Darrin Bell, Bill Holbrook, Liniers, Bianca Xunise, and editor Tea Fougner are some of the King Features people that Associated Press reporter Mark Kennedy talked to about their comics page neighbor’s racist remarks. Darrin Bell is the opening focus of the article: “The only reason anyone knows who Scott Adams is because of the comics […]
Macanudo often gets philosophical, and here, Henrietta echoes Heraclitus, who famously said “No man ever steps in the same river twice.” Forests really do change, and quite quickly, despite how long specific trees themselves can last. Some of those old trees die, new trees spring up and the ground cover is in constant flux. The […]
I’m not sure that Hector and Carlos took obsessive-compulsives like me into consideration with today’s Baldo. I’m the kind of guy that will look up those issues of MAD and find that the back covers are wrong for issues #180 (January 1976) and #159 (June 1973). Then, of course, I had find where Castellanos grabbed […]
Aislin lays out the threat Tik Tok poses: As a Chinese-owned company, there’s a strong suspicion that the Chinese government could tap into user accounts. It’s a pretty wide reach, according to Statista, though I note their chart of the top audiences doesn’t include Aislin’s native Canada. (8.3 million, out of a total population of […]
Dan Davis is lucky, he gets to make a living by doing what he loves – drawing comics. Of course it helps to have a skill set that has allowed him to do that for nearly forty years. Around these parts he is known as the artist of Crankshaft and a penciller for Garfield. Davis […]
It’s National Grammar Day, and Day By Dave (AMS) celebrates it by dragging fingernails across a blackboard. Using “should of” for “should have” is not a grammatical error, dammit. It’s a usage error. Or, if you really want to shut them up, point out that it’s a case of catachresis. And note, that, as it […]
Cartoonist and Musician Wally Fawkes [“Trog“] has passed away. Walter Ernest (Wally) Fawkes [Trog] June 21, 1924 – March 1, 2023 From Metro (UK): The political cartoonist and jazz musician Wally Fawkes, who used the pen name Trog, has died at the age of 98. Fawkes died peacefully on Wednesday following a short illness. From […]
Late last year it was announced that Ward Sutton had won the 2022 Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons from the National Press Foundation (NPF). Late last month Ward accepted the honor at the NPF Awards Dinner. Ward’s acceptance speech is available on the National Press Foundation’s YouTube channel. While Ward […]
We’ll start off today with Jimmy Margulies (KFS)‘s cartoon, in which he mashes up the Roald Dahl re-write kerfuffle with the scandal over Fox News’ well-documented decision to promote lies in order to hold audience. He’s got it right: Fox produces fairy tales for its viewers. The woman’s trust has been broken and she’s looking […]
Earlier this year Daryl Cagle started video podcasting. The latest features Rick McKee discussing how he created his recent Artificial Intelligence editorial cartoon, the current limitations of the application regarding comic strips in repeating the same character and other problems, does it portend the end of illustrators and cartoonists, and the impressiveness of images. Rick […]
MONTPELIER, VT—Norwich resident Tillie Walden will be appointed Vermont’s fifth Cartoonist Laureate on Thursday, April 13, 2023, when she will be recognized on the Vermont Statehouse floor. Walden is one of the most celebrated and accomplished cartoonists working today. She won the 2018 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work for her graphic novel memoir “Spinning,” […]
Chip Bok apparently went to the drawing board as soon as the election was called, but before Lightfoot responded. “Obviously, we didn’t win the election. But I stand here with my head held high and my heart full of thanks,” Lightfoot told supporters shortly before 9 p.m. That’s how it’s done on the blue side […]
Paige Braddock Wins Emmy Eisner-nominated cartoonist and writer Paige Braddock won a Children’s & Family Emmy Award for her work on the Apple TV+ documentary, Who Are You, Charlie Brown? It was Apple TV+’s only win across the seven categories in which the streamer was nominated. Movieweb carries the story about Paige Braddock. Original New […]
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I’m with Lola (AMS), though, since it seems like being nice doesn’t reach across the chasm either, it’s hard to resist the temptation to least amuse ourselves. And there’s no lack of ammunition. I’ve got a pile of political cartoons ready to unleash, and thank goodness DD Degg handled and linked to the mass of […]