Industry news for the professional cartoonist
The Big Three Comic Syndicates have released a joint statement on the Pulitzer Board’s decision to not award a Prize for the Editorial Cartooning category in 2021. June 16, 2021: Statement Regarding Pulitzer Committee’s Decision on 2020 Editorial Cartooning Award A joint statement from Andrews McMeel Syndication, King Features and Creators Syndicate: Andrews…
Dave Granlund posted this, appropriately, on Flag Day, which meant I’d already filed by the time I saw it. But it applies throughout the year, so here it is on Day After Flag Day. There is no law against wearing apparel that looks like the flag, according to the American Legion, as long as it…
(Rob Rogers – Counterpoint) A manhunt is underway after a Dunkin’ Donuts manager was shot to death during a pre-dawn robbery early Saturday morning in Philadelphia. Three people were killed and five were shot during a graduation party in Kendall, Florida, early Sunday, according to the Miami-Dade Police Department. A 14-year-old boy was shot and…
A number of memorials to the memory of Tom Inge have appeared. A few of them have listed May 15th as the date of Tom’s death so, though we haven’t seen the family obituary, we have added that date to our own obituary. From the Popular Culture Association (you may have to scroll down to…
I dealt with Naomi Osaka’s withdrawal from the French Open briefly yesterday, but it’s still getting a lot of attention, and I like Bill Bramhall’s take best. It’s a personal thing. She did what she needed to do for her own sake, and he frames that here. But it also has wider significance, which also…
Politico interviewed Matt Wuerker about the Bill Bramhall cartoon commotion. Suggesting that people are overreacting to the cartoon and taking it out of context (it’s about being a New Yorker, not an Asian), Matt Wuerker discusses the undeniable racism in the history of political cartoons but sees the Bramhall cartoon as being misinterpreted. “The…
Sports cartoonist John Furlow has passed away. John Allen Furlow July 23, 1921 – May 8, 2021 A month and a half shy of his 100th birthday artist, illustrator, and cartoonist John Furlow has died. From the obituary: Following his passion and extraordinary talent as an artist, John applied and was accepted to…
Being ADD is either a disability or a great advantage, depending on severity and other talents. A lot of ADD people pop up in emergency services, because they do their best work, as someone put it, “when the world is moving at my pace.” It’s also a potential benefit for newspaper reporters because the combination…
Brian Anderson is now running his Dog Eat Doug comic strip on the Webtoons site. So far the strips seem to be reruns but there is the chance of new strips appearing: Thrilled to announce Dog eat Doug will run on Webtoons with new comics every Monday, Wednesday and Friday! Best part, Webtoons is free!…
Pop Culture scholar and historian M. Thomas Inge has passed away. Milton Thomas (Tom) Inge March 18, 1936 – May 15, 2021 As CBR noted in their subhed: “M. Thomas Inge [was] one of the very first academics to cover comics as a college course and one of the earliest scholarly comics writer[s].” Tom Inge…
His work space is a challenge — the ledge is about three feet deep and three feet high, so he has to kneel or lay on his side to paint. “I take a lot of breaks,” Hanley said. Hanley drew 10 different scenes that incorporate the local scenery and various uses of horses, from providing…
(Some thoughts about newspapers, while I take Mother’s Day off to go visit the Aged P.) Here’s the protagonist of an 1867 novel, “Ned Nevins, the News Boy, or, Street Life in Boston,” in which the plucky lad worked to rise above his grim surroundings, as plucky lads would in popular literature for the…
Mike Smith (KFS) echoes my current thoughts. Social media in general, and Facebook for sure, was bad enough during the elections, when lies and complaints about politics dominated things. Now that that’s over, what comes to the surface is people bitching and moaning and complaining and kvetching about trivia. Conversational phrases they don’t like. Foods…
There has been a sudden flood of Liz Cheney cartoons from the left side of the aisle, and Jack Ohman (WPWG) explains why, in perhaps a roundabout way. When cartoonists from the right all start pursuing the same topic, it’s often because an influential conservative website, radio show or TV network has sounded the call….
(Loose Parts – AMS) (Andertoons – AMS) This Juxtaposition at GoComics struck me today not just because two cartoonists played with the same concept, but because it’s a pair of evergreen gags. Which is not the same as a stolen gag, the difference being that Superman is such a widely parodied topic that we don’t…