Musician and Robotman creator Peter Shelley has passed away. From the obituary: Peter Shelley, (née Southworth), born in London, England, February 28, 1943, passed away from cancer at his home in Victoria, BC on March 23, 2023, with his three children at his side, his humour never failing. He started his music career in A&R […]
Australian cartoonist Bruce Petty has passed away. From the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Australian cartoonist, filmmaker and satirist Bruce Petty has died at the age of 93. In a statement, his family said Petty died peacefully this morning. “He leaves behind his loving family and will be dearly missed,” the statement said. Born in Melbourne’s north-east […]
On the Fastrack (KFS) reminds me that the first course I took in my major was called “Ways of Knowing,” and I think it was intended to take a room full of first-semester sophomores down a peg or two. It was that basic classic college metaphysics class where the professor holds out a pen and […]
James Swinnerton, Bill Watterson, Henry Jackson Lewis, Leonard Starr, Walt Disney and Company “Jimmy Swinnerton came to the desert to die in peace – and found so much beauty to paint that he crossed up the doctors and got well.” Years before, in 1892, Hearst had plucked the 16-year-old artist out of the California Art […]
Yesterday there was, I think, a first for mainstream newspapers around the United States when a same sex marriage occurred in a nationally syndicated comic strip. Judge Parker by Francesco Marciuliano and Mike Manley featured the wedding of Ronnie and Kat. I remember Jane’s World by Paige Braddock ending on the same note: But that […]
Pedro X. Molina (Counterpoint) offers a provocative — in the best sense of the word — response to yesterday’s arraignment. The timing is good, with Holy Week coming up, in which Christians will be hearing once more the story of how Pontius Pilate offered the crowd a choice of which condemned prisoner to free and […]
Cartoonist Norm Rockwell has passed away. From the obituary: After his time in the army, Norm went on to earn his degrees in teaching and guidance and counseling from the University of Minnesota – Winona and UW-Stout in Menomonie. He was very proud of the fact that he received not just one masters degree but […]
Andertoons (AMS) picks up today’s Fortuitous Timing Award, particularly since he offers all three possible pleas, including the one that might well emerge if Trump’s lawyers don’t keep a lid on their client. That’s not just my politics wisecracking. There has been significant speculation, including from some attorneys, about the dubious strategy of turning Trump […]
When most comic strip animals talk, they don’t exactly scream “realism.” But the animals that populate “They Can Talk,” the wry, brilliant weekly webtoon by local cartoonist Jimmy Craig, don’t just sound authoritative — they’re downright relatable. Jimmy Craig is interviewed by Peter Chianca of Boston.com in anticipation “a Q&A session at Harvard Book Store in […]
I’ve learned not to bother fact-checking Frazz (AMS), though it will lead you down some fascinating wormholes. This one touched off a number of thoughts, starting out with ol’ Iron Eyes Cody, who, as Caulfield notes, was not an Indian, though he promoted the culture to an extent that at least some native groups were […]
Sunday Synchronicity Mutts and Mary Worth panels play well off each other. I imagine I am far from the only one who checked out if Horace was right in April 1’s Dark Side of the Horse. Nancy had the most involved and inflated April Fools’ Day joke. Here is The Daily Cartoonist’s good deed for […]
Ann Telnaes provided a quick guide to America this past Wednesday, outlining the hypocrisies by which we live: What we protest and what we cling to, contrasted with what we ignore, and, perhaps more to the point, who we say we are, contrasted with who we are. I’ve been reading James McPherson’s Battle Cry of […]
It wasn’t the first aviation comic strip – Tailspin Tommy (1928), Skyroads (1929, which had Zack Mosley art assist), Scorchy Smith (1930), and Brick Bradford (earlier in 1933) all beat Smilin’ Jack into newspapers – though it was the longest lasting and last of those to come out of The Adventurous Decade (Brick Bradford having […]
Who says comics can’t be educational? Today’s Andertoons (AMS) sent me scrambling for the googles, where, by yompin’ yiminy, I discovered that, indeed, wombats poop cubes. Which sounds like a barroom expression: “I was so scared, I was pooping cubes!” Which it could still be, mind you. But the interesting thing is that the Science […]
“I don’t like the area, I love the area. I find it magical,” he said. Jules Feiffer moved not too long ago and Otsego County reporter Daniel Francis paid him a welcome-to-the-neighborhood visit. Though voicing his opinions and challenging society and the current political climate remain the backbone of his career, Jules must now contend […]