The Comics Journal

Spending a few more minutes with the Sunday funnies where a cartoonist can do wonderful things with color and the extra space.

The continuing comedy in the nation’s capital as seen by a chorus of humorists.

Comics are about words, too.

Last night at the Oscars, a glass ceiling shattered when Kathryn Bigelow won Best Director. That was nice. And just to assert directorial equality with ringing irony, she won it for directing a roaringly macho movie, “The Hurt Locker.” That…

Eduardo Barreto, who has done such a magnificent job drawing Judge Parker and showing how today’s cramped comic strip space can be deployed to great effect, is giving up the strip because he is too ill too often with meningitis…

As I mentioned last time (Monday, March 1), famed editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant was a special guest at the annual convention of the Australian Cartoonists’ Association last November, and he consented to be interviewed on stage in front of the…

Down under at the 25th annual Stanley Awards convocation of the Australian Cartoonists’ Association (ACA), held November 12-15, freelancer Peter Broelman was named Cartoonist of the Year, winning the coveted Gold Stanley. The Australian equivalent of the National (i.e., U.S.)…

The month set aside for recognizing the roles that African Americans have played in U.S. history is about to pass over the horizon for another year. While some black cartoonists celebrated the occasion of the month in one way or…

After 45 days of therapy, Tiger Woods appeared on tv February 19 and apologized to family, friends, fans and, even, members of the so-called news media who had been invited to listen but not to ask questions. Woods spoke for…

Due, doubtless, to his persistently conservative stance, we imagine Harold Gray an eminence as somber and as colorless as his name. His much touted conservatism probably arose because of the narrative demands of his comic strip: little orphan Annie could…