Cartoonist Charles Fredrick has passed away. Charles Wright Fredrick November 3, 1942 – October 4, 2024 From the obituary: Charles attended Springfield, Missouri schools, graduating from Parkview in 1960, before heading to Texas to attend Baylor University and graduating in 1964. The beginning of his adult work life took him for brief stints in federal […]
It is late October in The Year of Our Lord 1968, a Presidential Election year. The election is two weeks away and Walt Kelly, as is his wont, has decided to satirize American politics. Kelly’s subject is third party outlier George Wallace, most famous for his performance of blocking a schoolhouse door in 1963 to […]
We’ll get to knaves and fools in a minute, but first a salute to unintentional genius, as The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee (KFS) magically riffs on the McDonald’s e coli outbreak despite having been scripted and drawn well before it happened. Sometimes the Fates smile and make you look really smart, but, alas, there […]
Auctions featuring original comic and cartoon art and comic books. Occasionally a comic book collection of immense value goes public. Such is the case up Mike Peterson way. From Seven Days last month: Following the death in April of Vermont comic book retailer and collector Christine Farrell, her legendary collection is about to go up […]
Featuring Bianca Xunise, Chip Beck, Alan Hardman, Eli Valley, Patrick McDonnell, Herblock, Larry Todd, Matt Wuerker, Ann Telnaes, Michael Ramirez, Pedro Molina, Vladimir Kazanevsky and Rachita Taneja. Bianca Xunise is the Ignatz Award-winning author of comics including GothThrob, Imaginary Boyfriends, Keep Out, and Say Her Name. She is one of the authors of the daily […]
I don’t know the lead time for Prickly City (AMS), but it’s been a very long time since Harris began a whirlwind of appearances and interviews. There was a fair amount of whining from the Usual Suspects that she wasn’t sitting for interviews with them, but she’s hardly been invisible. What I will grant is […]
Palestinian artist/cartoonist Mahasen al-Khateeb died in an Israeli airstrike in Jabalia on October 18. She was 32. Mahasen was a popular digital illustrator, storyboard artist, and character designer for domestic and international clients. Two weeks before the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, she had opened a private studio. During the Israeli response, she lost […]
President Joseph R. Biden presented the 2022 and 2023 National Humanities Medals, in conjunction with the National Medals of Arts, on Monday, October 21, 2024, in a private ceremony at the White House. The 19 distinguished medal recipients include writers, historians, educators, and filmmakers. And a cartoonist! Cartoonist and author Roz Chast was among those […]
Ninety years ago yesterday one of the greatest 1930s adventure strips debuted in the New York Daily News It would be the following day when we would learn the full title of Milton Caniff‘s new comic strip. Terry and the Pirates by Milton Caniff would catapult the cartoonist to fame and fortune. Peter Bosch at […]
Pearls Before Swine (AMS) indulges in some theological speculation. It’s inappropriate to tell other people how to mourn, and while there is a point at which it becomes obsessive, that point is different for everyone. Still, Rat has a point and I can’t think of a source that suggests we age in heaven, while, although […]
Ripley’s Believe It or Not details the hierarchy of artists and Kieran Castaño shows, by drawing four claws, that cartoonists are in The Upper Class. Well. maybe not all of them: Cartoonists working on the Super-Fun-Pak Comix, edited by Ruben Bolling, are from a more common class. Along with (some) cartoonists the Prince of Thule […]
Pro-Kremlin media outlets are circulating a fake cover of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in an effort to smear Ukrainian President Zelenskyy peace plan according to the National News Agency of Ukraine. This story (screenshot below) was posted last week on Pravda depicting a October 11 edition of Charlie Hebdo. There is no October […]
Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe is being criticized for a minute long tirade at King Charles who was seated after speaking at a welcome reception during his tour of Australia. Thorpe also shared a cartoon of a beheaded King Charles that quoted her “you are not our king” rant. She later deleted the post and blamed […]
Brace yourself, Willie. Here comes a flood, and it’s not just special sauce. Granted, I posted a David Rowe version yesterday, but that’s the advantage he gets with a 15-hour time difference between Sydney and New York: He slipped in ahead of the crowd. Jack Ohman — Smerconish Pat Bagley Phil Hands Nick Anderson — […]
Former editorial cartoonist Steven Lait got a couple paragraphs in a recent New York Times article about The Costco Connection, a monthly magazine for the membership-only retail warehouse store. Each month, 15.4 million copies of Costco Connection are mailed out to members. Another 300,000 are distributed via Costco warehouses. It is now the nation’s third […]