Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott are doing a series of public service announcements regarding the coronavirus pandemic utilizing their Baby Blues characters. Coronavirus safety tip #1 of 5 From Rick and Jerry:Download your Baby Blues Coronavirus Tips! Free to print and distribute. Print out the B&W version for kids (or you) to color! See each original post […]
Tales from the Slush Pile by Ed Briant has gone on hiatus.Every Thursday, for over 14 years, Publishers Weekly has featured the comic strip “Tales from the Slush Pile” in their Children’s Bookshelf. There is now a hiccup in that schedule as the March 26, 2020 installment of the strip (above) reveals.Publishers Weekly tells The […]
From the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists: 3/27/20 UPDATE: The 2020 AAEC+ACC cartoonist convention has been officially cancelled. Wes Tyrell, President of the Association of Canadian Cartoonists, said, “We just heard today from the Canadian Feds, who were hosting a big chunk of the convention, that they must postpone until an undetermined date. We are […]
March 26 was scheduled to be Opening Day for Major League Baseball.You may remember that the Zits comic strip for today was replaced:King Features Syndicate has issued a correction for Zits black and white and color for 3/26. Due to the event’s postponement, a comic about baseball’s Opening Day was replaced.So we got this 2010 […]
Cartoonist/artist Ted Mullings has passed away.Harry Theodore (Ted) Mullings April 7, 1926 – April 12, 2019* commercial artist, painter, cartoonistFrom the obituary:Ted was a commercial artist for the Climax Molybdenum Company and the owner of The Little Cottage Art Gallery in Leadville. He was a member of the Ski Club in Climax, a member of the […]
Patrick McDonnell pays tribute to Rube Goldberg in today’s Mutts. I’m the Guy was one of many titles that made up Rube Goldberg’s comic strip. This was at a time when even daily comic strips were given enough room to have companion panels/strips.In 1912 Rube, with Bert Grant, wrote a song with the title.https://youtu.be/PMfyO0Ppmg0 More about […]
Diamond Distributors, the company that gets comics from the publishers to your local comic book shop, is (temporarily) halting shipments of comic books and other products after this week’s shipments.From ComicsBeat:Product distributed by Diamond and slated for an on-sale date of April 1st or later will not be shipped to retailers until further notice. Product distributed by […]
Cartoonist Albert Uderzo has passed away.Alberto Aleandro (Albert) Uderzo April 25, 1927 – March 24, 2020 From The Guardian obituary:Asterix illustrator Albert Uderzo has died at the age of 92, his family has announced. The French comic book artist, who created the beloved Asterix comics in 1959 with the writer René Goscinny, died on Tuesday. He […]
Confirmed. Fishman = Loren Fishman. See update below original story.original March 10 post:New Mallard Fillmore comic strips are being signed “Fishman.”After about 3½ months of reruns new Mallard Fillmore strips have begun appearing this week. But they are not being signed by creator Bruce Tinsley.Last year Reed Brennan notified subscribers to the comic that, “Due […]
When is too late? What is proper?Syndicated comic strips are created weeks in advance, and Sunday editions are set in stone a couple weeks before delivery to our front porches. So times and circumstances often conspire against the medium.Today Tank McNamara had a (really funny) baseball gag.Unfortunately baseball season for 2020 has been delayed for […]
Chen Weng knows from coronavirus hot spots. The artist was born in Wuhan and now lives in Seattle, so it was only natural that her online comics would begin to steer toward commentary about covid-19. “People in the rest of the world might not have known much at the time, but it was all people […]
Comic strip artist and animator Román Arámbula has passed away. Román V. Arámbula September 18, 1936 (?1935?) – March 19, 2020 animation, comic stripsThe Lambiek Comiclopedia profile.A brief filmography and comics work outline from I.N.D.U.C.K.S.: Education/training Mexico City University Animated films Television commercials 1960s (no specifics known). – Hanna-Barbera: Layout artist 1970-1975 (Josie and the Pussycats, […]
The National Cartoonists Society has revealed the 2019 NCS Divisional Award nominees for the 74th Annual NCS Reuben Awards.All nominees for all categories at the National Cartoonists Society site.Good Luck to all!
The “Women Cartoonists International Award“ announced Doaa Eladl from Egypt as the winner of the first grand prize… while Camila de la Fuente from Venezuela/Mexico won the youth prize. Guy Badeaux has the winner details, along with submissions from the Honorable Mentions.
Finalists for the have been announced.This is the 71st year for the awards program, and the 31st under the current administrative structure. The awards were established by the Toronto Press Club in 1949 to encourage excellence and reward achievement in daily newspaper work in Canada. There are 63 finalists from 19 organizations in 21 categories. […]