Prickly City (AMS) has been looking askance at the GOP lately, which would be unremarkable if the strip weren’t a conservative outlet or if we were living in a normal world. However, we’re in a world in which “conservative” seems increasingly to mean going along with the party line. Moving your lips while you cling […]
CBR (aka Comic Book Resources) creates dozens of lists every day. Yesterday Haiden Sayne created a list enumerating the “15 Best Comic Strips Of All Time.” Walt Kelly’s Pogo, Roy Crane’s Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy, Gary Larson’s The Far Side, and Milton Caniff’s Terry and the Pirates didn’t make the list. Neither did Stephan […]
It occurred to me yesterday that I’d missed the anniversary of Comic Strip of the Day, which began 13 years ago Monday with this Ink Pen, a strip about a talent agency for cartoon animals which is no longer active but can still be read at GoComics. It also occurred to me that I don’t […]
Cartoonist Chris Browne has passed away. Christopher Kelly (Chris) Browne May 16, 1952 – February 4, 2023 Update from the obituary: Chris Browne, illustrator of the internationally-syndicated comic strip Hagar the Horrible, died here on February 4, 2023, after a long illness. He was 70 years old. Christopher Kelly Browne was born in South Orange, […]
A few updates to some items posted this past week about cartoonists Dan Martin, Mike Marland, and Barbara Brandon-Croft. Two days ago we reported on Dan Martin retiring from The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. That same day Dan wrote a farewell column to his readers at that paper. In 1980, I knew the journalism business was […]
Seven years ago Bob Englehart and The Hartford Courant parted ways, since then Bob has continued as a freelance political cartoonist syndicated by Cagle Cartoons. Now Bob is again associated with a newspaper. From the Associated Press coverage of a new newspaper startup (via The Arkansas Democrat Gazette): WINSTED, Conn. — At age 88, Ralph […]
Cartoon coverage of last night’s State of the Union Address began in advance, and Scott Stantis (Counterpoint) echoed the Clay Bennett cartoon featured here yesterday: The State of the Union is disunion. Reasonable people can disagree, but, then again, reasonable people can also agree, and, while Stantis and Bennett are from opposite sides of the […]
Editorial cartoonist Kevin Necessary has chosen to leave his occasional spot in The Cincinnati Enquirer (Gannett) behind as he concentrates on other venues for his artistic talents. Kevin informed us of his decision on Twitter and Facebook: Some personal news: I’m taking a brief hiatus from editorial cartoons to focus on a new illustration project. […]
I wish I could disagree with Clay Bennett (CTFP), but, yeah, that’s pretty much the State of the Union, and the only quibble I can add is that the pieces might perhaps be more bent from being pounded into places where they don’t fit. But maybe he’s right. Maybe the pieces fit perfectly without spelling […]
This fun doesn’t come until Wednesday. Wednesday is a very important day! It’s the day Animation Resources is launching its Member Appreciation Month. This year’s event is extra important, because this year marks our 10th anniversary and our 50th Reference Pack! In honor of all this, Animation Resources has pulled out all the stops to […]
Cartoonist Dan Martin has ended the St. Louis Post-Dispatch comic Postcard from Mound City, his weekly editorial comment on local issues. Dan will maintain his daily front page presence at the paper with Weatherbird. A few months ago The Daily Cartoonist celebrated the 25th anniversary of Postcards from Mound City with the wrong start date […]
I sometimes feel that the kids in Baby Blues (AMS) have become a little too consistently bratty, but then I read Carolyn Hax’s advice column in the Washington Post and so realize that, indeed, there are bratty kids who grow up to be bratty adults. Hax is a lot more indulgent about it than I […]
Cartoonist and psychic medium Charles A. Filius has passed away. Charles Arthur Filius January 24, 1961 – January 24, 2023 Notice was given by The National Cartoonists Society: The National Cartoonists Society lost a longtime member with the death of Charles A. Filius on Jan 24th. Charles passed unexpectedly following surgery on what was his […]
Cartoonist and restaurateur Michael Dougan has passed away. Michael Wayne Dougan July 18, 1958 – January 13, 2023 Michael contributed to alternative newspapers and comic books, as well as national magazines. Charles L. Cross writes of Michael for The Seattle Times: Michael Dougan, a noted Seattle illustrator and cartoonist, died Jan. 13 in Tono, Japan, […]
Cartoonist and illustrator Albert L. Schweitzer, Jr. has passed away. Albert L. (Al) Schweitzer, Jr. November 28, 1921 – January 30, 2023 Al Schweitzer spent decades as a St. Louis newspaper artist and cartoonist most with The Post-Dispatch. From the obituary: Mr. Schweitzer served in WWII in the USMC on the battleship South Dakota as […]