The Arizona Daily Star is sharing with their subscribers why the online comics are unavailable: As many subscribers have noticed, the online comics, puzzles and columns provided by the Andrews McMeel syndicate went offline early Saturday and remains offline today on our website. The digital service provider is currently experiencing technical difficulties and working to […]
And now it’s Comics Kingdom – c’mon!Finding the updated King Features Syndicate strips will be easier than the GoComics.note: again this applies to comics syndicated to newspapers but not those in rerun status nor the web only comic strips. © LiniersBetween Arcamax and The Washington Post comics page most KFS comics will be found.The WaPo […]
Now only is GoComics still off-line (DD Degg offers some ways to find the missing comics), but Comics Kingdom has inadvertently offered its solidarity by hanging up and delivering yesterday’s comics, except for the Vintage strips, which are decades old but as up to date as they’re supposed to be.Fortunately, I’ve been holding a few […]
Yesterday Bill Griffith thought about his boyhood ambitions.Today Bill used his talents to pay tribute to the passing of his wife, Diane Noomin. Susie and Ben portray Shoe, the put upon newspaper editor, in a factioned world. Mara Llave: Keeper of Time, the new web only comic by Alex Segura and Nickolej Villiger, will be issued more […]
For a change of pace it is GoComics being problematic not Comics Kingdom.We here at The Daily Cartoonist have no idea what’s gone haywire or how long the problem will exist. But here are some other places to find SOME of the Andrews McMeel Syndicate strips online. Also where to find the other syndicate offerings […]
Two months ago Lee Enterprises performed a major shake-up of their comics pages, part of which ballyhooed the nearly 500 comics that would be available to subscribers online.Today they are notifying subscribers that GoComics is down: The service that provides our online comics and games, Andrews McMeel publishing, is currently offline and working to restore […]
David Horsey points out a current crisis throughout American democracy, though he’s referencing a specific race for the House in northwestern Washington state.On the national scale, relief over the failure of the projected Red Wave ought not to be too joyously celebrated, given the razor-thin margins in the majority of widely watched contests.We can be […]
‘Tis the season and there is Christmas and other comics merch available. King Features is offering a line of glass Christmas tree ornaments featuring The Phantom, Curtis, Dethany, Helga and Hagar, and many others.They also carry other comics related items perfect for gifting – cups and glasses, t-shirts and other apparel, blankets, towels, posters and […]
The ACA held their annual Stanley Awards last night. Or maybe the night before, it’s in Australia and while we fell back an hour they jump ahead a day. The Stanley Awards was held for the first time since 2019 and Cathy Wilcox, the Australian Cartoonists Association’s (ACA) president said, ‘it will be a blast […]
I’ve been thinking of posting that, dammit, there are two O’s in “Mastodon,” but realized it would only result in people saying that they were opening accounts on Moostadon. And I had a lot of trouble finding this 1959 Peanuts strip because Google Images assumes — wisely — that people can’t spell and kept correcting […]
Was thinking to hold onto these Charles M. Schulz/Peanuts articles until the actual 100th anniversary of his birth (November 26), but the items are coming in faster than Snoopy in a Sopwith Camel. So… The white-spotted dog, who became “the first beagle on the moon” in a series of Peanuts comic strips in 1969, is […]
Today’s top story in the media world is last night’s ghastly near-collapse of a tottering Twitter under the tone-deaf management of alleged genius, Elon Musk, as encapsulated here by Bill Bramhall.Oliver Darcy has excellent coverage at Reliable Sources, but the immediate crisis appears to be that, in the latest of his nonsensical edicts, Musk told […]
It cost nearly half a million dollars to take home the original art by Bill Watterson for the May 24, 1987 Sunday Calvin and Hobbes page.Heritage Auctions described the Calvin and Hobbes Sunday comic strip: Any Bill Watterson original Calvin and Hobbes art is rarer than even a talking tiger! And Sundays even more so. […]
Cartoonist Tom Batiuk has given notice that he will end the Funky Winkerbean comic strip on the last day of this year. A NOTE FROM TOM BATIUK: More than fifty years ago, the cast of Funky Winkerbean began their journey on the American comics pages, and as the official chaperone of these special characters, they […]
‘Tis the season.The Cartoonists Rights Network International is running a Holiday Pledge Drive.Free Expression doesn’t come cheap. In fact, multiple cartoonists have lost their lives in their pursuit of that right. Others have been assaulted and abused, criminalized or imprisoned, and an increasing number are displaced from their homes. Our mission is to defend these […]