Cartoonist Gary Varvel was the keynote speaker at a local Republican function.From The Greenfield Daily Reporter: The award-winning syndicated editorial cartoonist who spent 24 years at the Indianapolis Star was the keynote speaker at the Hancock County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner at Adaggios Banquet Hall late last Friday. He was joined by GOP officials […]
Darrin Bell, Bill Holbrook, Liniers, Bianca Xunise, and editor Tea Fougner are some of the King Features people that Associated Press reporter Mark Kennedy talked to about their comics page neighbor’s racist remarks.Darrin Bell is the opening focus of the article: “The only reason anyone knows who Scott Adams is because of the comics page. […]
I’m not sure that Hector and Carlos took obsessive-compulsives like me into consideration with today’s Baldo. I’m the kind of guy that will look up those issues of MAD and find that the back covers are wrong for issues #180 (January 1976) and #159 (June 1973). Then, of course, I had find where Castellanos grabbed […]
Dan Davis is lucky, he gets to make a living by doing what he loves – drawing comics. Of course it helps to have a skill set that has allowed him to do that for nearly forty years. Around these parts he is known as the artist of Crankshaft and a penciller for Garfield. Davis […]
Cartoonist and Musician Wally Fawkes [“Trog“] has passed away. Walter Ernest (Wally) Fawkes [Trog] June 21, 1924 – March 1, 2023 From Metro (UK): The political cartoonist and jazz musician Wally Fawkes, who used the pen name Trog, has died at the age of 98. Fawkes died peacefully on Wednesday following a short illness. From […]
Late last year it was announced that Ward Sutton had won the 2022 Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons from the National Press Foundation (NPF). Late last month Ward accepted the honor at the NPF Awards Dinner. Ward’s acceptance speech is available on the National Press Foundation’s YouTube channel. While Ward […]
Earlier this year Daryl Cagle started video podcasting. The latest features Rick McKee discussing how he created his recent Artificial Intelligence editorial cartoon, the current limitations of the application regarding comic strips in repeating the same character and other problems, does it portend the end of illustrators and cartoonists, and the impressiveness of images. Rick […]
MONTPELIER, VT—Norwich resident Tillie Walden will be appointed Vermont’s fifth Cartoonist Laureate on Thursday, April 13, 2023, when she will be recognized on the Vermont Statehouse floor. Walden is one of the most celebrated and accomplished cartoonists working today. She won the 2018 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work for her graphic novel memoir “Spinning,” […]
Paige Braddock Wins Emmy Eisner-nominated cartoonist and writer Paige Braddock won a Children’s & Family Emmy Award for her work on the Apple TV+ documentary, Who Are You, Charlie Brown? It was Apple TV+’s only win across the seven categories in which the streamer was nominated. Movieweb carries the story about Paige Braddock. Original New […]
As much as I would like to echo Mike’s sentiment of being “done with the Dilbert thing” there is still one more post for me to make – the final stats when the last Dilbert comic strip hits the newspapers. It is possible that Adams will set up a self-syndicating system, but that is extremely […]
Mt. Pleasant by Rick McKee and Kent Sligh has ended. Cartoonist Rick McKee notified readers Monday on the GoComics site: Yes, unfortunately, this is the end here. We began Mt. Pleasant two years ago in what was already a challenging newspaper market, with very limited space available for new comics. We knew it would be […]
One comic strip has taken over the headlines this weekend, but there are others in the funny papers. Or is that funny pages? Today Ziggy took me back to another who advised against taking life too serious. A bit surprised no one mentioned Pogo in the Ziggy comments. The Man, The LegendAlso not mentioned in […]
Scott Adams response to the Dilbert cancellation from his Twitter account: Dilbert has been cancelled from all newspapers, websites, calendars, and books because I gave some advice everyone agreed with. (My syndication partner canceled me.) and I’ve lost three careers to direct racism so far. Crocker Bank, Pacific Bell, and cartooning. All three were perpetrated […]
Andrews McMeel Universal announced late Sunday evening that they will no longer associate with Scott Adams. The full AMU statement: Andrews McMeel Universal is severing our relationship with Dilbert creator Scott Adams. The process of this termination will extend to all areas of our business with Adams and the Dilbert comic strip. As a media and communications company, […]
The final print editions of The Birmingham News, The Huntsville Times, and The Mobile Press-Register, the three newspapers that comprised Advance Local’s Alabama Media Group, rolled off the presses this morning. From al.com: The final editions of the three largest newspapers in Alabama have one unifying theme: Alabama Media Group journalists will continue to evolve […]