National Cartoonists Society ACE Award recipient (and television weather man) Al Roker “answered reader questions on the ‘Today’ show Tuesday morning, including one from a fan who asked what he and his colleagues wanted to be when they were kids.” “I wanted to be an animator for Walt Disney,” Roker said. “I’m an amateur cartoonist, […]
The Lubbock (Texas) Avalance-Journal, a Gannett newspaper, is asking its readers to fill out a survey to pick favorite comic strips for their Sunday Funnies.We’re checking in with our readers to see which comics they prefer as we continually evaluate our offerings. Please let us know your favorite newspaper comics by taking our free survey […]
Deon Parsons of Life With Kurami fame has a new comic strip, Rosebuds, that will appear in print weekly in The Herald Bulletin and twice-weekly at GoComics.The Anderson (Ind.) Herald Bulletin announces the new comic strip: Many readers of The Herald Bulletin will remember him for the daily strip “Life with Kurami,” which was published […]
Reporting on newspapers cutting the Six Chix comic panel over the Tuesday July 28, 2020 installment by Bianca Xunise has become a national news story as NBC News is now covering the issue: Tea Fougner, editorial director at King Features, the comic strip’s syndicate, confirmed to NBC News that angry responses to the strip resulted […]
By some counts, the number of editorial cartoonists remaining on staff at news organizations in the country is down to 20 or 30 pen dippers. But if you take a slightly closer look, you’ll notice the remaining cartoonists on staff overwhelmingly work for locally-owned newspapers: Pat Bagley at the Salt Lake Tribune, Steve Sack at […]
By the end of August 2020 Wyoming will become the only (first?) state in the U.S. to publish no daily newspaper as the Casper Star-Tribune cuts its schedule to five days a week.The Nieman Lab reports: Wyoming has six “daily” newspapers, but now none of them will actually print a paper seven days a week. […]
The Reed Brennan/ Creators Syndicate announcement of Nest Heads ending was off by a day. Instead of ending on Friday, July 31 the comic strip ended on Saturday, August 1; which makes more sense. Creators, for the moment, is sitting on that last strip (a rerun from 2014):While GoComics has begun the cycle over, going […]
Occasionally, over at The Daily Cartoonist Facebook page, we throw in, along with links to items here, a cartoon or drawing that impressed us but didn’t show up here on The Daily Cartoonist site. Here are a few from July.We started with this great Rob Tornoe cartoon celebrating the United States’ birthday from America’s Newspapers. This […]
Classics Illustrated adapted famous books to the comic book format,R. Sikoryak has done the same with one of the world’s most famous documents.Utilizing comic characters and their creators’ styles Sikoryak has adapted The United States Constitution word for word into comic book format. As Boing Boing says: Cartoonist R. Sikoryak’s talent for mimicking other cartoonists, […]
Trailblazing St. Louis comic strip artist debuts in hometown Post-DispatchThat’s the headline introducing Heart of the City to newspaper’s readers: Beginning on Monday, the Post-Dispatch will carry “Heart of the City,” which Steenz took over drawing in April. It had been drawn by Mark Tatulli since 1998. The strip is about middle schooler Heart Lamar, […]
Welcome to the Comic of The Future, brought to you by Rhymes With Orange, King Features, and Mental Canvas.From Rhymes With Orange:The King Features’ syndicated cartoon Rhymes With Orange has teamed up with Mental Canvas to bring you a cartoon that you can virtually jump into and explore. What’s the cartoon about? No spoiler alert! […]
A letter in today’s Columbus Dispatch: “While I am sometimes puzzled or not amused by the humor in the comics pages of The Dispatch, on Tuesday I was both shocked and offended by Bianca Xunise’s Six Chix cartoon. In her drawing, a white woman with a shopping cart is standing next to a woman of […]
Famed comics publisher James Warren turns 90 today – born July 29, 1930.I guess technically he should be an Honorary Senior Stripper since Jim didn’t write or draw comics. But he certainly was a major supporter and influencer of comic books with his black and white magazines.During The Sixties and into The Seventies Jim was […]
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. […]