Denver sports cartoonist Drew Litton showed up this morning on KUSA-TV’s 9NEWS morning show to share his views and a few cartoons about Super Bowl LIII.9NEWS Video and article (with cartoons) here.Drew’s Win, Lose, Drew at GoComics.
Bleeding Cool is reporting that Bill Morrison is no longer the editor at MAD Magazine.From the Story:Bleeding Cool has been informed that as of last week, Bill Morrison is no longer editor of MAD Magazine, as part of new layoffs at DC Comics. We have confirmed that he is no longer at DC.Bill Morrison did not respond […]
The Lockhorns sounds a predictable note this morning, but I chuckled.The strip has been quite hip in recent months about technology and similar things, which I wouldn’t have expected from an old-school Bickersons sort of strip, but that makes me surprised Loretta doesn’t realize Leroy can click-click-click until he gets to the NFL Network and […]
Charlie Daniel’s Sunday comic panel has ended.Rosy’s Diner by Charlie Daniel 2006(?) – February 3, 2019* weekly (Sunday) panel Knoxville News Sentinel*I’m not sure if the February 3, 2019 issue appeared in the print Knoxville News Sentinel or is web-only.Sussed from various articles it seems that the concept and characters of Rosy’s Diner first appeared […]
Arctic Circle lures me into saying something I probably shouldn’t.Part of it is about selfies in general and has to do with the idea that a picture of your big fat face is more important than whatever you were trying to tell us about, and aren’t you glad Ansel Adams had other priorities.Not that selfies […]
“There is something magical about three you know – a trio is tight and nicely economical.” Ian WillliamsHere’s trio of interviews with cartoonists. …it’s hard when one’s job is to get people laughing. An interview with Will McPhail: cartoonist for The New Yorker The wonderful thing about black and white cartoons was that the […]
It’s odd — not funny, mostly just odd — that this Thimble Theater from August, 1935, happens to turn up on the Comics Kingdom Vintage page at the same time Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s med school yearbook page happened to turn up, showing that he had chosen a photo showing a person in blackface and […]
The Father of Children’s Goth Edward Gorey is the doubtful guest in this fine biography: a stubbornly evasive and irreducible essence, now sprawled in a tureen, now chewing on crockery, now standing with his nose to the wall. He lived 30 years too early and 100 years too late. His solitude was significant, that’s for […]
Glenn McCoy the early years:Right out of the gates of [Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville], Glenn was brought on as the Art Director at the Belleville News-Democrat. “I always secretly wanted to be a cartoonist, and when I saw the opportunity to start doing cartoons for the News-Democrat, that was sort of my entry point,” […]
We’ll start this week with a humorous Sunday downer from Reply All. That is, it’s humorous on its own as Lizzie and Drew dicker over what to do with their basement.But it’s kind of a downer if you’ve been around the housing industry very long, because I can’t tell you how many builders told me […]
Children and Fairies and Ranchers – Oh My! The Life of Cartoonist and Illustrator Fanny Y. Cory By Emily Glassmeyer…by the turn of the century she had made the covers of several major publications such as Life, Scribner’s Century, Harper’s Bazaar, Liberty and The Saturday Evening Post, as well as illustrating for Alice in Wonderland […]