Jim “Sherman’s Lagoon” Toomey and University of Georgia Professor Samantha Joye have partnered to produce a kids’ film series on the importance of healthy oceans.From the story: “The Adventures of Zack and Molly” follows the story of a young man who is more interested in the small world of his smartphone than the larger world around […]
But first this …When I drop subtle hints that newspaper editors are cloth-eared, humorless dweebs who ought not to be in charge of selecting comics, here’s how it comes down elsewhere in the paper.Back in the days when papers had budgets, editors would have conventions where they’d make stupid collective decisions, like the time they […]
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Mary Schmich, newspaper columnist and the last writer of the Brenda Starr comic strip, went on the radio to talk about a recent column that generated some negative feedback.But the first 5 minutes of the interview deals with the end of Brenda Starr. After 25 years Mary had tired of the never-ending daily chore and […]
You’ve probably been pronouncing “Seuss” wrong. Sorry, but Seuss is not pronounced “Soose.” Instead, Dr. Seuss and his family, who emigrated to the US from Bavaria, pronounce the name “Zoice.” Seuss collected hats, won a Pulitzer Prize, coined the word ‘nerd’, and more.Marilyn La Jeunesse and Insider present the above and 19 other “surprising things […]
David Reddick’s Intelligent Life will stop syndicating for print later this year.No official word from David or King Features Syndicate, but Jeremy Boyer, on an upcoming comics change in The (Auburn, N.Y.) Citizen, writesReaders of The Citizen will begin to see Macanudo appear in the Dec. 23 edition. It will be replacing Intelligent Life, which […]
The flow of inspiration from the Trump firehose has been such that I just want to flush it out now, hit Friday Funnies tomorrow, and hope for new things by Saturday.But, before that, Tom the Dancing Bug deserves praise for being able to bundle so much fraud and stupidity into a single, inventive, multi-panel cartoon, […]
The following are some comic strip related books released or scheduled to be released in November (though a few were released earlier in October to comic book stores before book stores got them). Links lead (mostly) to the books’ Amazon pages. King of the Comics: One Hundred Years of King Features Syndicate paperback edition Walt […]
The BBC covers the Peanuts exhibit going on over in the UK at Somerset House by having its writer reflect on the deeper meanings of Charles Schulz’s work.From the story:Schulz drew Peanuts during some turbulent decades in America, marked by the Korean War (1950-3); the Vietnam War (America entered in 1965 and the war ended in […]
I referenced Daniel Patrick Moynihan the other day, who is mostly famous for saying that you are entitled to your own opinions but not to your own facts.Moynihan died in 2003, so he only got to see the initial Newt Gingrich portion of the fact-free revolution, and thus could argue that there are facts and […]
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Cartoonist Charles Glass has passed away.Charles Edward Glass July 4, 1930 – November 5, 2018Magazine cartoonist, advertisingFrom the obituary:After graduating, Charlie moved to New York City and studied at the Arts Students League. It was in New York City where his career as a cartoonist took off. He was a regular contributor in both The […]
On a Sunday afternoon in September, Olivia Jaimes was hiding in a storage closet at the Columbus Metropolitan Library in Columbus, Ohio. She’d been in there for two hours, watching episodes of The Good Place on her laptop and dressed like a chic fugitive — sunglasses, hair beneath a hoodie, face obscured by a scarf. […]
above: last year’s Comic Strip Stanley Award to Gary ClarkThe Australian Cartoonists’ Association is holding its annual Stanley Awards and Cartoonists Conference this weekend in Canberra (or maybe its going on right now, isn’t Australia, like, three or four days ahead of the U.S.?)The Stanley Awards are Australia’s equivalent of the United States’ National […]
I wasn’t planning to run any more Veteran’s Day rain strips, but this L’il Donnie ought not to go unremarked.There have been several strips on the topic, but, as I predicted the other day, even the ones that are above average already feel stale. The outrage was Saturday and, while I noted the barriers to […]