The Dick Tracy story, quest-starring Dethany, that started last Sunday continues. Dethany’s On The Fastrack story, guest-starring Dick Tracy, starts later this week. That was expected. And it is really no surprise that Thatababy would feature cartoon cameos.But a number of other cartoonists seem to have joined in featuring comic characters in their comic strips […]
Cartoonist Marty Riskin has passed away. Martin S. (Marty) Riskin November 26, 1936 – July 9, 2020 From the newspaper notice:When the computer came along setting the graphic art’s world into a tailspin, Marty was left behind, [son] Gregg said. “It turned him into a prehistoric relic … he did not adapt,” he said. While it […]
From Writer’s Digest:Much like names, slogans and ideas, titles are not protected by U.S. copyright laws (which is why so many books have the same titles). To qualify for copyright protection, a work needs to possess “a significant amount of original expression”—and while “a significant amount of original expression” isn’t fully defined by hard-and-fast rules, […]
Cartoonist Fred Purucker has passed away.Frederick J. (Fred) Purucker, Jr.May 28, 1931 – June 30, 2020Malibu Times editorial cartoonist 1999-2016(?),art school teacher, Disney animatorFrom the Malibu Times notice: Purucker, TMT cartoonist for more than two decades, died last week at the age of 89. Although his face may not be known to most of our […]
Last week you heard, and maybe saw, the fireworks going off, but you were probably mistaken about the cause. It is my theory that those illuminating the sky with rockets were celebrating the release of the 2020 updating of Bottorff’s ComicBacks Price Guide & Checklist (in PDF).Some of you may have noted that I have […]
In 1999 Aaron McGruder shook up the comics pages in America’s newspapers. In 1997, not long after Aaron McGruder pulled The Boondocks from his college newspaper, he submitted his strip to syndicates, companies that provide comics, puzzles, and advice columns to hundreds of newspapers…The rejections piled on, with the syndicates feeling that The Boondocks was […]
With three Sunday strips left until Stone Soup ends, Jan Eliot is interviewed. … what have you learned in the process of creating it?Well, I have learned that there’s no magic. You know, everybody always asks, “Where do you get your ideas?” And there’s really no magic to creativity other than sitting down and working […]
From Seven Days’ introduction to The Cartoon Issue: Like every other Vermont enterprise, Seven Days has scrapped, postponed or reinvented many of our perennial projects this year because of the pandemic. But we decided to go ahead with the Cartoon Issue. It goes without saying that cartoons and print media are made for each other. […]
A bit off our normal path, but too cute to let go.From Bored Panda: Our world is so beautifully different. Unique appearances, cultures, and traditions are what make it so rich and exciting to live in and learn from. Packed with details such as national animals, food, outfits, or makeup, these adorable cartoon-like characters resemble […]
Just me? Or is today’s panel unusually political?
As promised Gary Larson has returned!And it’s annotated: … So a few years ago—finally fed up with my once-loyal but now reliably traitorous pen—I decided to try a digital tablet … I got one, fired it up, and lo and behold, something totally unexpected happened: within moments, I was having fun drawing again. I was […]
The Lincoln Project is hitting Donald Trump again—this time partnering with a well-known Latino cartoonist from Los Angeles who never thought he would work with Republicans. The group made up of veteran Republican strategists, who have endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for president, partnered on a political cartoon with pioneering artist Lalo Alcaraz, who created La […]
Today’s Dark Side of the Horse reminds me …… of that fine Henrietta in the Land of Wonderful Dreams daily sequence last week:Macanudo is a highlight of the funny pages! Little Nemo images from The Comic Strip Library.
It is still the holiday weekend and some residue remains.A print of that fine Mutts comic is available. As the embers of the fireworks die out in Prince Valiant. It’s police detective meets private detective as Dethany joins Dick Tracy again.update: This will be a true crossover. Bill Holbrook announces:I have a cool announcement to make that’s […]
A Kansas newspaper whose publisher is a county Republican chairman posted a cartoon on its Facebook page likening an order from the state’s [Democratic] governor requiring people to wear masks in public to the round-up and murder of millions of Jews during the Holocaust.From the Anderson County Review Facebook page:The Guardian carries the story.The [weekly] […]