Famous in the annals of comic strip circulation boosting is the early 1954 ousting of the then three-year-old Beetle Bailey comic strip from the pages of the Tokyo/Pacific edition of Stars and Stripes. The publicity was a windfall for Mort Walker‘s comic strip with a tripling of newspaper clients within a few years. It could […]
With the cancellation of the Angoulême International Comics Festival, the city of Angoulême has organized a new local, independent festival called Le Grand Off to be held January 29 through February 1, 2026, the same days as the cancelled international festival.The four day festival will include 150 events be held throughout the city at 60 […]
As noted yesterday, drawing for Politico gives Wuerker more latitude in creating cartoons that make intellectual demands on people. This, however, is a good example of a cartoon that would do well in a general-circulation magazine in the category of “comforting the afflicted.” I’m not sure it would be as effective in converting anyone to […]