Industry news for the professional cartoonist
John Backderf and Mike Peterson weren’t the only ones to notice Trump Cult cartoonist Ben Garrison‘s recent cartoon heralding the former president’s heroic crusade against social media titans. Liberal site Raw Story called out the cartoonist: Conservative columnist Ben Garrison this week drew a cartoon depicting former President Donald Trump as the heroic knight Don…
Universal Press Syndicate/Andrews McMeel Universal co-founder John McMeel has passed away. John Paul McMeel January 26, 1936 – July 7, 2021 Hall Syndicate/Publishers-Hall Syndicate salesman and manager Universal Press Syndicate Co-Founder, Sales Director, and President Andrews McMeel Universal Chairman On July 7 current AMU Chairman Hugh Andrews notified the company’s associates: I am…
Co-founder and Chairman of Andrews McMeel Universal John McMeel has passed away. John McMeel, Chairman of Andrews McMeel, passed away on July 7, 2021 at age 85. The company that became Andrews McMeel Universal started as a moonlighting alternative career of two firm friends, John P. McMeel and James F. Andrews. McMeel was a native…
Vintage Comics Kingdom has added Vintage Mark Trail to its offerings. For some reason they are running strips from 1971, 25 years after the comic began in 1946. By this time the art is as much assistant Jack Elrod as creator Ed Dodd. In 1978 Elrod would begin co-signing the strip. Also odd is that…
Dark Side of the Horse (AMS) on the dumb side of praise. There are a couple ways of looking at this simple cartoon, the first being that paying to be told you’re smart is contradictory, and you can bet that vending machine never shows anything but 160, which is genius level, 100 being average. According…
Graeme MacKay celebrates the opening of barber shops as Ontario eases up on things. We haven’t been as strict as the Canadians, which is why they won’t let us up there yet. Our local mask mandate goes off Thursday, though some stores have already dropped masks for the double-vaccinated, which sounds a bit confusing but…
Observer-Dispatch (Utica, N.Y.) has a nice article about local (Rome, N.Y.) cartoonist Bernie Hurlbut. In recent years, several local papers have featured Bernie’s People, including the Mid-York Weekly out of Hamilton where Hurlbut’s work appears regularly. He also does cartooning seminars for all ages as far away as the Old Forge Library. It is no…
In case you missed it, Steve Brodner captures a bit of the testimony given by Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff the other day when the Army was accused of teaching cadets at West Point to understand our history and to respect people of all races. If you’d like to hear…
Mike Luckovich sums up the big news of the past 24, and I appreciate his accuracy: Rudy Giuliani has not been disbarred, only suspended, which then just about guarantees he’ll be back, unless he doesn’t contest the suspension. However, the language of the decision also suggests he may be invited back for other reasons and…
Excerpts of remarks of Saul Schniderman, Chair, Labor Heritage Foundation upon the presentation of The Joe Hill Award to cartoonists Gary Huck and Mike Konopacki: This evening the Labor Heritage Foundation presents the Joe Hill Award to the most famous labor cartoonists in the United States — Gary Huck and Mike Konopacki. This is a…
Once again this week, sports takes the lead, as Adam Zyglis (Cagle) spotlights a hero and a zero. Carl Nassib, who is entering his sixth year in the NFL, came out as gay, which caused a great deal of applause, until someone found out he’s also a conservative Republican, at which point they remembered another…
Who would have guessed that Chicago was the birthplace of comics? The exhibition focuses on the origins of the comics in popular publishing, the immeasurable importance of African-American cartoonists and publishing, the first woman cartoonists and editors, the first daily comic strip, and finally the art and comics of undeservedly forgotten Frank King, who with…
Sparky and Peanuts seems to be in the news a lot these days. Most of it is because of the June 25 debut of a new Schulz documentary. From the Tales Buzz review: Apple TV+ is now the home of all-things-“Peanuts” — so it’s the logical place home for a new documentary about Charles Schulz,…
I’m pleased with the recognition, but I agree with Bill Bramhall that it ought not to be the end of the process. I’ll admit my first reaction was “There’s another day the post office and the banks will be closed,” because American wage slaves don’t get many of our federal holidays off. Here’s the current…
We’re going to start off with a cartoon that Kevin Kallaugher did for the Economist nearly a week ago, because this is one we know was drawn before Biden and Putin sat down in Geneva for four hours yesterday. The others may not be as clear, and it’s not unusual for both cartoonists and reporters…