Dave Whamond began Holy Week with his Palm Sunday Reality Check page depicting The Last Supper a few days earlier than it is traditionally held and doing a pretty good job of showing the Leonardo Da Vinci painting. The past week began in earnest with Monday and Greg Cravens playing with negative art in The […]
Bizarro (KFS) strikes a nostalgic note, intentionally or not. I don’t think of Easter eggs as empty shells, but then I don’t think of them as this elaborately decorated, except in Eastern Europe where I doubt pysanky are mixed in with the candy. But it did remind me of being a tiny tot some 70 […]
In a long X/Twitter post Dilbert Reborn cartoonist Scott Adams attacks the DEI strategy: Allow me to put a stake through the heart of DEI for you. If DEI proponents wanted to achieve the kind of diversity that is good for every member of society, they would correct the Democrat/Republican imbalance in our most important […]
Comics historian Bob Beerbohm has passed away. Robert Lee (Bob) Beerbohm June 17, 1952 – March 27, 2024 Bob was an early reader of comic books in Saudi Arabia where his father was working. When he returned to the United States (Nebraska) he became involved in comic book fandom and entrepreneurship as a teenager, buying, […]
Christian tradition is that, during the three days Christ was dead, he visited Hell, defeated the Devil (seen crushed under the door in Fra Angelico‘s painting) and brought forth the righteous of the Old Testament from their confinement. I say “tradition” because it’s necessary to differentiate between pious traditions and the things you are actually […]
Mike Curtis used this holiday weekend to tell of the resurrection of Daddy Warbucks in Dick Tracy. The original Little Orphan Annie comic strip took four days, one of which was a Sunday, to tell the story between panels two and three above. Here, from May 15 to May 18, 1937 is The Death of […]
Crain Communications editorial cartoonist and illustrator Rich Williams is retiring after 40+ years. From Plastic News: With Rich retiring Plastic News interviews him on his career: I went to Ohio University to major in journalism, became the editorial cartoonist for The Post, the school’s student-run newspaper, and soon realized it was my visual skill that […]
Yesterday’s cartoons by Ella Baron and Guy Venables were met with surprise by several readers, the issue of record quantities of sewage being dumped into English waters having only been mentioned here in passing before. One example of that being this Ben Jennings cartoon from August, 2022, when a drought brought the dumping of sewage […]
Featuring the cartooning talents of Jason Yungbluth, Michael de Adder, Mike Beckom, Ralph Steadman, Kyle Bravo, Kate Lacour, Walt Handelsman, and Michael Tisserand. Cartoonists cut up at New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University It was standing room only at The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University’s “Louisiana: The Cartoonist’s Paradise” panel discussion on […]
It’s always good to make your Easter duty, and so I’ll confess that I have to look twice at Ella Baron’s cartoons because her style makes me like them even when they are irrelevant to a Yank. In this case, she’s talking about Britain’s freshwater crisis, which involves raw sewage in what should be clean […]
Cartoonist Elena Steier has passed away. Elena (née: Vira) Steier February 14, 1958 – March 1, 2024 From the obituary: Elena Vira Steier passed away peacefully, surrounded by loving family, in the early hours of March 1, 2024 after a valiantly fought battle with cancer. Back to the obituary: An accomplished illustrator, author, and cartoonist, […]
One of the most important moments for baby boomers growing up were the Sunday newspaper comic strips. Even as new technology arrived introducing new toys, there was just something special about the Sunday morning comics. David Beren for History Computer lists 8 Newspaper Comics That Everyone Loved. There were plenty of favorite comics to enjoy […]
It’s only fair to point out that this Mike Lester (AMS) cartoon ran a few days before Biden suddenly racked up some significant gains in the all-important swing states that could decide the 2024 Presidential Election. If polls determined elections, Hillary Clinton would have won in 2016. Tracking polls is part of horserace coverage, and […]
Speaking of adventure comic strips with humor… Steve Conley has issued episode 300 of his The Middle Age webcomic. I think my preferred solution for writer’s block is to switch gears and work on something else. It clears my head, keeps me working, lets the main story percolate, and allows me to return to the […]
Adventure strips seem to be hitting high points these days with a few going for belated origin stories. The Legend of Bill is currently reliving how Bill became a legend. Apparently Bill and Frank, his little blue dragon buddy, have been together for much longer than we thought and it has been mutually beneficial. Middle […]