The AAEC panel on “Cartooning in a Post-Truth World” was, as noted yesterday, dynamic enough to justify separate treatment, and much of that was in the balance of the group. With AAEC President Kevin Necessary moderating, the panel consisted of Marc Murphy, who cartoons for the Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal, the local public media outlet and […]
My day yesterday began at a CXC event, with a session on James Sturm, a cartoonist of substantial background and current production, best known in my neighborhood as the founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, VT, which is just across the river from me. Oddly enough, though we’re only four […]
The first day of the AAEC Conference began with a long business meeting and ended, alas, with the discovery that my camera had been lying to me all day long. So it goes. But backlighting and shadows are appropriate here because they probably shouldn’t have even let a non-voting associate in, and, like most such […]
Kal Kallaugher opines on the mystifying Mitch McConnell, who apparently doesn’t like being called “Moscow Mitch,” but, as Kal notes, refuses to allow a vote on legislation to protect the security of our election system from Russian meddling. It is a puzzlement, indeed. I was watching the Netflix series on Bobby Kennedy yesterday. It’s very […]
Timing is everything, and while this Kevin Siers cartoon references something happening in his hometown of Charlotte, it comes as the apartment house next door to me is on the verge of being converted to an independent living home for special needs people. Which is a worthy cause and they’ll be good neighbors, but […]
I expected Rob Rogers‘ session — the second of two “Cartooning in the Age of Trump” presentations at CXC — to be the highlight of my weekend, and it was. The above two panels from his 24-panel Nib cartoon, “I Was Fired For Criticizing Trump,” which ran in July, provide an insight into why. Some […]
I shouldn’t have promised CXC coverage for today, since, while I don’t believe in jinxes, my GPS apparently does, turning a five-hour final stretch into eight, which means I arrived late for the opening speeches and then found that the after-dealie was too loud and crowded for much conversation anyway. However, this gives us […]
(Arlo and Janis) (Real Life Adventures) So, yes, it’s autumn, as Arlo notes, though, as Real Life Adventures counters, not so’s you’d notice. The important thing around here is that we want a spectacular autumn and it’s a crap shoot each year. Sometimes, it’s just kind of blah. Sometimes, just as it’s looking really good, […]
Let’s start with the current Vintage Juliet Jones storyline, in which quiet, submissive Vassily the Exchange Student has been forced to put on the gloves with the Class Bully, and we all saw this result coming and Stan Drake sure dragged it out. The original ran in 1961, which I mention because there was a […]
Lucy Caswell, Founder, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, Vijaya Iyer, President and Co-Publisher, Cartoon Books, Jeff Smith, Award-Winning Cartoonist and Co-Publisher, Cartoon Books and Tom Spurgeon, Editor and Co-Publisher, The Comics Reporter have announced the creation of Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) – a four day comic festival to be held each year in Columbus […]