It’s pretty well established that Randy Milholland has studied Popeye‘s comic strip history. So I have to wonder… When today’s Popeye guest-starred Jeep and his “intradimenshkinal” talents was Randy aware that it was exactly 90 years since Professor Brainstine explained the hows and whys of Jeep’s mysterious powers? Which instantly brought to mind: I couldn’t […]
Webtoons and Marvel; Sy Barry; Bill Watterson; Charles Schulz; Keith Knight; and a few dozen historical comic strips.Marvel Comics in the Webtoonverse Marvel Comics has announced plans to create original digital comic strips for Webtoon, the leading vertical webcomic site. The comics will feature X-Men, Deadpool, and a teenaged Tony Stark. Rich Johnston at Bleeding […]
A lot of comics have pinged memories lately, but we’ll start with an unpleasant one, because Merthiolate and Mercurochrome were indeed the go-to antiseptics for small cuts and scrapes back in the day, and here’s more than you need to know about them. They were a good reason not to go crying to your mother […]
President Trump has made known his desire to spread United States control around the world. He has mentioned making Canada, Greenland, Mexico, the Panama Canal area, and Cuba U.S. territories or states. Beyond the Western Hemisphere, he has stated wishes to rule the Gaza Strip and Iran, even Iceland. He has, for all intents and […]
Censorship: Jeff Smith’s Bone and Frank Hampson’s Eagle; Animation Admission: Artificial Intelligence and The Fleischer Studio News (1936).Jeff Smith, who this summer was inducted into The Will Eisner Hall of Fame and also received The National Cartoonists Society’s Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award to join his couple dozen prior honors, was recently interviewed by Jose […]
The National Cartoonists Society held its annual banquet Friday night, Aug. 7, 2026. The highlight was the naming of award winners in the various categories for their 2025 efforts. Special Awards: Jeff Smith was recognized with The Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award. Adrian Sinnott accepted The Gold Key on behalf of The Berndt Toast Gang. […]
I can’t accuse Margulies of being a member of the Democrats’ Circular Firing Squad because, while he tends to lean left of the exact center, he’s politically independent and this seems more an observation than an accusation.Then again, one should be careful what one observes, because everything beyond “Kids sure stare at their phones” carries […]
The Galveston County foofaraw over the Brad and Toni shower scene in Luann is now dragging the Arlo and Janis mermaid rerun sequence into the debate as readers mock the Daily News’ overly modest actions taken in regard to their comics page. An August 3 letter to the Galveston County Daily News editor (or here): […]
Adam Zyglis accuses Donald Trump of profiteering in office, and suggests a number of reasons he gets away with his grift, including the Supreme Court’s grant of immunity, his subjugation of the Department of Justice and the loyal support of the MAGA movement, all of which are factors in it, to be sure.The grift isn’t […]
This week’s issue of The New Yorker introduced two new cartoonists to the magazine’s readers. Michael Maslin tells us: As Michael noted in his Monday entry little was known of David McCaw. That changed today. Mary Helene Hall for Bham Now celebrates the local Birmingham cartoonist scaling the cartooning peak.Yes, David knew months ago he […]
Bennett has a reasonable analysis of this week’s flurry of primaries and referenda. Voters made decisions that seemed to have more to do with their mood than with what the experts projected or what PAC dollars were spent to achieve. Two dramatic rejections of machine politics came in Kansas and Missouri, reliably Republican strongholds, where […]
One is available, one can be pre-ordered, one is still in dreamland. The New Cartoonist #12 The New Cartoonist “is a bi-monthly digital magazine dedicated to cartoonists, comic creators, illustrators, animators and fans of cartoon art.” It is based in England and the 12th issue is now available. Featuring the brilliant @chriswilliams-dink.bsky.social as our cover […]
The New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium has posted their fall line-up of speakers and topics. Each symposium is free to the public and online though you need to register. To register, visit their newsletter on Substack for the email address one week prior to the event. Sept. 1 – Roman Muradov: My Idea of […]
Don Trachte and the Fake Norman Rockwell This story has been told before but Neha B at Scoop Upworthy brings it back: “Cartoonist painted fake versions to fool ex-wife during divorce. Cartoonist painted fake versions to fool ex-wife during divorce.” For nearly half a century, Norman Rockwell’s famous painting “Breaking Home Ties,” sold for $15.4 […]
Printing and comics historian Glenn Fleishman has launched a Kickstarter campaign to publish a print hardcover edition of articles and stories he’s written over the last 15 years on the topic of type, printing and language. The 128-page book is called Not To Put Too Fine a Point on It. According to his Kickstarter, the […]