SAT, DEC 14 AT 5 PM EST Memorial for Tom Spurgeon The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum The Spurgeon Family and the Billy Ireland are setting up a memorial service for Tom.From the Billy Ireland:Our community is grieving an incalculable loss today. Thomas Spurgeon, friend, donor, member of our National Advisory Council and Executive […]
Ann Telnaes shows off her caricature chops with a portfolio of views from the hearings, and, while not overtly analyzing the proceedings, manages to both capture the moment and slip the knife between the ribs here and there.The hearings brought me back to Watergate days, because while there were a few times you were glued […]
Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon has passed away.From Tom’s brother Whit:R.I.P. to my amazing brother Thomas Spurgeon. He lived one hell of an amazing life, and I love him.Thomas Martin (Tom) Spurgeon December 16, 1968 – November 13, 2019From the obituary:Tom Spurgeon, a writer, editor, journalist and historian whose lifelong passion was not just comics, but […]
Eddie Campbell reviews Screwball for The Comics Journal:Screwball follows an isolated strain of comics history as opposed to those other books that tell the whole lot decade by decade or by lining up a canon of masters. Which is not say it isn’t linear: from Fred Opper to Boody Rogers, editor Paul Tumey locates fifteen […]