So ol’ acquaintance Marc Lutz pops up on my radar again, this time on an island in South Alaska.To be sure we have never met and Marc doesn’t know me from Adam, but I’ve followed his career for a few decades now.Journalist Marc Lutz gets a job with a newspaper and then convinces them to […]
Pat Byrnes sets the scene for tonight’s broadcast of the Jan 6 Committee hearing, and it does indeed promise to be a delightful, infuriating production, at least for those who (A) tune in and (B) tune in expecting to see what happened and hear why.Today’s headline comes from a fellow who worked at an amusement […]
Thirty years ago (give or take) new Sunday Popeye cartoonist Randy Milholland had his dreams bashed by his first grade teacher.And then…© Randy Milholland New York magazine audio editorial director Hanna Rosin tweeted about a new movie.And then…And then…After deleting the tweet, Rosin issued an apology.Vanity Fair carries the story. Alison Bechdel has spoken. The cartoonist […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio, — Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC), the international showcase for cartoon art, is excited to announce its featured guests for the 2022 festival running October 6th to 9th, the organization’s first fully in-person festival since 2019. CXC brings the global family of cartoon storytellers, comic makers, and animators together with the people who […]
John Kelly and The Comics Journal has collected reminiscences of Justin Green by cartoonists, editors, historians, friends, and family of the creator of Binky Brown. Carol Tyler and Justin Green. Photo by John KinhartFrom Bill Griffith who knew Justin from early in the underground movement: I first met Justin in New York in 1969 or ’70. […]
We’ll start today’s roundup with a story from the world of sports, where Saudi Arabia is sponsoring a new golf league, and, as Steve Breen (Creators) puts it, showering money on golfers willing to sink into the public relations trap known as “sportswashing.”It’s nothing new, nor is the explanation for playing along. It’s all well […]
So much to do, there’s plenty on the farm… Editorial cartoonists become accustomed to being revered and reviled — frequently by the same people, and often at the same time. Asked if that love-hate relationship makes it hard to do the job, Bruce Plante replied: “Eh. It might make it a little bit harder. But […]
Counterpoint Licensing and Syndication (CL&S) debuted on June 1 with six editorial cartoonists. The five core cartoonists from the old Washington Post Writers Group (WPWG) each have a different way of crediting the Counterpoint syndicate.Lisa Benson, who has been a contributor to the original Counterpoint, continues after the switch with the same “Counterpoint.com” slug, using […]
In May, Insider won a Pulitzer Prize, joining a small group of digital-only news organizations awarded journalism’s top prize. But like Politico back in 2012, the recognition came in an unlikely category for an online news organization — cartooning. Insider won for a piece of comics journalism that told the story of Zumrat Dawut, a […]
I agree with Adam Zyglis that Second Amendment zealots are killing the “living document” of the Constitution.I just wish they were the only ones involved in the crime.As noted here before, the discussion of guns is not about guns but about politics, in which guns have become a measure of loyalty to competing visions. At […]
What was the original name of the Peanuts comic? The Peanuts comics have become one of the most popular comic strips of all time, but the name of it was changed from Charles M. Schulz’s original vision. The Sun asks and answers the question.Peanuts Fandom shows the Li’l Folks panels by Sparky. As a cartoonist, […]
Brewster Rockit (Tribune) is a funny sci-fi spoof. Except when it’s not.Thursday, the January 6 Committee will present hearings in Prime Time, and there are many people who feel this will finally give Americans a look not only at what happened in the Capitol that day but at who may have planned, encouraged and enabled it.But […]
Sixty years ago, on June 5, 1962, Marvel Comics introduced the4th, 5th, and 6th super heroes of The Marvel Age of Comics. Of all the creators associated with those three comic books only Larry Lieber, the writer of the first Ant Man and Thor stories, remains.Marvel is celebrating the 60th anniversary of all three (and others) […]
We’ll Start with the BIG news of the day – Popeye.I’ll note that Randy Miilholland has returned “Thimble Theatre” to the title panel. © King Features Syndicate While Popeye fanatic Joseph Nebus notes, among other comments, another landmark: Also, unless I’ve missed someone, Milholland will be only the second credited creator of the comic […]
Publishers Weekly reports the death of Blanche Cirker. Blanche Cirker, co-founder of Dover Publications, died last week at the age of 104. Cirker and her husband, Hayward, who died in March 2000, founded Dover in 1941. Dover Publications was famous to comic strip fans as the publisher of “treasury-size” editions of Little Nemo and […]