An interesting nuance of the business of syndicated comics is the Thanksgiving comic. It seems like an easy day to say “thanks” to your readers and/or maybe do a family dinner, turkey or pilgrims based comic.But, what if you have clients outside the United States?We frequently get substitute requests from newspapers in Canada looking for […]
I don’t often argue with Frazz, but I’d take a spoonful of the candied yams and several of the green bean casserole, neither of which I would ever want on any day but this. (Well, on Christmas, but that’s a culinary instant replay.)Eldest son is scaling down the feast this year, but I hope he’ll […]
…a few days ago I saw a really interesting cartoon, and I want to talk about it today. The cartoon, which is about the California wildfires, was created by Ed Hall, an established political cartoonist whose work has appeared in major newspapers and magazines for many years. The notable thing about this one is that […]
It’s easy enough to aim chants of “Lock Her Up!” at Ivanka, and several cartoonists have, but Tom Toles wins for drilling down to the appalling level of blind, egocentric privilege in which this little girl has lived all her life.The Trump loyalists are explaining about how it’s different if you have a server in […]
A “Classic Nancy” comic from Ernie Bushmiller was pulled by GoComics in reaction to the strip’s “negative” and “racist stereotypes” content. While the strip has been replaced, the comments from earlier in the day remain.https://www.gocomics.com/nancy-classics/2018/11/20EDIT: The strip can still be seen at UExpress.com https://www.uexpress.com/go-comics?amu=/nancy-classics/2018/11/20EDIT: The strip has been removed from UExpress as well.
We’re hearing from sources that Executive Editor Diana Smith is no longer at King Features. Details of the move are not known but Ms. Smith’s LinkedIn profile seems to confirm.
The Solano County/Fairfield (California) Daily Republic is adjusting to economic realities:It costs a great deal of money to report, write, illustrate, design and ultimately pull that local news and information together for each day’s print edition. The changes we have made – and continue to make – keep the focus on what’s local. As such, […]
Today’s Agnes is just plain silly, but it made me laugh because, I thought, there probably is a reason for the poofy hats, only I just looked it up and the reason, as I kind of suspected, is a combination of tradition, pretension and dubious folklore.But it put me in mind of the National Comedy […]
By the early 1960s Wally Wood was a known comic artist. His EC science fiction and MAD work was hailed. Early on he was good enough to draw Will Eisner’s The Spirit and spell Frank Frazetta on the Ace McCoy comic strip. His fantasy illustrations for pulps and his adventure sequences for the Valor comic […]
This coming weekend Gasoline Alley will celebrate its 100th anniversary, having first appeared November 24, 1918 in the Saturday edition of The Chicago Sunday Tribune.The writer-artist behind the ongoing strip today is Jim Scancarelli of Charlotte, N.C. He is just the fourth cartoonist to [sign] the comic. The North Michigan Christian Voice talks to Jim Scancarelli […]
A guest columnist at the Journal-Advocate of Sterling, Colorado, attempts to guilt Gary Larson into bringing “The Far Side” backFrom the column:For many in my generation, we relied upon Gary Larson to give us a daily inoculation against cynicism. Larson was cutting edge, but never mean spirited, and his ability to find the perfect phrase […]
Ed Hall is right, and so was I.The problem is climate change, but people are still seizing on the one remark in which Trump — for maybe the first time in his life — got something right.Still, as Hall notes, good forest management can’t overcome climate change, even if the nitwit who recommends it were […]
When did Mickey celebrate his third birthday? October 24, 1931. When did Mickey celebrate his fifth birthday? October 1, 1933. When was Mickey’s lucky seventh birthday…September 28th, 1935. When was Mickey’s 40th birthday in 1968? September 27th, 1968. As an installment of Jim’s Animation Anecdotes, animation and comics historian Jim Korkis, at Cartoon Research, sorts out […]
You may recall when Al Gore claimed that he invented the Internet and everyone giggled. It became a punchline, and Gore was branded a liar.Except that he hadn’t made the claim and, besides, he genuinely had been a significant sponsor of legislation to advance its development.And Vice President Dan Quayle, on a classroom visit, was […]
90 years ago Mickey Mouse became very popular due to his freewheeling attitude in the early cartoons. After a couple decades Mickey Mouse was tamed as he became the 1950s company image, and his popularity declined. Five years ago his early character was revived with a new series of shorts.You may have heard of these […]