The Phantom cover art by Bret Blevins and Terry AustinThe Chronicle Chamber has revealed that Bret Blevins is the ghost artist temporarily relieving Mike Manley on The Phantom daily comic strip. They stress that it is a temporary situation. Due to some personal reasons the popular daily artist has had to temporary hand over the […]
Beginning today Mike Manley has handed over his comic strips to other artists. Hopefully this is a temporary issue until Mike’s health improves.A couple weeks ago Mike posted on his Facebook page that he was feeling very bad, though a Covid test came up negative. Beginning today (June 13, 2022) Mike’s name has dropped from The […]
Editorial Cartoonist Stuart Carlson has passed away.Stuart Scott Carlson September 1955 – June 10, 2022 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is reporting Stuart’s death: Stuart Carlson, the former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel political cartoonist, died Friday at age 66. Carlson, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease about seven years ago, was hospitalized over the Memorial Day weekend […]
The modern day swamp creature began with Theodore Sturgeon’s 1940 short story “It.” It would be adapted as a Marvel comic book decades later. A couple years after It The Heap appeared in Hillman comic books. The Heap would be revived in 1971 by Skywald Publications. In the years spanning the 1940s and the […]
History of the Comic Strip (in a nutshell) Through 1960 Rudolphe Töpffer – Primitive comic book creator. His books were known as “Graphic Literature”. He developed the concept of the cartoon face more than anyone previous. With a jump from Töpffer to Hearst/Pulitzer/Outcault and with short blurbs listing some of the more important comics up […]
The past week starts with today’s future Zippy where Griffy refuses to modernize. © Bill GriffithCheck earlier in the week for more comic characters mentioned. As long as we have comics featuring cartoonists, Thursday’s Ripley’s Believe It or Not, where Kieran continues to delight with the fun he is having drawing (and writing?) the panel. © […]
Like most of us in the world of journalism, Citizen Times cartoonist David Cohen has developed a pretty thick skin over the years. More like a hide, you could call it. When you skewer politicians, public officials and other prominent folks in your editorial cartoons for 17 years, you’re going to ruffle some feathers, irritate some […]
The National Cartoonists Society, whose first President was a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, has, in solidarity with the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, written a letter to the Pulitzer Prize Board seeking a return of Editorial Cartooning as its own, distinct, category. As an organization representing cartoonists, we are deeply concerned about the decision to […]
Editorial cartoonist and political caricaturist Ranan Lurie has passed away. AP Photo/Richard Freeda Ranan Raymond Lurie May 26, 1932 – June 8, 2022 From The New York Times: Ranan Lurie, an Israeli war hero and world peacemaker who set records as the world’s most widely […]
The National Cartoonists Society has released the art for 76th Annual Reuben Awards brochures, posters, and other applications. It is by Reuben Award-winning caricaturist Tom Richmond. Match the cartoonist with their caricatures.Yes, there are a few in the poster that are not in the photo collage. Read about the guests to find them if you don’t […]
So ol’ acquaintance Marc Lutz pops up on my radar again, this time on an island in South Alaska.To be sure we have never met and Marc doesn’t know me from Adam, but I’ve followed his career for a few decades now.Journalist Marc Lutz gets a job with a newspaper and then convinces them to […]
Thirty years ago (give or take) new Sunday Popeye cartoonist Randy Milholland had his dreams bashed by his first grade teacher.And then…© Randy Milholland New York magazine audio editorial director Hanna Rosin tweeted about a new movie.And then…And then…After deleting the tweet, Rosin issued an apology.Vanity Fair carries the story. Alison Bechdel has spoken. The cartoonist […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio, — Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC), the international showcase for cartoon art, is excited to announce its featured guests for the 2022 festival running October 6th to 9th, the organization’s first fully in-person festival since 2019. CXC brings the global family of cartoon storytellers, comic makers, and animators together with the people who […]
John Kelly and The Comics Journal has collected reminiscences of Justin Green by cartoonists, editors, historians, friends, and family of the creator of Binky Brown. Carol Tyler and Justin Green. Photo by John KinhartFrom Bill Griffith who knew Justin from early in the underground movement: I first met Justin in New York in 1969 or ’70. […]
So much to do, there’s plenty on the farm… Editorial cartoonists become accustomed to being revered and reviled — frequently by the same people, and often at the same time. Asked if that love-hate relationship makes it hard to do the job, Bruce Plante replied: “Eh. It might make it a little bit harder. But […]