In 1957 Mell Lazarus got his Miss Peach comic strip into newspapers. The next year Mell joined the National Cartoonists Society.Yearly dues in January 1958 were $35, yearly dues now, in 2019, are $225. (The inflation calculator puts that 1958 $35 at $307.86 in today’s dollars.)You can join the NCS for less than Mell did […]
The rollout of the new Comics Kingdom site continues problematically.The site has fielded complaints from not liking the new look to not being able to access the strips as before. I understand they want to make it more profitable for themselves and their cartoonists – so they can take the heat from the freeloaders. But […]
More than 10 things about cartoonist Charles Addams.1 Charles Addams sold his first cartoon to The New Yorker in 1933. The magazine hired Charles ‘Chas’ Addams (American, Jan. 7, 1912-Sept. 29, 1988) in 1935 as a regular cartoonist. The first Addams Family cartoon appeared in the magazine in 1938. The television series debuted on Sept. […]
Eli Valley is a Jewish political cartoonist based in New York City. He doesn’t shy away from controversy; in fact, he makes a living off it. Valley has a particular knack for creating dark and disturbing satirical drawings of public figures who claim to fight anti-semitism, but in his opinion, do the opposite.Vice News has […]
The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer editor George Rodrigue has penned a piece on Cleveland.com that reflects on the results of a survey they’d conducted to see whether their readers wanted to bring back Non Sequitur. Seventy-seven percent of the respondents voted to bring Non Sequitur back, while 14% voted to keep its replacement “Animal Crackers.” From the […]
We all yearn to be Yossarian, but Chaplain Tappmann is probably the best we can manage on a good day: A perpetually puzzled, easily bullied, well-intentioned chaplain whose faith is continually in the balance. And let me begin by chiding that other Joe Heller, not the late author of the increasingly relevant “Catch-22,” but the cartoonist […]