From The Federalist: Google-owned YouTube shut down Dilbert Comic strip creator Scott Adams on Friday, stripping a video off the platform from the podcaster’s channel without warning. The Federalist posts the notice from Scott’s Twitter feed where it is currrent the “pinned” tweet. Real Coffee with Scott Adams is the cartoonist’s YouTube channel, where all […]
Some historical essays from the past week. William Gropper: Social Justice Cartoonist GROPPER, who was contributing to other radical magazines (like The Rebel Worker, The Morning Freiheit, and The Revolutionary Age) as well as mainstream magazines (The Bookman, The Dial, and Frank Harris’ New Pearson’s Magazine), married his second wife in 1924, and the two […]
Yes, Jim Keefe is the artist of the Sally Forth comic strip, but he was (1996-2003), and occasionally still is, the writer/artist of Flash Gordon. Sally Forth and Flash Gordon © King Features SyndicateWith King Features Syndicate bringing back Flash Gordon as a limited edition Sunday webcomic Edgar, for KFS, talked to Jim about his […]
Comic artist and illustrator Richard Corben has passed away. Richard Vance Corben October 1, 1940 – December 2, 2020 Dona Corben revealed Richard’s passing on the Corben Studios Facebook page:It is with great sorrow and loss that I must share the sad news that Richard Corben died Dec 2, 2020 following heart surgery. He will be […]
From The Daily Voice: A cartoonist famous for his work in the “New Yorker,” has been arrested in the Hudson Valley for alleged possession of a sexual performance by a child. Dutchess County resident Daniel (Danny) P. Shanahan, 64, of Rhinebeck, was arrested by New York State Police on Wednesday, Dec. 9, and charged with […]
A Finnish horse is among the new characters residing in the comic pages of the Johnson Newspaper Corp. In October, Johnson Newspaper Corp., which publishes the Watertown Daily Times and other publications, announced that due to an impasse over fees with King Features, owned by Hearst, it would discontinue content from the syndication service. That […]
For some reason I have a few stories relating to animation in the queue.A Charlie Brown Christmas at 55 Multiple generations of kids will agree that it doesn’t really begin to look a lot like Christmas until A Charlie Brown Christmas graces the airwaves. Premiering 55 years ago on Dec. 9, 1965, the beloved animated […]
Freelance editorial cartoonist Jake Fuller has lost his spot at The Gainesville Sun due to bad timing and an inattentive opinion page editor. A cartoon using domestic violence as an analogy was published two days after a double homicide, but Jake’s deadline, which he met, was two days before the tragedy.WCJB Gainesville reports: A freelance […]
There’s no comic strip that epitomized the ’80s as well as Bloom County.That is how Ultimate Classic Rock begins their article celebrating forty years since Bloom County debuted. Writer Tyler Sage continues:Unlike current nostalgia-laden depictions of the ’80s, what the comic highlights is how acerbically pop culture was riffed on at the time. In this […]
Well, since the Christmas tree has gone up, and St. Nicholas was mentioned here today, it seems a good time for an NEA Christmas strip. Presented below is the first of the long running seasonal strips from Newspaper Enterprise Association as listed by Allan Holtz, Merlin Haas, and couple others. Meant to run one panel […]
Journalist and civil servant Paul E. Fitzgerald has passed away.Paul Edward (Fitz) FitzgeraldNovember 26, 1926 – December 3, 2020 From the obituary: He entered the US Army as an enlisted man during WW2, serving as a heavy weapons crewman. After completing Officer Candidate School, he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in charge of troop trains […]
It’s been over two months since I updated what is being dropped from GoComics. So let’s take a look-see now. [First follow that link to the last update to find a correction: it was Bewly, not BFGF Syndrome, that was dropped. BFGF Syndrome remains at GoComics – my mistake.] The features dropped in November include […]
There seems to be quite a number of pantomime panels in today’s strips. So naturally the normally muted Lio has word balloons. From the top:Alley Oop © U.F.S.Animal Crackers © T.C.A.Arlo and Janis © U.F.S.B.C. © J.H.S.The Barn © Ralph HagenBeetle Bailey © K.F.S.Daddy’s Home © Rubino & MarksteinHeart of the City © A.M.S.Heathcliff © CreatorsMike […]
With the growing popularity of digital drawing, original art is becoming a thing of the past. Maybe no one really cares about that anymore. In the end, it’s about the finished work and not the journey that gets you there…right? That’s true, but if you’ve ever held an original inked page by Wally Wood, or a […]
While both Don Wimmer and Wayno do an admirable job of drawing stuffed animals today… Rose is Rose © United Feature Syndicate; Bizarro © Bizarro StudiosI’m still liking Eric Reaves‘ menagerie from earlier this week more: Hi and Lois (and Trixie) © KFS Gannett’s Sun Journal has a nice column of comic strip memories.With the call […]