The National Cartoonist Society has released its schedule for the September 12, 2020 NCSFest and Reuben Awards. Streaming broadcast begins at10am Saturday, September 12 at NCSFest.com Official Welcome to NCSFest 2020 from NCS President & thank you’s. From Panels to Publishing (90 mins)Guests: Mark Tatulli, Terri Libenson, Maria Scrivan, and Rob HarrellHosted by: Jason Chatfield 74th Annual Reuben AwardsJoin […]
Most comics historians, in writing about Jackie Ormes, note her Torchy Brown comic strip for which she is justly famous. But Ormes’ biographer Nancy Goldstein notes that “it is Patty-Jo that the readers of the Courier whom I talked to seem to remember most vividly.”Goldstein continues: That a girl child expressed wisdom, exposed folly, and […]
Today (September 1) cartoonist Jackie Ormes is being honored with a Google Doodle slideshow. Jackie Ormes was born Zelda Mavin Jackson on August 1, 1911, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She taught herself to draw at an early age and showcased her skills with a page of cartoons in her high school yearbook. After graduation, she entered […]
An established provocateur from an early age, John “Derf” Backderf is a renowned comics creator residing in Cleveland, Ohio. His work has garnered much critical acclaim and has earned such accolades as an Eisner Award (Trashed) and an Angoulême Prize (My Friend Dahmer). His latest work, Kent State (Abrams Comicarts) is an in-depth and critical […]
September celebrates Beetle Bailey at 70, then October will see Charlie Brown celebrating his 70th. Charlie (and his dog) gets a bit more publicity than Beetle, including Timex licensing.In August a new cartoonist joined The New Yorker club. Lillie J. Harris is the 14th cartoonist to make her first appearance in the magazine this year. […]
The Scottsbluff, Nebraska Star-Herald newspaper has decided that its experiment to replace opinion page editorial cartoons with the Mallard Fillmore comic strip is a success. I want to thank everyone for their input over the last few weeks in regard to the Star-Herald’s opinion page. There were all kinds of different thoughts and ideas shared. […]
The Beetle Bailey comic strip first appeared in newspapers on September 4, 1950.70 years later The Walker Brothers are celebrating the anniversary during the first week of September. Kicking it off a little early is Brian Walker writing a brief column about the early Beetle for the Comics Kingdom blog. Beetle Bailey debuted inauspiciously in […]
From an upset newspaper reader: To The Daily Sun, I am appalled at the cartoon depicting an active shooter drill, and cannot believe your publication would publish it. This type of message is stereotyping our black youth, and most definitely is NOT furthering the cause of any organization or entity working against racism. Further, the […]
An eighth grade social studies assignment has riled some parents. We’ve covered the initial commotion and the cartoonist’s reaction.Here’s the (distant-learning) assignment that is causing all the hubbub. Cartoonist credits (from top)David FitzsimmonsKallol MajumderElena Steier
As reported here a Texas school district came under fire from parents, police organizations, and, eventually, the state’s governor for including a David Fitzsimmons cartoon that didn’t show law enforcement in the best light as part of an eighth grade project. As Fitz put it: The good folks of Wylie, Texas, a very white suburb […]
Erik Dussere gets the hard copy of The Sunday Washington Post: I really never intended to start reading the comics page of the Sunday newspaper again. As a kid, I always read the funnies, but when I was old enough to start getting a paper myself, it was the New York Times, which famously has […]
Getting to this late, hopefully they got it on a loop so we can watch it after the fact.Check at The Deadline Club. Also very late, but you might be able to catch it. August 25, 7pm Pacific time.I think this will be available on NEWSFROMme.TV via youtube during and after. Here, let me give you plenty […]
Join Phoebe and Marigold on a trip through the history books for 10 magical facts about the most stunning creatures to ever trot the Earth. Okay Sherlock, another Minit Mystery to test your abilities of deduction!Can you gather the clues and solve the whodunit before the September 6 denouement?The special Dick Tracy segment began August […]
As is my habit on Sundays I turn to Steve McGarry’s Biographic to check if the new page features Ray and Dave Davies and The Kinks. (A futile exercise that has habitually disappointed me for years.) Yesterday I was disappointed because there was no Biographic at the GoComics site. Looking around finds that other features […]
Earlier this month, on August 14, 2020, I missed the 100th What’d I Miss comic strip anniversary.The weekly What’d I Miss, by R. Alan Brooks and Cori Redford, began in The Colorado Sun on September 16, 2018 with this introduction: Myra has missed 30 years of her life, due to a coma, but has found […]