Garry B. Trudeau’s Doonesbury comic strip isn’t the powerhouse influencer it was in the mid-1970s when Trudeau won The Pulitzer Prize, made magazine covers, and was mandatory reading by The President of The United States. But it still raises the hackles of the Far Right. Particularly one Peter Parisi, who just can’t not read the […]
You’re showing your age, Barry Blitt. I, too, remember the horror we felt learning that the French considered Jerry Lewis a comic genius. It was back in the days of Richard Pryor and Firesign Theater, slightly after Shelly Berman and Lenny Bruce, back when Monty Python made skits spoofing DH Lawrence and having communist theorists […]
The same month that a Sydney Australia council removed a “playful” artwork of Jesus … Sydney artist Philjames’ work, Jesus Speaks to the Daughters of Jerusalem, was removed from the Blake Art Prize exhibition at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre after fierce criticism was directed at the artist and gallery on Friday, just two days […]
Over the course of Spring 2024 The Santa Maria Times print comics page has been slowly switching to a King Features Syndicate-only page. Above is March 26, 2024; below is the June 26, 2024. Yesterday The Santa Maria Times announced that they have signed onto the Comics Kingdom digital program: For decades the Santa Maria […]
An example of why they call it “Breaking News” as this Prickly City (AMS) gag gets smashed to bits by its lead time being overtaken by developments. Ah, well. At least Oprah hasn’t endorsed Harris (yet). But even political cartoonists, working on 24-hour lead times, have to consider timing. There’s nothing wrong with Glen LeLievre’s […]
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson has made a career drawing images that reflect contemporary American life. Wilkinson says she is now mostly retired, but her cartoons appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News for 35 years. Now, about 30 pieces of her work are on view at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. […]
Some cartoonist news. “I do oil paintings of horses,” “A friend I’ve done Super-Pet commissions for asked if I’d do an oil painting of Comet. So I gave it a try and he was happy with the result.” The cartoonist who had no fear – walking the line between art and trash. The Pompidou Centre […]
Dave Whamond sets the table for today’s discussion. On first look, you might well think he is contrasting the left (blue) with the right (red), but if he had that in mind, it’s secondary to the main point, which is an accusation of the Mainstream Media looking for false balance by airing both truth and […]
August Froehlich, Bill Watterson, Lynn Johnston, Elkanah Tisdale, Charles Schulz, Garry Trudeau. Nazi Death Parade From The Smithsonian Magazine of 2022: In early January 1945, just before the liberation of Auschwitz, a small group of journalists and artists, many of them European immigrants, published a roughly 50-page pamphlet titled The Bloody Record of Nazi Atrocities. […]
A month ago Gene Weingarten, co-producer, co-creator, and co-writer of the Barney & Clyde comic strip, invited participants of his Invitational Week at his Substack to contribute scripts for the comic strip: “Barney & Clyde” is a 14-year-old comic strip written by Gene and Horace LaBadie and illustrated by David Clark. It involves a relationship […]
We’re skipping politics for the day, but first … Rabbits Against Magic Barney & Clyde — Counterpoint I’m all in favor of comic strips commenting on politics, but lead time can trip you up and both these strips were caught off-guard by Biden’s withdrawal. Granted, however, that there are still some political cartoons up on […]
King Features made a splash at the Spring 2024 Licensing Expo and now, thanks to the Chronicle Chamber, we are getting some idea of the “Trend Guides” for some of their syndicated comic strip characters. Brands Untapped interviewed King Features’ Brand Marketing Director Beth Nock: Beth, it’s great to chat. We’re here to explore King’s […]
Given the sudden disruption of the 2024 Presidential Election, I thought it only fair to present takes in opposition to my normally progressive point-of-view. Christian Adams gets to lead off because several overseas views have been unclear, perhaps because they’re not getting a full spectrum of the chatter here. It’s true that Harris represents a […]
The news of the day is Caroline Cash beginning her turn on the Nancy comic strip. For whatever reason my first thought on seeing the first panel was The Captain and the Kids by late Rudy-John Dirks and/or The Katzenjammer Kids by late H. H. Knerr-Doc Winner. Again, I don’t know why. It’s inexplicable. This […]
When Joe Biden announced his decision to step aside yesterday, I posted on Facebook “Political cartoonists to your drawing boards. I’ll be looking for material in 12 hours.” I needn’t have prodded them, because at 3 a.m. I found far more material available than I could use, and not nearly as many repeats of the […]