Steve Brodner offers an affectionate portrait and tribute to his friend and mentor, Lewis Lapham, a legendary editor at Harper’s who died last week at 89, an age at which one is permitted to die but which gave him a good, long opportunity to influence the world, though, as Brodner’s words indicate, he still left […]
Ann Telnaes asks a simple question, amid the continuing downpour of corgis and weeping guardsmen and crowns being passed around and royal hats and additional maudlin tributes to someone else’s dead monarch. The answer, of course, is that, yes, we did, and, as noted here previously, we continued for nearly 150 years to view England […]
(Dr. Macleod) (Jeremy Banx) Two threads in this particular Juxtaposition: The backgrounder is the current dustup in the UK about Boris Johnson locking everyone down and then allowing his own staff to hold a Christmas party last year at 10 Downing Street. It was revealed, apparently, in a wonderfully foolish cock-up when the Prime […]
As we’re discussing, debating and dissecting the current state and potential future of cartooning, Will Henry is going off in his own direction with Wallace the Brave (AMS), in which he has created a distinctive cast of characters but is not content to have them do setups and punchlines every day. Today’s strip is a […]
But first, this Juxtaposition of the Day (Michael de Adder) (Ann Telnaes) Maybe this is what happens when cartoonists get locked down and have nothing to do but make richly detailed, multiple caricatures, but this is quite a pair to have drop on the same day. The best part is that they assume the reader […]
For Better or For Worse creator Lynn Johnston has been collecting parody comics of her feature and has posted them on her website. So far she has work by Mike Peters, Bill Amend, Mark Tatulli, Mark Parisi, Francesco Marciuliano, Jin Wicked, David Willis, Stephan Pastis, Jan Eliot and Ryan Sohmer, Lar deSouza
As always, a hilarious video via The Doozies and Learn to Draw series creator Tom Gammill: