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Anne Morse Hambrock (Ind) asks a troubling question in “Anne and God,” one that we should all ponder. Okay, that was long enough. Thing is, once something is established as a holiday dish, it doesn’t matter what it tastes like or how it’s made. Many a young bride (well, one I know of) has made…
There’s not much new going on in the political realm, so I thought I’d clean up a few things that either could have run this past Friday but didn’t, or that won’t wait until the next. In his weekly wrap-up blog, Wayno noted that he could have put a sash on the traditional Old Year…
We’ve talked a lot about how politics have been sneaking over onto the funny pages, but now the funny stuff is sneaking over onto the editorial pages, as witness this K Chronicles (Daily Kos). The punchline particularly put me on the floor since, as I think I’ve mentioned, Trump began his reign with a lie…
Having recently discussed how often cartoonists land on the same concept, here’s Adam Zyglis (Cagle) with an example of accepting the fact and making it work. Rockwell’s painting is “Freedom from Want,” one of his four freedom classics, celebrating the best of American culture and tradition, and, specifically, the Four Freedoms laid out in FDR’s…
So apparently Trump is bookending Photoshopped pictures of an inaugural crowd that never showed up with Photoshopped pictures of a million protesters who likewise and ain’t that appropriate and while it doesn’t quite close out the fiasco, it’s a good reason to stop obsessing and have some fun. Not that this precludes political cartoons. It…
I recently realized how much the tumult of the past four years has caused me to focus on politics rather than funnies, so much so that I had to set aside Friday Funnies as an escape. I’m hoping — when we’ve finally won the War of the Presidential Succession — to go back to a…
It’s Veteran’s Day, as Michael Ramirez (Creators) points out. Most years on November 11, the comics pages are flooded with little kids saluting tombstones and suchlike, but there weren’t that many this year. From a creative point of view, it’s not much of a loss because they aren’t generally very good and don’t stand out…
Wouldn’t it be nice if they carried signs like this fellow in Macanudo? But we don’t discuss politics on Friday. However, discussing both life and philosophy is permitted and Macanudo (KFS) is often the sort of thing you could spin a whole day from if you slowed down enough. Is a humble-bragger more to be…
Betty Debnam, the creator and editor of The Mini Page, has passed away. Betty Glass Debnam Hunt October 23, 1929 – November 1, 2020 Elementary school teacher, advertising copywriter Creator of the educational newspaper insert The Mini Page From the obituary: While teaching in Wake County, Betty had the idea of combining education and…
Mt. Pleasant © Rick McKee & Kent Sligh; distributed by Tribune Content Agency Mt. Pleasant is a forthcoming comic strip from Rick McKee and Kent Sligh. Claude and Eunice Lutum thought they’d be spending their golden years relaxing on their farm, affectionately known as Mt. Pleasant. They thought wrong. Like many folks their age, they’ve…
Perhaps it seems this way from the far shores of Australia, but I don’t think many US cartoonists are echoing Alan Moir (Sidney Morning Herald)‘s view. From the beginning, Trump has offered far too much for the opposition and far too little for the loyalists, leaving a very thin slice in which to be thoughtful….
Hitpig © Aniventure Hitpig Limited Berkeley Breathed‘s newest project moves closer to production. Animation Magazine: Aniventure has revealed the voice cast for its new animated feature, HITPIG!, along with a first look at the Berkeley Breathed project’s concept art and details of the porky plot… Set in a futuristic cyberpunk world, HITPIG! is a riotous…
Lead time can be as amusing as the comics themselves, and however long ago she filed this Half-Full (AMC), Maria Scrivan — one of the nicest cartoonists in the world — makes an inadvertent Jeffery Toobin joke. I have some sympathy for Toobin, because I often just restart my phone to get some persistent app…
Steve Brodner (Ind) starts us off with the State of the Disunion. It’s a touchy situation, because, on the one hand, people still need to show up and vote or we’re back where we landed in 2016. On the other hand, it’s encouraging and uplifting to see how the people appear to be rising up…
Let’s not ponder any important points until we start seeing cartoonist reaction to last night’s dueling town halls. Though I suppose you could classify this Brewster Rockit (AMS) as referring to at least one of the participants. Chuck Barris used to propose a show in which the host would bring out a small child with…