CSotD: Fragments and asides
Matt Pritchett has a talent for reducing complexities to simple imagery. Journalistic neutrality is a polite fiction, but it works…
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A Dimension of Weekends and Funnies
Before we get to some recent comics let’s take a peek at some future funnies. Jumble has posted their preview…
WPWG Comics Division *poof*
As of today the comics division of the Washington Post Writers Group (WPWG) no longer exists. The distribution of the…
CSotD: O Wad Some Pow’r
Patrick Chappatte calls the Trump election a wake-up call for Europe, which demands more analysis than a first reaction might…
Fort Knox – First and Last (in Triplicate)
Fort Knox by Paul Jon Boscacci has come to an end after fifteen years. From the Washington Post Writers Group…
CSotD: Laughing While We Wait
Tommy Siegel offers an explanation of what happened this week, and, while foolish arrogance doesn’t explain it all, I feel…
Cartoonists News & a Secret Revealed
In every interview cartoonists are asked how they come up with all those ideas. The cartoonists reply with a generic…
CSotD: Election Returns
Michael deAdder Ben Garrison We won’t get through all the emerging political cartoons about the election today, but here are…
Comic Strip Writers, Artists, Pages, Awards
Tony DePaul, Tayo Fatunla, John M. Burns, David Fitzsimmons, and pagination? When Writer and Syndicate Disagree Tony DePaul offers some…
Nov 7, 1874: Th. Nast Draws an Elephant
From thomasnast.com, where the cartoon is explained: As mentioned in the above quote, while the first Thomas Nast Republican elephant…
CSotD: Talking About Something More Pleasant
La Cucaracha (AMS) confesses to having faced lead time, but Alcaraz did a nice job of predicting where we’d be…
Audio/Visual: Barry Blitt and Dave Coverly
Armed with watercolors and a “passive-aggressive” sense of humor, the New Yorker cover illustrator finds the funny, even in ugly…
Wayback Wednesday: Dahl, Davenport, Ding
… an item of interest in the humour section: a hardcover volume entitled Dahl’s Brave New World, published 1947. Spare…
World’s Cartoonists React to Trump Win
As Americans were waking up to the news of a second Trump administration, cartoonists in earlier time zones were already…
CSotD: The Morning After
Oh well. Wiley anticipated the outcome of yesterday’s vote with a Non Sequitur (AMS) that didn’t try to predict the…