#single-panel cartoon

[neptuuncartoon]

Opening of this week - opened a pizza box😉

[2dmax]

[Image ID: Original artwork made with ink and guache. Main figure is an extremely exaggerated cartoon imp that is wailing and screaming the words “WHY DOESN’T ANYONE HELP ME?”. Resting on his foot is a cherubic version of the same person with a tinfoil halo, exclaiming calmly: “You Just Have To Ask!”. Main colors used are red, pink, yellow, black, and big blue tears. End ID.]

[mudwerks]

(via Mike Lynch Cartoons: The Search For Happiness Part Three: Marriage 1946 - 1967)

JOHN DEMPSEY. Look Magazine June 6, 1961.

[cosmiccarabao]

Danae Cartoons by Wiley Miller

Scientific Controls #1

Scientific Controls #2

Scientific Controls #3

Scientific Controls #4

Scientific Controls #5

[lunasloveisgood]

Artist: Adam Douglas Thompson

[sadsacs]

[daydreamerdrew]

The Avengers (1963) #8

[burp-and-chirp-comics]

Coming soon...

[mr-ribbit]

a TV show where lin manuel miranda¹ rap battles a rude libertarian man* at the insane asylum talent show and by doing so the man* is finally able to win over his freedom from the asylum by going to therapy and being nice SOUNDS like a single or double panel strip in a boomer political cartoon thats readership is mostly ironic leftists posting them to roast on reddit. but it's actually a real part of an episode of house md from 2009² in what some could call one of the most generation defining television moments of the aughts (Ribbits 2024)

* Dr. Gregory House

¹ Pre-Hamilton

² Broken, Part 2 House MD, 2009

[questionable-decision-comics]

This is the most dad joke cartoon I’ve ever made.

[kspear]

How do You Handle Cell Phones in Church?

Cell phones are in all aspects of our lives. We have them at church, and they can disrupt services. How do you handle cell phones in church?

I remember the first time I saw someone have their mobile phone out at a church service. A teen was playing a game in the middle of the sermon. Since then, mobile phones have invaded every aspect of life. How do you handle cell phones in church? That question inspired my cartoon for this month. This pastor has had enough of divided attention in his pews. Practically, the pastor’s idea isn’t…

[neptuuncartoon]

Usually, I try not to stay in the bookstore for a long time 😍

[autistic-people-are-awesome]

Image:

 A cartoon in two panels.

Panel 1: A shaded brick wall with a circular hole in it.  Three shapes, a purple pentagon, a green trapezium, and a yellow triangle are looking at the hole with confused, sad, frustrated expressions.  

A voice is coming though the hole:"I don't know what you guys are complaining about ...

"Panel 2:  The brighter, sunnier side of the wall. 

A lilac circle - looking very self-satisfied as the other shapes peer through the hole - says"If you want to make it through, just be yourself!"

Commentary text beneath the image:

Canikon-Bokeh "Exactly"

sonic-hip-attack  'Imagine a wall full of circular holes, that circles can keep walking in and out of with no difficulty.

'Now imagine that the triangles manage to get the resources together, after years of not being able to fit through the circle's holes,

 to drill a single triangle space into the wall.

Now imagine that the circle who previously supported the triangle's efforts because they are well-rounded (har) and value equality comes along and sees the construction project.

But instead of being happy, they get angry '"Well, I won't be able to fit through your hole!!!! the circle cries.'"I helped you get the drill!!!!" the circle shrieks.'"Make it fit me too!!!!" the circle demands.

'The triangles, barely holding it together enough to get a triangle hole together stare at the circle in confusion.

'"You have all the holes you need," the triangles explain.

This is for us.

You don't need to fit through our hole, too."

'"YOU'RE BEING UNEQUAL AND HURTING MY FEELINGS!"

the circle wails, "I DON'T SUPPORT YOUR HOLE IF IT DOESN'T FIT ME TOO GIVE ME MY DRILL BACK."'

"It's not your drill, it's our drill. You helped us get it because you said you cared."'

"I ONLY CARED WHEN I THOUGHT YOU'D MAKE A HOLE EVERYONE COULD FIT THROUGH, YOU'RE PERPETUATING INEQUALITY!!"

'"Why is it up to us, the small group that has never been able to fit through the wall at all, to make a hole everyone can use?

Why isn't it up to you, the people who have been able to cross back and forth at will for years? We just want to see the other side, why are you yelling at us?"

'"I DIDN'T ASK TO BE BORN A CIRCLE OMG, I'VE HAD TO WORK HARD ALL MY LIFE TOO. YOU'RE JUST BEING BIGOTED AGAINST ME BECAUSE OF SOMETHING I CAN'T CONTROL JUST LIKE EVERYONE IS AGAINST YOU."'

"You are interfering with our project and asking us to comfort you while we're trying to make progress. Please leave."'

"I'm going to tell everyone about this," the circle warns.

"Nobody will support you now"'

"Apparently nobody ever did," the triangles sigh, getting back to work.'

SetFabulazersToMaximumCaptain'

It's kind of sad.'That we have to draw comics using colorful shapes 'To explain systematic inequality to people.

'FuckYeahFeminists

'this is brilliant'

[thechanelmuse]

Jackie Ormes, the first Black American woman cartoonist

When the 14-year-old Black American boy Emmett Till was lynched in 1955, one cartoonist responded in a single-panel comic. It showed one Black girl telling another: "I don't want to seem touchy on the subject... but that new little white tea-kettle just whistled at me!"

It may not seem radical today, but penning such a political cartoon was a bold and brave statement for its time — especially for the artist who was behind it. This cartoon was drawn by Jackie Ormes, the first syndicated Black American woman cartoonist to be published in a newspaper. Ormes, who grew up in Pittsburgh, got her first break as cartoonist as a teenager. She started working for the Pittsburgh Courier as a sports reporter, then editor, then cartoonist who penned her first comic, Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem, in 1937. It followed a Mississippi teen who becomes a famous singer at the famed Harlem jazz club, The Cotton Club.

In 1942, Ormes moved to Chicago, where she drew her most popular cartoon, Patty-Jo 'n' Ginger, which followed two sisters who made sharp political commentary on Black American life. 

In 1947, Ormes created the Patty-Jo doll, the first Black doll that wasn't a mammy doll or a Topsy-Turvy doll. In production for a decade, it was a role model for young black girls. "The doll was a fashionable, beautiful character," says Daniel Schulman, who curated one of the dolls into a recent Chicago exhibition. "It had an extraordinary presence and power — they're collected today and have important place in American doll-making in the U.S."

In 1950, Ormes drew her final strip, Torchy in Heartbeats, which followed an independent, stylish black woman on the quest for love — who commented on racism in the South. "Torchy was adventurous, we never saw that with an Black American female figure," says Beauchamp-Byrd. "And remember, this is the 1950s." Ormes was the first to portray black women as intellectual and socially-aware in a time when they were depicted in a derogatory way.

One common mistake that erased Ormes from history is mis-crediting Barbara Brandon-Croft as the first nationally syndicated Black American female cartoonist. "I'm just the first mainstream cartoonist, I'm not the first at all," says Brandon-Croft, who published her cartoons in the Detroit Free Press in the 1990s. "So much of Black history has been ignored, it's a reminder that Black history shouldn't just be celebrated in February."

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[cosmiccarabao]

[pleatedjeans]

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