Crabgrass by Tauhid Bondia will debut in newspapers on March 28, June 27, 2022.The Elizabethtown (Ky) News-Enterprise, in a front page above the fold story, revealed the date. Elizabethtown native Tauhid Bondia soon will be making readers across the country chuckle. His daily humor comic, Crabgrass, about two best friends named Kevin and Myles, is […]
Ron Goulart died on the morning of January 14th, 2022. It was the day after his birthday: an irony wrapped in a riddle strangled by a conundrum. Actually the date was merely a coincidence. No, it was an irrelevant fact. I am struggling with a way to begin this, fooling myself that I can “open” […]
Cartoon Exhibit[E]ditorial cartoons [will be] exhibited at the University of Tennessee’s Downtown Gallery beginning Wednesday, January 26 through Saturday, February 26. The Downtown Gallery exhibit is called Point of View: Regional Editorial Cartoons. This exhibition is in conjunction with A Serious Look at the Funnies, an exhibition at the Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture […]
The poster and button art for the 2022 Saranac Lake Winter Carnival by G. B. Trudeau has been released. Posters and buttons are available for purchase. Using the Winter Carnival’s designated theme “Totally 80’s,” Trudeau’s illustration shows the “Doonesbury” characters J.J. sitting in the iconic 1980s Delorean time machine from the film Back to the […]
Looks as if today’s Luann has a Groo-some guest star.(Check out the doodle on the napkin.) One of the suspects in the current Dick Tracy Minit Mystery is definitely Not Gomez Addams. In Mary Worth we find that Wilbur Lives!He has washed up “on the shore of this uncharted desert isle.” (Certainly alive, Karen and June showing […]
SANTA FE – He uses a cane and moves slowly but the mordant wit guiding the pen that launched thousands of political cartoons skewering the powerful and despotic is still evident. Pat Oliphant, 86, sips coffee in his Santa Fe home studio as he tells a reporter he has not drawn for several years after […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for January 2022 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Alley Oop Book One: Dinny Comic Book Women The Complete Funky Winkerbean Volume 11: 2002-2004 Drawing the Past, Volume 1: Comics and the Historical Imagination in the […]
Dallas Frazier, Songwriter of ‘Elvira,’ ‘Alley Oop’ and Many Country Hits, Dies.Excerpt from the Variety obituary: Dallas Frazier, a songwriter who broke out with the pop novelty hit “Alley Oop” and went on pen country classics like the Oak Ridge Boys’ “Elvira,” died Friday at 82. “Dallas Frazier is among the greatest country songwriters of […]
Cartoon artist Paul Trap has to keep the creative juices flowing to come up with plots and punchlines for his daily comic strip, Thatababy. Sometimes the inspiration needs coaxing. “I attribute it to caffeine and the pressure of deadlines,” Trap said The strip centers on two parents and their curious, often mischievous infant, inspired by […]
Twenty years ago at The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: After the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette cancelled the comic strip “Lola” over a fart joke in July, the paper was hit with a flood with letters from angry readers, the Arkansas Times reported in August. No scandal, including the impeachment of native son President Clinton, has rivaled the response to […]
So this happened…From Eric Diaz at The Nerdist: Penciller Mike Zeck’s artwork for page 25 of Marvel’s classic event series Secret Wars’s eighth issue features the [first appearance origin] of Spider-Man’s black suit. This costume, which was really a living alien symbiote, would eventually bond with a certain reporter named Eddie Brock, and become Venom. […]
Well not so much shoes or ships, more so comic strips.Baby Blues‘ circulation number is dropping by at least one with its move to Andrews McMeel. The Waterbury Sunday Republican is asking readers to vote for a replacemnt.It’s time for a change to our popular Sunday comics, and we want your help. Starting next month […]
Science fiction and mystery writer and comics historian Ron Goulart has passed away.Ronald Joseph (Ron) Goulart January 13, 1933 – January 14, 2022 “I was hardly there when the electric dishwasher grabbed me.” “It was a clear black night and they were several million miles from home.” “The dead man went for a walk” […]
Lucy is, of course, Lucy Shelton Caswell, original curator of The Billy Ireland.Lucy with current curator Jenny Robb The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (BICLM) is pleased to announce the winners of the annual Lucy Shelton Caswell Research Award for 2022. As a result of postponing the 2021 award due to COVID, we were able […]
Update: As Jerry Scott informs in the comments below Baby Blues is up at GoComics.original January 12 post:Baby Blues, the very popular comic strip by Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman, has switched teams moving from King Features Syndicate to Andrews McMeel Syndication. Kansas City, MO (January 11, 2022) Andrews McMeel Syndication (AMS) will assume sales […]