A couple weeks ago I noticed that Jeff Corriveau’s Deflocked suddenly had a page on the Andrews McMeel site.http://syndication.andrewsmcmeel.com/comics/strip/deflockedBut Deflocked is a King Features strip. What’s up? Reaching out to creator Corriveau he was kind enough to reply, and confirms he is indeed switching syndicates.Deflocked by Jeff Corriveau debuted May 5, 2008 at KFS. As Jeff tells me, “I […]
What can be done as far as comics history books? Who’s going to improve on Brian Walker’s The Comics? Who’s going to out-reference Holtz’s American Newspaper Comics?The answer is to get specialized. Take a subdivision of the genre and go in-depth. That’s what Ron Goulart did with his The Adventurous Decade years ago, and that’s what Eddie Campbell does […]
Cartoonist William Hamilton’s widow recalls a peculiar work habit of the cartoonist. https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-sound-of-wit/Later this month the National Cartoonists Society will award The Reuben to The Cartoonist of the Year. What better time to remember Rube Goldberg. Yesterday The Smithsonian did just that.During his 72-year career, cartoonist Rube Goldberg produced more than 50,000 drawings and thousands of comic strips. In 1922, […]
When I can do a mix, I usually start with the funny stuff and then do politics, but somehow they’re becoming indistinguishable. Clay Jones has a most excellent rant to go with this cartoon, which is basically that Trump would rather talk to Fox & Friends than Mueller, but he can destroy himself in either […]