Spy vs. Spy, Brother Jonathan, and 20 Trailblazing Comic Strips That Changed the Game Spy vs. Spy and Antonio Prohías The seventy-first issue of MAD Magazine, cover dated June 1962, contains a noteworthy entry in Antonio Prohías’ Spy vs. Spy, a comic strip depicting Looney Tunes-style espionage between two pointy-headed, monochromatic secret agents. This particular […]
Poor Edison Lee (KFS) finds himself in what seems likely to be a disaster: He misunderstood the teacher’s previous announcement and thought the upcoming test was on Chapter One, and a 30-minute test is hardly a pop quiz, so this matters. We’ll see how this turns out. There are kids who study themselves into a […]
Cartoonists aplenty in Jersey City last week for the National Cartoonists Society (NCS) annual Reuben Awards. For those of us not able to attend the festivities there are photos and videos available. The NCS welcomed all with an introductory video of past Banquets and weekends plus the 2023 Reuben nominees. The convention starts by taking […]
Sometimes even a good cartoon becomes obsolete before it sees print. Mike Luckovich seems caught between Walter Isaacson’s book extract and Isaacson’s backpedaling on the issue of Musk, Starlink and the Ukrainian war effort. Isaacson’s book made the claim that Musk had foiled a Ukrainian sea drone attack on the Russian fleet at Sevastopol by […]
The Complete “Asterix: The Chief’s Fight” by Fabcaro and Didier Conrad On October 26, 2023, Papercutz will release the 40th volume of Asterix, titled Asterix and the White Iris, and today ICv2 has an exclusive first look at three comic strips that are being released as a companion to the graphic novel. The first three […]
Had a hectic last week, without even making it to The Reubens, so let’s catch up. The Society of Illustrators announced their 2023 Hall of Fame inductees in July. The Society’s Hall of Fame Ceremony and Dinner took place this past weekend. Cartoonist and historian Liza Donnelly was honored to stand in and accept the […]
Political cartoons are supposed to offer political opinions, and Steve Kelley (Creators) is seldom shy about taking a partisan view. In this case, he isn’t all that far off in suggesting that a lot of people seem to think the various Republicans charged with crimes — one assumes he means the Jan 6 crowd — […]
The Dayton Daily News a couple days ago: For more than three decades beginning in the mid-1970s, Dayton-born cartoonist Cathy Guisewite entertained millions with her comic strip “Cathy.” Her recent birthday caused us to go into the archives to share more about her story. The Daily Cartoonist has another reason as the Daily News story […]
Reubens’ week for cartoonists started with Labor Day and Baldo showcased both. While Brewster Rockit started the week off with a good laugh. First thought about Wednesday’s Close to Home: Prince Valiant is not allowed to show a sword piercing. Whereas this past week’s Alley Oop had me thinking ‘shrooms. Psychedelics may be the cause […]
Edison Lee (KFS) asks and answers the intriguing question, Why do they give rebates instead of discounts? The answer being that, if they offered a discount, they’d have to give it to everyone who bought the product. By framing the savings in the form of a rebate, they only have to give it to the […]
A week ago The Daily Cartoonist bemoaned missing new cartoons by Lee Judge on our Comics Kingdom feed. So it is only fair to stand up and give Lee a round of applause on his return from vacation. I noticed Lee had returned on September 6, but was wary that it may have been a […]
A few days ago we passed on the news that Brian Gable was retiring after nearly 50 years of political cartooning. Now Brian bids farewell to his Globe and Mail readers in prose rather than picture: … At the beginning of each workday, one scribble has led to another, when suddenly, out of the muddled […]
David Horsey offers a practical take on whatever debate about climate change remains. You have to be something of a Flat Earther to still deny climate change. The vast, vast majority of scientists who study climate have long accepted that it is changing and that we’re to blame. “Vast, vast majority” being over nearly everyone […]
Clay Jones is famous for his editorial cartoons taking on national issues, but now he’s going native (part-time). [An excerpt from] A Note from Clay Jones I miss drawing local cartoons. I love drawing on national and international issues, but I broke into this business drawing on local issues. I started at a small weekly […]
Dark Side of the Horse (AMS) takes a second look at a silly expression and I’m glad I’m not the only person who thinks that dying young doing something pointless is not a good idea. I gather the expression is supposed to balance the values of a short, thrilling life and a long, boring life, […]