Andrews McMeel Universal, the distributor of the Dilbert comic strip and publisher of the Dilbert reprint books, has issued a preliminary statement about the recent podcast by cartoonist Scott Adams where he encourages Whites to separate from Blacks. We are disturbed by the personal views recently expressed by Dilbert creator Scott Adams, and do not […]
The New York Daily News began in 1919 and it took about two years for The New York Sunday News to appear. After about another two years, on February 25, 1923, the paper began running a Sunday color comics supplement. Here is the section from 100 years ago by way of newspapers.com These days the […]
Fallout from Scott Adams’ podcast a couple days ago begins.From Cleveland Plain Dealer editor Chris Quinn: Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, went on a racist rant this week on his Coffee with Scott Adams online video show, and we will no longer carry his comic strip in The Plain Dealer. This is […]
Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams: “… the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people.” On his Real Coffee with Scott Adams daily podcast yesterday the cartoonist took the results of a Rasmussen Poll and stretched it to farcical lengths. The Daily Beast reports on the 12 […]
More information about the new editions of the collected Calvin and Hobbes books has been released. The first set of books collecting Bill Watterson’s timeless Calvin and Hobbes comics in a compact, portable format designed to introduce the timeless adventures of a boy and his stuffed tiger to a new generation of readers. Featuring over 500 comics from the strip’s debut […]
From 100 years ago is an article on the then-current comics scene from the February 1923 Vanity Fair. THE largest group, dealing with married life, reaches its lowest level of painfulness in the series “For Better For Worse”, by Tad, and perhaps its highest level in Briggs’ series “Mr. and Mrs”. It includes such varied […]
Roger Rosenblatt, writing for The New York Times about the genesis of his and Jules Feiffer‘s new book Cataract Blues, reveals that Jules is suffering from macular degeneration.From Roger’s New York Times article “When an Artist Loses His Sight”: A few years ago, I began having trouble with my vision. Shapes became indistinct, colors muted. […]
Forget Roald Dahl, Dr. Seuss, even Mark Twain, now they are messing with a true classic of literature. Don Rosa’s The Life and Times of Uncle $crooge is having an entire chapter of his biography deleted. The Life and Times of $crooge McDuck according to Wikipedia: The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck (Lo$) is […]
Allan Holtz has turned his Stripper’s Guide over to Alley Oop publisher Chris Aruffo for three days allowing Chris to reveal how he went from Oop fan to Oop publisher. It’s a fascinating story. Chris takes us from reading the comic strip in his newspaper to reading it online to gathering the physical strips in […]
The Anchorage Daily News informed readers of changes to their comics page today: Readers of the comics pages are going to notice some changes this week. A couple of these occurred at the first of the year, but we’ve added several features — and cut some — starting this week. The new comics to the […]
Editorial cartoonist Paul Berge blogs. Mostly it is about his current cartoon, but on the weekends he gets historical. This past weekend he entertained us with some background on dingbats: Last Saturday’s post looked back on my abortive attempt to add a little character in my editorial cartoons giving postscriptive commentary on the topic of […]
Alice by Andrea E. Beizer will begin running at Comics Kingdom on February 20, 2023, adjust your favorites. The “About” page at Comics Kingdom on the Alice character: Alice may be described as an older woman…or a maturing woman…or a woman of a “certain age” — as she is trying to make it in a […]
Beginning this year cartoonist Rick Detorie has reduced his workload on One Big Happy to six daily comic strips – the Sunday page has been in rerun status since January 1, 2023. Christmas Day 2022 (above) was the last new Sunday edition, with reruns from 2017 replacing new strips this year. One Big Happy began […]
Adding to the TDC notice of Chris Browne‘s passing with his home papers’ obituaries for the cartoonist. From the Sioux Falls Argus Leader is what seems to be the funeral home announcement: Chris Browne, illustrator of the internationally-syndicated comic strip Hagar the Horrible, died here on February 4, 2023, after a long illness. He was […]
Liz Montague, Henry Barajas, Robb Armstrong, Lawton Wood, Fleischer StudiosLiz Montague‘s “graphic memoir” Maybe An Artist gets reviewed by Brandeis University’s the Justice: In her brilliant, hilarious graphic memoir, Montague validates every experience I have had, from being a young Black girl to growing into a young Black woman, and particularly one who is passionate […]