Jack Ohman plays with the Nativity story to illustrate the plight of the poor and homeless in San Francisco. It’s nicely played, though, of course, he’s hardly the first cartoonist to make the comparison. But his multi-panel approach really pays off, adding detail and frustration to a common plaint. One way to differentiate among these […]
In its online edition of the Indiana Prairie Farmer section Farm Progress ran a story by Tom J. Bechman about a cartoon that ran in earlier issues of the Prairie Farmer magazine: Thumb through issues of Indiana Prairie Farmer from the late 1970s and 1980s and you will find Bug Scout, a cartoon featuring a […]
The Cartoonist Rights organization has joined a growing list of groups and people boycotting X/Twitter: Effective immediately, CARTOONISTS RIGHTS will cease posting content to Twitter, now known as “X”, until such time as there is a change in ownership and a marked improvement in the website’s policies and functionality. Following recent changes in policy and […]
We’ll start the day with a serious piece of folly before we get into the fun stuff. Guy Badeaux reports that Gary Varvel (Creators) got himself into a jam in Canada after the Toronto Sun ran this anti-Ukraine cartoon in a nation with a very large Ukrainian population. {There are places on the prairies where […]
“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life” – Oscar Wilde Today’s Barney & Clyde: From yesterday’s Rudy Guiliani podcast (36 minutes, 12 seconds in): From Uproxx: That’s a pretty quick turn around for The Weingartens and Clark w/ LaBadie. (Yeah, we know the Barney & Clyde comic strip was created at least four […]
As we reported last month Bunny Hoest with John Reiner are switching distributors, taking The Lockhorns panel to Andrews McMeel Syndication (AMS) beginning January 1, 2024 after 55 years with King Features Syndicate. Further confirmation is that AMS has added The Lockhorns to its list of comics available to newspapers… and created a The Lockhorns […]
The whole world is watching, and, as Cathy Wilcox notes, they’ve stopped laughing. I can’t speak for Australians, but, from here, it was always a kind of horrified laugh or sometimes, given that we’d elected him, an embarrassed laugh. But the laughter is dying down, as she notes, because he’s gone from being a buffoon […]
This week’s Wayback Whensday was put in motion by a Bob Harris comment to TDC earlier this week. The Wallace the Brave strip spurs my obligatory reminder that the Family Circus didn’t invent the footprints gag. Clare Dwiggins (“Dwig”) was using it at least as early as 1919. Tom Heintjes informs us that Bil Keane […]
Mike Manley, Tony DePaul and The Phantom crew, David Fitzsimmons, Brian Gable, and Cartoonist Rights Network. A Mike Manley health update. Mike Manley explains that he will need more intrusive surgeries: This whole roundabout of colliding health issues has revealed that my heart is an actually pretty bad shape even though I have never suffered […]
I’m with Lizzie in Reply All (WPWG), with some mixed feelings about the holiday season but a large dose of “When is this over?” For the self-employed and empty-nested, the holidays are mostly days when the banks and the post office are closed, but, in addition, we’re entering a Dead Zone where a lot of […]
From Patrick McDonnell: On November 1st, the Guard Dog story began running in newspapers and on MUTTS.com. And, today, this part of Guard Dog’s journey comes to a happy ending and new beginning… …Telling a tale like this in a daily comic strip is a different reading experience. Media today trains us for immediate satisfaction […]
The big news in Public Domain 2024 is selected Mickey Mouse copyrights, whose animated shorts Steamboat Willie and The Gallopin’ Gaucho were released in 1928, will finally succumb to The Mickey Mouse Protection Act. The Associated Press’ Andrew Dalton: With several asterisks, qualification and caveats, Mickey Mouse in his earliest form will be the leader […]
Bill Bramhall marks the descent of Rudy Giuliani from “America’s Mayor” to a ridiculous — and now heavily fined — laughingstock, and it’s hard to argue with his assessment that Rudy has largely done it to himself. It wasn’t a particularly drawn out descent. In 2000, Giuliani was still mayor of New York City and […]
Latisha Moore, event manager for the National Cartoonists Society, has passed away. Latisha Lavette Moore January 23, 1976 – November 26, 2023 From the Echovita obituary: It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Latisha L. Moore (Vero Beach, Florida), who passed away on November 26, 2023, at the age of 47, […]
The First Dog on the Moon presents “a random selection” of topics that didn’t pass muster. We’ve stood that on its head to highlight some comics we think deserve recognition, though not eight samples like First Dog on the Moon had. Brad Pattullo contributes a monthly comic strip to The Erie Reader. This Summer Brad, […]