On Monday the United States Postal Service issued a set of ‘Forever’ stamps paying tribute to Bugs Bunny on the occasion of his 80th (82nd?) anniversary.Not the first time Bugs was so honored. In 1997 Bugs was the first of a five year project putting Warner Bros. cartoon characters on United States postage stamps.But this […]
Back in our younger days we would enjoy the Where I’m Coming From comic strip in The Sunday Oakland Tribune by the younger still Barbara Brandon-Croft.So it brings a smile when Barbara is in the news. Today courtesy the Post News Group: Historically, Black cartoonists have never enjoyed the same representation as their white counterparts. […]
Jimmy Johnson celebrates 35 years of his Arlo and Janis comic strip by reproducing the very first strip as today’s issue:This week’s strip have been celebrating the anniversary, now he is extending the hoopla to his blog: The comic strip Arlo & Janis began life when it first appeared in newspapers 35 years ago today. […]
Smash Pages Q&A: Steenz The cartoonist who took over ‘Heart of the City’ this year discusses the comic strip process, her focus on the characters, her other projects and more.Smash Pages covers Steenz‘s career with the focus on her new gig as Heart of the City cartoonist.On getting the job:We started an audition process. I […]
It appears that the end of this month will also see the end of the Nest Heads comic strip.A Reed Brennan Customer Advisory note posted today: We have just been informed by Creators Syndicate that Nest Heads ends syndication with the 7/31 strip. If you have that comic on the page we layout for you, […]
The Coronavirus-delayed 2020 Reuben Awards Weekend now has a date: September 12. The ceremony will be an online presentation, where awards for 2019 creativity will be announced.From National Cartoonists Society President Jason Chatfield: The [Reubens] team have now figured out the complicated logistical and technical aspects of staging an online Reubens event and have settled […]
In his column today Daryl Cagle notes that newspaper editors are, on the whole, no longer picking cartoons that feature President Trump to run on their opinion pages. Trump appears in editorial cartoons more than any other president, or anything else, has ever appeared in cartoons before. Just as Trump dominates the news on TV […]
Jim Davis was born July 28, 1945.Creator of the most widely syndicated comic strip, the extremely popular Garfield.To celebrate here’s a few of the 70 Garfield book titles that Jim might find relatable: Jim made it all look…Wishing Jim All the Best on His Birthday!
I have a fascination with comics history, and a deep a appreciation of comics historians. My meager knowledge is buttressed by the writings of some great researchers. Following are a few of the wonderful teachers that inform us about comics past and present by way of some go-to blogs. American Newspaper Comics by Allan Holtz is […]
In Minneapolis JumpStart by Robb Armstrong replaces Stone Soup in the Sunday Star Tribune. “Jump Start” has run in the Star Tribune’s weekday comics pages for years. It’s now part of the Sunday lineup. The Minneapolis Star Tribune interviewed Robb on the occasion of the comic strip being in the newspaper seven days a week: […]
James Allen‘s last Mark Trail daily comic strip was Saturday, July 25, 2020:Monday, July 27, 2020 began a different story, as a years old Jack Elrod story began running.This reminds me of when Mandrake the Magician stopped mid-story in 2013 when Fred Fredericks abruptly retired due to ill health. And like Mandrake, which went into […]
After Mike’s remarkable appreciation of Stone Soup there’s not much left to say but the basics.Jan Eliot is not her birth name nor a name she married into. It is her pen(and ink)name:: That’s also when she became Jan Eliot. Name inspired by author Her surname at birth had been Buell, and her married name […]
The San Diego Comic-Con (Comic-Con International) announced this years winners of the Eisner Awards in a virtual ceremony. There were no series or creators that dominated the awards though Raina Telgemeier (Guts), Lynda Barry (Making Comics), and Stan Sakai (Usagi Yojimbo) were among those winning two awards. Stan Sakai was also inducted into the Hall […]
British cartoonist Brian Walker has passed away. Brian H. N. Walker March 22, 1926 – May(?) 2020 cartoonist, author, illustratorFrom Brian’s daughter Jo writing for The Guardian:My father, Brian Walker, who has died aged 94, was a cartoonist and illustrator whose work appeared across a span of 50 years in comics such as the Beano and […]
July 23:The dearth of magazines buying gag cartoons does not bode well. ‘Nightmare!’ is how The Spectator’s cartoon editor Michael Heath has been describing cartooning for at least 30 years, but it’s truer now than ever. Eighty years ago, cartoonists were so celebrated that waxworks of Low, Strube and Poy were displayed in Madame Tussauds. […]