Industry news for the professional cartoonist
Nick Anderson (Tribune) with the only hammer cartoon you need. Or, at least, the only one you’re going to see here, because they’re gaining on the corgis for numbers and for lack of new insights, though I guess if someone drew Fox News beating a dead horse with a hammer, I might buy into that,…
From Publishers Weekly: A Federal Court has blocked Penguin Random House’s acquisition of rival Big Five publisher Simon & Schuster. At press time, Judge Florence Y. Pan’s opinion was not yet public as the parties still need to agree on redactions to protect confidential information, but in a brief two page order Pan enjoined the…
Appropriately GoComics introduces Curses! by Chelsea Carr on Halloween. From the GoComics blog: The comic strip follows Wilma, a witch who hasn’t quite mastered her magic yet, which gets her into some trouble. She and her family move to a cottage in the middle of the woods so she can have plenty of space to…
I’m going to have to be frugal with cartoons this coming week, given that most are either Halloween gags, which will become obsolete after tomorrow, or election cartoons, which will stop being pertinent after Tuesday. (Update: I can’t read a calendar. See comments.) Kevin Kallaugher combines the two in a way that works well today,…
First, “He Who Must Be Dealt With,” and Ben Jennings bursts through the crowd of Musk-Freeing-Trump and Musk-Weaponizing-Twitter cartoons with this reminder that having a lot of money and getting a lot of attention doesn’t necessary translate into having a lot of judgment. As noted here yesterday, one doesn’t just walk in and fire everyone…
Thursday’s Judge Parker made me nostalgic. © NAS Nostalgic for those Dagwood commute drives when Denis Lebrun was the Blondie artist. Lebrun would occasionally use the middle panel to show the car doing a “Bullit jump” while going over a hill. © KFS Wednesday’s Warped by Michael Cavna gives me an excuse (like I…
As we come within two weeks of the midterms, Paul Berge riffs on GEICO’s riff on cheesy horror movies to show where we stand. It’s funny as a riff on cheesy horror movies, less so as a riff on a cheesy electorate, but he’s right: The right-wing media bubble has been effective enough that those…
Chris Britt (Counterpoint) starts us off with a look into the Republicans’ Halloween House of Terror, decorated in keeping with the historic framework of the past six years, tying in the GOP’s alliances with Q-Anon, their reluctance to denounce tiki-torch bearing Anti-Semitic neo-nazis, their ammosexual fetishes, their opposition to safe medical abortions and their ever-present…
A Sunday Miracle © NEA For the first time in nearly four years Alley Oop and Ooola as adults appeared in the Sunday comic strip since Joey Alison Sayers and Jonathan Lemon took over. The last time they appeared as adults was in the January 6, 2019 Sunday rerun (last original Sunday appearance was August…
Friday introduced another real world, but heretofore unseen, occurrence into the World of Gil Thorp. As the top commenter Ravenswing noted Friday about the new development: Henry, I say this with all the wish to see you succeed at this as I may, but you need to slow your roll here. This is a daily…
Cartooning doesn’t have a lot of rules, but “If you thought of it fast, so did everyone else” is pretty reliable. Be glad I didn’t do this with all the corgi cartoons that followed QEII’s death. And that, over at Drawing Fire, Clay Jones compressed the gas-pump-snake cartoons into a single piece. Can’t…
“If This Be … Mo(och)dok!” Pooch Cafe © Paul Gilligan; Captain America and MODOK © Marvel Comics Paul Gilligan gives old-time Marvelites a treat in this past week’s Pooch Cafe. 10 Funniest Calvin and Hobbes comic strips … or not. © Bill Watterson The “10 Funniest Calvin and Hobbes Comics, According to Reddit” are…
No need to wait for the cartoons about yesterday’s Jan 6 Committee hearing to arrive; Jack Ohman had picked up on the scandals and ass-covering of the Secret Service that morning, though I doubt he knew ahead of time the ghastly array of uninvestigated warnings that would be displayed at the hearing. I’ve often said…
An 18 month old cartoon by Salt Lake Tribune cartoonist Pat Bagley was the stated reason Utah Rep. Burgess Owens gave for withdrawing from a scheduled debate five hours before it began. From The Gephardt Daily: Utah [Representative] Burgess Owens announced just before 1 p.m. Wednesday that he would not participate in Wednesday pre-election debate…
They Can Talk captures my mood this morning, after a very long trip home from the AAEC Convention. We were re-enacting a classic tweet: I was supposed to fly from Columbus, have a one-hour layover in DC, then on to Burlington, but someone had one of those hardshell suitcases, which was apparently just a tad…