The end of the year brings out the “Best of” lists.Some of which contains items that we have mentioned here.The Beat‘s list of the 50 best comics of 2020 includes titles by seasoned creators and up-and-coming talents. Forbes has put out their list of The Best Graphic Novels of 2020. Polygon has a different view of The […]
Mike Morgan refers to his nearly 30-year career as author and illustrator of the “For Heaven’s Sake!” comic strip as his “advocation to go with vocation” as senior pastor at Gainesville First United Methodist Church. Morgan’s “For Heaven’s Sake!” was first published in the Faith and Values section of The Macon Telegraph in [September] 1991. […]
Some of you may have noticed that some of us have an obsession with Firsts and Lasts. So when we presented the first Newspaper Enterprise Association Christmas strip from 1936 last week, our goal was to bookend that with the last NEA Christmas strip.In January 2009 cartoonist Dan Thompson got Rip Haywire, his parody of/homage […]
Historical looks at The Ungentlemanly Art from the past week.Illustrating Propaganda During World War I If the echoes of fascism have brought the 1930s and ‘40s troublingly to mind, it’s worth recalling that modern propaganda became a global enterprise during the First World War, rather than the second. For the US, that conflict was brief, […]
Darrin Bell goes back almost 30 years to his old Cal Berkeley rootswith a special comic strip that takes us back nearly 2,000 years. Apparently an excerpt from a Stan Kelly cartoon has become a popular meme. Kelly has a very black-and-white view of the world. The color black, if you look through the cartoons, is […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for December 2020 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books – review Barnaby Volume Four Max and the Midknights: Battle of the Bodkins […]
A roundup of recent news items.Tomversation, Humor for a Sheltered World© Tom FalcoThe Miami Herald highlights Tom Falco‘s contribution to making the pandemic a bit more bearable. When the pandemic started, Tom Falco got back to drawing comics. On May 4, he began publishing them online through “Tomversation,” which he subtitled “The real world. Just […]
Desirée N. Santos has earned the Girl Scouts Gold Award for her Emma webcomic.The Gold Award is the highest achievement within the Girl Scouts of the USA. From NJ Advance Media: Desirée N. Santos, a resident of Cranford and a Lifetime member of the Girl Scouts of Cranford (Service Unit 48), recently received official approval […]
Sports cartoonist Pierre “Peb” Bellocq has been honored by the racing world.From the Daily Racing Form:Pierre “Peb” Bellocq, the most famous racing caricaturist of all time, [has] been selected for inclusion in the National Museum of Racing’s Joe Hirsch Media Roll of Honor, the Saratoga Springs museum announced on Monday. Bellocq, who has been known […]
The New Yorker‘s assistant cartoon editor Colin Stokes checked Instagram to see which cartoons from the magazine during the year 2020 got the most “likes” and shares the 26 most popular.Of course it is too soon to know if any of them will join the few other New Yorker cartoons with their own Wikipedia entries.cartoons […]
Famed animator Bill Plympton has three days to raise $40,000 for his independent animated feature. As a kid growing up among the tall timbers of Oregon, I wanted to create a Western that takes place in the evergreen-covered mountains. It’s 50 years later, I’ve had Oscar nominations and won Cannes Festival awards, and it’s time […]
Tom Richmond Answers Your MAD QuestionsThe word spread last year that MAD magazine would no longer publish. We here even contributed to that idea by reporting what others, some knowledgeable, were saying. Former MAD contributor Tom Richmond responds to that and other questions about MAD magazine.Claim: MAD stopped publishing years ago/last year/recently. Verdict: FALSE MAD […]
Yeah, let’s start with Flash Gordon flashing forward to his skivvies. © King Features SyndicateBased on the August 26, 1934 paper doll by Alex Raymond. Fun and Games When I saw these this morning I thought, “That art is outside the norm for these strips.” (Well, that last one not so much.) But can you […]
Dan Spiegle was born 100 years ago today (and passed on in 2017) © William Boyd Ent.(?)Dan Spiegle was born on December 12, 1920. He got his start on the Hopalong Cassidy comic strip. After that he went on to a very productive career as a comic book artist. An attempt at a sea-faring comic […]
The Best Comics of 2020 Heart © AMS; Six Chix © KFS; Nancy © UFSPop culture site Nerdist has picked The Best Comics of 2020. The list is mostly graphic novels and floppy comic books, but a few comic strips make the list.Heart of the City by Steenz … Steenz’s gorgeous redesigns and sweet humor […]