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 […]
Political cartoonist Peter Dunlap-Shohl, who splits his time between living in Coulee Dam, Okanogan County, [Washington] and Anchorage, Alaska, is one of three people living with Parkinson’s disease profiled in PBS’ one-hour “Independent Lens” film “Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s” (April 8). [link added] Rob Owens of The Seattle Times talks to Peter Dunlap-Shohl about […]
Editorial cartoonist Don Wright has passed away. Donald Conway (Don) Wright January 23, 1934 – March 24, 2024 From The Palm Beach Post: (Or via MSN:) Don Wright, the former Palm Beach Post editorial cartoonist whose searing, meticulously crafted illustrations made him one of the most renowned political cartoonists of his era, died last month […]
Trigger Warning: The following post includes disturbing images and concepts. Those who find such thoughts upsetting may wish to move to a planet were bad things don’t happen. Jeff Stahler (AMS) summarizes the latest tragedy, in which three vehicles of World Central Kitchen, which had been providing food to starving civilians in Gaza, were attacked […]
Peanuts and Beetle Bailey will be celebrating their 75th anniversaries next year, so here come the articles. In the Private Scrapbook chapter dedicated to Beetle Bailey, Walker discussed how a comic strip that – for most of its history – focused exclusively on the misadventures of a U.S. Army private, could win over the hearts […]
Robb Armstrong – An Appreciation of An African American Comic Strip Artist From Fisher Jack at Eurweb: I have followed Robb Armstrong creator of the comic strip series Jump Start, syndicated since 1989. … For Robb, Charles Schulz, creator of Peanuts comic strips influenced him. I grew up a fan of Peanuts and am still […]
Yesterday was Factchecking Day, which makes me wish Steve Kelley (Creators)’s cartoon had run then, because it’s an easy one to fact-check: March 31 was established as International Transgender Day of Visibility in 2009, so there was no “blunder” in the White House issuing a proclamation saying so, as they issue proclamations for all sorts […]
Garry Trudeau, the writer and artist of Doonesbury, has dared to acknowledge a fact about the Hamas leadership that most of the mainstream news media prefer to ignore. Rafael Medoff for the Jewish Journal reports: In the latest Sunday installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Doonesbury strip, a fictional anti-terrorist fighter—known as “the Red Rascal”—bursts into […]
King Features Syndicate has released Digital Press Kits for two new comics offered to digital and print publications. Dumplings by Victor Van Acker first appeared on Comics Kingdom last Summer. The King Features (KFS) press kit says the comic strip is now/will be available to hard copy newspapers daily and Sunday. KFS describes the strip: […]
Most Easter and April Fools Day cartoons were mayflies, good for a moment but with no real shelf life. But Harry Burton‘s, while intended as a general comment about Israel’s blocking of aid to Gaza, gained significance Easter Monday, when Israeli Defense Forces attacked vehicles of the World Central Kitchen, which has been providing food […]
From Times Now Digtal via MSN: New Delhi: A “racist” cartoon by a US-based webcomic over the Baltimore bridge collapse incident sparked outrage on social media. The cartoon shows unkempt men dressed only in loincloths and preparing for the impending crash. Foxford Comics posted the cartoon on its X handle. The webcomic also played a […]
Man Martin, author and cartoonist, has made a name for himself as one of the great illustrators of the human condition as it concerns how we treat one another – with a specialty in Biblical foibles – now has a new project. Unfortunately that means a brief suspension of his Man Overboard comic strip. Today […]
In case you hadn’t heard, John Auchter reminds us that there is an election coming up, and he provides a summary of what is at stake. As Mose Allison explained, “All I want is plenty, but I will take more.” Maybe we should swap that out to replace “E Pluribus Unam,” given that we’re a […]