On Tuesday, three Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonists — Ohman of the Sacramento Bee, Joel Pett of the Lexington Herald-Leader and Kevin Siers of the Charlotte Observer [links added]— were all let go by McClatchy newspapers. Jack Ohman cannot recall another day like it, even amid decades of brutal cuts in the field of newspaper political […]
Brooke McEldowney celebrated 30 years of 9 Chickweed Lane comic strips in his usual artistic way (above). 9 Chickweed Lane began showing up in newspapers on July 12, 1993. That first strip can be read, as part of the entire 9 Chickweed Lane archive, at GoComics. The early strips can be part of your daily […]
Graham Harrop has a new comic strip on GoComics.The Ten Cats creator and editorial cartoonist premiered UFO on July 11, 2023. From a GoComics introductory post: “UFO” by Graham Harrop follows two duck brothers, Quagmire and Melrose, who were abducted from Earth and whisked away to Planet UFO. There, they run a two-star hotel for […]
When it comes to current continuity comic strips it sometimes becomes difficult to keep track of the plot and story development. That is where Joseph Nebus’ What’s Going On In… series becomes a valuable resource. When the Prince Valiant plot takes a detour (not unusual) or The Phantom adventure goes on for months and months […]
Comics and illustration historian and publisher Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. has passed away. “Jim was one of those rare figures in the history of comics, an amateur in the best and most noble sense of the word, a scholar with discriminating taste, a selfless researcher before the internet existed, an historian who helped create a foundation […]
Scott Adams, Mario DeMarco, Jack Lindstrom, Jim Keefe, George Herriman, and the Warner Bros. cartoon studio of Chuck Jones, Michael Maltese, Maurice Noble, Ken Harris, Ben Washam, Lloyd Vaughn, et al.That Other Scott Adams Comic StripA Butler Eagle reader advocates for the return of Scott Adams. While we can’t help with that we can, with […]
Fred Basset by Alex Graham debuted in The Daily Mail on July 9, 1963.* From that Daily Mail newspaper celebrating the birthday: There’s a big birthday ambling our way this week — and it belongs to someone with long floppy ears, short waddly legs and a tail wagging in anticipation. Not that Fred Basset, 60 […]
A cease-and-desist order has been issued to a cartoonist over his drawing of a Denver landmark.From Westword: Denver cartoonist Karl Christian Krumpholz [link added] on Monday said he had received a cease-and-desist email from Etsy prompted by his attempts to sell an illustration of Casa Bonita on the online marketplace. “Casa Bonita LLC reported that […]
The Australian Financial Review is being scolded for running what some see as a racist cartoon advertisement. From The Guardian: The no campaign has been accused of using a “racist trope” in a newspaper ad which included a cartoon figure of an Indigenous voice campaigner appearing to dance for money. Matt Kean, a New South […]
Press Watch, “devoted to encouraging political journalists to fulfill their essential mission of creating an informed electorate,” is not happy with the current state of affairs as far as political cartoons featured on The Washington Post’s opinion pages (or the written opinion pieces either for that matter). After praising The Post’s past (Herblock, Toles) Dan […]
The National Cartoonist Society is finalizing plans for its Reuben Award events being held September 6 – 8, 2023 in Jersey City, New Jersey and has released the schedule (subject to change) for the annual convention. Nominees for the Reuben Award and Divisional Awards had been announced, as had Brian Walker receiving the Silver T-Square, […]
Seven Days presents their 11th Annual Cartoon Issue!From Seven Days editor Dan Bolles: Seven Days prides itself on being a writers’ newspaper. That is, a publication that devotes as much energy and resources into the craft of writing as it does into sourcing, reporting and all other aspects of news gathering. How we tell stories […]
Dale Messick and Brenda Starr, J.C. Leyendecker and the Arrow Collar, Rudolphe Töpffer and the first comic book. [F]or a strip that famously broke a major gender barrier, Brenda Starr spends an inordinate amount of time policing the boundaries of traditional femininity … However pioneering Brenda’s careerism may have been, it would be a mistake […]
Original July 3rd post –This is a really late addition to our 2022 Departures list. Agnes by Tony Cochran has been in rerun status all this year, since January 1, 2023. Fans of the comic strip became aware of the lack of new material early this year and when “pschearer” inquired about the circumstances he […]
Bill Griffith’s Fancy for Nancy Bill Griffith‘s graphic biography of Ernie Bushmiller Three Rocks will be released next month. So it is a fine time for The New Yorker to review and preview the book and interview the author. My first exposure to Nancy was in the funny pages of the Sunday newspaper delivered to […]