Michael Ramirez (Creators) offered a curious take on CNN’s candidate interview. It appeared the morning after, but that likely means it was drawn before the interview aired. He assumed, then, that Harris was incapable of answering questions without Walz to save her. Now, judging it in retrospect, it’s clear from the transcript that absolutely nothing […]
Stephen Collins wrote a cheerful alternative holiday cartoon, starring the pagan goddess Eostre, who may or may not have inspired many of our Easter traditions, as this research into the story suggests. That article traces Eostre back to a mention by the Venerable Bede, which was picked up by a trusting Jacob Grimm, and then […]
With today being Super Bowl Sunday and tomorrow Valentine’s Day, cartoonists are under some pressure to cite one or the other, but, before we get into forced timing, here’s a bit of the serendipitous kind: This Arctic Circle (KFS) actually ran yesterday but was surely written and drawn before thugs in big rigs were a […]
Since my headline is a takeoff on a Churchyism, I’ll start the day with a suggestion for anyone within range of Columbus. Bado’s Blog passes along this news of a new exhibit at the Billy Ireland and so do I and, for that matter, so does the Billy Ireland its own self, which also has […]
Either Jeremy’s Mom in this Zits (KFS) has a lot more faith in bipartisanship than I do or she has no idea what coffeeshops pay. That’s the last I’ll say about last night’s speech: I’m glad Biden called for a raise in the minimum wage but never mind that the Mocked Turtle was staring straight […]
Cartoon Brew has a sliver of insight into a bit of animation history. Famed animator Chuck Jones was to do a special with Walt Kelly’s Pogo. But the project went south. “How did you ever okay Chuck’s Pogo story?,” Ward Kimball asked Walt Kelly shortly after the special aired on TV. “I didn’t, for Godsake!,” […]
Boing Boing has posted several pages from the new Fantagraphics book, “ Pogo: The Complete Daily & Sunday Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder. ” Walk Kelly, born in 1913, started working as a Disney animator (Pinocchio, Dumbo, Fantasia)when he was 22 years old. He left Disney during the infamous labor dispute […]
The long overdue Pogo: The Complete Daily & Sunday Comic Strips is now at the printers according to The Beat Each volume contains two years of Walt Kelly’s magnum opus. Since the first year started in mid-year, there’s room in the book to also include the pre-syndication Pogo strips he did for The New York […]
Jon Carroll writing for the San Francisco Chronicle writes his fond memories of the great Pogo strip. Pogo had it all: love, fear, friendship, ambivalence, pails of water, morality, plus a love of high-flown language and, not incidentally, wonderful draftsmanship. Kelly was a master of getting a lot of stuff in one small panel. … […]
I wish more company execs were as blunt as Fantagraphic Books Co-Publisher Kim Thompson: Anyway, a new year is upon and it’s time to ‘fess up about all the late Fantagraphics titles you were expecting to have by now, and don’t, because we suck. Specific apologia and weaseling have been added to some titles, others […]