That’s four color comics, not four-color comics.The Prescott Daily Courier will shrink its Sunday Color Comics print section to four comics beginning next week. The Daily Courier informed their readers of “a new comics format” beginning February 5: Today, Jan. 29, will be the last day The Daily Courier will offer its full section of […]
The Return of Philbert Phountain Phil Fountain is a pseudonym for ANC’s prodigal cartoonist, Philbert Phountain, who has recently returned from a working hiatus where he served as the lead fact-checker for George Santos. After a lengthy sabbatical cartoonist Phil Fountain has returned to the political battlefield of Northern California contributing to A News Cafe. […]
I wonder how he did it. How did Brian Crane, creator of the comic strip “Pickles,” sneak into our house and set up listening devices to capture the conversations between my husband and me so he could chronicle our lives in his strip? Stefanie Pettit, for The Spokesman-Review, is wowed by the realism displayed by […]
By 1948 Frank Godwin (b. 1889) had spent a good 40 years as a respected and requested illustrator for newspapers, magazines, books, and advertisers. Beginning in 1924 (Vignettes of Life) he became an impressive presence on newspaper comics pages, creating a famous twelve year run illustrating Connie (1929-1941). After Connie he gave up the grind […]
I got my rant on yesterday, but The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee has me thiiiis close to going off on 21st Century Cracker Jack prizes. Also yesterday I made a scene about the lack of spotting blacks, but today we are here not to bury but praise Patrick McDonnell’s Mutts where “negative space” is […]
The comics page has returned to The Washington County (Wis.) Daily News and The Waukesha Freeman. A while back a reader described to me how she felt about the Comics Page we once had in the paper. She saw it as the “fun page” — a daily destination to find content on the lighter side. […]
…And maybe some grayscale. Reading a daily comics page in black and white I was struck by gray toning in today’s Rose is Rose. The amount of not-white was a pleasant change.Dare I say that most of the daily comics in newspapers are now colorized? And so cartoonists seem to have forsaken the practice of […]
You may have read some Phil Witte cartoons… Phil’s cartoons have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, San Francisco Chronicle, Reader’s Digest, Alta, The Chronicle of Higher Education, New Statesman, Private Eye, Prospect, and many other publications in the U.S. and U.K., as well as books, calendars, and greeting cards. He has also collaborated […]
Swiping a cartoonist’s style is not new to Artificial Intelligence. Here, from 1973, is an RCA Records advertisement for a new David Bowie 45. The ad agency knew what they wanted, but they, or RCA, didn’t want to spend the money to hire the real cartoonist. Recalling my childhood.Animation Resources recently present us with a […]
Today’s Shoe saw Ben Lansing take over the Sunday cartooning chores.Gary Brookins turned the daily Shoe over to Ben Lansing (and Pluggers over to Rick McKee) in September 2020, but held on to the Sunday Shoe – up to last week. Gary announced his retirement last month on his Facebook page: In January, 1979, my […]
A Modern Day Battle Over Prince ValiantBrian Kane, the preeminent Prince Valiant scholar, and Gary Groth, the preeminent Prince Valiant book publisher, are at odds over a six part Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant Sketchbooks series with King Features seemingly caught in the middle. Rich Johnston, at Bleeding Cool, carries both sides. Brian Kane: “I was […]
Heart to HeartA Conversation on Love and Hope for Our Precious PlanetBy the Dalai Lama, illustrated by Patrick McDonnell A year and a half ago Patrick McDonnell took an extended vacation from his Mutts comic strip to collaborate with the Dali Lama; that project reaches bookstores on Tuesday, January 24, 2023 (available for pre-order now). […]
King Features and Legible Partner to Entertain Canadians Online Comics distributor King Features Syndicate has partnered with online bookstore Legible to provide digital content for Canadian readers. Excerpts from the press release via Business Wire: Legible Inc. is delighted to announce that it has partnered with King Features Syndicate, a Division of Hearst Entertainment & […]
The respected and beloved British cartoonist David Sutherland, who has drawn the weekly Beano comics’ The Bash Street Kids for the past 60 years, has passed away. From the British comics site Down the Tubes: The news has just broken, and comes shortly after the announcement an OBE for services to Illustration. He had drawn […]
Dave Granlund has drawn both amusement and ire on these pages for years. The local cartoonist’s works are published on the opinion pages of this newspaper and others nationwide each week. Dave Granlund is profiled in his local newspaper, The Waconia (Minn) Patriot. The feature article celebrates Dave having three cartoons in Cagle Cartoons’ Top […]