original October 12 post:Five weeks after The Atlantic article detailing alleged remarks by President Trump where he is unable to fathom military service, Garry Trudeau featured the contents of that article in his October 11, 2020 Doonesbury.Because the article has been disputed, or because of the last two panels (“Nobody wants to see that”), at […]
Macanudo © Liniers, distributed by King Features Syndicate Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for October 2020 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1919-1921 Frankie Comics BB3X: Baby Blues: The Third […]
A(nother) belated notice that Paul Frank Gray is now a dues-paying member of the Senior Strippers club. We wish the Reverend Paul Gray a happy and blessed belated birthday, born October 10, 1930.From Assemblies of God last December: Since 2002, Gray has drawn the faith-based cartoon “Shades of Gray” for the religious page of the […]
October 2, 1989. What better way to celebrate 31 years of JumpStart than to issue a 30th Anniversary book.The October 4, 2020 JumpStart made a sideways note about the book.JumpStart © Ruff Sketch, Inc. Robb Armstrong is the first Black cartoonist to have a comic strip run for 30 consecutive years. To honor the 30th […]
Thursday, October 15, 7 pm Eastern Standard Time. Book your spot now!Eminetra: Award-winning political cartoonist Michael de Adder will join Zoom tomorrow TODAY and take us to his world. Planned as a “subscriber-only” event, we launched this event in response to the high demand for more information about de Adder and his work. Today we […]
Famed pop artist Wayne Thiebaud was born on October November 15, 1920 and celebrates his 100th birthday today! To celebrate the Crocker Museum in Sacramento, Ca. is presenting Wayne Thiebaud 100: Paintings, Prints, and Drawings, an extensive, celebratory retrospective featuring the full range of the Sacramento artist’s achievements on canvas and on paper in an exhibition […]
Sure, Blondie and Garfield may have larger circulation numbers, but the biggest thing in the funny papers these days is Jules Rivera’s Mark Trail.© NAS/KFSHundreds of comments every day on the Comics Kingdom website, with the traditionalists foursquare against the new Mark Trail and being joined by The Snarkers. I understand – It is not […]
The Overseas Press Club presents: Join an online program with Adam Zyglis of The Buffalo News, the winner of this year’s Best Cartoon Award for best print or digital graphic journalism, including cartoons, on international affairs. Moderating the panel will be Rob Rogers, who served as head judge for the Best Cartoon Award jury. He won the OPC’s cartoon award for […]
In 2011 The Saturday Evening Post ran a series of profiles/mini-interviews with a baker’s dozen of their cartoonists with sample cartoons. For unknown reasons it popped up in today’s feed, so I’m passing it on to you.all cartoons © Saturday Evening Post Society Tim Lachowski After five years of study at the Cleveland Institute of […]
The Corvallis Gazette-Times reports: Cartoonist, writer and teacher Lynda Barry has been honored with Oregon State University’s Stone Award for literary achievement. Barry will be honored on campus on April 29, 2021, with a possible virtual appearance possible. The Stone Award comes with a cash prize of $20,000. Previous winners have included Colson Whitehead (last […]
Screenwriter, gag writer, humorist, author Gerald Gardner has passed away. Gerald Clifford Gardner July 22*, 1929 – October 11, 2020 *the IMDb has June 15, 1929 as birthdateThe notice of death from The Monkees Film and TV Vault Facebook page:From his son Lindsey Gardner – Gerald Clifford Gardner, legendary screenwriter … died peacefully yesterday evening […]
With print news receding, online sources proliferating (and become more partisan), and digital tools opening new aesthetic horizons, what is happening to this form of visual commentary, once the shared experience of every reader with a newspaper and a cup of coffee? In this virtual symposium, prominent artists representing different generations and regions of the […]
R. O. (Bob) Blechman, a master of animation and illustration, celebrated his 90th birthday on October 1, 2020. Whether on animation cels or as ink on paper Blechmans lines are instantly recognizable (and much imitated).Steven Heller, at Print, joins in the celebration of his friend. above: covers for The New Yorker and StoryFrom 2009 is […]
Famed cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller was struggling until he took over Larry Whittington’s Fritzi Ritz in 1925. That led to a comfortable living, made much more comfortable when he introduced Nancy to the world in 1933. If any comic is mentioned about Ernie’s pre-Fritzi career it his Mac the Manager. But there were a few other […]
“He is one of the all-time great cartoonists because he makes the craft integral to the entire endeavor look so easy, even enjoyable,” the theoretician and practitioner of comics, Ivan Brunetti, writes in the introduction to an upcoming collection of Gross’s work, “Gross Exaggerations: The Meshuga Comic Strips of Milt Gross.”The New Yorker previews a […]