Industry news for the professional cartoonist
On April 2, cartoonist Liniers discussed his new book, “Macanudo: Optimism is for the Brave,” with English and Creative Writing department chair Peter Orner at Still North Books & Bar. Originally slated to take place on Jan. 16, the event was rescheduled due to inclement weather. Born Ricardo Liniers Siri in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the…
Before another Saturday comes around I’d best get this Wayno Blog from last month out of the way where Wayno discusses the idea of waiting for an idea to come to you rather than chasing an idea. Our colleague Mark Parisi, cartoonist of the award-winning panel Off the Mark, recently started a lively social media…
Tom the Dancing Bug offers a bit of commentary on the Trump defense that lying in contract negotiations ought not to have legal consequences as long as you pay back the loan which you got at an interest rate based on your lies. It’s an interesting defense to claim that commercial real estate transactions are…
Peanuts and Beetle Bailey will be celebrating their 75th anniversaries next year, so here come the articles. In the Private Scrapbook chapter dedicated to Beetle Bailey, Walker discussed how a comic strip that – for most of its history – focused exclusively on the misadventures of a U.S. Army private, could win over the hearts…
It’s only fair to point out that this Mike Lester (AMS) cartoon ran a few days before Biden suddenly racked up some significant gains in the all-important swing states that could decide the 2024 Presidential Election. If polls determined elections, Hillary Clinton would have won in 2016. Tracking polls is part of horserace coverage, and…
Indeed it is, They Can Talk. The bears got up a little early this year and started getting into the bird feeders, which is their equivalent of socializing. We always get warned to take down our bird feeders this time of year, which I gather is because we don’t want to encourage the bears to…
Ted Rall (Counterpoint)’s cartoon sent me scurrying to find whatever blog/podcast/column went with it, because it made no sense to blame Millennials. Turns out he saw a Millennial tell a homeless person “I don’t carry cash” and he feels the cashless society is a government plot. Well, possibly, but I don’t carry cash and I’m…
Yes, I know. We’ll get to it after a few more cartoonists have weighed in. For now, we’ll skip the politics and have a few laffs instead. Anyway, she’s not the only one who has suddenly popped up in a most bizarre place. Rip Haywire (AMS) is trying to figure out who he is and…
I gather, from the flood of cartoons on the topic, that I’m the only person in America who doesn’t watch TikTok. It’s not that I don’t watch TikTok, but I don’t watch many videos, which I would say has something to do with being ADD except I know people with ADD who find short videos…
Wilbur gets as political today as I want to, given that I’m recovering from that lost hour of sleep and also am bracing myself for a flood of Katie Britt panels that are sure to hit over the next 24 hours. In the meantime, I appreciate someone who can combine a cartooning cliche with a…
Juxtaposition of Ancient Fads Paul Conrad Cornered — AMS Paul Berge has a collection of cartoons from a half-century ago about streaking, which was one of those fads that becomes a fad because it became a fad. Which is to say that it got a lot more attention than it deserved, but it appealed to…
“News” is up for debate in some entries below, but we will start with actual news. Mike Manley has revealed that he is scheduled to return as daily artist on The Phantom June 10, 2024. Grawlix Illustrated Zits today; Beetle Bailey tomorrow. Let’s stay at King Features for another news item. I’m not in the…
Cathy Wilcox marks International Women’s Day with a grim sense of purpose but a welcome lack of complaining: It’s a good day to recalibrate as the struggle continues. She makes a valuable list of things to challenge, and doesn’t waste a lot of time and energy on the small stuff: These are all major policies,…
Radical Socialist Cartoonist William Gropper Since 1920 Cartoonist William Gropper has been busy as a beaver, trying to gnaw down the capitalist system. One day that year Manhattan’s Tribune rashly sent Gropper to caricature an I. W. W. rally. Instead,he became a convert. This week Manhattanites from Red to pink and some who just like…
Remember that graffito that read “We are the people our parents warned us about?” Well, as Non Sequitur (AMS) points out, we are now the people we warned ourselves about. I miss the old days, but when I really think back, I realize that most of the fun things I did then fall under the…