Harry Bliss is ready to retire. At least, he might be. Maybe. Sitting across from a crackling woodstove in the cluttered but cozy wood-paneled living room of his Cornish, N.H., cottage, the 58-year-old New Yorker cartoonist and part-time Vermonter turned reflective as a reporter peppered him with questions about his life and career. Behind a […]

(Pearls Before Swine)   (Pat Bagley) Pastis and Bagley make an understandable, but fatal error: They assume Elon Musk accidentally lost money on the Twitter deal. I’m sure he wishes it could also have been a profitable venture, but it is becoming increasingly clear that profit was not his motivation, from the absurdly high price […]

Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for December 2022 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea.   It appears a few books were missed last month so we’ll start with November releases. The Art of C.C. Beck: […]

I’ve long thought that “This Time It’s Personal” should have been a category in Jumping the Shark, a point at which you knew the writers had given up and the show was over, like the time on ER when Julianna Margulies became a hostage in a store that was being robbed and we were treated […]

Ricardo Siri Liniers was born on November 15th, 1973, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. [T]he comic artist…owes his fame to the series of strips that he has published daily since 2002 in the Argentine newspaper “La Nación”. The project was called “Macanudo” – a word that, in Spanish, means “magnificent”, and “nice”. In “Macanudo’s” strips, there […]

George Booth, who died last month, and Lee Lorenz, who passed earlier this month, were honored by The New Yorker in the Christmas 2022 edition of the magazine. George got the cover and The New Yorker interviewed daughter Sarah for the “Cover Story.” Michael Maslin, who on Mondays notes the drawing contents of the new […]

Wiley Miller is notably unimpressed with social media, so today’s Non Sequitur (AMS) is no surprise, though for someone who avoids it, he’s sure tapped into the current state of Twitter in particular. As for leaving, no, the voices won’t let you. I’ve compared it in the past to the interactive TV in “Fahrenheit 451,” […]

Dave Whamond, of Reality Check and editorial cartooning fame, has developed another comic panel. From Dave’s Twitter feed: Day By Dave “celebrates all of the silly and obscure days on the calendar.” Day By Dave debuts today at GoComics on National Gingerbread House Day.   Go to GoComics and add it to your “Comics I […]

Two weeks after a major disruption to the site, and the day when that complication led to a week of reruns, GoComics announced an update scheduled for the site come Fall 2023. Thank you to everyone who participated in our user experience survey. We enjoyed hearing from you and learning more about which aspects you […]

Once again a local Republican website has posted Woody Harrington‘s image equating The Grand Old Party with the Ku Klux Klan. It is unknown how long the image remained on the opening page.   The Roanoke Times reports: A familiar Republican Party mascot pictured on the Patrick County GOP website hid Ku Klux Klan imagery […]

Today’s Pickles (AMS) reminds me that this is a time of year when I am thrilled to be retired. There is a news gap between Christmas and New Years when there is nothing to report on except for accidents, murders, fires and suchlike, which sounds like a lot but isn’t, though I suppose now that […]

Exploring comics’ past with Homer Davenport on Rube Goldberg, Bobby London and Popeye, Bazooka Joe and the Gang. But we start with … Comic Strips and Christmases Past Brian Cronin and CBR has created a Comic Strip Advent Calendar. It’s our yearly Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar! This year, the theme is A Comic […]

The Daily Advocate is heralding the return of editorial cartoonist Paul Ackley to its pages after a 10 year sojourn to other local Greenville news organizations (County News Online and The Early Bird). From the December 9, 2022 Daily Advocate: After a couple year hiatus, editorial cartoonist Paul Ackley is returning to the pages of […]

Jonesy offers an historical/political start to an examination of cartoons that, upon giving them some thought, aren’t funny, because this one did make me smile. It is, of course, a gag about the famous Christmas truce of WWI, in which British and German troops stopped shooting at each other and played football in No Man’s […]

Dana Summers was too young for the originals, perhaps, like many of us, he became a fan later.   © Tribune Content Agency/Dana Summers; © EC Comics   Gary Shapiro retired from KUSA-TV after nearly 50 years with the station.Rather than a gold watch he got something better, a Drew Litton original. Watch the presentation […]