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It’s Halloween, but that seems to mean “Cartoonists’ Day Off.” I found myself resisting the urge to post an entire page of “The Grownups Ate The Candy” gags, which was 98% of what I found. Okay, that’s sarcasm. It was only 93%. I did appreciate this Mt Pleasant (Tribune) because there are parents who go completely…
A Hard-Copy of the Morning Newspaper is Vital Art Marmorstein needs four things in the morning: … a warm shower, a bowl of cereal, a cup of coffee and a hard-copy morning newspaper. If my kids have used up all the hot water, a lukewarm or even a cold shower will do the trick. If…
I’m going to have to be frugal with cartoons this coming week, given that most are either Halloween gags, which will become obsolete after tomorrow, or election cartoons, which will stop being pertinent after Tuesday. (Update: I can’t read a calendar. See comments.) Kevin Kallaugher combines the two in a way that works well today,…
First, “He Who Must Be Dealt With,” and Ben Jennings bursts through the crowd of Musk-Freeing-Trump and Musk-Weaponizing-Twitter cartoons with this reminder that having a lot of money and getting a lot of attention doesn’t necessary translate into having a lot of judgment. As noted here yesterday, one doesn’t just walk in and fire everyone…
Thursday’s Judge Parker made me nostalgic. © NAS Nostalgic for those Dagwood commute drives when Denis Lebrun was the Blondie artist. Lebrun would occasionally use the middle panel to show the car doing a “Bullit jump” while going over a hill. © KFS Wednesday’s Warped by Michael Cavna gives me an excuse (like I…
Friday introduced another real world, but heretofore unseen, occurrence into the World of Gil Thorp. As the top commenter Ravenswing noted Friday about the new development: Henry, I say this with all the wish to see you succeed at this as I may, but you need to slow your roll here. This is a daily…
Cartooning doesn’t have a lot of rules, but “If you thought of it fast, so did everyone else” is pretty reliable. Be glad I didn’t do this with all the corgi cartoons that followed QEII’s death. And that, over at Drawing Fire, Clay Jones compressed the gas-pump-snake cartoons into a single piece. Can’t…
We’ll start the day with a little crossover from the funny pages, because Snuffy Smith (KFS) sets the tone for a discussion of spin, lies and foolish belief, and I like Snuffy’s contention that it’s an issue of good judgement. There is genuine dishonesty, of course, but there is also genuine stupidity and genuine self-deception,…
I’m so old that, when I saw today’s Pooch Cafe, I thought, “Well, there’s a cartoon that appeals to the young folks.” Then I realized that the little kids I took to see Tron are now 46 and 50 respectively. Even at 6 and 10, I don’t think they took the film seriously, but we…
Today’s guest star is Rembrandt van Rinj, whose The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp provided Morten Morland with inspiration for his own dissection of Liz Truss’s failing (or flailing, take your pick) tenure as Prime Minister. Readers in the UK will, no doubt, recognize the gathered students, but it’s enough to note that…
Fritzi Ritz was introduced to comics readers of the New York World one hundred years ago – October 9, 1922 – and is still appearing in the funny pages, admittedly as second fiddle to her niece Nancy instead of the star of the comic strip these days. Though on occasion she does get the spotlight….
I’m on my way out to Columbus for the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists convention and CXC, so was trying to come up with a post I could do in advance. DD Degg’s marking of Dick Tracy’s first strip, December 4, 1931, reminded me of how many great cartoons were running in newspapers back then….
Maria Scrivan — whom I will see in a day or two at CXC — offers a funny/not funny Half Full, the kind where first you laugh and then you sink into a reverie. Oh, honey, nobody reads the terms and conditions. Well, except for Robert Sikoryak, who found a way to make Apple’s…
Doonesbury for October 2, 2022 © G. B. Trudeau Update on the Charles M. Schulz/USPS First Day Issue Event. Hundreds of “Peanuts” fans and stamp collectors turned out Friday at the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa for the first day of issue for 10 new stamps featuring “Peanuts” characters. Fans of all…
Political cartoonists should, indeed, stick pins in powerful people, but it does seem, in the current cycle, like a two-pan scale, where what happens on one side shifts the balance for the other. Lee Judge (KFS), for instance, is hardly a Trump fan, but he seems anti-Biden in his comment on the way the White…