Since The Great Comic Strip Switcheroonie of 1997 April Fool’s Day has become a day when cartoonists have traded properties. It certainly doesn’t happen on the original’s scale or even every year. but on occasion a couple friends get together and do it.For example in 2014 it was Mark Parisi and Dan Thompson.© Mark Parisi […]
Steve Eldridge commented earlier today: On occasion, I will look up a cartoonist to see what the real life human who does the work actually looks like. Some cartoonist are recognizable – Telnaes, Pastis, Guisewitz, Davis, Robbins, McCay, etc. Other cartoonists, particularly web cartoonists, don’t get their faces in the news much.So Bored Panda gave […]
The other day we noted that Roger Mahoney drawn Andy Capp comic strips had returned and wondered if they were reruns.It turns out the art and the word balloons are from the past, but the script in those balloons are new.Sean Kleefeld noticed the strangeness: What immediately stood out to me is the thing that […]
© The Sporting News © Marvel Entertainment © King Features Syndicate Ozark Ike was created by Rufus Anderson Gotto, who was a native of Tennessee so he probably knew something about hillfolk. However, his character was called Ozark Ike so maybe he didn’t want to insult any of his fellow Tennesseans. © respective copyright owner Baseball month […]
Michael de Adder, who recently signed to contribute three editorial cartoons a week to The Washington Post, had his first exclusive WaPo editoon published in the paper Tuesday March 30:© Washington PostMichael’s Washington Post page shows that though he is now a contracted contributor to the newspaper, he is far from a stranger to the […]
The National Cartoonists Society has released the nominees for five 2020 Reuben Divisional Award categories that need members to vote for a winner.They are:GAG CARTOONS Kendra Allenby Robert Leighton Ellis Rosen NEWSPAPER COMIC STRIPS Brian Crane – Pickles Jeff Parker & Steve Kelley – Dustin Ricardo Siri (Liniers) – Macanudo NEWSPAPER PANELS Bill Abbott […]
Thursday, April 1, 20217:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT4:30 PM – 5:30 PM PDTAuthor/scholar Jonathan Zimmerman and illustrator/cartoonist Signe Wilkinson have teamed up to produce Free Speech and Why You Should Give A Damn.The pair will join cartoon editor Bob Mankoff for a conversation about [the] history of free speech in the U.S. and a […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced the nominees for their Cartoonist of the Year Award for 2020; the award is more familiarly known as The Reuben Award.Alphabetically…Ray Billingsley would be the first African American to win The Reuben.Bill Griffith would be the first underground cartoonist to win The Reuben.Terri Libenson would be the first solely […]
Wimpy is not the only thing that shrunkThe Sunday Popeye on Comics Kingdom is down to two tiers for some reason (permanent reduction?). So here’s the missing top tier to the March 28, 2021 half page:© King Features SyndicateDigression – Can we still call the full strip a half page, since the half page formats, […]
Artist and illustrator Gerald Lazare has passed away. Gerald John (Jerry) Lazare September 25, 1927 – March 23, 2021painter, illustrator, comic artistGerald Lazare began his professional art career creating comic books for Canada’s Bell Features during World War II after U.S. comic books were banned.From the Comic Book Daily entry:He was still 15 and he […]
New Award Contest from The National Society for Newspaper ColumnistsThe NSNC has added new categories for their contest this year, editorial cartooning is a new one.The NSNC notes that This category is for entries from all printed periodicals, including weeklies, magazines and specialty publications, regardless of circulation as well as all online publications (including multimedia […]
Magazine cartoonist Rod McKie has passed away. Roderick (Rod) McKieNovember 28, 195?/196? – March 26(?), 2021 From the McKie family: I am so sorry to tell you all that Rod passed away last night. We are all heartbroken. We have been together for 46 years and life without him will be duller, darker and very […]
Ginger Meggs Punchline ContestAbove is the opening panel to the page Jimmy Bancks was working on when he died in 1952. The page was laid out and mostly inked, and the script was lettered except for the last panel.Ginger Meggs ™ Winslow Investments Pty LtdFrom Bancks family members and Ginger Meggs cartoonist Jason Chatfield: Now […]
The other day we mentioned this year’s Reuben Award weekend: [T]his year’s 75th Annual festivities are still being finalized. When and where have not been made public other than “late summer 2021.” It is hoped that by that time the pandemic will have eased enough to allow the usual gathering rather than a virtual gala […]
The Washington Post this morning announced Michael de Adder will be joining the newspaper as part of its editorial cartooning team. Washington Post Opinions today announced Michael de Adder will join Ann Telnaes as a political cartoonist. Beginning March 31, de Adder will draw three cartoons a week for The Washington Post in print and […]