In a September 15th letter to the Telegram & Gazette editor, a couple of readers are quite effusive in their “love” of “Wallace the Brave.”From the letter: My husband and I are long-time Telegram & Gazette subscribers. We *love* Wallace the Brave: we love the style of its drawing, the characters, and their adventures. It reminds […]
Let’s ease into the topic with Edison Lee and the perfect political speech.If you envision Orville and Edison in that final panel as a bar graph instead of as a pair of characters, you may have some sense of how such tautological, meaningless focus-group-tested drivel impacts elections.However, while little Edison is not yet old enough […]
Coming in March 2019 is an impressive tome. DETECTIVE COMICS: BEFORE BATMAN (VOLS. 1 AND 2) HC Written by JERRY SIEGEL, MALCOLM WHEELER-NICHOLSON and othersArt by JOE SHUSTER, FRED GUARDINEER, BOB KANE and others DETECTIVE COMICS exploded in 1939 with the debut of Batman in issue #27—and now, for the first time, DC reprints the first […]
Frank O’Neal was a successful freelance magazine cartoonist of the 1950s and, like many gag cartoonists before and since, he thought a syndicated comic strip was the ticket to ride. So following the likes of Mort Walker, Hank Ketcham, Johnny Hart and others, O’Neal came up with an idea and signed with the Newspaper Enterprise […]
Arizona Daily Star cartoonist David Fitzsimmons spent part of last week in Mexico City attending The Line of Fire international conference.La Línea de Fuego was hosted by the Cartooning For Peace organization. As this Google translation explains:18 press cartoonists from 14 countries meet for several days at the Memoria y Tolerancia Museum in Mexico City to discuss the […]
Over the Comics Kingdom blog, they’ve sampled a few cartoonists for the words of encouragement that most affected their careers.From the post: Jim Borgman: … when every aspiring editorial cartoonist was falling under the spell of Jeff MacNelly’s work, I sent him samples of my fledgling college cartoons, which were struggling to stand on their own […]
For the love of God and Thomas Nast and Woodsy Owl, can we please, please stop with the paper towel cartoons?Yes, Trump once disgraced himself and showed his lack of compassion by tossing out paper towels at a photo op in the wake of Hurricane Maria.We all know that, and, in fact, a short time […]
The Walt Disney Hometown Toonfest in Marceline, Missouri is celebrating its 20th year. This year’s guest speakers include writer and illustrator Ken Alvine, New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly, sculptor and art director Ken Melton and “Thatababy” syndicated cartoonist and illustrator Paul Trap.Click here for more info and speaker bios.https://www.facebook.com/events/268339700451960/Radio interview about Toonfest.
Eisner-nominated Michael Cavna does a follow-up piece over at the Washignton Post Comic Riffs section to the Serena Williams editorial cartoon controversary by talking to a few professionals about how they would have handled illustrating an unhappy Serena Williams.From the piece:DARRIN BELL (King Features): “It’s not hard to caricature a black person. Just don’t do it […]
Cartoonist and worship leader Lorraine Williams has passed away.After moving to Homer, she attended and graduated from Alaska Bible Institute in 1985. That same year, she married her husband, Darren Williams. Moving back to California in 1987, she became an adored worship leader with a wonderful community of friends. She was sent back to Homer […]
Updated with today’s (September 16) Las Vegas Review-Journal introductory article, but mostly because I couldn’t resist the above fantastic cartoon of Ramirez arriving in Las Vegas.“It’s good that, naturally, I’m an evil, demented individual,” Ramirez jokes. We think. “That helps — having a twisted sense of humor.” As such, Ramirez tends to provoke laughter and […]
Today’s enlightened column comes from a former publisher and editor at the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald Tribune.From the piece:One of my fondest memories as a child is flopping down on the living room rug with my sisters, the Sunday newspaper spread out in front of us as our father read the color comics out loud. Sometimes […]
Sunday’s Red & Rover, which is set in an undefined portion of the early 60s, pinged some memories, though my very best days on swings were set in the strictly defined summer of 1958.I played on the swings every single non-rainy day that summer, on a set of truly bodacious swings in the company housing […]
Publishing juggernaut Dav Pilkey has hit another great height. His “Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas” is the No. 1 book on all of Nielsen’s Bookscan this week — selling more than 135,000 units. Bookscan claims it represents 85% of the U.S. retail market. (including Amazon).Pilkey beat out such publishing luminaries as: Danielle Steele, James […]
Lost between tomorrow and yesterday Between now and then…Now we’re back where we started Here we go round again* And so begins a 100 year retrospective.Jim Scancarelli starts looking back at a hundred years of Gasoline Alley comic strips. The middle panel of today’s (September 13, 2018) strip is Jim’s edited look at a detail of the […]