Jim Scancarelli used his Sunday space to honor the history of his Gasoline Alley strip, and do homage to the strip’s creator Frank King.Jim did his research for those throwback panels. Gasoline Alley January 15, 1921 Gasoline Alley February 2, 1921 Gasoline Alley April 16, 1921 Gasoline Alley January 14, 1921 Great job Jim!Gasoline Alley can […]
Newspaper reporter Ken Fuson has passed away.Ken Fuson, born June 23, 1956, died Jan. 3, 2020 at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, of liver cirrhosis, and is stunned to learn that the world is somehow able to go on without him.Journalist Ken Fuson wrote his own (wonderful) obituary.In lieu of flowers, Ken asked that everyone […]
I wouldn’t have brought up Harry and Meghan so prematurely the other day if I’d realized how much their decision to put their marriage ahead of parental expectations was going to explode into an international incident.I like Steve Sack‘s take because it tells the tale so simply, like finding out that Orr paddled all the […]
In sequential panels cartoonist Jerry Craft, for the New York Times Book Review, tells how comic books were a portal to “heavier” literature.[Aside: Science backs up Jerry.]The Review notes that, “Jerry Craft is the author and illustrator of the graphic novel “New Kid,” winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature.”Which makes me […]
David Fitzsimmons sets the scene, to the extent that you can set a scene which, as he notes, changes and shifts and contradicts itself at every moment.Secretary of State Pompeo demonstrated the kind of fancy-dancing necessary to serve in this Cabinet at his news conference yesterday, at which the press asked him obnoxious questions like […]
On Canada’s Family Feud, a contestant botched the final question—costing her family $10,000—because the fast food chain was clearly the first thing to come to mind when she heard the word “Popeye’s.”The goof went viral and reached the fast food chicken’s upper management.Fernando Machado, global CMO of Popeyes and sister brand Burger King, said the […]
Etsy is selling all kinds of decorative Calvin and Hobbes art for home and office.Book Riot shows the objets d’art with links to the Etsy pages.This seems like a lot of material from a man notorious for keeping the licensing of his creation down to books, a couple of calendars, and a few prints.No copyright […]
The Cincinnati Enquirer has hired Kevin Necessary as political cartoonist and illustrator.From The Enquirer:Kevin Necessary is an illustrator and editorial cartoonist. His editorial cartoons will appear Sundays in The Enquirer and online each Friday.Kevin explains his job to fellow Cincinnatians in words and pictures: Who is Kevin?I am a comics journalist and editorial cartoonist for WCPO/9 […]
You don’t actually have to be funny to be in the Friday Funnies, and Heart of the City scores with a sweet Sunday rerun that brought me back to my adolescence.The only places open after dinner in our little town were bars, one of which was our designated hangout in high school, a place about […]
The Cartoon Art Museum is proud to announce its second biennial Tribute Auction, A Boy and His Tiger: A Tribute to Bill Watterson, featuring original art in homage to Bill Watterson and his seminal comic strip creation Calvin and Hobbes.And the auction is a go!The Cartoon Art Museum’s salute to Watterson’s enduring talent, A Boy […]
The President emerged from his living quarters yesterday, as soon as Fox & Friends was over, to address the nation, and the “emerging from the light” angle was a different setting than the usual “walk down the long hallway” venue, which late night comedians quickly noted, just as they noted that he opened by saying […]
“All this happened, more or less.”Publishers Weekly is reporting:Indie graphic novel house Boom! Studios announced plans to publish a graphic version of Kurt Vonnegut’s classic sci-fi/antiwar novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, to be adapted into a graphic novel by the writer Ryan North, artist Albert Monteys, and colorist Ricard Zaplana. The book will be released in September 2020. […]
Dear Leader is set to address the nation this morning, but, since Fox and Friends is still on for the better part of an hour as I write this, Darrin Bell’s explanation will have to do in the meantime.And it may continue to be the most clear and concise version, though the Washington Post reports:Vice […]
The current issue of Charlie Hebdo is a special about The New Censors. (Google translation) AlterNet looks at French humor on the fifth anniversary of the horrible terror attack:Before 2015, about 40,000 people read Charlie Hebdo each week. Given that many hundreds of thousands declared “je suis Charlie”, most were clearly not regular readers. “Je suis […]
Mistakes Were Made, the first Timmy Failure book by Stephan Pastis, has been adapted to the moving picture medium and will hit theaters early next month.https://youtu.be/4loOtFz–J0Today Disney released the official trailer (above).Here The Oregonian previews the movie, shot on location in Portland, Oregon.