Industry news for the professional cartoonist
Walt Handelsman isn’t the only cartoonist to depict little kids as the source of the recent security leak, and it’s important to note two things: One is that the leaker, Jack Teixeira, was arrested just about the time this cartoon first appeared, a photo-finish that means Handelsman knew only that the leak had come from…
Let’s start with Daddy’s Home (Creators) and no, I haven’t finished doing my taxes yet, but I’m finished dealing with the cost of putting kids through college, and somewhere in my storehouse of columns I wrote in the 90s is a rant about how college costs should be tax deductible. And now they are sorta…
In the last year of Dan O’Neill’s Odd Bodkins for Chronicle Features O’Neill had met Bobby London and others who would make up the famous Air Pirates. According to Brian Doherty in DIrty Pictures Bobby had been “working with O’Neill on the final months of Odd Bodkins,” which would be the late Summer and Fall…
Joe Cool Type Cool From NBC News: The American Red Cross partnered with the popular Peanuts cartoon brand to create an exclusive T-shirt featuring Snoopy for people donating blood. Now, the shirt is going viral on TikTok and first-time blood donors are showing up to get their hands on the exclusive merch. The Red Cross…
If we sing the praises of a comic strip that hits a news item on the moment despite its lead time, we should point out when one doesn’t, but today’s La Cucaracha (AMS) isn’t that simple a case. It’s not just that we haven’t seen “another Biden bank collapse,” and not just because there’s no…
Australian cartoonist Bruce Petty has passed away. From the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Australian cartoonist, filmmaker and satirist Bruce Petty has died at the age of 93. In a statement, his family said Petty died peacefully this morning. “He leaves behind his loving family and will be dearly missed,” the statement said. Born in Melbourne’s north-east…
I’ve learned not to bother fact-checking Frazz (AMS), though it will lead you down some fascinating wormholes. This one touched off a number of thoughts, starting out with ol’ Iron Eyes Cody, who, as Caulfield notes, was not an Indian, though he promoted the culture to an extent that at least some native groups were…
Sunday Synchronicity Mutts and Mary Worth panels play well off each other. I imagine I am far from the only one who checked out if Horace was right in April 1’s Dark Side of the Horse. Nancy had the most involved and inflated April Fools’ Day joke. Here is The Daily Cartoonist’s good deed for…
Who says comics can’t be educational? Today’s Andertoons (AMS) sent me scrambling for the googles, where, by yompin’ yiminy, I discovered that, indeed, wombats poop cubes. Which sounds like a barroom expression: “I was so scared, I was pooping cubes!” Which it could still be, mind you. But the interesting thing is that the Science…
“I don’t like the area, I love the area. I find it magical,” he said. Jules Feiffer moved not too long ago and Otsego County reporter Daniel Francis paid him a welcome-to-the-neighborhood visit. Though voicing his opinions and challenging society and the current political climate remain the backbone of his career, Jules must now contend…
We’ll start the day with a rebus rather than a joke, though a rebus is, really, a form of joke. Best of all, this is an old rebus and thus an old joke and it has flummoxed a lot of people over the years, I think, because they search for deep meaning in a shallow…
A friend emailed last night, wishing me luck in sorting through the inevitable flood of political cartoons that were already coming, inspired by the Nashville murders. I responded “The real problem is people posting their old cartoons. I can’t tell the ones I’ve seen from the ones I only feel like I’ve seen.” I particularly…
I worked at a paper where this Pardon My Planet (KFS) pretty much described the company health plan. There were fewer than a dozen of us and so the cost of insurance was not only massive to begin with but vulnerable to individual claims: If one person had gotten seriously ill, the entire system would…
Willie Ito, Michael Maslin, Vonn Sumner, Charlie Daniel, Ed Steckley, Trina Robbins, Lee Mars, Jules Rivera, more Long time animator (1954 – 1999) who frequently dabbled in other comic arts … I also was involved with magazine cartoons (Car-Toons magazine in the 1950s), comic strips (four episodes of the annual Disney Christmas comic strip for…
Joshua Benton at Nieman Lab: Gannett, America’s largest newspaper chain, should wake up each morning thankful for the existence of No. 2 Alden Global Capital. It’s the type of company that inspires debates over whether “vulturous” is too kind of an adjective. If you’re writing an Atlantic cover story on “Who Killed America’s Newspapers?” Alden…