Industry news for the professional cartoonist
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for May 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Absent from the April accounting: Now to the May releases… Another absentee from the April annals: A highlight of the May releases:
Scott Stantis seems to be catching up on some hostility for ex-Mayor Lori Lightfoot, in a cartoon that ran shortly after Chicago’s recent elections but well after she was primaried out in February. However, he’s commenting on a long-term problem and I’m catching up on some slightly wilting political events, so we’ll call it even….
Wednesday’s CNN Town Hall wasn’t quite as transformative as Chip Bok (Creators) paints it, but it certainly demonstrated the media shakeup in progress. But note the “How could you?” look on Fox’s face and the “Dear Lord” look on CNN’s. Rightwingers have been excoriating Fox for its recent failure to promote Dear Leader incessantly, faithfully…
Dick Tracy Hall of Famer Profiled HAMPTON — Local police officer Haley Magee, who was honored last year for rescuing a trapped driver from a burning vehicle, just made the Dick Tracy Hall of Fame. …As part of the comic, [Lt. Walter] Reimer nominates real-life police officers to be featured at the beginning of the…
Lady Justice is getting a workout on editorial pages in the wake of the E. Jean Carroll verdict, and I particularly like Bill Bramhall’s take, because he repeats Trump’s claim in a new context. He is obviously, clearly lying when he continues to claim not knowing Carroll, and he’s certainly getting to know Justice, if…
Discussion in the comments section the other day revealed quite a bit of confusion around the term “pun” and the term “shaggy dog story.” I promised to try to straighten it out today, and, by sheer luck, Pearls Before Swine (AMS) offered not only a festival of puns on Sunday but skipped its usual last-panel…
Walt Handelsman pings a continuing annoyance here. It’s not a “pet peeve.” A pet peeve is people who write “if it was” when they mean “if it were.” It’s wrong and it’s ignorant, but it’s harmless. Equating national budget issues with family budgets is generally wrong and ignorant, but it’s far from harmless because it…
We’ll start with the Argyle Sweater (AMS), because when I saw it, I wondered why Scott Hilburn didn’t save this semi-Hispanic gag for tomorrow, but then, as I translated tomorrow’s date in my mind, I realized today’s date. And, yes, I subsequently came across a veritable plethora of Star Wars jokes, not all of them…
Illustrator Sandy Kossin has passed away. Adrian Sinnott has shared the sad news that Sandy has passed away: Another incredible talent and good friend gone. Sandy Kossin, proud Berndt Toast Gang, National Cartoonists Society and Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame member has passed. Here’s his bio from the BTG 50th anniversary show in 2016:…
I’m with Katy in today’s Adam@Home. We haven’t had actual snow here lately but we’ve only had two days of warm sunshiny weather so far and even the warmish days that might have come close have, instead, featured cold winds. It might as well be March. However, the birds are back, including the cormorants, as…
“You are old,” said the youth, “one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever;Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose— What made you so awfully clever?” “I have answered three questions, and that is enough,” Said his father; “don’t give yourself airs!Do you think I can listen all day to…
Thank god I don’t still have his voice in my head like this fellow in the Banx cartoon. But the political cartoons are currently evenly divided between Tucker Carlson and the November elections. I’m trying to be done with the former and, as for the latter, I’m taking the Scarlett O’Hara approach: I’ll think about…
Political cartoonist Peter Pickersgill has passed away. From the CBC notice: Longtime political cartoonist, radio commentator and author Peter Pickersgill of Salvage, N.L., has died. According to an online funeral home obituary, Pickersgill — whose 2003 book Neither Here nor There: Reflections on the Smiling Land chronicled his observations on half a century of his time in…
David Rowe captures the significance of the last-minute settlement between Fox and Dominion Voting Systems: It’s less a punishment for having spread malicious lies to a trusting audience than it is hush money paid to make a problem go away. As he notes, the MAGA crowd will continue to play the role of gullible marks…
Upcoming appearances by cartoonists. Political Cartoons from the Holocaust to Ukraine: Resistance to Tyranny This webinar will explore the use of political cartoons during the Holocaust and in today’s war in Ukraine. Political cartoons give hard-hitting social commentary on critical events to influence action. Dr. Rafael Medoff will speak about cartoonists who documented the atrocities…