Guy Venables speaks for the world and most of us in America as well. I wasn’t even going to address the election today, because I’m burned out on it and there’s nothing new anyhow. At this stage, you’re either on the bus or you’re off the bus. I saw somebody on Facebook — a grownup, […]

Cartoonist and comics historian Tim Jackson has passed away. Timothy Lee (Tim) Jackson January 16, 1958 – November 3, 2024 Social media was sharing the sad news of Tim’s passing yesterday: Comics community–I am very sorry to report that the cartoonist Tim Jackson has passed away. Tim, cartoonist for the Chicago Defender as well as […]

Even Edison Lee (KFS), though far too young to vote, understands what’s at stake tomorrow. I remember the anticipation and sense of helplessness in 1968, when we were, as the song said, “old enough to kill, but not for voting.” Lowering the voting age to match the draft age made sense, though — technical point […]

Editorial cartoons are being seen by more people than ever, but the income that supports them is drying up. Fresh after being let go from his 30-year newspaper job, renowned editorial cartoonist Michael de Adder talks to The National’s Ian Hanomansing about the perils of his profession in the age of social media. Ian Hanomansing […]

For the penultimate Fort Knox Sunday comic strip cartoonist Paul Jon Boscacci told us, “I have a special collaboration with Marvel/Pixar/Disney artist, Norman Felchle, on the upcoming November 3rd Sunday.” Norman Felchle does the Memorial Day Fort Knox Sunday page, but not the Veteran’s Day Sunday. So I assumed that the “special collaboration” would be […]

While we wait for Tuesday, how about a break to look at some other things happening in the world? Glenn Fleishman has released How Comics Were Made, a Kickstarter-funded in-depth look at production through the years. It’s a beautiful book and, while it’s pricey at $73 in print, it’s also 280 pages deep and well […]

The mission of editorial cartoons — afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted — has been compromised. In recent years, cartoons, (thankfully not at the Hamilton Spectator) have been diluted to fit corporate partisan agendas, reduced to humour that avoids controversy, or worst of all, eliminated from newspapers altogether. Editorial cartoonists have not done their […]

With Steve Breen, Wayno, Glenn Fleishman, Ruben Bolling, Paul Robinson, and Jimmy Johnson. By Appointment Only – A migrant family waits for the chance of safety in the United States. At inewsource Sofía Mejías-Pascoe reports on a family seeking safety; in a sidebar Steve Breen illustrates it. Update: Apparently Mike Peterson entered the high bids […]

Mr. Boffo often uses the term “unclear on the concept” in portraying a character who genuinely just doesn’t get it. Joe Martin should have used it today, because the term “mailman” disappeared a couple of decades ago, and the majority of actors under 40 use the term “actor” regardless of sex, just as nobody says […]

Pat Oliphant lost his eyesight a few years ago, but his blue-green eyes still search my face when I sit beside him and introduce myself. He says I speak too fast and that I have an accent and that it’s from Texas. I correct him (not from Texas) and point out that he’s got one […]

Fantasy artist Greg Hildebrandt has passed away. Gregory J. (Greg) Hildebrandt January 23, 1939 – October 31, 2024 Greg’s wife Jean Scrocco posted to social media about her husband’s passing: The light has gone out in my life. At 12:36 pm this afternoon the love of my life, my best friend and soulmate passed away. […]

Jen Sorensen skips the clever rhetoric and metaphors and gets right to the point: Tuesday is going to tell the story. There are any number of cartoons out there about how sick everyone is of political advertisements and arguments, and I’m sympathetic, but that’s how the system works, or at least that’s how it’s supposed […]

I was going to let Mike Peterson handle all this foofarah over newspapers not endorsing Presidential candidates, but I’ve got too many links and it’s either delete them or share them. So here’s a few. Dan Kennedy for Commonwealth Beacon offers some background on the movement toward non-endorsing: At both the Post and the LA […]

NJ Advance Media has announced its intention of ending the print editions of The (Newark) Star-Ledger (the largest circulation newspaper in New Jersey according to Wikipedia) and sister papers The Times of Trenton and The South Jersey Times. The newspapers will continue as daily online newspapers: The Star-Ledger will cease publishing a print newspaper and […]

Dogs and Halloween aren’t always a good combination, but today’s Bliss (Tribune) brought back a memory of a ridgeback who enjoyed dressing up. Some of my dogs have tolerated it, some haven’t, but he thought it was fun, so one time I put him in a Canadiens jersey, balanced a hockey helmet on his head […]