Bill Watterson, Charles Schulz, Frank Engli, Alan Foster, and more. News of new Bill Watterson material prompts Colin McEvoy at Biography to recall what the cartoonist has done between the end of the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip and the impending The Mysteries. Needless to say, Watterson’s fans are overjoyed about his first major book […]
In case you’ve somehow missed it, today’s headline echoes a popular online comment, “Tell me you don’t understand XXX without telling me you don’t understand XXX.” It’s used as a snarky commentary when someone posts something totally off base. It is not a compliment. However, I’m featuring Pedro X. Molina (Counterpoint)‘s cartoon because he does […]
How he does a Sally Forth pseudo-wallpaper strip. From cartoonist Jim Keefe: Artist Fun Fact: When working on a Sunday page where I’m holding on the same framing for each panel, I work backwards from the sixth panel in regards to the layout – working from how much room I have with the lettering in […]
October and November of 1936 saw dozens of newspapers print six daily format comic strips relating some catastrophes of the past in America and how the Red Cross was there to ease the suffering. And that’s about as much is known. The newspapers printed the strips with no introduction of any kind, nor with any […]
Let me lead off today’s retrospective by admitting I don’t have dates on all of these cartoons and they may well not be in chronological order, nor were they all preserved in the best possible format for use here. However, I do know that Peter Schrank’s 9/11 cartoon should be first, because I used it […]
The National Newspaper Awards announced the nominees for the 23 categories. The National Newspaper Awards were established in 1949 by the Toronto Press Club, and developed a new governance structure in 1989 under the auspices of the not-for-profit Canadian Daily Newspaper Awards Programme Administration Corporation. The National Newspaper Awards were created to encourage excellence in […]
Willie Ito, Michael Maslin, Vonn Sumner, Charlie Daniel, Ed Steckley, Trina Robbins, Lee Mars, Jules Rivera, more Long time animator (1954 – 1999) who frequently dabbled in other comic arts … I also was involved with magazine cartoons (Car-Toons magazine in the 1950s), comic strips (four episodes of the annual Disney Christmas comic strip for […]
Flo’s Diner in Non Sequitur (AMS) had a new customer this past week, one who could rival Captain Eddie in the slinging of entertaining baloney. The arc concluded Saturday with, as Eddie said, a chilling bit of reality. It’s no secret that the Orwellian-named “Freedom Caucus” has control of the House, but it helps to […]
Joshua Benton at Nieman Lab: Gannett, America’s largest newspaper chain, should wake up each morning thankful for the existence of No. 2 Alden Global Capital. It’s the type of company that inspires debates over whether “vulturous” is too kind of an adjective. If you’re writing an Atlantic cover story on “Who Killed America’s Newspapers?” Alden […]
M.D. and cartoonist Robert Moncrieff has passed away. From the obituary: Robert (Bob) Moncrieff of Monte Sereno, California, passed away peacefully on February 27, 2023 at the age of 97. Bob will be remembered for his kind nature and rare sense of humor, his dedication to family and friends, his love of the natural world, […]
I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising that Kal Kallaugher, who cartoons for the Economist among other clients, should demonstrate some financial literacy and get the SVB/Signature situation right. Call me political, but the people who whined while the Fed was raising interest rates to battle inflation weren’t offering an alternative plan. You can’t have an […]
When Joe Wos heard that his MazeToon runs side-by-side with Jeff Keane’s The Family Circus in Victoria he devised a panel that works everywhere but really stands out on the comics page of The Times Colonist. When Joe told Jeff of his intention Jeff informed Joe that Bil Keane had done something similar almost 80 […]
Let’s start at the mellow end of the scale for a change. Joe Heller makes a March Madness joke, and, by the by, “March Madness” is trademarked and you’re not supposed to say it without permission. Well, you can say it, or write it, as I just did, but, as this lawyer points out, you […]
A Look at the Future from the 200 Years Ago What did the future look like in 1820s Britain? Poking fun at liberal ambitions for education reform, the rapid pace of industrialization, and a fashionable interest in applied knowledge, William Heath’s March of Intellect series offered a satirical vision of the wonders and potential cost […]
Ann Telnaes lays out the real situation for anyone who thought Dobbs was a single movement. People who predicted that it was only the first shot of a war on women were neither paranoid nor hysterical. They were right, as subsequent tightening of the laws against women’s personal autonomy has shown. Clay Bennett (CTFP) is […]