In 1998, duties on the Heathcliff newspaper comic were handed off by [George] Gately and his brother John Gallagher to their nephew, Peter Gallagher, who has been drawing the strip ever since. Somewhere between 1998 and now, shit got weird. © Creators Syndicate I think I maybe started working with them around 1994. You know, […]
John Backderf and Mike Peterson weren’t the only ones to notice Trump Cult cartoonist Ben Garrison‘s recent cartoon heralding the former president’s heroic crusade against social media titans.Liberal site Raw Story called out the cartoonist: Conservative columnist Ben Garrison this week drew a cartoon depicting former President Donald Trump as the heroic knight Don Quixote […]
Universal Press Syndicate/Andrews McMeel Universal co-founder John McMeel has passed away. John Paul McMeel January 26, 1936 – July 7, 2021 Hall Syndicate/Publishers-Hall Syndicate salesman and manager Universal Press Syndicate Co-Founder, Sales Director, and President Andrews McMeel Universal Chairman On July 7 current AMU Chairman Hugh Andrews notified the company’s associates:I am deeply saddened to […]
This first one is for Kip.© Magazine Management(?) Charles Rodrigues, who was born in 1926 and died in 2004, was one of the most widely-published and beloved cartoonists of the latter half of the 20th Century. His cartoons appeared in scores of men’s magazines, from the low end, low circulation girlie mags and dozens of […]
Co-founder and Chairman of Andrews McMeel Universal John McMeel has passed away.John McMeel, Chairman of Andrews McMeel, passed away on July 7, 2021 at age 85. The company that became Andrews McMeel Universal started as a moonlighting alternative career of two firm friends, John P. McMeel and James F. Andrews. McMeel was a native of […]
Recently stumbled on a few sites that feature cartoons for specific audiences.Cartoonist Dan Thompson, of Brevity, Rip Haywire, KidSpot, Harley, Lost Sheep, and Humorous Maximus fame, began a new weekly gig earlier this year.© Classic CarsThe Classic Carl Caption Contest is, you guessed it, a caption contest. It began in February of this year. Dan […]
Robert C. Harvey is a well-known and well-learned comics historian and cartoonist. Bob has been a long-time contributor to The Comics Journal (contributing an essay today) and he contributes a monthly column to Humor Times (usually in the first half of the month, so a new one should be just around the corner).R. C. also has […]
Vintage Comics Kingdom has added Vintage Mark Trail to its offerings. For some reason they are running strips from 1971, 25 years after the comic began in 1946. By this time the art is as much assistant Jack Elrod as creator Ed Dodd. In 1978 Elrod would begin co-signing the strip.Also odd is that they […]
Magazine cartoonist Danny Shanahan has passed away. Daniel Patrick (Danny) Shanahan July 11, 1957 – July 5, 2021 Michael Maslin is reporting the death of Danny Shanahan: The cartoonist, Danny Shanahan, who contributed drawings to The New Yorker from September of 1988 through last year, died early this morning, according to his wife, Janet Stetson. He […]
The other day Mike linked to Bado’s post of Seven Days publisher Paula Routly’s defense of their editorial cartoonist Tim Newcomb.That was part of Seven Days’ annual cartoon issue, where along with the regular roster of comic strips and cartoonists they open up even more pages to other area cartoonists.Dan Bolles’ Drawing Conclusions introduction can […]
National Football League’s Indianapolis Colts threw some shade at the Philadelphia Eagles with a 4th of July comic strip posted on the Colts website.© Indianapolis Colts/NFLPanel four shows coach Frank Reich rejecting quarterback Carson Wentz’s cheesesteak offering, both were formerly with the Philadelphia Eagles.Panel five shows Carson dumping the Philly delicacy on the ground.WPVI – […]
Frank and Ernest by Bob Thaves is famous for a number of things.The funny puns and zany one-liners naturally. Also: the horizontal panel, the renowned Ginger Rogers quote, the block letters, topical humor, and the time-spanning abilities of the title characters.A few years after its 1972 debut Bob Thaves began to regularly run patriotic(?) gags […]
Ziggy ran in The Cincinnati Post until that paper ceased to exist in 2007.Finally The Cincinnati Enquirer has picked up the comic to run in place of Mutts as that feature goes on an extended sabbatical. Tom Wilson, Jr. is an area resident so it is a bit surprising it took so long for The […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists is now open for entries published between June 2020 and June 2021 for The Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning. The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists is once again looking for the best in local political cartooning. The Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local […]
The National Society of Newspaper Columnists (NSNC) has announced the annual best-of-the-best, the winners of its 2021 Column-writing Contest. “We took a chance, expanded the categories, and it paid off with some incredibly rich and insightful columns and content. I’m forever grateful to the judges for helping us navigate all the amazing work.”One of those […]