Joel Franusic, a product marketing marketer and self-described “hacker” has figured out how to scrape internet versions of old newspapers to post old “Krazy Kat” comics. To date, he’s posted 1916 through 1922.“Why?” you ask.Here’s Joel:After becoming a little obsessed with Krazy Kat, I was very disappointed to see many of the books I wanted […]
The fine folks at John Hart Studios have announced the “pre-launch” of an Indiegogo project for a B.C. feature film.From the Indiegogo site:Feature animators, illustrators, and storytellers from Academy-Award winning films are joining forces to lovingly bring America’s National Treasure, Johnny Hart’s B.C. comic strip, to the big screen! We’ve got an iconic American comic […]
Nick Anderson leads us off with a base for today’s discussion, politely translating “E pluribus unum” for those who don’t know what it means.But, then again, what does it mean?That’s a key to the American experience, because for all that we’ve fallen short of “all men are created equal” over the past 243 years, that […]
Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for July 2019 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon (though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.) For Better or For Worse: The Complete Library, Vol. 3 Complete Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy Volume 26 American Comic Book Chronicles: 1940-44 Garfield Fat […]
I really puzzled over which of several cartoons on the topic to lead with, but Tom Toles puts it on the line: Despite having only been a Republican for a few weeks before running for President on their ticket, Trump has since been welcomed in, sheltered and protected by a silence that can only be […]
The current issue of the French magazine Blandice has a Dean Yeagle cover,unfortunately, due to a series of mistakes, Dean was neither credited nor paid for the art. Tom Heintjes noticed it while traveling abroad and informed Dean.Dean, taking it in stride, wrote on Facebook: Then Bleeding Cool picked it up:Blandice there, a comic book that declares […]
Matt Wuerker ran this piece several days ago, but it continues not simply to be relevant but to increase in relevance.Never mind Epstein, at least for the moment, though I’d like to see his case sorted out: There is, apparently, an actual affidavit or piece of testimony or something quasi-legal that connects Trump to the […]
Some Sunday comics of note today, only one noting Bastille Day. I like the nice Summer day look of Judge Parker but that dark last panel … Evil looms! Whereas Macanudo’s Summer day in the woods just makes me smile. More than smile, Buckles and Bound and Gagged made me laugh.Yeah. one’s been done before and the other […]
Start your Sunday, (Well, if “your” Sunday is August 6, 1950) with some donuts, orange juice and Puck, The Comic Weekly, a pre-printed selection of Sunday funnies distributed to papers across the country.Can’t read them to yourself? No problem! Just tune in your radio to “The Comic Weekly Man” and let him read them to […]
Charles Schulz is Peanuts and Peanuts is Charles Schulz.But Schulz did a few more series than Peanuts. There was the Peanuts precursor Li’l Folks in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Young Pillars mostly for the Church of God magazine Youth, the very early Just Keep Laughing.. for Topix Comics, a series of Saturday Evening Post […]
Today’s Garfield gives a disguised nod to a milestone.Debuting 41 years and 25 days ago, the July 13, 2019 strip is Garfield’s 15,000th.If you have a spare hour or two read all 15,000 at the Garfield homepage or at GoComics.
Stephen Collins on the perils of shopping in a strange supermarket, and thoughts on that topic could be a book, and an interesting one.I had the great good fortune to be a biz writer in a small city when a fourth grocery chain came in, and they were not only willing to talk to the […]
Longtime MAD contributor Sergio Aragonés just can’t imagine a world without MAD. Aragonés sees MAD as a way of presenting people’s foibles and the world’s problems with humor. “Instead of crying, you laugh at it,” he said, suggesting the magazine’s influence has reached a swath of humanity that includes politicians lampooned in its pages. “They say, […]
Clay Jones’ cartoon yesterday was about the Social Media Summit and political cartoonists.Clay expanded on his thoughts, about the Executive Branch’s desire for what amounts to a state run media, in his column following the cartoon:Donald Trump is hosting a “social media summit” today at the White House. This morning, he tweeted, “A big subject […]
The new Nancy is hardly the only strip featuring a rude, self-absorbed main character, but, at least so far, it goes beyond simply laughing at her rudeness.Confucius said, “In vain have I looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself,” and expanding the search to […]