Sixty-five years after they first debuted in 1954, Bazooka Joe and His Gang returns.Bazooka Candy Brands announced the arrival of its Bazooka Throwback pack on Thursday, April 4. According to a press release…the new nostalgia-inducing pack has an ’80s-themed design that was inspired by the gum’s original packaging.As you can see, the front of the […]
Gag writer Harold Emery has passed away.Harold Rodney Emery May 31, 1920 – March 20, 2019From the obituary:For the better part of his life, Harold was a contributing writer for a number of comic strips including, Dennis the Menace, Archie, Mrs. Fitz, Senator Caucus, Priscilla’s Pop, Laugh-in, The Lockhorns, Bumper Snickers, Ziggy, Agatha Crumm, and […]
I’ll admit I came to this morning’s blog posting in a negative mood, having trudged through King Features’ new, improved website for the first time, but also-and-mostly having seen enough Joe Biden cartoons in the last 48 hours to last a lifetime.Well, Mark Streeter at least concedes that, while it is an irresistible topic for cartoonists, […]
I was a freshman when I got a call from Joe Simon, who was the co-creator of Captain America. He actually lived right off of campus. His son, Jim, was a student at Stony Brook who had seen my work in the school paper. He liked my work and wanted to hire me. So, at […]
Big Nate, Lincoln Peirce, and the Mid-School KidsTuesday saw Nate Peirce entertain and inform the Westbrook Middle School about cartooning. The Phantom Dies in NorwayThe Phantom is very popular in Australia, India, and the Scandinavian countries.Fantomet, the Norwegian translation of The Phantom, a comic strip featuring the feats of a fictional costumed superhero crime-fighter, is the […]
The redesigned Comics Kingdom website went up today (April 3, 2019). At the Comics Kingdom blog Tea welcomes us to the new site:Welcome to the remodeled Comics Kingdom! If you’re a premium subscriber, (and we encourage to sign up here if you are not!) there are no ads and a huge archive of amazing comics that […]
Signe Wilkinson scores with what I’m calling a “Naked Emperor Moment,” wherein someone says what others have had on their minds but didn’t dare bring up.The perfect is the enemy of the good and, while I’m glad to see the DNCC has not pre-approved a candidate in advance this time, the nit-picking does suggest that […]
Calvin County by Watterson & Breathed returned once again for April Fools’ Day.For the fourth year in a row, ever since Berke Breathed, in 2016, announced that “Bill Watterson and myself in Tuscany signing the franchise over to my ‘administration,’” April 1st has seen the yearly revival of Calvin and Hobbes in a mashup with […]
Editorial cartoonist Steve Benson has joined the crew at Arizona Mirror.In late January the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, along with a number of other journalists, was dismissed from The Arizona Republic. He continued practicing his craft as a nationally syndicated cartoonist, but now he has the opportunity to once again turn his pen to local Arizona […]
If Sheldon‘s duck, Arthur, had swallowed an encyclopedia instead of a dictionary, he’d understand electrical wiring.It’s a bit of a disability, being bright enough to ask the question but not bright enough to figure out the answer.He wouldn’t be content with the explanation my dogs have always accepted, either, which is that, when I walk […]
It appears as if a new comic strip has now replaced an older one.In an April 1, 2019 Facebook post Lalo Alcaraz explains to fans:ANNOUNCEMENT: Wanted to let you, my readers, that yesterday was the last day of my long running comic strip, La Cucaracha, but the good news is that my assistant artist from […]
Quotes From CathyCathy Guisewite is on a book tour.“After I quit the strip, so much started changing in my adult life,” Guisewite explains. “I dealt with it by writing it down — and honestly, I always wrote the strip before I drew it. For years I summed up ideas, thoughts, experiences in four frames for […]
I’m going light on the commentary and heavy on the comics for April Fool’s Day. Here’s what people found in their papers 75 years ago, on April 1, 1944:Of course, there was a war on, and D-Day was still two months away, though the Eastern Front was lively:Which didn’t stop the flow of internal politics:Though […]