Friday introduced another real world, but heretofore unseen, occurrence into the World of Gil Thorp.As the top commenter Ravenswing noted Friday about the new development: Henry, I say this with all the wish to see you succeed at this as I may, but you need to slow your roll here. This is a daily comic […]
Editorial cartoonist Dennis Renault has passed away. Dennis Julian Renault August 23, 1936 – October 19, 2022 The Sacramento Bee is reporting that Dennis Renault has died in an accident near his Monterey County home.Via AOL News, which ran the SacBee’s cartoon gallery accompanying the obituary notice: Dennis Renault was The Sacramento Bee’s political cartoonist […]
After raising a fuss last month over Lee Enterprises dropping Dilbert, cartoonist Scott Adams said he was “kinda hoping [Dilbert] would get cancelled over this” after finishing a week of comic strips about ESG in Corporate America.Scott has been focusing more and more on conservative talking points in his comic strip. The World News Group […]
Joe Palooka began in the Spring of 1930, eight years later, in the Spring of 1938, the very popular comic strip introduced a, let’s say, eight year old child.The next Sunday Max and Alice returned and then reappeared twice more. Don’t know how far ahead Ham Fisher and Mo Leff (art assistant/ghost) worked but Little Max […]
The North Dakota Forum editorial cartoonist Steve Stark is retiring after 34 years. From InForum’s profile: Steve Stark was an early cartoonist while a student at NDSU on The Spectrum student newspaper in the 1970s. Later, Steve began his editorial cartooning in earnest at the Lake County News Chronicle, a weekly newspaper in Two Harbors, Minn. […]
Belatedly we welcome cartoonist Lee Lorenz to our Senior Strippers club.Michael Maslin notified us (for some reason our notebook says born in 1933): Lee Lorenz Born October 17, 1932, Hackensack, NJ. Lorenz was the art editor of The New Yorker from 1973 to 1993 and its cartoon editor until 1997. During his tenure, a new […]
Clay and The KlanClay Jones got banned again: Oh yeah: Facebook pulled this cartoon for “violating” its terms of service. I appealed and lost. My account is now blocked for three days which will also limit views of my work for a while after I return. I thought at least one social media account would […]
On a June day too dank for the beach, a three-generation carload of Goreyphiles—fans of the American author, illustrator, and oddball genius Edward Gorey—pulled into a small parking lot in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts. The Edward Gorey House, a sea captain’s home the artist bought in 1979, is now a museum that welcomes visitors from April […]
Editorial cartoonist Ann Cleaves has passed away. Ann Elspeth Whitney Cleaves July 26, 1945 – July 7, 2022 From the obituary:It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved sister and friend, Ann Whitney Cleaves. Ann Elspeth Whitney was born on July 26, 1945 in Schenectady, NY to Elspeth Paterson Whitney […]
© Patrick McDonnellPatrick McDonnell passes on a little inside stuff: MUTTS might look a little different to you this week and in the future. If so, it’s because I’ve loosened up my art style, using very little preliminary pencils (in some cases none) and going straight to drawing in ink. It gives the strip more […]
Editorial cartoonist Larry Terrill has passed away. Lawrence Mervin (Larry) Terrill October 1, 1935 – October 8, 2022 From the obituary: A talented artist throughout his life, Larry started drawing at the age of 5 or 6, when “he would wait for the newspaper to be delivered” and then spend his time copying the comics. […]
David G. Brown posted a photo gallery of the recent AAEC Convention. This morning the CXC Newsletter came with awards information and photos. Trina Robbins and Lee Marrs won the Transformative Work Award for their work as part of the Wimmen’s Comix collective from the 1970s to the 1990s, and for their careers across media. […]
In 1997 Dan Martin was the only cartoonist in America to get a front page cartoon published every day in his newspaper.On October 17, 1997 he invaded the inside of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch when the paper published the cartoonist’s Postcard from Mound City for the first time (above).The Last Postcard From Mound CityIn 2022 […]
Fans of Breaking Cat News, The Tarot, and playing cards are being treated to an enchanting series created by Georgia Dunn and being shared on her Facebook page and on her Twitter feed.Says Georgia: For a while now I’ve wanted to create some BCN Tarot card themed art, just for fun! Recently I started sketching […]
“If This Be … Mo(och)dok!” Pooch Cafe © Paul Gilligan; Captain America and MODOK © Marvel ComicsPaul Gilligan gives old-time Marvelites a treat in this past week’s Pooch Cafe. 10 Funniest Calvin and Hobbes comic strips … or not. © Bill WattersonThe “10 Funniest Calvin and Hobbes Comics, According to Reddit” are collected by Screen Rant. […]