Wick Communications, a media group with 24 newspapers mostly west of The Mississippi, will be consolidating their comics pages beginning in February 2024. The group has signed a deal with Andrews McMeel Syndicate.From The Fergus Falls Daily Journal: Beginning on Wednesday, Feb. 14, we will be introducing a new comics page that will still include […]
Sports and editorial cartoonist Phil Bissell has passed away. Charles Phillip (Phil) Bissell February 1, 1926 – January 2024The New England Patriots announced the sadness yesterday. Phil’s big claim to fame came in 1960 when the new AFL team revealed that they would be called The Patriots and his cartoon in The Boston Globe on […]
Out and about with Posy Simmonds, Bill Griffith, Gilbert Shelton, Walt Handelsman, Willard Mullin, Sarah Anderson, Alex Segura, Michael Moreci, Jim Keefe, and Greg Cravens.Posy Simmonds wins the Grand Prix British cartoonist Posy Simmonds has won Angouleme’s Grand Prix, considered one of the highest honors in comics worldwide. … she is the seventh non-French cartoonist […]
The Jamestown Press talked to Will Henry about fans saving Wallace the Brave in The Providence Journal: A comic strip drawn by a Jamestown man will remain in the pages of Rhode Island’s largest newspaper following a response from fans to save the cartoon after the editor suggested scrapping the comic. “Wallace the Brave,” created […]
Bayeux Tapestry as the first-ever comic strip The Bayeux Tapestry is considered one of the most famous and recognisable historical documents in history. Sprawled out across nearly 70 metres of fabric, in stunning detail, is an entire catalogue of the past. As well as offering future generations a full-bodied window into military, social and cultural […]
Sage Stossel is an award winning editorial cartoonist for The Boston Globe and other publications and is an award worthy children’s book author with her On The Loose series.Most recent in the series is On the Loose in New Orleans and Boston.com interviewed Sage about the book: Where in New Orleans do you take us, […]
Two time Pulitzer Prize Editorial Cartoonist winner (1966, 1980) and five time finalist for the Editorial Cartooning Pulitzer Prize (1982, 1984, 1988, 1993, 2005) Don Wright celebrates his 90th birthday today and in doing so becomes a member of The Daily Cartoonist’s Senior Stripper club (not quite the status symbol as is his Pulitzers). From […]
Basil Wolverton gained fame through his strange and humorous comic book art from Spacehawk to Powerhouse Pepper to Biblical Armegeddon and a lot more. But like most comic artists of his time he tried to break into the syndicated newspaper comic strip market. Also like most comic artists of his time he failed. But he […]
Those fabulous floppy funny books that were everywhere in our youth began as showcases for comic strips. Now, except for the Archie Digests, comic books are only found at select locations. And mostly star super heroes. But once in a while the old traditions return. As Newsarama/Games Radar reports: The adventures of Chester Gould’s iconic […]
Original January 20 post:Another batch of Gannett newspapers announcing their adoption of The Gannett 34 comics pages. The Austin American-Statesman takes The Gannett 34 literally, they will carry all the comics available to them.From American-Statesman Executive Editor Manny Garcia: Our refresh of the daily comics begins on Jan. 29, and we start our Sunday comics […]
The week started, more or less since Monday was a holiday, with a Tuesday adjacent comics synchronicity. Pearls Before Swine and Perry Bible Fellowship follow one after the other on my GoComics feed and Tuesday they both featured what birthdays represent.Thoughts while you’re blowing out those candles. Let’s lighten the mood with a really easy […]
Donnie Pitchford, Ralph Steadman, Paul Ackley, Jerry Craft, Clay Jones, Angelo Lopez, Liana Finck, Jim Toomey, Jack Mallette, and the new National Cartoonists Society Board of Directors (Karen Evans, Drew Aquilina, Greg Cravens, John Hambrock, Ellen Liebenthal, Jamar Nicholas, Nick Seluk, Johnny Sampson)Donnie Pitchford part of the Carthage Main Street 2024 Arts Walk of Fame […]
First – a little catching up from Rob Tornoe at Editor & Publisher last Fall: Over at King Features Syndicate, President CJ Kettler doesn’t see comic strips going away anytime soon. In fact, Kettle said the company launched several new comics features this year, including “Break of Day” by Nate Fakes and “Never Been Deader” […]
Tony DePaul on his, more-or-less monthly these days, blog chimed in on the just ended Wrack and Ruin: On Phantom matters (which I’m always ambivalent writing about here), the dual-timeline Wrack and Ruin series came to a close last Saturday, after seven chapters and 32 months. It ended with Jeff Weigel’s Phantom reflecting for a […]
The National Cartoonists Society has opened its Call For Entries for the annual Reuben Divisional Awards. Calling all cartoonists! The National Cartoonists Society announces its annual call for entries for consideration for the 78th NCS Divisional Reuben Awards, recognizing excellence in professional cartooning for work published in 2023. You do not have to be a member of […]