What started as the humorous misadventures of the teens from Westview High School eventually morphed into a serialized drama tackling issues such as cancer awareness and teen pregnancy. After 50 years Tom Batiuk will end his Funky Winkerbean comic strip at the end of this month. I like to describe it as starting out as […]
(Clay Bennett — CTFP) (Pickles — AMS) The problem with last-minute gifts is that, no matter how practical they are, there’s just a sense of so-what to them, more of obligation than of inspiration, and, as Earl’s daughter has realized, they often just get tossed in a drawer, unopened, unused, unwanted. Bennett is quite […]
Each year the Cartoonist Studio Prize will be awarded to work that exemplifies excellence in cartooning. The creators of two exceptional comics for this year will be awarded $1,000 each. The winners will be selected by The Beat and The Schulz Library staff at The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS). The two award categories for […]
The New York Times created a social media storm when their Sunday crossword puzzle layout for December 18, 2022 (the first day of Hanukkah) formed, without too much imagination, a swastika. From The Jerusalem Post: The New York Times on released its daily crossword puzzle in the shape of swastika on Sunday, Democratic Strategist […]
Slylock Fox daily is ringing out 2022 the way Slylock Fox Sunday rang in 2022. Very early in 2022 a new signature appeared on the Slylock Fox Sunday page, now that same WEBER/scottu signature has shown up on the Slylock Fox daily. The December 19, 2022 Monday Slylock Fox has Scott Diggs Underwood co-signing Slylock […]
Watching Twitter twitch has become a favorite sport, and for some a major compulsion, and Bill Bramhall notes Elon Musk’s tenuous grip on reality, priorities and life in general. Bramhall manages to conflate Musk’s mismanagement of Twitter with his neglect of Tesla, as the stock plummets to ever-deeper troughs while the boss is driving Twitter […]
The Daily Cartoonist (TDC) is in the midst of a disruption of sorts(that brief outage the other day was actually a sign of progress). The subscription service TDC used was dropped by Google earlier this year and we are in the process of getting it back up. The Google feed was a free service and, […]
Oregonian Editor Therese Bottomly received a complaint from a reader: The other weekend, I received an email from an unhappy reader whose morning routine had been disrupted. “Neither on Saturday nor today (Sunday) have the comics I cherish appeared online,” he said. “What happened?” Therese explained these days more information is needed to pin down […]
Sherman’s Lagoon (AMS) on the demise of the Christmas Newsletter. Yesterday, I talked about the fables that passed as history in ancient times, but those dubious paeans to powerful leaders had nothing on the self-congratulatory fiction that once poured forth in the form of Christmas Newsletters. Their chief attraction was how much fun it was […]
One hundred years ago there was one woman drawing and directing animated films. From animation historian Jerry Beck: In the earliest days of the animation industry, one woman animated and directed alongside the men who later became titans of the artform, yet her name and work have been lost – until now. The discovery of […]
Clay Bennett (CTFP) manages, alas, to capture the spirit of Christmas, 2022, though I’d like it just as much without the Trump sign. I don’t disagree: That side of the divide is definitely peddling hostility, no doubt about it. Still, it is Christmastime, and I’m reminded of one of Confucius’s Analects, “I suppose I should […]
The artist who designed NFT digital cards with “amazing ART of [Donald Trump’s] Life & Career” is Clark Mitchell. Above: Representation of Trump’s heartfelt speech welcoming the tired, the poor, the huddled masses. The call for countries to send the wretched refuse, the homeless, and the tempest-tost to him. Only one of many famous moments […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has posted their 2023 list of major national journalism awards given to cartoonists. The AAEC notes: For various and sundry reasons, we are sending this list now for your future reference, before most of the contests have announced their 2023 deadlines or changes in their rules. […]
Famed British illustrator Sir Quentin Blake has many honors – as detailed in his entry at the Lambiek Comiclopedia: Throughout his career, Blake has been covered in prizes. His illustrations for Russell Hoban’s ‘How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen’ won the Whitbread Award (1974), while his work in Michael Rosen’s ‘Sad Book’ […]
What the hell were you thinking? Oh, wait. I wasn’t going to ask that. It’s never helpful and it assumes a fact not in evidence. It’s also redundant, considering that the people who — as Adam Zyglis puts it — dumped their college savings, vacation money and retirement nest egg down the crypto rat hole […]