Industry news for the professional cartoonist
Kal Kallaugher could run this anytime, but it’s particularly relevant at the moment, as we face the twin factors of emerging technologies that make forgery and fraud easier, and political operatives who are willing to lie in your face. There have always been kooks in the world, but in addition to the gullible who believe…
This Far Side sure seemed funny in 1984, but that was 40 years ago and times change. Also, it’s based on a janitor’s innocent error, not on the irresponsible, egotistical jackassery of editors and reporters. It came immediately to mind yesterday when two jurors dropped off the Trump trial because of having been effectively doxxed…
There are enough cartoons about Trump falling asleep in court, and, while they say nothing about his guilt or innocence, they make a reasonable argument about his overall fitness for office. From the earliest days of his administration, we heard about him coming to work in the late morning and being unwilling to sit through…
Rabbits Against Magic is swimming upstream against a rapid current, because whatever idiotic thing Elon Musk says today, he’s bound to exceed tomorrow. His latest brainstorm is that he wants new Xitter members to pay for each posting, which would discourage bots, his announced intent, but would also discourage people from signing up at all….
Let’s start with some King Features funnies … oh, wait it’s been two days since the last time and I have to log in, again, and check off my favorites, again. So, again, I will plead for Comics Kingdom to put a “select all” box on their favorites page that would automatically check all the…
Ernest Lawrence Thayer with Brian Nelson and Harvey Kurtzman and Jack Davis, Garfield, Steve Brodner and The Herblock Prize, Jay Stephens’ homage to EC, AI gag writing, a centennial Annie-versary, and Dan Piraro and Wayno and Bizarro. Batter up! Brian Nelson, at The Worcester Telegram, offers a brief history of Casey at the Bat in…
There’s a lot of political stuff I won’t be addressing today, because I’m tired of politics but also because there are several recent developments that will become cartoons over the next couple of days and I want to wait for them to mature. My objection to Clay Jones’s latest cartoon is purely editorial. I agree…
Brewster Rockit (Tribune) gets to lead off for a second day in a row, having shifted from the informational back to the absurd. As noted, I stayed home rather than driving the four hours to my old digs in the Adirondacks, and I missed both totality and a good party, but we had a nice…
On April 2, cartoonist Liniers discussed his new book, “Macanudo: Optimism is for the Brave,” with English and Creative Writing department chair Peter Orner at Still North Books & Bar. Originally slated to take place on Jan. 16, the event was rescheduled due to inclement weather. Born Ricardo Liniers Siri in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the…
Before another Saturday comes around I’d best get this Wayno Blog from last month out of the way where Wayno discusses the idea of waiting for an idea to come to you rather than chasing an idea. Our colleague Mark Parisi, cartoonist of the award-winning panel Off the Mark, recently started a lively social media…
Tom the Dancing Bug offers a bit of commentary on the Trump defense that lying in contract negotiations ought not to have legal consequences as long as you pay back the loan which you got at an interest rate based on your lies. It’s an interesting defense to claim that commercial real estate transactions are…
Peanuts and Beetle Bailey will be celebrating their 75th anniversaries next year, so here come the articles. In the Private Scrapbook chapter dedicated to Beetle Bailey, Walker discussed how a comic strip that – for most of its history – focused exclusively on the misadventures of a U.S. Army private, could win over the hearts…
It’s only fair to point out that this Mike Lester (AMS) cartoon ran a few days before Biden suddenly racked up some significant gains in the all-important swing states that could decide the 2024 Presidential Election. If polls determined elections, Hillary Clinton would have won in 2016. Tracking polls is part of horserace coverage, and…
Indeed it is, They Can Talk. The bears got up a little early this year and started getting into the bird feeders, which is their equivalent of socializing. We always get warned to take down our bird feeders this time of year, which I gather is because we don’t want to encourage the bears to…
Ted Rall (Counterpoint)’s cartoon sent me scurrying to find whatever blog/podcast/column went with it, because it made no sense to blame Millennials. Turns out he saw a Millennial tell a homeless person “I don’t carry cash” and he feels the cashless society is a government plot. Well, possibly, but I don’t carry cash and I’m…