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 […]
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 […]