GoComics Will Disable Political Cartoon Commenting Beginning July 17, 2024
GoComics has posted a notice toward the top of all the editorial cartoon pages (highlighted in orange) that, due to…
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Racial Insensitivity in Pre-WWII Comics and the Missing Vintage Barney Google Strips
From the Jim Crow Museum: The Introduction of comic strips in the American press in the 1890’s corresponds with the…
Destruction of the Library at Alexandria Was a Good Start for These Extremists
“After opening in prayer at a church about 15 miles northwest of the state capital, panelists spoke of pornography in…
CSotD: Friday Follies
We’ll start the day with a serious piece of folly before we get into the fun stuff. Guy Badeaux reports…
CSotD: More Cartooning Controversies
I’m surprised and a bit disappointed that more political cartoonists in Britain haven’t jumped on Robert Jenrick’s heartless order to…
CSotD: The Voice of One Crying in the Desert
David Fitzsimmons drew this cartoon in 2008, but now he’s “writing about us” himself, or, at least, “us” in a…
Of Pultizers and Things
For reasons unexplained, the Pulitzer Prize in editorial cartooning was not awarded in 1923, 1936, 1960, 1965, 1973, and 2021….
Sports, Mascots, Elves, Wokeness, Whatnots
Continuing with a couple topics that partner Peterson touched on this morning. The Return of Brownie the Elf Cleveland Scene…
Most Banned Comics of the 21st Century
New Kid by Jerry Craft, Maus by Art Spiegelman, American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang, Fun Home: A Family…
Failure to Ban Books Leads to Defunding Library
JAMESTOWN TOWNSHIP—What started as a fight over an LGBTQ-themed graphic novel may end with the closure of a west Michigan…
Your June 26, 2022 Dilbert Sunday Funny … or Not – updated
It seems Andrews McMeel Syndication has offered a replacement strip for those newspapers uncomfortable with publishing the Dilbert comic strip…
CSotD: Without a Trace
(Dr. Macleod) (Jeremy Banx) Two threads in this particular Juxtaposition: The backgrounder is the current dustup in the UK about…
18th-Century Hogarth and The Woke Culture
Tate Britain in London has defended the approach taken in its Hogarth and Europe exhibition (until 20 March 2022) following…
Los Angeles Times Discontinues 9 Chickweed Lane, GoComics Erases Dec. 1 Episode from Internet
The Los Angeles Times served notice to its readers that it will no longer carry Brooke McEldowney’s 9 Chickweed Lane…
Conservative Cartoonist Accuses NFT Marketplaces of Bias and Political Censorship
While non-fungibe token (NFT) collectibles have been very popular, NFTs have brought a slew of unique debates to the table…