After a continuous newspaper run of 102 years the Australian comic strip Ginger Meggs has ended.The strip began November 13, 1921 as a Sunday-only feature in The (Sydney Sunday) Sun titled Us Fellers.From the New South Wales State Library: The plot of the ‘Us Fellers’ strip had initially revolved round the activities of Gladsome Gladys, a sweet and pretty little girl whose […]
Two popular New Yorker magazine cartoonists, who also happen to be West Tisbury neighbors and dog-walking partners, shared the stage at Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs Monday for a two-handed talk about the craft they share. © Mick Stevens and Paul KarasikMick Stevens and Paul Karasik “[discussed] slides of their work, trading […]
Comics artist Steve Lieber kicked things off with advice to young cartoonists as if he “were looking at your work in person” and telling the would-be cartoonist what they needed to hear. Then Jim Zub and Patrick Brosseau added advice to young comic writers and letterers. Free advice from Comic Pros to Young Cartoonists! Your […]
The Washington Post recently published an illustrated report about a group of Filipinos that went to the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis to be put on display as part of an exhibit of United States expansionism. It was drawn by Philippines native Ren Galeno. Galeno was behind the evocative illustrations for the Washington Post’s […]
Bone creator Jeff Smith recovering from heart attack To our friends and fans: Jeff Smith is recuperating from a cardiac arrest, which he suffered on Sunday [August 13]. There will be a long road to recovery, so regrettably we must cancel the remainder of his book tour this year. Our apologies to his fans who […]
CartoonStock, “the world’s largest online database of cartoons for licensing, products, and original art,” is now carrying editorial cartoons, a new category similar to their politics grouping but more explicit. Their politics offerings seems to be close to the current Washington Post opinion page cartoons – a mix of New Yorker-style and editorial cartoons; while […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists reconstructed their website this year and after some delays it is now up and running. And it is looking good! JP Trostle introduces us to the new site and the changes: Welcome to the newest iteration of the AAEC website. Here you can find the latest news on the […]
Mike Peterson mentioned the sad news in passing today, but here’s a bit more. The Australian Cartoonists Association issued a statement about the Nine Entertainment newspapers dropping comic strips from their pages: The Australian Cartoonists Association notes with disappointment that the Nine newspapers (including The Age, the Sunday Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and the […]
Dilbert is dead. Well, he’s not dead dead — …— but as far as the public-at-large, and especially newspapers, are concerned, Dilbert is deader than a doornail. In place of Dilbert, numerous newspapers have decided to replace Adams with creators of color — a move that’s not only symbolically important but helping diversify a field […]
Cartoonist Virginia Lindemann has passed away.Virginia Louise (Ginny) Lindemann December 12, 1944 – June 28, 2023 From the obituary: Ginny attended Stafford Hall School of Business, Summit, N.J. and Farleigh Dickinson University, Madison, N.J. where she majored in Art and given many awards for her Oil Paintings. Ginny was an Executive Secretary in N.J., Massachusetts, […]
Scott Brown & Over 65; The Phantom 1980 & 2023; Asterix & Obelix and Goscinny & Uderzo and Fabcaro & Conrad; G. B. Trudeau and Maggie & Jiggs & Blondie & Dagwood & Lucy & CharlieThe Billy Ireland Biographical Note on Scott Brown: Scott Brown was a cartoon artist and snowfall forecaster from Mansfield, Ohio. […]
9 Chickweed Lane celebrated 30 years of comic stripping last month. Recently GoComics posted a short interview with creator Brooke McEldowney. I never approach my work – my characters, their motivations, my turns of phrase – with any intent other than to entertain myself. 9 Chickweed Lane is strictly a gallery of what I want […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for August 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Jack Kent: The Wit, Whimsy, and Wisdom of a Comic Storyteller Mr. Block: The Subversive Comics and Writings of Ernest Riebe Three Rocks: […]
As two new books by Bill Watterson appear over the next two months – the all new The Mysteries and The Calvin and Hobbes Portable Compendium, a series collecting the comic strip in a new format – we are sure to see many articles about the secluded cartoonist. “Work and home were so intermingled that […]
Editor’s note: The Desert Sun recently welcomed freelance cartoonist Tom Deisboeck to create original ‘toons for the opinion pages. The Palm Springs (Calif) Desert Sun (Gannett) has contracted Tom Deisboeck for political cartoons. … how would you describe the tone of your work? So, I like to be edgy. The political side is on the […]