wrote. So I’ll just say […]
Ten years ago erstwhile Flash Gordon cartoonist Jim Keefe begins drawing Sally Forth. Okay so we’re a couple weeks late marking the anniversary, but we blame Jim himself who didn’t remind us of the occasion until today. How quaint it seems that 75 years ago the concern was comic books endangering our schoolchildren. Judith Crist, […]
I wasn’t going to do any more about the Nashville shootings because there wasn’t much fresh to be said about it even yesterday: Either you want it to stop or you don’t. But, at the moment, the alternative seemed to be more cartoons about David and I was already burned out on them. On the […]
The MoCCA Fest is this coming weekend to NYC and the National Cartoonists Society will be represented. Saturday April 1 will see Bob Eckstein, Mike Cavallaro, Ellen Liebenthal, Ruben Bolling, and Hilary Campbell manning the booth and Sunday April 2 has Mike, Hilary, and Ellen again plus Isabella Bannerman, Robert Pollack, and Pat Higgens making […]
A friend emailed last night, wishing me luck in sorting through the inevitable flood of political cartoons that were already coming, inspired by the Nashville murders. I responded “The real problem is people posting their old cartoons. I can’t tell the ones I’ve seen from the ones I only feel like I’ve seen.” I particularly […]
The public birth of King Kong, the movie monster, was 90 years ago. The movie debuted in New York City on March 2, 1933. The movie went national on April 7, 1933. Here we celebrate the first comic strip appearance. On March 27, 1933 some newspapers started running the RKO Radio Pictures supplied promotional King […]
Take It From the Tinkersons by Bill Bettwy is nearing its tenth anniversary. The comic strip began April 1, 2013 when King Features began distributing it. But from submission to syndication wasn’t instant: It took about 10 years of persistent submissions for a company to finally bite, Bettwy said. “I don’t even know how many […]
I worked at a paper where this Pardon My Planet (KFS) pretty much described the company health plan. There were fewer than a dozen of us and so the cost of insurance was not only massive to begin with but vulnerable to individual claims: If one person had gotten seriously ill, the entire system would […]
Gaming the Funny Pages – part two Last weekend we noted Joe Wos playing games. This weekend it was Jef Mallett. Don’t know if Jef knows of a comics page with Overboard right below Frazz, but in Mallett’s neighborhood (the northern mid-west) there is The Fond du Lac Reporter where the hummus could have slid […]
Last week The Santa Fe New Mexican asked its readers to rate the comics in the paper. In a mini-poll, readers emailed with their three favorite comic strips published in The New Mexican — and three they’d use as kindling during our next snowstorm. More than 150 emails were received. This week they reveal the […]