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 […]
There was a big cartooning event in Washington DC today I knew nothing about until it was over. The Institute for Democracy, Journalism & Citizenship at Syracuse University held an event featuring editorial cartoonists Matt Wuerker, editorial cartoonist and illustrator, POLITICO; Ann Telnaes, editorial cartoonist, The Washington Post; Michael Ramirez, editorial cartoonist, Las Vegas Review-Journal; […]
If we got nothing else out of the Vice-Presidential Debate, Non Sequitur (AMS) reminds us, it was JD Vance’s plaintive whine about the moderators not letting him derail things with outrageous whoppers. Still, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions: Lying is evil, but quietly tolerating lies greases the slope. Blatant dishonesty is […]
Cartoonists for Kamala continues receiving and auctioning cartoon art. One of the latest is from Robb Armstrong where he revises a recent Sunday JumpStart. Robb rewrote the last two panels: From Mike Lynch via Antonio Marques we are treated to a four page informative article on “How An Animated Film Is Made” written by Jerome […]
Rich Powell starts off this panoply of humor with a wordless wonder at Wide Open (Universal), and the best part is that, while the humans are blissfully unaware, the dogs recognize kindred spirits, with perhaps a sense of having been mismatched. Well, if their people have never heard that thing about people resembling their dogs, […]
With today’s October 19, 2024 comic strip (above) the daily Fort Knox has come to an end. Paul Jon Boscacci and Fort Knox celebrated 15 years of syndication at the beginning of this month. According to The Hammond (Louisiana) Daily Star the Sundays will continue until November 10, 2024: Since 2005 [2009], “Fort Knox” – […]
Tony DePaul, Joe Wos, Larry Lieber, Charles M. Schulz, and… Hall of Famer Sergio Aragonés Sergio Aragonés was one of five to receive a Harvey Hall of Fame Award last night at the New York Comic Con. File 770 has the full results of the 2024 Harvey Awards. Screenshot of the Sergio announcement via The […]
What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass., closes Sunday, the 27th, giving you eight days to get there. Stockbridge is about two hours from Boston, two-and-a-half from New York City and less than an hour from Albany. I drove three hours to get there and it was […]
North Dakota editorial cartoonist Steve Stark has passed away. Steven Christopher (Steve) Stark October 4, 1950 – October 18, 2024 Fargo news sources are reporting the death of actor, historian, and editorial cartoonist Steve Stark. From a 2023 issue of FM Extra comes this summary of Steve cartooning career: Steve also contributed to The Duluth […]
Pick n Pay Clothing has partnered with South African cartoonist Zapiro (Jonathan Shapiro) for a limited edition line of t-shirts to celebrate South Africa’s national Springboks Rugby team. From Retail Brief Africa: “When Pick n Pay Clothing asked me to get involved with a campaign expressing how South Africa’s diversity is our strength, I felt […]
I wasn’t sure who to start with this morning, so I decided to move the video to the top of the posting and start with the Rock Man from the Point!, whom I quote fairly often: “You see what you want to see, and you hear what you want to hear.” You can catch his […]
We get a two-fer from Ruben Bolling today with him making political hay by utilizing beloved characters. Today’s new Tom the Dancing Bug features five strips featuring Snoopy as The World Famous Trumpist attempting to save America, while today’s Tom the Dancing Bug rerun from October 2, 2020 stars a psuedo-Calvin (with a pseudo-Hobbes) in […]
This year’s European Cartoon Award goes to Steven Lectrr Degryse (AKA Lectrr) for his cartoon of Russian opposition leader and political prisoner Alexei Navalny. The award is presented during European Cartoon Day ceremony presented by the European Press Prize and Studio Europa Maastricht. Lectrr’s award winning cartoon: The European Cartoon Award, started in 2019, is dedicated to supporting […]
I count on David Rowe to use the time difference between here and Sydney to comment on events while American cartoonists are still selecting their nibs. In this case, I think he misjudges last night’s Fox News interview with Kamala Harris, not because it went well for the Trump crowd but because I can’t believe […]
The Creation of the Comic Strip as an Audiovisual Stage in the New York Journal 1896-1900 Eike Exner, for Image Text, explores the origins of “sound” in late 19th Century comics of The New York Journal. Some histories of comics imply that the form started by Outcault was immediately continued by Rudolph Dirks, whose Katzenjammer […]