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10 Years of This is Fine, Marvel Covers Disney, Snoopy’s Moon Mission, Gannett Gonna Gannett, Remembering Jack Bender. You’ve probably seen it: A smiling cartoon dog sits at a table, coffee mug on hand, as a room goes up in flames. “This is fine,” the dog assures himself. It’s been a decade since its creator…
Five drawings from the mid-20th century by Carl Barks, famed Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comic book artist, have been recently brought to the public’s attention to the delight of the artists fans. [The columnist emailed] Michael Barrier, a Barks scholar whose “Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book” was published in 1982,…
You may have to watch sports to know this, but Progressive Insurance is running a series of commercials in which people in normal disagreements get to throw a red challenge flag and see a replay to determine what really happened. The appeal, of course, is how much we wish we could, despite the fact that…
Timing may not be everything, but it’s a lot of things, and today’s The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee (KFS) lands the day after I saw someone observing on social media that the Community Chest card in Monopoly teaches kids to rely on government handouts if they get in trouble. 24 hours later, my response…
This is an installment of 2022 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: Dearly Departed 2022 DebutsThese comics began appearing in U. S. newspapers in 2022 RITTER’S RIVERby Marc LutzJune 1, 2022 –weekly stripWrangell Sentinel CRABGRASSby Tauhid BondiaJune…
Political Cartoons in an Age of Fake News TalkDec 1, 2022 – 5:30 pm The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hosts “a roundtable discussion by political cartoonists Eric J. Garcia, Keith Knight, and Ann Telnaes, moderated by Associate Professor in Graphic Design Stacey Robinson.” Getting Laughs While Speaking Truth to Power Letters to the…
Cartoons have long caught the public’s attention, capturing social or political sentiments and highlighting pressing issues. The nature of these cartoons has changed over the years and decades, even the centuries, accommodating a widespread appetite for vitriolic humor and propaganda. To commemorate the important role of political cartoons in American history and culture, Stacker went…
It’s Halloween, but that seems to mean “Cartoonists’ Day Off.” I found myself resisting the urge to post an entire page of “The Grownups Ate The Candy” gags, which was 98% of what I found. Okay, that’s sarcasm. It was only 93%. I did appreciate this Mt Pleasant (Tribune) because there are parents who go completely…
The North Dakota Forum editorial cartoonist Steve Stark is retiring after 34 years. From InForum’s profile: Steve Stark was an early cartoonist while a student at NDSU on The Spectrum student newspaper in the 1970s. Later, Steve began his editorial cartooning in earnest at the Lake County News Chronicle, a weekly newspaper in Two…
On a June day too dank for the beach, a three-generation carload of Goreyphiles—fans of the American author, illustrator, and oddball genius Edward Gorey—pulled into a small parking lot in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts. The Edward Gorey House, a sea captain’s home the artist bought in 1979, is now a museum that welcomes visitors from April…
Arlo and Janis cut to the heart of the matter, though the fact is, we need to find a way to weasel out of Columbus Day entirely and not just its angst. We don’t shift into reverse very easily. There are 27 amendments to the Constitution, and only one of them restricts, rather then enlarging,…
The Harvey Awards, which honors exemplary comic book work, will be adding members to its Hall of Fame at New York Comic Con in October. The new inductees are Neil Gaiman, whose best-selling series The Sandman was recently adapted for Netflix, the underground cartoonist Gilbert Shelton, and Roy Thomas, a prolific writer and editor for…
Political cartoonists should, indeed, stick pins in powerful people, but it does seem, in the current cycle, like a two-pan scale, where what happens on one side shifts the balance for the other. Lee Judge (KFS), for instance, is hardly a Trump fan, but he seems anti-Biden in his comment on the way the White…
While we’ve been distracted by royalty of the British and cartooning kinds the world continued to spin. Here we do some catching up. But before we move on from cartoon royalty… 10 Funniest The Far Side Comics, According To Reddit One of the inspirations for Gary Larson’s popular recurring characters was just honored by his…
Mike Smith (KFS) offers a common though often dubious critique, that the Republicans are flooding us with criticism of the Biden administration without proposing any solutions of their own. I say “dubious” because sometimes an act is so clearly foolish that you only need to point it out; you don’t need to specify the non-foolish…