Industry news for the professional cartoonist
I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising that Kal Kallaugher, who cartoons for the Economist among other clients, should demonstrate some financial literacy and get the SVB/Signature situation right. Call me political, but the people who whined while the Fed was raising interest rates to battle inflation weren’t offering an alternative plan. You can’t have an…
As expected, I’m seeing a lot of SVB cartoons, some of which are entirely off target, some of which are blaming deregulation, which is a likely but not yet proven cause, a couple of which celebrate panicked withdrawals and too many of which predict a general collapse of all banks and the economy. So here’s…
Famed British comic strip and gag cartoonist Bill Tidy has passed away. William Edward (Bill) Tidy, MBE October 9, 1933 – March 11, 2023 The death of Bill Tidy, who some call “The World’s Greatest Cartoonist” and “UK’s Best-Loved Cartoonist,” is being reported by newspapers throughout Great Britain including The Daily Mail and The Guardian….
Life is good, and I’m well past midlife, as depicted in this Non Sequitur (AMS). As for my mojo, either it’s gone or it’s become so fully embedded that I don’t fret over it. I do miss malls, though. I don’t think anyone is building them anymore and most of the ones I’ve seen lately…
Today is International Women’s Day, though you wouldn’t know it by looking through American cartoons. Ah well, don’t feel bad: I didn’t see any among the British cartoons, either. Which doesn’t mean there weren’t any, but, if there were, they were hiding very well. Meanwhile, Fiona Katauskas explains why it isn’t a bigger deal in…
A New Comic Strip Lum and Abner cartoonist Donnie Pitchford has created a new comic strip called A New Comic Strip! Donnie’s introduction at that Lum and Abner link: This is a new “bigfoot” sci-fi strip in daily format, although don’t look for it six times a week! The best I can manage right now…
Cartoonist Gary Varvel was the keynote speaker at a local Republican function. From The Greenfield Daily Reporter: The award-winning syndicated editorial cartoonist who spent 24 years at the Indianapolis Star was the keynote speaker at the Hancock County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner at Adaggios Banquet Hall late last Friday. He was joined by GOP…
It’s National Grammar Day, and Day By Dave (AMS) celebrates it by dragging fingernails across a blackboard. Using “should of” for “should have” is not a grammatical error, dammit. It’s a usage error. Or, if you really want to shut them up, point out that it’s a case of catachresis. And note, that, as it…
We’ll start off today with Jimmy Margulies (KFS)‘s cartoon, in which he mashes up the Roald Dahl re-write kerfuffle with the scandal over Fox News’ well-documented decision to promote lies in order to hold audience. He’s got it right: Fox produces fairy tales for its viewers. The woman’s trust has been broken and she’s looking…
As much as I would like to echo Mike’s sentiment of being “done with the Dilbert thing” there is still one more post for me to make – the final stats when the last Dilbert comic strip hits the newspapers. It is possible that Adams will set up a self-syndicating system, but that is extremely…
Mt. Pleasant by Rick McKee and Kent Sligh has ended. Cartoonist Rick McKee notified readers Monday on the GoComics site: Yes, unfortunately, this is the end here. We began Mt. Pleasant two years ago in what was already a challenging newspaper market, with very limited space available for new comics. We knew it would be…
Vladimir Putin has given cartoonists a gift with his long table, which seems to be linked to germaphobia, perhaps a symptom of OCD, perhaps an indication of actual poor health and vulnerability. Rumors about his health abound but are never definitively confirmed nor definitively disputed. Man Overboard takes advantage of the iconic furniture to make…
In a sane world, Gary Huck‘s cartoon — perhaps transformed into bumperstickers and T-shirts — could be a game changer. They knew. They lied. They played their audience for suckers. In a sane world, the backlash would do more harm to Murdoch’s empire than any penalty handed down in the Dominion lawsuit, as furious MAGA…
Mr. Boffo offers a bit of safe harbor for troubled marriages and thank goodness for finicky cats. Our cat ate Friskies kibble every day without a complaint and maybe that’s why our marriage didn’t last: We didn’t have cat food to agree to disagree about. Somebody was kvetching on social media yesterday about how half…
From the start, [Hägar the Horrible] was a family project. Browne remembers the entire family sitting around the table as her father presented jokes and ideas, grading them. At this point, he also began asking one of his sons, Chris, to write gags. As Hägar picked up steam, Dik began focusing more attention on the…