This is an installment of 2020 Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.(part 1:Debuts – – part 2: Departures – – part 3: Dearly Departed – – part 4: Detours/Deviations)2020 Detours/DeviationsDetailing some changes in syndicated U. S. newspaper comics in 2020.© Batom, Inc.FUNKY WINKERBEANThere were a number of guest artists on Funky Sundays in […]
Political and magazine cartoonist Ken Mahood has passed away.Kenneth B. (Ken) MahoodFebruary 4, 1930 – December 30, 2020The Daily Mail is reporting the death of Ken Mahood: He passed away peacefully in St Thomas’ Hospital in London on Wednesday. Moving tributes were paid yesterday to the brilliant and charismatic former Mail cartoonist Ken Mahood, who […]
Some miscellaneous items from the recent past.On this day 25 years ago, Bill Watterson’s iconic comic strip Calvin and Hobbes bid us farewell. To take us on a path down memory lane, here are some of the best Calvin and Hobbes strips created.Well, some of the best as decided by Mackenzie Cummings-Grady. Comics were so central […]
Some articles and essays dealing with comic history from this past week.A sad fact of life is that Rob Stolzer only infrequently posts to his Inkslinger blog. But when he does it is an essay filled with intelligence and wonder. Rob has rewarded us with a new end-of-the-year piece about an mostly unknown comic artist. […]
The newest Visual Arts Journal features Michael Tisserand interviewing Ray Billingsley. Read the entire interview here. Comics DC interviews cartoonist (and homegirl) Liza Donnelly. What work are you most proud of?Getting into The New Yorker, particularly at age 24. I am also very proud of the book that I wrote, Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest […]
Over 1200 pages long with more than 1200 new entries, this is a bibliography of articles and books on all aspects of comic and cartoon art including comic books, comic strips, cartoons, animation, editorial cartoons, newly updated as of the end of 2018. The electronic book, a non DRM PDF, includes tens of thousands of […]
Billy Penn informs Philadelphians about area news, and the big news in Philadelphia these days is Signe Wilkinson‘s retirement. Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Signe Wilkinson is retiring from the Philadelphia Inquirer at the end of the year, where she spent three decades chronicling the city’s woes, lambasting its leaders, and celebrating its victories. The local […]
Part Two of The Best Editorial Cartoons of 2020.Possibly the most famous cartoon of 2020 is by Mike Luckovich, who provides a brief commentary for each of the Atlanta Journal Constitution editorial cartoons he picks as his best. From USA Today: This week, we are featuring 2020 retrospectives by editorial cartoonists from across the USA TODAY […]
Comics and animation historian David Mruz has passed away. David Richard Mruz February 11, 1951 – December 20. 2020Comics and animation historian, fanzine publisher: Mindrot/AnimaniaWhen most of us think of Minneapolis cartoonists our thoughts go back to Charles Schulz, for native Minnesotan David Mruz his thoughts go back much further to another Charles:For comics historian […]
photos via Steve Milloy and Matt WuerkerFor the second time in ten days The Washington Post gave Ann Telnaes a full page to express her opinion. A most excellent use of the acreage.If you don’t get the dead tree edition, the cartoons can be read in detail at Ann’s WaPo page, or with Mike […]
Thought there would be a lot more “Our Cartoonist Looks Back on 2020” articles on this last Sunday of the year, but I guess with the dwindling number of editorial cartoonists on staff… The Minneapolis Star Tribune present some of Steve Sack‘s 2020 cartoons. A bit southeast the Wisconsin State Journal does the same with Phil Hands. Heading […]
Six weeks ago I mentioned the absence of Roger Mahoney‘s name in the in-strip credits line for the Andy Capp comic strip. Naturally two days later Mahoney was back in the credits. Then things got strange.When the time for the non-Mahoney strips came due for Creators/GoComics’ showing they skipped them and (for the first time?) […]
Wayno has revealed the new secret symbol that will soon begin appearing in Dan Piraro’s and Wayno’s Bizarro panels. On January 1, 2021, The Pipe of Ambiguity will join the roster of Secret Symbols. Dan and I agreed that it would be a fun way to continue to leave my mark on Bizarro as I […]
Signe Wilkinson and The Philadelphia Inquirer/The Philadelphia Daily News announced today that Signe will become an occasional contributor rather than a daily editorial cartoonist: Editor’s Note: Signe Wilkinson, the first woman win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, and the cartoonist for The Inquirer and Daily News since 1985, is putting down her pencil at […]