30 years ago, April 2, 1990, saw the debut of Pickles by Brian Crane. above: the first Pickles comic stripSince that beginning the strip has become very successful:Whether observing the differences between genders and generations or taking a wry but sympathetic look at life in the twilight years, Crane’s good-natured wit and dry humor please […]
Comic book artist Hy Fleishman has passed away. Herman (Hy) Fleishman November 18, 1927 – April 1, 2020 comic book artist, restaurateurSadly, one of our Senior Strippers has passed on.From the obituary:He attended City College of New York and the Cartoonist and Illustrators School of Art in Manhattan and became an accomplished Comic Book artist. He […]
Not an April Fool’s Day prank!Today April 1, 2020 only Nat Gertler/About Comics is offering free PDF downloads of three books.Our interest is concentrated on They Called Him Sparky.“They Called Him Sparky” is a book collecting friends from his Church of God days writing about Schulz and their memories of him. This book was first […]
Daily News editorial cartoonist Bill Bramhall is among the journalists Florida Senator Marco Rubio is accusing of delighting in the current coronavirus pandemic.From Marco Rubio’s Twitter account:“Some in our media can’t contain their glee & delight in reporting that the U.S. has more #CoronaVirus cases than #China Beyond being grotesque,its bad journalism” A later tweet revealed […]
Rex Morgan from Marvin Bradley to Terry Beatty.Comic syndicate editor Richard Marschall remembers working with, and becoming friends with, original Rex Morgan, M.D. artist Marvin Bradley in the latest episode of his fascinating “A Crowded Life in Comics” memoirs.But this visit will be with Marvin Bradley – Brad – who had drawn Rex Morgan, MD […]
above: Rob Tornoe for Editor & PublisherYesterday our friend Mike mentioned the state of the newspaper industry:The industry is already in rough shape, and we can argue how much of that came from the Internet itself and how much was from a colossally foolish lack of response to the Internet and how much of that […]
As Clay Jones says:It’s not one of his animations,It’s not one of his “watch me draw” videos,It’s not one of his print cartoons,No, it’s not any of the things we are used to enjoying from Clay.Clay sez:Check out my very first political cartoon video. It’s not a print cartoon, animation, or watching me draw. It’s […]
Rob Harrell began as a cartoonist (Big Top) and he continues as one (Adam @ Home). Rob’s a graphic novelist (Monster on the Hill) and creator of illustrated young adult books (Life of Zarf). Now, with Wink, Rob is going full on novelist, though he couldn’t resist throwing in a couple illustrations.Wink is released today, […]
The combined price for the original art making up the first Flash Gordon/Jungle Jim page of January 7, 1934 sold for over a half million dollars today at Profiles in History.The original art of the first Flash Gordon strip by Alex Raymond sold for $480,000, a record for original comic strip art. The original art […]
“Thirty years of avoiding other human beings . . . validated!”Read Chris Ware‘s comic strip in The New Yorker.Also: Chris Ware talks about his April 6, 2020 New Yorker COVID-19 cover.
Children’s book author/illustrator Tomie dePaola has passed away.Thomas Anthony (Tomie) dePaola September 15, 1934 – March 30, 2020 Earlier today Tomie’s publisher announced via Facebook:We mourn the loss of a master storyteller. Tomie dePaola has passed away. We extend our sympathy to his legions of readers, friends, and colleagues. From Tomie’s website:He has written and/or illustrated […]
Not to minimize the efforts of Edgar, who has been doing an excellent job of regularly updating the Comics Kingdom Blog, but it is exciting (to me) that beginning last week King Features Syndicate cartoonists have joined Edgar in posting to the blog.Brian Walker, Alex Hallatt, Wayno, Rino Piccolo, Jim Keefe, Bill Bettwy, John Rose, […]
Just a wonderful installment of Wiley’s Non Sequitur today.Wiley – please consider allowing the GoComics shop to make a print available of this beautiful take on autism.Wiley informs me that prints are available, (I am so used to seeing the “Buy a Print” notice below the GoComics strips, that I completely overlooked the “Non Sequitur […]
On the occasion of an upcoming book…Bado’s Blog reviews the Duncan Macpherson biograpy. In northern New Zealand… The Times this week began featuring cartoons from Aucklander Isabelle Russell. In anticipation of his forthcoming book…Tom Gauld is interviewed by Creative Review. Short book review from Publishers Weekly here. In 2006 a blogger called Charles Lavoie wrote that every New […]
Harriet Glickman, who championed the integration of the Peanuts comic strip, has passed away. Harriet Mae Glickman (nee Ratner) November 1, 1926 – March 27, 2020 From Nat Gertler’s notice:Harriet Glickman, the woman who had suggested to Charles Schulz that he add an African-American character to the strip and thus inspired the creation of Franklin, passed […]