Charles Schulz 100/Terri Libenson – – David Pope/The Gold Stanley – – Candorville/King Features – – Gene Basset/Mankota Free Press – – Roger Mahoney/ The Daily Mirror – – Gannett/Layoffs – – Cul de Sac/Washington Post Magazine – – Sandra Boynton/Wishes In our various articles on the 100th anniversary of Charles Schulz we overlooked cartoonist Terri […]
Comix cartoonist Aline Kominsky-Crumb has passed away. Aline Ricky Kominsky-Crumb (née Goldsmith) August 1, 1948 – November 29, 2022 Rob Salkowitz for Forbes are among those reporting the death of Aline: Word started spreading on social media that Kominsky-Crumb died on Tuesday at her home in France from pancreatic cancer, confirmed by sources close to […]
Most of us can relate to Bill Whitehead’s Free Range. We all get our most brilliant thoughts as we lay drifting off to sleep only to find the next morning that it may be good but it isn’t brilliant.That’s if we write it down. If not then the next morning you only remember you had […]
Political Cartoons in an Age of Fake News TalkDec 1, 2022 – 5:30 pmThe University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hosts “a roundtable discussion by political cartoonists Eric J. Garcia, Keith Knight, and Ann Telnaes, moderated by Associate Professor in Graphic Design Stacey Robinson.” Getting Laughs While Speaking Truth to Power Letters to the Editor About Editorial Cartoon […]
After not updating to GoComics this week Darrin Bell informed his fans about the circumstances in the Candorville comments: This may be the last Candorville to appear on GoComics for a while. The Washington Post Writers Group is closing, so Candorville is moving to another syndicate as of this Thursday. There’s no deal in place […]
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The Evolving Art of Ruffling Feathers © Steve Nease Most newspapers had a full-time cartoonist on staff. Now, the juice just isn’t worth the squeeze. Steve Nease, one of Canada’s premier cartoonists, isn’t surprised. A lot of papers no longer run, not just his, but any cartoons. “Sometimes, it’s a cost-cutting matter,” he admits. Cartoonists aren’t […]
Editorial and sports cartoonist Gene Basset has passed away. Gene Basset July 24, 1927 – November 24, 2022 Gene had a career that spanned the second half of the 20th century.From the obituary: Gene began his newspaper career in 1950 at the Indianapolis Times as a sketch artist and sports cartoonist. He remained there until […]
British cartoonist Roger Mahoney has passed away. Roger Mahoney 1933 – November 5, 2022 Famed in Great Britain as cartoonist on The Gambols and many other comic strips and in the United States for taking over the Andy Capp comic strip, The Daily Mail is reporting the death of cartoonist Roger Mahoney: Tributes have been paid […]
Cartoonist and comedian John Lotshaw has passed away. John Paul Lotshaw November 8, 1966 – November 25, 2022 John’s sister Ana announced the passing of her brother, loved by her and the entire National Cartoonists Society: Many of you have heard but others not of the unexpectedly passing of my brother John yesterday as he […]
One hundred years ago saw the debut of Smitty by Walter Berndt.From Don Markstein’s Toonopedia: [Berndt] sold Bill the Office Boy to The New York World, but didn’t last long there, due to what might euphemistically be called “creative differences” with his boss. But the same strip, presented to Captain Joseph Patterson, editor of The […]
Three months ago we reported that Eric Allie and Mike Beckom had joined the Counterpoint Syndicate. Since that time I would occasionally scroll down the GoComics A to Z lineup before clicking to go to “My Comics” planning on adding Eric and Mike to the “Comics I Follow” when I saw their names.GoComics sorts their […]
Portrait by Pete McDonnell for The Petaluma Argus CourierFrom NPR: Cartoonist Charles Schulz died in February 2000, the night before his final comic strip ran in the Sunday paper. But the characters he created and developed over the course of five decades still endure, in the form of reruns, beloved TV specials, a movie and […]
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Charles M. Schulz birthday saw over 100 comic strips and panels pay tribute to the master cartoonist and creator of Peanuts.The Schulz Museum’s “A Cartoonist Tribute” page linked to 92 of them.Notable is Lynn Johnston coming out of retirement reworking a special For Better or For Worse and Mary Worth […]
Since we all went a little overboard yesterday I’ll follow Mike’s lead and start off with a Man Overboard strip.© Man Martin Moving on…The New PopeyeJoining the new Popeye Sunday page by Randy Milholland and Randy and Shadia Amin’s bi-weekly Olive & Popeye strip is the new manga influenced Eye Lie Popeye by Marcus Williams. […]