This month, [GoComics is] celebrating a quarter-century of The Duplex, the syndicated strip by brothers Glenn and Gary McCoy that features Eno and Fang—a perpetual dim-witted bachelor and his loveable canine sidekick—and their long-suffering neighbors, Gina and Mitzi. The Duplex’s journey began with Glenn in 1996. “It sprouted from a scribbled character in one of […]
In college I started reading underground comics by Robert Crumb and Peter Bagge, and I was exposed to Matt Groening’s Life in Hell and Roz Chast and Tom Tomorrow for the first time. I actually wrote my senior thesis about a womens’ underground comics collective called the Twisted Sisters. One of my favorite cartoonists from […]
Patrick McDonnell has been an artist for over 40 years. Best known for MUTTS, he has always made personal and abstract paintings while drawing comics and illustrations for publication. During the turmoil and isolation of the past few years, McDonnell’s paintings have literally exploded – in volume and intensity. In this exhibition of over 50 […]
DC Comics and Webtoon have announced they will be collaborating on webcomics. WEBTOON Entertainment Inc, the world’s number one webcomic platform today announced it has entered into a creative partnership with DC. The agreement will see DC and WEBTOON collaborate on several upcoming webcomic series’ set in the DC Universe. These standalone series will appeal […]
Nearly 100 years ago I. A. Persinger began pasting Wash Tubbs comic strips into a scrapbook. In 1928, the barber, I.A. Persinger, began compiling this collection of “Wash Tubbs” comics, a well-loved daily newspaper strip by artist Roy Crane, whose adventure graphics popularized the visual sound effects—Bam! Pow!—we know so well today. Soon, though, the […]
When the Freckles and His Friends daily strip ended in 1971 Newspaper Enterprise Association supplied the first strip from September 20, 1915 for newspapers breaking the news to their readers.Which I guess is technically true, that was the first strip titled “Freckles and His Friends.”Merrill Blosser had only a few years of cartooning behind him […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for August 2021 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Birth of a Beetle: The Magazine Cartoons of Mort Walker Comic Book Artist Bullpen Trubble Town Red Lines Big Nate: Aloha! Authorizing Superhero Comics Tundra: Fashionably Funny Get the H*ll Out of […]
Like many of us in early 2021, Martin Lee was deeply affected by many issues, including COVID, George Floyd, and anti-Asian hate crimes. Finding himself in a self-diagnosed “funk,” he needed refuge and found his way back to the art of his youth. Little did he know that this diversion would lead to the start […]
From Blog for Arizona: David Fitzsimmons is the cartoonist for the Arizona Daily Star. He will be roasted by former politicians Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild, and District 2 Pima County Supervisor Dan Eckstrom. I also know personally stand up comic attorney Nancy Stanley and former Tucson Citizen videographer Daniel Buckley who are evidently involved. Fundraiser […]
The Sandusky Register (Erie County Ohio) and The Norwalk Reflector (Huron County Ohio), both members of the Ogden Newspapers family, will share the same Weekender (Saturday/Sunday) edition. The start of the 2021 high school football season also will be the kickoff for a new combined Weekender newspaper. “This will be an expanded weekend product for […]
Self portrait © by Stephan DoncheComics journalist and author Chris Arrrant askedComic industry people: What’s something about your job that you wish more people understood? Chris got quite a response from cartoonists in various genres. A sampling:Making comics is HARD work. Just how labor intensive it is. (drawing, penciling/inking) Or how long it takes […]
Comic Shops across the nation will be giving away comic books on Saturday August 14, 2021.Free!With over four dozen comics from Archie to Zorro. The Free Comic Book Day website lists all the comics that might be available in your area.Visit your local comic book shop on Saturday August 14th!
New Illustrator on Ripley’s Believe It or Not For the second time this year John Graziano has been replaced on Ripley’s Believe It or Not. The August 8, 2021 Sunday page was unsigned (and not Graziano art), then beginning Monday August 9, 2021 the dailies were by another artist. Unlike that May substitute this artist […]
Dateline: CanadaDateline: CanadaSteve Canyon came to a U. S. Air Force base in northern Canada last winter and was promptly dropped from the comic page of the Peterborough Examiner. In an editorial the newspaper explained, “We have become disturbed by the political implications of the strip. The hero and his friends were on what was […]
Magazine cartoonist Don Margolis has passed away.Donald Eugene (Don) Margolis September 1932 – August 3, 2021 “He spent his career drawing cartoons, and his retirement making faces at his grandchildren.”Don’s career as described by comics historian Ken Quattro: The story, “I Married A Teen-Age Fly,” [1959] was actually parodying contemporary movies, such as “The Fly” […]