Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for June 2020 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. DC Goes to WarBig Nate Stays ClassyScary Godmother OmnibusSpeed Bump: A 25th Anniversary CollectionThe Tea Dragon Society (paperback)Jake the Fake Keeps His CoolTails of Tottering […]
A rash of newspapers are being taken to task by their readers for printing cartoons that are objectionable to some. The Roxboro Courier-Times is the latest to sever ties with a cartoonist over an editorial cartoon the newspaper freely chose to publish.We have decided to cut ties with the editorial cartoonist who provided the offensive […]
On June 11 the Florence Morning News editor chose and published a controversial Gary McCoy editorial cartoon.After receiving negative feedback the newspaper apologized two days later: The Morning News erred badly in its choice for a syndicated editorial cartoon that was published Thursday on the Opinion page. The cartoon was in extremely poor taste and […]
Happy Birthday Frank Thorne, born June 16, 1930! Stroud: You’ve done syndicated strip work on Perry Mason. How did that come about? Thorne: I was 20 years old and walked in to King Features with my samples, they gave me the Perry Mason Daily and Sunday. Stroud: Was it a good gig? A strip seemed to be the […]
Steve Sack gets the lead-off today because he nailed the target amid a forest of lukewarm rainbows.It’s all well and good to draw a rainbow flag or show the Supreme Court building or the nation or whatever swathed in rainbows, but Sack makes two critical points:First, by using Justice hugging that rainbow flag, he emphasizes […]