Steve Sheinkin is an author of fiction and non-fiction works and he is an illustrator of fiction and non-fiction works. Sometimes he blends the fiction and non-fiction and sometimes he blends the prose and the illustrations.Anyway…Steve also does graphic interviews with authors and illustrators, which he calls Walking and Talking with…Here he is Walking and […]
Whhhiirrrrr…clik…clik…clik…clak Awards The Slate Book Review and the Center for Cartoon Studies are proud to announce the nominees for the seventh annual Cartoonist Studio Prize. The winner in each of our categories will be announced April 12. Each winner will receive $1,000 and eternal glory. On the shortlist of nominees for Best Web Comic of the […]
This Pat Bagley cartoon has been hanging around too long, but I’m going to feature it anyway because it’s such a good introduction to the blatant disinformation circulating in our system.Of course, nobody said we needed to do away with cattle entirely, but having even said that (A) they produce a lot of methane and […]
Cartoonist Joe Ruisi has passed away.Joseph A. (Joe) Ruisi November 4, 1936 – March 10, 2019Joe was a magazine, gag, and editorial cartoonist; a children’s book and greeting card illustrator. Life began for Joe Ruisi in beautiful downtown Buffalo, New York. At about the age of three, little Joey began to exhibit anomalous tendencies. His […]
Interview: Bill Griffith, Nobody’s Fool, and a Grand Career in ComicsIn 1976, Zippy began to appear in about 50 alternative weekly newspapers–syndicated only by me. From ’76 to ’85, Zippy was a weekly strip that I syndicated alone. In 1985, the San Francisco Examiner, a daily Hearst paper, was given over to a new generation. […]
Hard on the heels of Friday’s discussion of hourly v flat rate payment for freelancers, Pajama Diaries reminds me of why it’s worth putting up with late pay and low pay and picky people.And the robe is only a symbol. It’s also the ability to slip out to soccer games without having to explain that […]
A couple notes… For the first time in over two years the Sunday In The Bleachers is signed. I’m pretty sure the Marvin and Staff Sunday logo is a first. and some things noted. A few months late, but Dick Tracy celebrates Gasoline Alley’s 100th (November 24, 1918). A few months early, but JumpStart celebrates its […]
The Bloomington Pantagraph is adding 14 comic strips to today’s Sunday Funnies section.We’re launching 14 new strips in our four-page weekly comics section starting with Sunday’s Pantagraph. Our new Sunday lineup will now include favorites, including “Baby Blues,” “The Born Loser,” “Dilbert,” “Garfield,” “Marmaduke,” “Mutts,” “One Big Happy,” “Pearls Before Swine,” “Phoebe and Her Unicorn,” […]
(I don’t mind the time change, but I’m surely about to get tired of two weeks of people bitching about it on social media.)And on a related rant:Meanwhile, I went ahead and did my taxes yesterday, because I also am tired of the bitching about refunds vs. tax cuts, as laid out in this Scott […]
Captain Marvel is in the movie theaters and Shazam is rolling out next month, so let’s take a look at a proposed Captain Marvel superhero comic strip that never made it into newspapers.75 years ago the most popular comic book superhero was not Superman, it was the original Captain Marvel (now referred to as Shazam). […]
The Winston-Salem Journal has joined a couple other newspapers in taking the opportunity to switch out a few comics while replacing Non Sequitur.In this case The Journal will cancel three daily strips that have been in rerun status for years.Three strips that have been entirely in reruns in recent years — Get Fuzzy, For Better […]
Everybody is jumping on the Manafort sentencing, and I like Stuart Carlson‘s take in large part because he doesn’t specify the offense that the defendant was convicted of.We can assume, racists and classists that we are, that the fellow didn’t evade millions of dollars in taxes, but, unlike some cartoonists that compare a sentence for […]
Following the foofaraw of Ilhan Omar’s remarks about a “push for allegiance to a foreign country,” and Meghan McCain’s protest to that statement because, in part, she “verge[‘s] on being a Zionist as well,” cartoonist Eli Valley, who is not a fan of the current leadership in the U. S. or in Israel, drew a […]
The National Women’s Hall of Fame announced their 2019 inductees. Cartoonist Rose O’Neill of Kewpies fame was among the chosen.From the Hall’s O’Neill profile: Rose O’Neill: (1874-1944) As a successful artist, writer, businesswoman, and philanthropist, Rose boldly assisted with the activities of the woman suffrage movements coordinated by the National Woman’s Suffrage Association headquartered in New […]
Seems as good a time as any to drop these recent comic strip articles. Where I’m Coming From by Barbara Brandon-CroftWhere I’m Coming From’s mission as a comic meant to affect change rather than just entertain was twofold. First, Brandon-Croft wanted white readers to fully grasp the struggles of Black Americans as people in their own […]