Publisher Simon & Schuster has created Boynton Bookworks, an imprint dedicated solely to the creative output of Sandra Boynton. From Associated Press via Kansas City Star: Sandra Boynton’s prolific career as an author, cartoonist and songwriter has reached the point where a publisher has formed an imprint dedicated solely to her books. On Thursday, […]
Cartoonist Orlando Busino has passed away. Orlando Francis Busino October 10, 1926 – January 11, 2022 From the obituary:Orlando F. Busino, 95, of Ridgefield, died peacefully on Tuesday, January 11, 2022. He was the loving husband of Ann (Darlington) Busino having just celebrated 70 years of marriage. Mr. Busino was a retired Cartoonist and his […]
Milton Caniff finds his horizons unlimited as Steve Canyon debuts January 13, 1947. The first eight dailies and the first Sunday.© Ester Parsons Caniff Estate
Far out, man. A joint task force between Brian ‘Box’ Brown and King Features Syndicate has dovetailed to distribute Brian’s Legalization Nation comic strip to a wider audience. © Brian Box BrownKFS Editor Tea Foughner and Comics Kingdom both announced the dope deal today.From Comics Kingdom Facebook page:Today, we’re excited to announce LEGALIZATION NATION has […]
Comics DC makes us aware that:In his cartoon from yesterday “Urine Trouble,” Clay planted a bunch of conservative cartoonists, many of whom are anti-vaxxers or covid denyers, under a bunch of tombstones. I see Scott “Dilbert” Adams, Henry Payne, Al Goodwyn, Mike Lester, Branco, Chip Bok, Glenn McCoy, Gary McCoy, Tom Stiglich, Rivers, Lisa Benson, […]
Bill Amend, creator of the FoxTrot comic strip, has been using his Twitter feed to dump on Fox News and, separately, the NFT culture with non-FoxTrot “editorials” drawn on napkins.Bill felt that his NFT slap had gained him enough new followers that he could afford to lose a few by chiding Fox News. I picked […]
The animated TV series “Big Nate,” based on the long-running comic strip by Lincoln Peirce of Portland, will debut Feb. 17 on Paramount Plus, the streaming service announced Tuesday. A sneak peek of the show will air Sunday on the Nickelodeon cable network during halftime of the NFL playoff football game between the Dallas Cowboys […]
or, Bungleton Green in the 21st Century. In 1942, almost a year after America entered the Second World War, Jay Jackson—a former railroad worker and sign painter, now working as a cartoonist and illustrator for the legendary Black newspaper the Chicago Defender—did something unexpected. He took the Defender’s stale and long-running gag strip Bungleton Green […]
“The Washington Times is interested in ascertaining what cartoons its readers enjoy most, and which are the least popular.”That should read “was interested” for this is not the Moonie newspaper of 2022, rather the Hearst newspaper of 100 years ago – January 11, 1922. Whether the results of the survey were acted on is unknown. Six […]
Dav Pilkey (Dog Man) and Jeff Kinney (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) were the big winners in 2021. Each of them had three books in last year’s Top 25 best selling books list. Both creators each sold over two million editions collectively of their three books, with Pilkey edging Kinney by almost 365,000 sales.Excerpt from […]
Helping to clobber kid’s cancer the National Cartoonists Society raised $54,000 last Fall with a Heritage Auctions event selling original art for the benefit of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital!The Good News from the NCS: To all members of the NCS who contributed, thank you so much for your support of the 75th Anniversary NCS […]
As seen by the announcement at GoComics, Crabgrass by Tauhid Bondia is getting close to debuting as a syndicated newspaper comic strip. And we will infer from that notice that its newspaper debut will happen in March 2022.Tauhid informed fans at the GoComics page and at his Patreon site: What does this mean to you? […]
Anti-Synchronicity in today’s Funny Pages.Broom-HildaCandorville
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has listed the available information and deadlines for cartooning awards to be presented in 2022 for work done in 2021.Quickly approaching deadlines include: The Pulitzer Prize Deadline: January 25, 2022 The URL for the Journalism entry site is entrysite.pulitzer.org. 12/23/2021: The Journalism entry site has reopened for the 2022 cycle. The deadline for entry is […]
Sally and Tedwood, Sally Starr and Ted St. John, Hilary the Menace, The Fabulous Furry Forth Spouses. They all showed up in today’s Sally Forth courtesy Francesco Marciuliano and Jim Keefe. Some scenes were direct homages to previous comic art. Sally Forth & Blondie © KFS; Brenda Starr © TCAThe others, as far as I know, […]