Tag: Regretful Pulitzer Nominations

Is Tom Batiuk Really An Award-Winning Writer?

Poster Y. Knott and I have been talking about Tom Batiuk’s history of Pulitzer Prize nominations, and I need to correct the record about something.

Tom Batiuk was a genuine Pulitzer nominee once, in 2008, for the year of work when Lisa died. You can view the list of Pulitzer winners and Finalists for the Cartooning category at https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/215. He was not a finalist in 1987, which I’ve long incorrectly claimed he was. So that’s my fault, and I apologize to poster Y. Knott for not checking my facts first. I have a journalism background and I need to be better than that. Continue reading “Is Tom Batiuk Really An Award-Winning Writer?”

Chemo-Sabe

Link to today’s strip.

Look, I made a pun!  Based on “kemosabe” and “chemotherapy”!  Do I get an award yet?!  I should go out and stand by the mailbox!

Of course, I have the feeling that Batiuk has used that exact same pun, previously on this long hard slog, so I’m a bit deflated by that.

Speaking of deflated, how completely baffling is it that Lisa is brought up in today’s strip.  It makes it look as if everyone in the entire world was affected by her passing, and everyone must pause and mourn when something brings her to mind.  “Hey, look at this painting, the Mona Lisa!”  (sigh)   “I guess I should sign the lease, uh?”  (moan)  “Okay, I found one, where’s the other shoe?”  (sob).

Because otherwise it just seems like more whoring out of Tom Batiuk’s Greatest Hit, in the hopes that someone, somewhere–anywhere–might say, “Hey, I’ve got an award I’ve got to give out–and it looks like I’ve found someone deserving!”

Batiuk, let her rest.  You fumbled it, and the play’s been called.