Mack rolled into New York at the dawn of JFK’s New Frontier, toting a degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and a bunch of pens. After becoming art director at the Herald Tribune, rubbing shoulders with notable proponents of an emerging “new journalism” (Breslin, Wolfe, Steinem), he moved on to the New York […]
From Sandra Bell-Lundy: My Cartooning Life – Hot Flash Woman was a super hero I created for my comic character, Kim, who has a career as a writer. I had a grand time designing her costume with her fishnet stockings and over-the-knee spike boots. (the explanation for the clothing choices is explained in the comics […]
Brewster Rockit (Tribune) gets to lead off for a second day in a row, having shifted from the informational back to the absurd. As noted, I stayed home rather than driving the four hours to my old digs in the Adirondacks, and I missed both totality and a good party, but we had a nice […]
Children’s author-illustrator Mike Thaler has passed away. Michael Charles (Mike) Thaler October 8, 1936 – March 23, 2024 From the obituary: Mike Thaler’s creative genius captured the imaginations of millions of children with a story called The Teacher From the Black Lagoon. It blossomed into a favorite Scholastic series consisting of 66 titles and selling […]
Alley Oop and Ooola transport through time to the present … exactly eighty-five years after they first did it. United Feature Syndicate-United Media/Washington Post Writers Group/Counterpoint Syndication editor Amy Lago gets a shout out from Barney & Clyde – a thank you for grabbing them after their WPWG contract ended? Or maybe she rejected a […]
Start with an explainer from Brewster Rockit (Tribune). The strip is usually an absurdist laff-fest, but it breaks from time to time for an explanation, which goes to show that humor is funnier when the joker understands the topic. And, boy, would I like to carve that in stone. The cartoons that work are the […]
If you are waiting for Graeme MacKay to apologize get comfortable because you’re going to grow old waiting. Instead Graeme offers an essay on editorial cartooning, satire, and boundaries. Among subjects, slants, gags, texts, and artistic layouts, boundaries is just one of a multitude of other considerations I make in coming up with an editorial […]
Quincy has not run away. But the proof sheet of the vintage Quincy daily comic strips for the week of August 13 through August 18, 1973 is missing from the King Features Syndicate files. And it’s a week too good to pass up as cartoonist Ted Shearer has young Quincy take over a paper route. […]
Michael Ramirez (Creators) starts us off with a tough one, because the facts appear to be hung up between history and hope. A large problem with the question of who gets audited is the age of the data. The General Accounting Office, which should be an impartial source, relies on data from 2019, which is […]
A letter to the Oregonian: The Rose is Rose cartoon of March 20 shows a cat’s version of enjoying nature – dashing off to chase birds. This is a timely reminder, if unintended, that nesting season is here and it’s a good time to keep your cat indoors. Even if your pet doesn’t actually kill […]
April 5, 1999 saw Grand Avenue by cartoonist Steve Breen appear in newspapers around the country. Mike Thompson began helping on the strip in 2005 and began co-signing the comic strip on January 1, 2009. In 2016 Mike Thompson took full control of Grand Avenue – April 4 for the dailies, May 1 on the […]
I had to look up Celeste Maloy, but I already know who Pat Bagley is, and already I knew who’s picking our fruits and vegetables, and I know who isn’t. There are two ways of looking at this: One is to emphasize the racism, because Maloy has come out in support of Trump’s promise to […]
On April 2, cartoonist Liniers discussed his new book, “Macanudo: Optimism is for the Brave,” with English and Creative Writing department chair Peter Orner at Still North Books & Bar. Originally slated to take place on Jan. 16, the event was rescheduled due to inclement weather. Born Ricardo Liniers Siri in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the […]
Before another Saturday comes around I’d best get this Wayno Blog from last month out of the way where Wayno discusses the idea of waiting for an idea to come to you rather than chasing an idea. Our colleague Mark Parisi, cartoonist of the award-winning panel Off the Mark, recently started a lively social media […]
Tom the Dancing Bug offers a bit of commentary on the Trump defense that lying in contract negotiations ought not to have legal consequences as long as you pay back the loan which you got at an interest rate based on your lies. It’s an interesting defense to claim that commercial real estate transactions are […]