British comic artist Ian Gibson has passed away. Ian Gibson February 20, 1946 – December 11, 2023 As Rich Johnston informed us a couple days ago Ian’s passing was not unexpected: Ian Gibson has been ill for some time. And in July, he told his fans, “This is difficult – I barely have the energy […]
The best way to start today is with Paul Fell’s cartoon, which should please people who dislike sports. You don’t have to like sports, BTW, just like you don’t have to like opera or Shakespeare or raisin-oatmeal cookies. But there’s a difference between saying you don’t like ballet and wondering aloud why they don’t just […]
Everyone was delighted about the original announcement this past September so Gannett newspapers are reminding people that the final group of The USA TODAY Network will soon implement the standardization of their comics pages. The Nashville Tennessean via The Coloradoan: Classic newspaper comic strip legends like Dennis the Menace, Blondie and Beetle Bailey are here […]
We’ll lead off with a strange choice of little current relevance, just to kind of ease into the grimmer ones. It wasn’t far into the Vintage Ben Bolt (KFS) story arc that I began to fear that he’d end up adopting this plucky little guttersnipe, but I hoped it wouldn’t happen. Big Ben Bolt launched […]
Has J. C. Duffy given up the daily grind? After four weeks of daily reruns The Fusco Brothers Sunday edition has caught up and is a rerun today. To paraphrase what I said when I noted Mother Goose and Grimm had gone rerun a couple months ago: Of course I fully expect new Fusco Brothers […]
Today’s Cornered (AMS) reminded me of my favorite Christmas tree. As I said the other day, I’ve stopped decorating now that I’m an empty-nester, but one Christmas when I had kids at home, one of my sons and I went to the hardware store to get rope so we could go buy a tree and […]
G. B. Trudeau revisits an earlier Doonesbury (or two) on Sunday December 10, 2023. The “previous strip about Balance of Nature” referred to above is from June 4 of this year. At that time Arnold Zwicky did some background for us on the supplements: … (#1) The capsule regimen is overly complex (6 capsules a […]
Editorial cartoonist John Yardley-Jones has passed away. John William Yardley-Jones May 1, 1930 – December 6, 2023 From The Edmonton Journal: John, or Yardley as he was known to many, was an editorial cartoonist, watercolourist, marathon runner, cross-country skier, honorary mayor of New Sarepta, and larger-than-life character. above: early Edmonton Journal cartoons from 1962 and […]
Today we welcome two cartoonists to our Senior Strippers Club, both Ashleigh Brilliant and Jose Delbo turn 90. Ashleigh Brilliant, born December 9, 1933, came to prominence during San Francisco’s 1967 Summer of Love where he had joined the Haight Ashbury scene. From the April 7, 1967 San Francisco Examiner: Sometime between 1967 and 1972 […]
Tony Carrillo gives us a clue to his lead time on F-Minus (AMS), given that the American Ornithological Society announced on November 1 that they intended to change the names of birds named after people. They should have made their secondary reason first, which is that using descriptive names rather than eponyms helps people identify […]
The news of a new collection of Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies comic strip, which ran in The Village Voice from 1974 to 1995, sent me to the archives to find the first and last of the comic strip that for 20 years portrayed New York City life using quotes heard that both the cartoonist […]
Cartoonist and biographer Bill Griffith has an obsession with Ernie Bushmiller and Nancy and Sluggo. In the past seventeen strips that trio, or some combination of them, have been mentioned in four of his Zippy the Pinhead comics, including today’s. So fans of Griffith, Bushmiller, and comics looked forward to the release of his graphic […]
Today will be a combination of the absurd and the frightening, so we’ll start somewhere in the middle with Graeme MacKay’s commentary on the price of Christmas trees. The scout troop in our town square is selling them for $65, about the same price as the local co-op, but I haven’t checked prices elsewhere because, […]
More missing Vintage Judge Parker (KFS) strips, and this week’s content glitch includes a pretty significant plot development.
Peter Evans has been contributing editorial cartoons to The Islander News of Key Biscayne for nearly 30 years. During that time his cartoons have drawn negative comments. A cartoon about the current Israeli/Hamas War is no exception. For example: The November 30 edition had a cartoon depicting the battle between Israel and Hamas. I object […]