Ralph Steadman has been creating label art for Flying Dog craft beers for three decades and has been walking a line as to what is acceptable for public viewing on those labels.The latest example is the Freezin’ Season Winter Ale label, which North Carolina regulators have deemed inappropriate and rejected. From Reason: Alcohol regulators in North […]
Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962). First appearance of Spider-ManAt Heritage Auctions with 6 days until end of bidding. Okay, so my copy of the comic book is about half this one’s condition, but mine is signed by Stan Lee.So I figger a few hundred thousand less than this floppies’ current bid. UPDATE The copy of Amazing Fantasy […]
A few sites noted Gannett papers not printing on Labor Day.WNBF (Binghamton, NY) noted their local and other Gannett papers passed on the holiday edition:Many Press & Sun-Bulletin print edition subscribers were surprised when they didn’t receive a newspaper Monday morning. For the first time in decades, the Binghamton paper did not print a Labor […]
Of the many challenges cartoonists face — rejection, money, drink, or lack of — one of the trickiest is the growing pressure to depict diversity. Nowadays readers often write to publications complaining about the dearth of ethnic minorities in our drawings and demand for cartoons to be more inclusive. Attempts to make cartoon characters more […]
Last week The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) held their 2021 convention and among the panels was one devoted to editorial cartooning.Four of America’s top political cartoonists gathered in a virtual room during the 2021 Society of Professional Journalists online conference. The topic? The perils of working in visual satire in the age of the […]
Heidi MacDonald, at The (Comics) Beat, reviews the new comic strip(?) Batman: Wayne Family Adventures that debuted today on the vertical Webtoon platform. As reported earlier, the first Webtoon/DC collaboration debuted this morning, and unsurprisingly, it’s Batman. Specifically Batman: Wayne Family Adventures, by CRC Payne, Maria Li, Lan Ma, Starbite, Jean Kim and Keilamel Sibal. […]
Everyone knows that the orange tabby Heathcliff appeared five years before that other orange tabby Garfield. And the subsequent massive popularity of Garfield was probably a bit of a sore spot with the Heathcliff creators. These days current Heathcliff cartoonist Peter Gallagher pretty much takes it in stride, though he still feels the urge to […]
Okay it’s a local not national but Stephan Pastis was the number one best selling author at Copperfield’s Books in Petaluma last week on two different lists.In a rare feat of cross-audience literary popularity, cartoonist and author Stephan Pastis (“Pearls Before Swine”) has the No. 1 book on both Petaluma’s Fiction & Nonfiction Bestsellers list […]
Post World War II North America: 21st Century North America: Canada: Tintin and Asterix books destroyed because they are considered harmful to the natives A total of 5,000 books and comics have been thrown away, some burned and buried, by a school board in the province of Ontario which, on Radio Canada, believes that these […]
Reading a single page of a comic book takes about 15 seconds. Creating it, on the other hand, takes 40 hours on average, according to artist and illustrator Chris Ware. Of course, now, Ware is best known for his New Yorker magazine covers, as well as the wildly successful stories of Quimby the Mouse, Rusty […]
A Letter to the Editor of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch:On Aug. 31, as I usually do, I opened the newspaper, paged through the news section, read the editorials, the op-ed columns and the letters to the editor. Then I turned to the comics. In the comic strip “Prickly City” by Scott Stantis, the character Carmen […]
It’s not unusual for comic strip characters to make cameo appearances in other strips. But this one surprised me. Frank Cho’s Liberty Meadows (1997 – 2001) was known for featuring other characters in his strip.Look who showed up in the Liberty Meadows Sunday rerun today: © Frank ChoI think I got most of the comic […]
Cartoonist and illustrator Bob Kain has passed away. Robert (Bob) Kain August 12, 1932 – August 31, 2021 From the obituary:His great love of cartooning took him to study at The Ontario College of Art, and then to New York City to attend The School of Visual Arts. For 35 years he ran Videoart, a […]
Greenwich Time has a brief item about local cartoonist Maria Scrivan: A new book from Greenwich native and author/cartoonist Maria Scrivan called “Absolutely Nat” will be available on Sept. 21. The book, inspired by her childhood growing up in Greenwich and attending Central Middle School, is her third middle grade graphic novel for Scholastic. Her […]
It was a mystery on a par with The Riddle of The Sphinx or what happens when we shuffle off this mortal coil.Just who was the Lucy and Sophie Say Good Bye cartoonist?The 1905 run of the Chicago Tribune comic strip Lucy and Sophie Say Goodbye became popular because of the long goodbyes the title […]