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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…
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…
Timing is everything, and while Jeff Stahler (AMS)‘s image of the impossibility of getting it back in the tube is hardly a new metaphor, we’re at a stage where we should be wishing there were some way to do it. It’s astounding to have a vice-presidential candidate openly admit that he is willing to tell…
Letter to The (Battle Ground, WA) Reflector: So naturally we went to the WeirdJoeKent.com website which was, we have to think, the actual purpose of writing the letter. I like the idea of local cartoonists cartooning about the local elections for newspapers or for campaigns. I don’t like that there are no credits for the…
Tom Batiuk, Dan Davis, and Chuck Ayers; Lincoln Peirce; Paul Gilligan; Mason Mastroianni and the John Hart Studio; John Buscema; Stan Drake and Alex Raymond; Darrin Bell; and more. We noted a couple weeks ago that Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis had borrowed a few previous panels by Chuck Ayers and inserted them in a…
Barry Blitt, Dennis Draughon, Tim Oliphant, Drew Litton, Cathy Wilcox, Jules Feiffer, Ernie Bushmiller, Quino. Randall Enos, and dozens of Cartoonists For Kamala. Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist Barry Blitt tired of Trump One might expect that Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Barry Blitt would be on the euphoric side with a coming U.S. election pitting his seemingly favourite…
Morten Morland, who has been drawing covers for The Spectator magazine for the last 15 years, announced on Twitter that he was leaving the weekly magazine. On X/Twitter he wrote: It’s been a fabulous gig, working with great people. It’s been increasingly hard to fit the job in around my commitments for The Times, so…
After an absence of three days, I expected to have to catch up with things this morning, but I didn’t expect to walk in on this Juxtaposition Without Justification Lisa Benson — Counterpoint Dana Summers — Tribune Mike Lester — AMS Bob Gorrell — Creators I was too busy at the combined American/Canadian editorial cartoonists’…
Day Two of the AAEC/ACC Conference in Montreal began with the Americans conducting a business meeting while the Canadians held a panel on digitization and conservation, apparently in both languages, unless the Billy Ireland’s Jenny Robb is fluent en francais, since she was one of the presenters. After lunch, we were reunited and began a…
The Gang’s All Here!, Breaking Cat News, Mafalda, The K Chronicles, Half Full/Nat, Dennis the Menace², and Non Sequitur. 12-year-old cartoonist draws for South Sioux City newspaper SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (KCAU) — Alvaro Galindo Jr. has been drawing for over two years now for the South Sioux City newspaper Mundo Latino, starting when he…
Some peripherally comics related stuff: Stan Lee’s L.A. home on the market; Macmillan Publishers donate to bookstores/comic shops in hurricane Helene’s path; Garfield Nendoroid Prototype; a Rugrats live-action movie; a New Yorker strike could disrupt the New Yorker Festival. Back in late 2014, Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee doled out $4.4 million for a modern…
I promised more coverage if there were more cartoons about the VP Debate, so we’ll start with Walt Handelsman’s contribution, because the buried joke here is that the undecideds didn’t likely watch the debate but he’s right that they are likely still peddling the same-old-same-old excuse. It’s so much better than admitting that you can’t…
Comic strips Star Hawks, Bringing Up Father, Garth, and Sergeant Joe; with a detour to the Fleischer Studio. From World of Monsters: STAR HAWKS employed an unconventional format for a newspaper comic strip by using a two-tier layout as opposed to the conventional single-tier strips that were considered the standard. This enabled Kane to expand the…
Featuring Fort Knox, Alley Oop, Ink Pen, Crankshaft, Vintage Judge Parker, Close to Home, and JumpStart. The 15th year of Fort Knox by Paul Jon Boscacci! Fort Knox began on October 1, 2009 which is odd because that date was a Thursday. Most newspapers that picked it up started running it on Monday October 5,…
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the…