Publisher Nat Gertler is a go-to guy for Peanuts trivia. He recently published a new edition of Miss Caroline, and while doing so he noticed our obituary of Miss Caroline creator Gerald Gardner.Again, go-to guy for Peanuts trivia. Our obituary reproduced an October 6, 1963 Gerald Gardner article from The Chicago Tribune about mass market […]
Rick Edmunds at Poynter is reporting: Gannett, the nation’s largest newspaper company with more than 250 daily titles, will begin offering another round of newsroom buyouts next week. It has not yet said how many…. The changes were announced by CEO Mike Reed during a companywide virtual town hall Wednesday, two Gannett journalists told me. […]
Tea Fougner, Editorial Director of Comics for King Features Syndicate, was recently interviewed by Heidi MacDonald on the Publishers Weekly Comics World podcast; and they covered a lot in the 30 minutes.Ecomics – Tea, the guiding force behind Popeye’s Cartoon Club, discusses King Features recent dive into webcomics (Rae the Doe, #Sales).Career – The needs […]
original October 12 post:Five weeks after The Atlantic article detailing alleged remarks by President Trump where he is unable to fathom military service, Garry Trudeau featured the contents of that article in his October 11, 2020 Doonesbury.Because the article has been disputed, or because of the last two panels (“Nobody wants to see that”), at […]
Macanudo © Liniers, distributed by King Features Syndicate Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for October 2020 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1919-1921 Frankie Comics BB3X: Baby Blues: The Third […]
A(nother) belated notice that Paul Frank Gray is now a dues-paying member of the Senior Strippers club. We wish the Reverend Paul Gray a happy and blessed belated birthday, born October 10, 1930.From Assemblies of God last December: Since 2002, Gray has drawn the faith-based cartoon “Shades of Gray” for the religious page of the […]
October 2, 1989. What better way to celebrate 31 years of JumpStart than to issue a 30th Anniversary book.The October 4, 2020 JumpStart made a sideways note about the book.JumpStart © Ruff Sketch, Inc. Robb Armstrong is the first Black cartoonist to have a comic strip run for 30 consecutive years. To honor the 30th […]
Thursday, October 15, 7 pm Eastern Standard Time. Book your spot now!Eminetra: Award-winning political cartoonist Michael de Adder will join Zoom tomorrow TODAY and take us to his world. Planned as a “subscriber-only” event, we launched this event in response to the high demand for more information about de Adder and his work. Today we […]
Famed pop artist Wayne Thiebaud was born on October November 15, 1920 and celebrates his 100th birthday today! To celebrate the Crocker Museum in Sacramento, Ca. is presenting Wayne Thiebaud 100: Paintings, Prints, and Drawings, an extensive, celebratory retrospective featuring the full range of the Sacramento artist’s achievements on canvas and on paper in an exhibition […]
Sure, Blondie and Garfield may have larger circulation numbers, but the biggest thing in the funny papers these days is Jules Rivera’s Mark Trail.© NAS/KFSHundreds of comments every day on the Comics Kingdom website, with the traditionalists foursquare against the new Mark Trail and being joined by The Snarkers. I understand – It is not […]
The Overseas Press Club presents: Join an online program with Adam Zyglis of The Buffalo News, the winner of this year’s Best Cartoon Award for best print or digital graphic journalism, including cartoons, on international affairs. Moderating the panel will be Rob Rogers, who served as head judge for the Best Cartoon Award jury. He won the OPC’s cartoon award for […]
In 2011 The Saturday Evening Post ran a series of profiles/mini-interviews with a baker’s dozen of their cartoonists with sample cartoons. For unknown reasons it popped up in today’s feed, so I’m passing it on to you.all cartoons © Saturday Evening Post Society Tim Lachowski After five years of study at the Cleveland Institute of […]
The Corvallis Gazette-Times reports: Cartoonist, writer and teacher Lynda Barry has been honored with Oregon State University’s Stone Award for literary achievement. Barry will be honored on campus on April 29, 2021, with a possible virtual appearance possible. The Stone Award comes with a cash prize of $20,000. Previous winners have included Colson Whitehead (last […]
Screenwriter, gag writer, humorist, author Gerald Gardner has passed away. Gerald Clifford Gardner July 22*, 1929 – October 11, 2020 *the IMDb has June 15, 1929 as birthdateThe notice of death from The Monkees Film and TV Vault Facebook page:From his son Lindsey Gardner – Gerald Clifford Gardner, legendary screenwriter … died peacefully yesterday evening […]
With print news receding, online sources proliferating (and become more partisan), and digital tools opening new aesthetic horizons, what is happening to this form of visual commentary, once the shared experience of every reader with a newspaper and a cup of coffee? In this virtual symposium, prominent artists representing different generations and regions of the […]