Industry news for the professional cartoonist
Start your Sunday, (Well, if “your” Sunday is August 6, 1950) with some donuts, orange juice and Puck, The Comic Weekly, a pre-printed selection of Sunday funnies distributed to papers across the country. Can’t read them to yourself? No problem! Just tune in your radio to “The Comic Weekly Man” and let him read them…
Stephen Collins on the perils of shopping in a strange supermarket, and thoughts on that topic could be a book, and an interesting one. I had the great good fortune to be a biz writer in a small city when a fourth grocery chain came in, and they were not only willing to talk to…
The new Nancy is hardly the only strip featuring a rude, self-absorbed main character, but, at least so far, it goes beyond simply laughing at her rudeness. Confucius said, “In vain have I looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself,” and expanding the search…
(Pat Bagley) (Jim Morin) We’ll start today with two cartoons l like because they get it. There are all sorts of “America is the Greatest” and “Girls Rule, Boys Drool” cartoons making the rounds, several of them demanding equal pay, though pay isn’t based on win/loss records but on revenue. Well, the women…
There are several editorial cartoons about the US women’s World Cup win; I like Mo because it’s joyful and then comes back to The Point. It’s important to point out that the women, for the most part at least, recognize that they can’t get the same number of dollars as the men because they don’t…
I expect there will be more cartoons about Trump’s bizarre rendition of the history of the US Army, but Clay Jones and Ed Hall are out front early, which is the only place to be on this one. For those of us who are self-employed, a “holiday” mostly means that we can work without phone…
Last month cartoonist Georgia Dunn took her Breaking Cat News comic strip characters to the American Library Association annual conference; and seemed to enjoy herself: AMP: Georgia, you recently made your debut appearance at ALA, where Lupin Leaps In ~leapt~ into the hearts of librarians who came from all over the country. What…
Andy Marlette provides a most depressing, but accurate, State of the Union to darken the upcoming holiday. I would add, by the way, that, while everyone draws the “tiny hands” that have become emblematic of Trump, the real key to a good caricature is that fatuous, self-satisfied smile. “Often in error, but never in doubt”…
So say we all. But if the week has been jammed with political fodder, it also featured some less fraught humor. Which is not to say that a joke can’t make you think. I won’t go so far as to say “the best ones do,” because I like the silly ones. Still, this Rubes…
Highlights, the magazine for young children, has issued a statement concerning the conditions under which immigrant children are suffering as they are detained by the United States. At Highlights, our core belief is that children are the world’s most important people. In light of the reports of the living conditions of detained children &…
Jimmy Margulies leads off the conversation with a reflection on the upcoming holiday and our American identity. There are all sorts of things wrong with this drawing, I suppose, starting with the kids not being crowded enough and the facility not being a series of indoor cages. And of course we can argue over what…
Pia Guerra is not the first person to observe that keeping kids locked up in concentration camps or guest cages or whatever you call them is a great deal more expensive than makes sense. However, she is the first I’ve seen to take advantage of the “Picture is Worth 1,000 Words” rule, and that is,…
Doc and Raider is starting a new arc that I’ll be watching with interest, because I’m increasingly unsure about any kind of normality, much less “heteronormativity,” which Wikipedia defines as “the belief that heterosexuality, predicated on the gender binary, is the norm or default sexual orientation.” Teen Vogue, which tends to tackle hard topics, has…
I recently likened Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to the middle-school bully who repeatedly pokes his finger in someone’s chest, hoping to get a response so he can say “He swung first.” Darrin Bell reverses things, and I don’t disagree. Can you imagine if Iran flew a drone off our Atlantic Coast and then tried to argue…
Happy 90th Birthday Dick Rogers! Born June 19, 1929 today Dick joins the Senior Strippers Club. Dick began his cartooning career assisting George Crenshaw in the early 1960s. Crenshaw had been doing the Nubbin comic strip, and then created the Belvedere panel in 1962. Around that time he took on Dick as an…