This first bit of folly may be yours. Kirk Walters offers a variation on a familiar end-of-December theme: The crush of Christmas bills that arrive in the new year. But unike Ramadan or Hannukah, Christmas doesn’t wander around the calendar and pop up at unexpected times. It’s always December 25 and New Year’s is always […]
Controversy is surrounding an Adam Zyglis cartoon. Buffalo, NY (WBEN) – Leadership in Buffalo’s Jewish community says it’s upset over Tuesday’s Buffalo News cartoon by Adam Zyglis. They say the cartoon is anti-Semitic rather than a critique of Israel. From WBEN: While neither Adam Zyglis nor The Buffalo News are speaking on the record about […]
Michael Cavna and David Betancourt, Washington Post pop culture reporters with an expertise about comics, have accepted buyouts from the newspaper. From Mike Rhode: Michael Cavna just confirmed to me that both he and David Betancourt are taking the Post buyout offer, and there will be no specialists on comics on the staff now. David […]
I’m trying to be more productive than the fellow in Matt’s cartoon, but there does seem to be a lot of letdown in the actual week we’re going through. I’m going to assume things will pick up along about the Eighth Day of Christmas. Which is Maids A-Milking and let’s hope we do better than […]
Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman have selected 103 pieces from their 26-year-old, award-winning strip Zits for Heritage Auctions’ sale on January 4. Zits has appeared in more than 1,700 newspapers worldwide since its introduction in July 1997. The offering consist of nearly 100 daily and Sunday strips and then a few specialty pieces. The strips […]
Antonio Prohias, Morrie Turner, Franklin Osborne Alexander, and Carl Fallberg. Paperback biographies from a book’s back cover. Book Jacket Bios has the images where they can be supersized and also adds more biographical information. Book Jacket Bios is an occasional blog about writers and artists. These biographies and other images come from an invaluable treasure […]
This could have been a short day for me, because Jen Sorensen has said everything I have on my mind. Instead, I’ll elaborate. One challenge in critiquing editorial cartoons gone wrong is trying to determine if the cartoonist is genuinely mistaken or deliberately lying, but I like to think that deliberate lies come from farther […]
Snoopy, Olive (Emi Burdge) & Popeye (Randy Milholland), Dilbert and Scott Adams, Noah Voelker, Jason Chatfield, and Thomas May. It’s Snoopy’s world, and Gen Z is just living in it – apparently. For months, social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram have been flooded with memes, clips and stills of Snoopy in action, clipped from […]
The Dogs of C Kennel (Creators) are experiencing a temporary lull, but we’re not. However, St. Stephen’s Day is, granted, not as exciting as Christmas and the dopamine hit is more subtle. We’ll get to the wren in a minute, but there’s no park. I just liked the headline, because if you are of the […]
The end of the year always brings editorial cartoonists and newspapers selecting cartoons from the past year to present as some of their best. With 2023 ending on a Sunday that would seem the perfect day to publish such reviews. Some have already presented their cartoon choices for 2023. Unfortunately some, like The Baltimore Sun’s […]
It’s always nice to get the family together for the holidays, and here they are before they went Hollywood. As for the current holiday, Greg Kearney noted the downpour in Maine, which was worse than we had it next door, but we also had some power failures and erasure of snow-making on the ski hills […]
Yesterday was the 200th anniversary of “A Visit from St. Nicholas” and today, the day before Christmas 2023, a number of cartoonists used the “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” poem, one way or another, in their Sunday pages. (Which is common on Christmas Eve but this year it landed on a Sunday and could be […]
The Washington Post recently published a few letters about some cartoons from mid-December. Editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez came in for some praise: Michael Ramirez’s marvelous Dec. 12 editorial cartoon, “Medal of dishonor,” should be copied and posted on the office door of every member of Congress who has cravenly linked further Ukraine aid to the […]
Ivan Turgenev’s On the Eve is one of my favorite novels, but it bombed in Russia when it was published in 1859, in large part because it was dismissive of effete student idealists who talked reform and accomplished nothing, as one of them admitted: Plus ca change, baby, though I’d suggest that Jeff Danziger (Counterpoint) […]
St. Nicholas visits George Scarbo, Walt Kelly, Bill Elder, Jim Davis, and, because you were nice, Walt Kelly again. ‘Twas a couple nights before Christmas when an Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas by someone or other was first published 200 years ago in the December 23, 1823 edition of The Troy Sentinel. With […]