Cartoonist Carl Granath has passed away.Carl Robert GranathSeptember 30, 1930 – May 28, 2020 From the obituary: He was in demand as a writer, art director and voice talent during his long career with major advertising agencies in Chicago but hated watching commercials. He was an animator and cartoonist who grew up idolizing Walt Disney and […]
Tom Richmond has been one of “the usual gang of idiots” for 20 years, and that may be the limit for his usual idiosyncratic contributions to MAD. Tom’s latest news about the historic satire magazine brings summertime blues:MAD #15 is due to be released in August and will contain some new material. Back in late […]
The weekly Islander News, on June 18, 2020, got some negative feedback over a political cartoon they had published on June 11, 2020: In the same edition as those letters to the editor The Islander News Publisher, Tom Clifford, defended the newspaper publishing the cartoon and the cartoonist’s position:Then the June 25, 2020 issue of Islander […]
Today’s Jeopardy was a rerun from February 12, 2019. Answer: This appeared December 29, 1990Question: What is the last Bugs Bunny daily comic strip.
As everyone knows Greg Evan created and syndicated Luann in 1985, becoming a young, overnight success. Well, maybe not overnight.Ten years earlier Greg and Betty had returned to The States from Australia and settled, for a time, in Colorado Springs, Colorado with Greg trying to capitalize on his creative abilities.above and below from the Colorado […]
Famed comic book artist Joe Sinnott has passed away. Joseph Leonard (Joe) Sinnott October 16, 1926 – June 25, 2020From the Joe Sinnott Facebook notice:It with great sorrow that we must announce the passing of Joltin’ Joe Sinnott on June 25th at 8:40am at the age of 93. He went peacefully with the knowledge that […]
Editorial and comic strip cartoonist Ralph Dunagin has passed away.Raymond Ralph Dunagin, Jr.June 19, 1937 – June 24, 2020newspaper illustrator, art director, cartoonistFrom the Orlando Sentinel notice: Ralph Dunagin, an editorial cartoonist for the Sentinel and its predecessor, the Orlando Evening Star, from 1961 to 2001, died Wednesday. He was 83. Meeting Ralph Dunagin, it […]
Cartoonist Frank Bolle was born on June 23, 1924 and passed away last month. He became a regular contributor to comic books in the last half of the 1940s after serving his country during World War Two. During his early comic book career he often partnered, and developed a lifelong friendship, with fellow cartoonist Leonard […]
[W]hat is lost when political cartoons are sacrificed completely to avoid conflict? To be sure, these are challenging times for the publications. Cartoonists and other journalists contacted by The Washington Post paint the picture: Smaller papers generally have thinner staffs and fewer resources, which means they rely largely on relatively inexpensive syndicated cartoons, which are […]
MONTAGUE: Yeah. I had emailed just, like, the general New Yorker email from the Instagram account and had said, hey, you know, there’s a lot of – there’s definitely some diversity lacking at The New Yorker and The New Yorker cartoons just based on the characters that are drawn and the point of view and […]
The Greensboro (North Carolina) News & Record subscribers had a little surprise this morning:Have no fear. We have not changed our Sunday comics lineup! Because of an insertion error, most of our customers received two versions of the Sunday comics — a correct version and a second copy printed for another publication. Unfortunately, some of […]
When June Met RexToday Rex Morgan gets around to telling Sarah how he first met her mother.In another time and reality (as Terry Beatty has explained) young Doctor Rex meets Nurse June – The last three dailies from the first 1948 week of Rex Morgan, M.D.: And In The End…After teasing last week, Jan Eliot confirms […]
It started with Michael Gerber of The American Bystander asking a question. Michael Maslin‘s Ink Spill passed the question to others. It came down to us filtered through the Mike Lynch Cartoons blog (simply because we clicked on Mike’s site before clicking on Michael’s site, both are regular and recommended stops while surfing the internet). […]
Last year Viacom bought Garfield. Now…Garfield.com is no longer an active destination.Visitors to the website will be directed to the Nickelodeon and GoComics websites.Garfield.com via The Wayback Machine.
Uncle Ben. Aunt Jemima. Eskimo Pie. Tayo Fatunla goes there with his recent Our Roots.When the images on the products are eventually changed, I will miss the smiling and inviting faces that made people of all races buy them. From an artist’s point of view, the images have been selling the products. I will not […]