From Courthouse News Service:PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) – Decades of efforts, including billions of dollars spent, to prevent the extinction of 13 species of Columbia River salmon and steelhead were stymied by the resurgence of gregarious mammals who themselves returned from the brink. Now, a new plan backed by Native American tribes and three states would […]
The Chic Young Estate is offering, via Nate D. Sanders, over 80 early Blondie comic strips and some of the toppers associated with it. The strips range from 1931, the second year of the strip, to 1951.This is some comic strip history! During these years Blondie became the most widely syndicated comic strip. (Blondie would […]
Today we say goodbye to Mark Tatulli’s Heart of the City: Tomorrow we welcome the Steenz Heart of the City: Not quite ‘All-New” as proclaimed in the headline. Oh, the style and gags will be different, but Heart will remain the star.Over on Twitter cartoonist Steenz tells us how she adapted to the Heart comic strip and […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced the nominees for this year’s The Reuben.Congratulations to the 2019 NCS Cartoonist Of The Year nominees for the 74th Annual NCS Reuben Awards! Lynda Barry Terri Libenson Hilary B. Price Mark Tatulli Raina TelgemeierCongratulations to all!Earlier this month the NCS sent out the ballots to their members; details for awarding […]
Spring is the season for picking favorites, so let’s look at some choices.The Phantom is a popular comic character around the world, and in Sweden the publishers of Fantomen choose their favorite stories that ran in the comic book in the year of 2019. The Chronicle Chamber reports:As we saw in the Frew best adventure […]
In July 1960, at the age of 26, Jane Goodall traveled from England to what is now Tanzania and ventured into the little-known world of wild chimpanzees.With the 60th anniversary of Jane Goodall entering the forest of Gombe coming, stories of Jane are starting to appear. One of those stories is Jane developing a friendship […]
“I have very little adult supervision.” Matt Wuerker, POLITICO’s Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, enjoys a colorful career sketching Trump, Pelosi, and other characters. [Politico goes] inside the wonderful world of Wuerker as he shares some of his best stories… including that one time he tried using a Rumsfeld cartoon to negotiate troop withdrawals.Politico delivers a […]
Advertising artist and executive Don Schnably has passed away. Donald James (Don) Schnably September 12, 1936 – April 20, 2020 From the obituary:He graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art and went on to have a highly successful career in advertising, winning countless CLIO and Addy awards. He has a TV commercial for National Boh […]
Tim Menees and Rob Rogers have been announced as finalists for the 56th Golden Quill Awards.Judging has been completed for The Press Club of Western Pennsylvania‘s 2020 Tri-State Golden Quill Awards for Excellence in Journalism, Media and Communications in Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and Northern West Virginia. The 56th competition recognizes professional excellence in written, […]
While Cathy hasn’t returned to syndicated comics, she has returned.Cathy Guisewite features the cartoon Cathy in her book Fifty Things That Aren’t My Fault, Guisewite also features cartoon Cathy in a series of panels on her Instagram account. And these days the topic is “sheltering in place.”As Heather Schwedel at Slate explains:Though the syndicated newspaper […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced the cancellation of the 2020 Reuben Awards Dinner and Convention and Festival.From NCS President Jason Chatfield:It is with a heavy heart that we must announce the official cancellation of this year’s NCS Reuben Awards and conference weekend in Kansas City. Those wanting any additional detail on our difficult and […]
Dick Wright was an editorial cartoonist for 30 years. In 2005 he gave up political cartooning for a higher calling – church pastor.David Astor reported in Editor & Publisher 2005:[Dick] Wright worked for the Union-Tribune, too (starting in 1976) and later joined The Providence (R.I.) Journal, the Nashville (Tenn.) Banner, and The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch. […]
A new addition to our running tally of Prince Valiant title panels by Thomas Yeates; these are exclusive to newspapers carrying the adventure strip in their Sunday comics section as a third/quarter pager.The Raven panel (below) ran from November 10, 2019 to March 22, 2020. (h/t James Delach for end date) On March 29, 2020 […]
above: Earth Day 1970 poster by Walt Kelly via The Billy Ireland Library and MuseumApril 22, 2020 is the 50th Anniversary of the first Earth Day, and there is a surprising lack of Earth Day comic strips and cartoons today.I was certain that some would join The Other Coast and Mutts and a few others […]
Back in the first decade of the 20th century cartooning genius Winsor McCay did a number of strips about dreams. Most famous was Little Sammy Sneeze.Always with those descriptive ears bookending the title. In the current New Yorker cartoonist Peter Kuper pays tribute to Winsor McCay, with a twist.Read the entire satire/homage strip.