A site called JSTOR (a site that reports to mix news and academics) has posted a piece called “The Most Controversial Comic Strip” on the legacy of censorship in comics and found in Walt Kelly’s “Pogo.”From the piece:As a Cold War liberal, Kelly also satirized communists by portraying two beatnik cowbirds as fellow-travellers constantly revising […]
Okay, I recognize the cartoon character in this one, and I’m inclined to agree with Bill Day that the damage done is pretty negligible.However, a lot of that is due to the overlap with the revelations in Bob Woodward’s book, which comes out tomorrow but was excerpted and discussed in the Washington Post the day […]
Update:Larry Lieber‘s last daily pencilled Spider-Man comic strip was dated September 8, 2018.Beginning September 10, 2018 the dailies are pencilled and inked by Alex Saviuk.Alex Saviuk is now the daily artist and Sunday penciller of The Amazing Spider-Man comic strip. original August 2, 2018 post:It seems Larry Lieber is retiring from daily penciling of The Amazing […]
Illustrator Wallace Tripp has passed away.From Wallace Tripp’s Facebook page earlier today:Dear friends, Wally has passed on to the Studio in the Sky. He had a wonderful life full of love, laughter, art, music and airplanes.WALLACE WHITNEY (WALLY) TRIPP June 26, 1940 – September 9, 2018 A bit of biography from the Wally Tripp homepage:Wallace […]
Today is the official launch day for Liniers’ King Features’ comic “Macanudo.” Go check it out over at King’s site. The Aberdeen News earlier introduced Macanudo to its readers, today they welcome the debut strip to its pages.Today’s strip may be most people’s introduction to Liniers and “Macanudo,” but he has amassed a career’s-worth of accomplishments […]
Over at the GoComics blog, reclusive Nancy cartoonist Olivia Jaimes is interviewed. The interview seems to predate the #sluggoislit movement on twitter.From the interview:GoComics: How about the reaction among Nancy fans? Have you had much interaction with them since April? Do you pay much attention to their comments (we love your Aug. 19 strip about the “exact […]
The producers and creators of the very popular Lone Ranger franchise tried to duplicate that success with The Green Hornet. And that included trying to get the character starring in a comic strip.Green Hornet historian Martin Gram has explained that after an aborted 1939 attempt Bell Syndicate gave it a shot in 1940. Bell’s proposal […]
I wasn’t sure where to start today, but David Horsey may come the closest to my position.I’m not quite with Bob Englehart, in proclaiming the unknown writer as a hero, because, as others have suggested, there’s an element of complicity in staying on the team, even if you’re helping to thwart the President’s most outrageous […]
Two thoughtful blog posts about the late Mort Walker coincide with King Features’ decision to finally shut down a pair of moribund old strips, Henry and Hazel, as reported elsewhere at DailyCartoonist.Calvin has a point about the brutal mistreatment of comic strips by newspapers, though, as I’ve said before, if you’re reading this on a […]
The Albany Times-Union notified its readers that they will begin carrying the new Macanudo strip starting Sunday September 9.But I will also tell you that an editor quickly learns what readers consider important when, say, there’s a missing clue to a crossword puzzle, or when a typo creates a recipe calling for 1 T. of […]
The Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site‘sMary Tucker Jasper Speaker Series…annually welcomes 300 prestigious guests to enjoy a dinner, nationally recognized speaker, and the presentation of the Advancing American Democracy Award.The Advancing American Democracy Award is bestowed annually by the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site upon an individual who, in an exemplary way, advances the values of our […]
King Features Syndicate has cancelled a few comics features.Henry and Hazel has already been noted here and here.Also announced is the end of Happy Musings by Sally Huss.Happy Musings is an illustrated panel featuring a pithy maxim.Created by artist and author Sally Huss it debuted as a six-day-a-week feature from King Features on October 23, […]
King has also alerted clients that Henry will also be ending its run in syndication. King points out in its notice that Henry had been in reruns. Henry started with King in 1934. Henry’s last Sunday in syndication will be October 28th and its last daily on Saturday, October 27th.From the King Features site:Created by […]
This week’s daily BC comics are promoting the LUMA Projection Arts Festival in the Mastroiannis’ hometown of Binghamton, N.Y.From Mason Mastroianni’s Facebook page:Tomorrow, a special event week of BC Comic Strip will begin in newspapers across the world. From Monday through Saturday, We will be celebrating LUMA Projection Arts Festival, and it’s impact on community arts in our hometown […]
Sources reporting that King Features will end the Hazel comic panel. The last daily will be September 29th.From the King site: The name Hazel has become synonymous with a live-in maid who is more to her “family” than a housekeeper. This lovable character was created by Ted Key in 1943 and began appearing in the Saturday Evening Post. […]