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Jimmy Dodge-a-Job and the Little Folks of Tumbledown Town Allan Holtz presents us with most wonderful samples of cartooning from 1918. Two full pages of Jimmy Dodge-a-Job from the mysterious James Stewart makes one wonder why he did not reach a justly deserved fame. Teena by Hilda Terry HIlda Terry gained fame more for reasons…
Dean Wormer may have been a humorless bureaucrat, but the man had a point, and, by the way, Animal House hasn’t really aged very well. Perhaps we’ve become — horrors! — woke to the racist, sexist humor at its core, or maybe we’ve simply outgrown identifying with rich preppies who can afford to spend four…
In a genuinely post-Civil-War nation, Dennis Draughon’s cartoon wouldn’t be particularly relevant, as we await details of Donald Trump’s indictments and the reaction thereto. But we are currently involved in a Civil War, which makes the removal of Confederate leaders’ names from US military bases relevant overall, and particularly so in the case of General…
Dave Whamond leads off our coverage of cartoons about the purchase of the PGA by the Saudi government’s LIV as part of an extensive sportswashing effort to hide the affronts to human decency listed on those half-masted flags. I’ll add that the bonesaw in the golf bag is the only one you’ll see here today,…
Pedro X. Molina (Counterpoint) politely and kindly uses a Simpsons trope to attribute homophobic and transphobic outbursts to ignorance and, perhaps, senility. It reminds me of December 28, 1969, when my father and I were huddled around the TV in the family room, watching David Hilliard, Chief of Staff of the Black Panther Party, being…
As was mentioned regarding Mike’s column today Arlo and Janis heard a little-known factoid the other day. Obituaries for Newton Minow, who passed away last month, mentioned that the boat from the Gilligan’s Island TV show was named after the former FCC Chairman as a sly dig. From Reuters: Television producer Sherwood Schwartz still did…
I wish I thought this Arlo & Janis (AMS) were the sign of a coming revolution, but I’m not that naive. I’m also not sure whose fault it is, and perhaps the answer to that is that it’s been a group effort. Looking back, it seems that every major invention in communications — radio, TV,…
When I saw this morning’s Prickly City (AMS), I thought it was going to win the “Bad Timing” award, dropping, as it did, the morning after the House preserved the nation’s credit rating, pending Senate approval which seems a lead pipe cinch. Of course, we still have to see how Wall Street responds to the…
Jack Ohman (Tribune) scores what I guess you could call a “pen drop” with this summation of the deal struck between Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy. While the President and the Speaker reached what used to be considered a sensible compromise on the debt ceiling and coming budget, they’re both surrounded by problems. And Ohman…
Frazz (AMS) got it right, amid a flood of more traditional Memorial Day cartoons. We aren’t required to mourn throughout the full three days, and, as Caulfield says, it’s a weekend full of distractions as it marks the beginning of summer. As Frazz himself observes, it still works. A lot of people will, at some…
So here’s the thing: I didn’t have to wait until the final panel of today’s Barn (Creators) to know what musical selection the ducks were performing. I could attribute that to my educational and cultural upbringing, and I do, but only to the extent that cartoons used to be a lot more educational and cultural….
‘The Bronco Bar Incident’ BAR HARBOR [Maine] — Last season, a driver from New Jersey got his Ford Bronco stuck in the mudflats between Bar Harbor and Bar Island until a salvage company floated it to a sandbar… Now, 12 cartoonists have taken up their pens to draw about the event with the results to…
Blondie Boopadoop, Popeye, Longest-Running Comic Strips, Dennis the Menace, Harold Wilson. Blondie Bumstead, née Boopadoop? Before she married Dagwood Bumstead, Blondie’s name was Blondie Boopadoop. That’s what Wikipedia says, that’s what King Features Syndicate says, that’s what the Library of Congress says. But… was it? Rubbercat.net finds that the prevailing wisdom “while it’s official enough,…
This is one of those “Where do I start?” days, but Eric Allie (Counterpoint) offers a segue from yesterday, in which I chided Bob Gorrell and Mike Lester for writing Title 42 cartoons before the fact arose that, rather than their expected flood of migrants with the demise of the act, the number of crossing…
Ed Wexler poses the question of whether Dianne Feinstein learned anything from the results of Ruth Bader Ginsburg lingering on the court so long that Donald Trump got to choose her successor. The answer is “Apparently not,” because Ginsburg was mentally sharp right to the end, while Feinstein has reportedly been less so, needing prompts…