Bill Amend’s FoxTrot was one of the great successes of late-twentieth-century newspaper comics. At the end of its run as a daily feature in 2006, the strip was running in over 1000 papers, had published over 30 book collections, and Amend was a runner-up for the National Cartoonist’s Society’s title of Cartoonist of the Year. […]
A Dave Granlund cartoon about the current Israeli-Hamas War brought at least one objection: Read the full letter here. The response from The Aspen Times: Read The Aspen Times apology and their atonement. Finally, we thought it appropriate to give readers a more complete picture of Granlund’s perspective on Israel and Hamas by publishing Saturday’s […]
Brewster Rockit (Tribune) is usually silly, except that on random Sundays it will suddenly take a kind of Mr. Wizard shift and explain something about astronomy. (For those too young to recognize the name, Mr. Wizard was who we watched on TV before we had Carl Sagan or Neil deGrasse Tyson.) This is a nice […]
Creative comic book genius Keith Giffen has passed away. Keith Ian Giffen November 30, 1952 – October 9, 2023 Keith’s family announced the death on Facebook as Keith had requested them to: Once friends and fans realized Keith had actually passed there was outpouring of love for the man. Mainstream media is reporting the creator/writer/artist’s […]
Zapiro speaks for a large number of cartoonists as they struggle to find something that is both fair and penetrating to say about the bloodbath going on in Israel and Gaza, with the additional burden of knowing that anything of any substance will — intentionally or not — be misinterpreted by a portion of your […]
Last week during the Association of Canadian Cartoonists convention the organization presented Guy Badeaux (aka Bado) and Dale Cummings with their George Townsend Awards (aka The Townsie) proclaiming them as Cartoonist(s) of the Year. As the Canadian ACI explains the award is a “two part award, one for the best Anglophone cartoon and one for […]
For 30 years, Houston-based cartoonist Mary Lawton submitted her work to The New Yorker. For 30 years, she received a series of rejection notices, most of them quite polite but with the same gist: thanks, but no thanks. Occasionally the rejections came with a nice note: “I’m sorry.” She took this as an encouraging sign […]
The world is full of weighty matters, but we’re going to, in the words of Eddy Arnold, make the world go away and get it off our shoulders. And, yes, I know it was written by Hank Cochran, but this is being written by me and we’re not picking nits today. Okay, we are. But […]
We’ll start with a nice 3½ minute segment from News12’s Made in Connecticut featuring Ray Billingsley. This week in Made in Connecticut, News 12 features Ray Billingsley, the cartoonist and creator of “Curtis,” a nationally syndicated comic strip. The character is a very likeable, but mischievous 11-year-old boy who’s loved by millions. While “Curtis” has […]
Looking back at the art of cartooning with Bill Mauldin, RL Crabb, Jeff MacNelly, Ian Jones, and Sydney Jordan. Rob Stolzer proclaims: I consider Bill Mauldin to be one of the most influential cartoonists of the 20th century, coming into WWII as a kid cartoonist and leaving the Mediterranean Theater as someone who changed the […]
The Guardian has apparently declined to publish a depiction of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu by cartoonist Steve Bell, reportedly telling him the artwork perpetuated an anti-Semitic trope. The London Press Gazette reports on Steve Bell‘s description of what happened and Bell’s history with the problem: Bell posted the blocked cartoon to Twitter/X on Monday, […]
Let’s start by declaring the distinction between an explanation and an excuse. A fair-minded person can explain what is happening in the Israel/Palestine confrontation, though there may be differences of opinion in weighing the factors. Nobody can excuse what is happening. Morten Morland makes a strong point. The Palestinians’ desire for a homeland has been […]
Today is the official release date of The Mysteries by Bill Watterson and John Kascht. From Bill Watterson, bestselling creator of the beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, and John Kascht, one of America’s most renowned caricaturists, comes a mysterious and beautifully illustrated fable about what lies beyond human understanding. In a fable for grown-ups […]
Joel Pett is the 2023 recipient of the “Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning.” “Famous for his acid wit, Joel Pett treats local political fodder with the same unflinching critical eye he wields in his national cartoons,” stated the three-judge panel of cartoonists. “His work relentlessly picks apart the cruelty and hypocrisy of […]
Is this a political cartoon? Steve Brodner thinks so, and said so, at the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists convention in San Francisco this past weekend. Picasso’s painting is considered Great Art, but he was reacting to the bombing of Guernica and he was certainly expressing his take on the horror. The fact that he […]