Literally – a 90th anniversary Popeye wristwatch.Bamford London is celebrating the 90th anniversary of Popeye with the release of a new collaborative watch. The watch is made alongside the cartoon’s owner King Features, which has graced Bamford London’s GMT model with Popeye motifs throughout its design. Channeling the nautical theme synonymous with Popeye, the duo […]
Wallace the Brave is off to have a terrible picture taken of himself. I remember having a school photo taken and then, two months later, getting to see how horrible it was.School photographers now offer “retake days” for those whose pics were truly ghastly, and I can pick out three or four of my school […]
Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for September 2019 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea. Snug Harbor Stories: A Wallace the Brave Collection! Silly Symphonies Volume 4: The Complete Disney Classics 1942-1945 (the last volume) Pickles Tails: The […]
Saturday September 14, 2019: Keith Knight has spent the past week hinting that he was ending his The Knight Life daily strip. Beginning the week with a fortune cookie, and ending the dailies with fulfilling a Make-A-Wish type grant on Saturday September 14, 2019 (above).It was probably inevitable, what with Keith heavily involved in his […]
Starting with a blank panel this morning because I don’t want to single anyone out, nor do I want to run a half-dozen or more cartoons all pointing out that Bernie Sanders sure does talk loud.I guess they hadn’t noticed before.When I moved back East a little over 30 years ago, Bernie was already mayor […]
Artist and cartoonist Mary Zins has passed away.Mary Catherine (MC) Zins ?June 2, 1964? – August 22, 2019 From the obituary:…our sister will always be remembered as a gifted and talented artist that eventually blossoms into an outstanding, Internationalist Fine Art Cartoonist e.g., cartoonmovement. Whom mimicked her father, Chuck Zins, a great commercial illustrator with an […]
Editor and Publisher recently asked a couple of young editors for their thoughts on the recent firings of editorial cartoonists by a few newspapers.Firing editorial cartoonists for their controversial art not only violates their right to free speech, but it robs the public of the full story. What newspapers choose to publish, or not to […]
From Fine Books & Collections:Washington, D.C. — A new exhibition at the Library of Congress explores the fascinating evolution of visual storytelling styles in comic art – from panels in early newspapers to contemporary images of some of the most famous and funny characters in print. Comic Art: 120 Years of Panels and Pages opened […]
The Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., for the next four months, is presenting The Comic Art of Lynn Johnston.The Embassy of Canada is pleased to present The Comic Art of Lynn Johnston, an art exhibition exploring the career of Canadian comic artist Lynn Johnston and the themes of her popular comic strip For Better or […]
Bizarro offers more politics than usual, but maybe this has been on Wayno’s mind as much as it’s been on mine.This meme from Occupy Democrats has been popping up regularly on my feeds. I don’t trust the group — they rarely give sources for their frantic accusations and, as with most of the ones I’ve […]
From the site:Uncommon, unreal, and (soon-to-be) unfrozen. A new online era of The Far Side is coming!
Mike beat me to the famous Walt Kelly phrase, but here are a few examples of Churchy’s paraskevidekatriaphobia. An early superstition strip: A week of Pogo and a weak Churchy: Whistling past the graveyard. HORRA-BLATZ! More of the wonderful Walt Kelly at Thomas Haller Buchanan’s Pogo in Pandemonia and Whirled of Kelly and Fantagraphics’ Complete Syndicated Pogo by […]
Last night I pulled out two bankers’ boxes of old manuscripts and published works and papers from college and high school and began sorting them, mostly into “recyclable paper” and “recyclable cardboard” and “trash.”I ended up keeping a modest 4-inch stack of stuff that I think will not drive my heirs and assigns to ask, […]
From The Daily Mirror in the United Kingdom:After today’s comic showed Andy Capp joining an anti-Brexit march, [The Daily Mirror] went straight to the man himself to clear up what he really thinks about the biggest issue in British politics.Andy Capp responds:When you live your life in a blissful boozy haze as I do, there […]
While a mix of creativity and comics might suggest a family-friendly atmosphere — and as always, that depends on the family — Tuesday’s appearance by writer, illustrator, playwright and editor Lynda Barry might not be for more delicate tastes.In a statement that ponders why people crave art, Barry concludes with “Please note: There will be […]