Harry Bliss (Tribune) arrives in the nick of time and we’re gonna take a break from the apocalyptically insane political goings. I need the comic relief and I also need to catch up with what’s on the funny pages. Though Ben (MWAM) is closer to the mark than Bliss, because all the leaves are brown […]
Mark Parisi and Kim Tomsic, Rockwell Kent, Sarah Anderson, Barbara Shermund, Dick Brooks, Stevan Dohanas, and Jef Mallett and the class of 2002. above: The Jackson Twins cartoonist and Saturday Evening Post cover model Dick Brooks The daughter of a cartoonist, Virginia Brooks describes her childhood in Westport, Connecticut, as “hilarious.” The Carefree artist spent […]
September 12, 1984: The first issue of The Santa Cruz Comic News is published. In a rare moment of clarity, founder Thom Zajac had come up with the idea of using only syndicated material — primarily editorial cartoons — to create the first newspaper of its kind, and it becomes an instant hit. Over the […]
Kevin Necessary offers the first of a planned sequence of cartoons going through the stages of grief, and he seems to speak for a lot of his fellow political cartoonists, as well as a lot of civilians. Kyle Bravo expresses much the same feeling on behalf of those outside the trade, who face different challenges […]
Well, naturally you’ve read Barney Google and Snuffy Smith by John Rose, but odds are against you having read Billy DeBeck’s Bunky topper strip to Barney Google unless, like me, you were enjoying it in the 1930s. John and Sarah bring Bunky back after a long funny papers absence to be Li’l Sparky‘s jockey in […]
For our re-boot of The Cartoonist’s Cartoonists, I was excited that Ann Telnaes agreed to provide us a list of her 10 cartoonists who influenced or inspired her work and career. Ann is the award winning political cartoonist for The Washington Post. She has won every major prize in editorial cartooning including The National Headliner […]
Christopher Downes offers some laughs as the Trump administration begins to take shape, but his exaggerations are well grounded. Trump truly is advancing Christian nationalism despite having no real sense of what’s in the Bible. He went to church as a kid, but the Trumps were congregants of Norman Vincent Peale, who wrote The Power […]
November 11th, 2024, (LOS ANGELES, CA) — There have been many firsts on the Zoop crowdfunding platform lately. And today is no different. For the first time ever, the entire syndicated comic strip, Mullets by Steve McGarry and Rick Stromoski is being collected all in one glorious graphic novel package. The book will also feature […]
Matt Pritchett has a talent for reducing complexities to simple imagery. Journalistic neutrality is a polite fiction, but it works if you take it seriously, as we once did. Walter Cronkite is often held up as the model for broadcasters. When he took off his glasses in announcing the death of JFK, or when he […]
Before we get to some recent comics let’s take a peek at some future funnies. Jumble has posted their preview of this year’s 12th annual Guest Jumbler Week. I see Bob Weber, Jr. and/or Scott Underwood, Luca Debus, Georgia Dunn, and Todd Clark but I am at a loss with those top two corners. Anyone? […]
As of today the comics division of the Washington Post Writers Group (WPWG) no longer exists. The distribution of the last Fort Knox comic strip for November 10, 2024 effectively shutters the comics and cartoon division of the WPWG that began in 1979. The Washington Post Writers Group itself began in 1973 as an outgrowth […]
Patrick Chappatte calls the Trump election a wake-up call for Europe, which demands more analysis than a first reaction might suggest. I invoke Robert Burns in today’s headline, the full closing lines of To A Louse, On Seeing one on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church being “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us To […]
Fort Knox by Paul Jon Boscacci has come to an end after fifteen years. From the Washington Post Writers Group about page: Fort Knox cartoonist Paul Jon Boscacci is, of course, a military brat himself. “The downside was that every time we moved, I gained a new bully. Eventually, I had to give them numbers […]
Tommy Siegel offers an explanation of what happened this week, and, while foolish arrogance doesn’t explain it all, I feel free to skip politics today and just offer some laughs and general social reflection. I think the political cartoonists need some time to reflect and refocus. There have been some good responses, as seen here […]
In every interview cartoonists are asked how they come up with all those ideas. The cartoonists reply with a generic club approved answer because you see, just like magicians, there is a code not to reveal cartooning secrets. Now Bob Eckstein reveals the most closely guarded secret of the cartoonists’ society to The New Yorker. […]