With Steve Brodner, Alison Bechdel, Lawrence Wood, Alex Norris, Jerry Craft, Art Speigelman, Norman Rockwell and The Usual Gang of Idiots. The Herblock Foundation held its 2024 Herblock Prize ceremony at the Library of Congress on June 4 honoring Steve Brodner this year.Comics DC has links to photographer Bruce Guthrie‘s pages of the reception and […]
(Thank you, Clifford Berryman)Pearls Before Swine (AMS) makes an excellent point, though there’s more to it. If you go back half a century, the evening network news was half an hour, but so was the local news and there was another half hour before bedtime, for a total of 90 minutes. Drop back a century […]
The Baker County Press in Macclenny FL is looking for an editorial cartoonist. The paper was home to cartoonist Ed Hall, who was with the paper for over 30 years. Ed passed away on May 19 after a long battle with cancer.Baker County Press Publisher Jessica Prevatt says she is looking for a cartoonist to create a weekly local cartoon. Interested parties […]
Mallard Fillmore by Bruce Tinsley made its King Features syndicated debut 30 years ago today. Since the Comics Kingdom archives don’t go all the way back to the beginning, here’s the first week: Bruce Tinsley would continue the strip for 23 years when late in 2019, “due to unforeseen circumstances” the strip went into reruns. […]
Aislin starts off our D-Day commemoration in part because the Canadians tend to get bunched in with the British forces in other commentaries I’ve seen, but mostly because he marks the day by remembering strong, young men while most others are depicting old guys in wheelchairs, sometimes saluting. Saluting happens in cartoons on military holidays: […]
There is no better portrayal of the assimilation of early Houston County [Minnesota] Norwegian emigrants into American culture and society than the brilliant, whimsical newspaper cartoon series of Peter Rosendahl of Spring Grove. The cartoon series was called “Han Ola og han Per,” which translates into English as “Him Ola and him Per,” or “He […]
Ray Billingsley, creator of Curtis, is featured in a three minute segment on News 12 Connecticut. “Curtis allows me to express myself freely because I am a quiet person,” says Billingsley. In Ray’s words, few have heard his voice, but he speaks to millions—43 million, in fact—who read his daily, syndicated comic strip, Curtis. Born […]
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. — Things Mark Twain didn’t sayHere’s a cartoon that Scott Stantis most likely regrets, though it did pop up on the Intertubes last week. But it’s gone now, most likely because Jimmy Carter isn’t. […]
Yesterday’s, today’s, and tomorrow’s comic strips. Old Spanish comic strip is new Comics Kingdom comic strip. Goomer by Ricardo Antonino Martínez Ortega (Ricardo) and José Ignacio Moreno Cuñat (Nacho) first appeared, according to Wikipedia, “since 1988 … for “El Pequeño País” Sunday newspaper.” Lambiek’s Comiclopedia says that the character’s “adventures appear in El Mundo since […]
Our conversation with award winning Michael De Adder is wide ranging and looks at the challenges of getting political cartoons approval in this era of political correctness. De Adder currently works for the Toronto Star, the Hill Times and the Chronicle-Herald. He also worked for a time as a cartoonist for the Washington Post and […]
This Carpe Diem (KFS) wouldn’t be funny if everybody lined up their cars properly in parking lots, and so the idea that aliens would visit and start things off by being annoying gets a laugh, though perhaps the nitwits who park across the lines won’t get it.And then there are the overthinkers like me, for […]
No, not Hogan’s Alley. the alley is the monthly newspaper of the Phillips Community in Minneapolis, and for years they have featured Dave’s Dumpster and Spirit of Phillips) by Dave Moore & Linnea Hadaway. Recently the Alley added Fire Boy by Jude Anikpo (age 11) in their May 2024 edition.(apologies for the awkward split of […]
I still can’t believe I’ve spent my working life creating a comic strip for a living. There is nothing else I aspired or aspire to be. How damn lucky can a person be? Sandra Bell-Lundy relives her early life as a cartoonist aborning. The idea of syndication didn’t actually occur to me on my own. […]
I suppose we should clean up a bit before attempting to move on, and Pat Byrnes offers this example of “They’ll believe anything.”For those who missed it, in an interview on Fox, the recently convicted former president denied ever saying the phrase. He has also recently denied having met E. Jean Carroll or having had […]
What is the significance of Mr. Gabriel using the old-fashioned linotype to print his sheet? Is Mr. Gabriel a muckraking messenger of God or a publisher of tabloid journalism? Does “etaoin shrdlu” make as much sense to young people as “Klaatu barada nikto” does? Is catching up on Dick Tracy more convenient on Comics Kingdom […]