Christopher Weyant is an editorial cartoonist for The Boston Globe and Cagle Cartoons, and a magazine cartoonist for The New Yorker (and book illustrator and advertising artist and other graphic endeavors).Strip Search with London & Chianca recently interviewed Chris with a partial transcript appearing on The Boston Globe’s Boston.com website. Excerpt from that transcript: You […]
Charlie Hebdo is the French satire magazine mostly famous (infamous?) for printing and reprinting cartoons of Mohammed, though they attack all religions. But their Islamophobia was again on display when, hours after the horrific Turkish-Syrian earthquake that has resulted in over 20,000 dead, Charlie Hebdo produced a cartoon joking about the disaster. The cartoon was […]
CBR (aka Comic Book Resources) creates dozens of lists every day. Yesterday Haiden Sayne created a list enumerating the “15 Best Comic Strips Of All Time.” Walt Kelly’s Pogo, Roy Crane’s Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy, Gary Larson’s The Far Side, and Milton Caniff’s Terry and the Pirates didn’t make the list. Neither did Stephan […]
Cartoonist Chris Browne has passed away. Christopher Kelly (Chris) Browne May 16, 1952 – February 4, 2023 Update from the obituary: Chris Browne, illustrator of the internationally-syndicated comic strip Hagar the Horrible, died here on February 4, 2023, after a long illness. He was 70 years old. Christopher Kelly Browne was born in South Orange, […]
A few updates to some items posted this past week about cartoonists Dan Martin, Mike Marland, and Barbara Brandon-Croft.Two days ago we reported on Dan Martin retiring from The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. That same day Dan wrote a farewell column to his readers at that paper. In 1980, I knew the journalism business was no […]
Seven years ago Bob Englehart and The Hartford Courant parted ways, since then Bob has continued as a freelance political cartoonist syndicated by Cagle Cartoons. Now Bob is again associated with a newspaper. From the Associated Press coverage of a new newspaper startup (via The Arkansas Democrat Gazette): WINSTED, Conn. — At age 88, Ralph […]
Editorial cartoonist Kevin Necessary has chosen to leave his occasional spot in The Cincinnati Enquirer (Gannett) behind as he concentrates on other venues for his artistic talents. Kevin informed us of his decision on Twitter and Facebook: Some personal news: I’m taking a brief hiatus from editorial cartoons to focus on a new illustration project. […]
This fun doesn’t come until Wednesday. Wednesday is a very important day! It’s the day Animation Resources is launching its Member Appreciation Month. This year’s event is extra important, because this year marks our 10th anniversary and our 50th Reference Pack! In honor of all this, Animation Resources has pulled out all the stops to […]
Cartoonist Dan Martin has ended the St. Louis Post-Dispatch comic Postcard from Mound City, his weekly editorial comment on local issues. Dan will maintain his daily front page presence at the paper with Weatherbird.A few months ago The Daily Cartoonist celebrated the 25th anniversary of Postcards from Mound City with the wrong start date in […]
Cartoonist and psychic medium Charles A. Filius has passed away.Charles Arthur Filius January 24, 1961 – January 24, 2023Notice was given by The National Cartoonists Society: The National Cartoonists Society lost a longtime member with the death of Charles A. Filius on Jan 24th. Charles passed unexpectedly following surgery on what was his 62nd birthday. […]
Cartoonist and restaurateur Michael Dougan has passed away.Michael Wayne Dougan July 18, 1958 – January 13, 2023Michael contributed to alternative newspapers and comic books, as well as national magazines.Charles L. Cross writes of Michael for The Seattle Times: Michael Dougan, a noted Seattle illustrator and cartoonist, died Jan. 13 in Tono, Japan, at 64. The […]
Cartoonist and illustrator Albert L. Schweitzer, Jr. has passed away. Albert L. (Al) Schweitzer, Jr. November 28, 1921 – January 30, 2023Al Schweitzer spent decades as a St. Louis newspaper artist and cartoonist most with The Post-Dispatch. From the obituary: Mr. Schweitzer served in WWII in the USMC on the battleship South Dakota as an […]
The Daily Signal, the conservative Heritage Foundation’s digital news platform, noted that “leftist” Doonesbury cartoonist Garry B. Trudeau finally mentioned Hunter Biden’s laptop. From The Daily Signal: Back in early August, fully 18 months into the presidency of Democrat Joe Biden, we noted with curiosity how the liberal newspaper editorial cartoon “Doonesbury” still had not […]
Unsure of what is going on with the Mt. Pleasant comic strip by Rick McKee and Kent Sligh. Though it has continued this week with the Tribune Content Agency slug identifying its distributor, the strip itself has disappeared from the TCA website – the last showing was Saturday, January 28, 2023. There has been no […]
It seems Patrick McDonnell was doing more than collaborating with the Dalai Lama during his sabbatical last year, he was also creating a graphic novel featuring his favorite comic book superheroes of the 1960s. Patrick McDonnell, Marvel Comics, and Abrams books will publish that graphic novel early this Fall.From Marvel Comics: Abrams ComicArts and Marvel […]