British cartoonist Brian Walker has passed away. Brian H. N. Walker March 22, 1926 – May(?) 2020 cartoonist, author, illustratorFrom Brian’s daughter Jo writing for The Guardian:My father, Brian Walker, who has died aged 94, was a cartoonist and illustrator whose work appeared across a span of 50 years in comics such as the Beano and […]
July 23:The dearth of magazines buying gag cartoons does not bode well. ‘Nightmare!’ is how The Spectator’s cartoon editor Michael Heath has been describing cartooning for at least 30 years, but it’s truer now than ever. Eighty years ago, cartoonists were so celebrated that waxworks of Low, Strube and Poy were displayed in Madame Tussauds. […]
Let’s begin with the imminent end of the Stone Soup comic strip.The Columbus Dispatch has picked Frazz to replace the Sunday-only strip: The Sunday comic strip Stone Soup will end next Sunday, the edition of July 26. The comic Frazz will replace Stone Soup on Sunday. The Dispatch currently runs Frazz in the daily paper, […]
I will confess to feeling much like the fellow in Brewster Rockit, and I say “confess” because I feel kind of guilty over being in a state that ranks 42nd in per capita Covid cases, with most of those seeming to be in the southeast corner, or, as one might call it, “suburban Boston.”And, while […]