We covered this new comic feature by Steve Breen earlier; but today it is official (with instructions and today’s date):CAPTION IT! by Steve Breen January 12, 2020 – weekly Creators SyndicateIt can be seen on the Creators site, GoComics, which carries the Creators strips, has not yet added it to their comics page.
Jim Scancarelli used his Sunday space to honor the history of his Gasoline Alley strip, and do homage to the strip’s creator Frank King.Jim did his research for those throwback panels. Gasoline Alley January 15, 1921 Gasoline Alley February 2, 1921 Gasoline Alley April 16, 1921 Gasoline Alley January 14, 1921 Great job Jim!Gasoline Alley can […]
Newspaper reporter Ken Fuson has passed away.Ken Fuson, born June 23, 1956, died Jan. 3, 2020 at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, of liver cirrhosis, and is stunned to learn that the world is somehow able to go on without him.Journalist Ken Fuson wrote his own (wonderful) obituary.In lieu of flowers, Ken asked that everyone […]
In sequential panels cartoonist Jerry Craft, for the New York Times Book Review, tells how comic books were a portal to “heavier” literature.[Aside: Science backs up Jerry.]The Review notes that, “Jerry Craft is the author and illustrator of the graphic novel “New Kid,” winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature.”Which makes me […]
On Canada’s Family Feud, a contestant botched the final question—costing her family $10,000—because the fast food chain was clearly the first thing to come to mind when she heard the word “Popeye’s.”The goof went viral and reached the fast food chicken’s upper management.Fernando Machado, global CMO of Popeyes and sister brand Burger King, said the […]
Etsy is selling all kinds of decorative Calvin and Hobbes art for home and office.Book Riot shows the objets d’art with links to the Etsy pages.This seems like a lot of material from a man notorious for keeping the licensing of his creation down to books, a couple of calendars, and a few prints.No copyright […]
The Cincinnati Enquirer has hired Kevin Necessary as political cartoonist and illustrator.From The Enquirer:Kevin Necessary is an illustrator and editorial cartoonist. His editorial cartoons will appear Sundays in The Enquirer and online each Friday.Kevin explains his job to fellow Cincinnatians in words and pictures: Who is Kevin?I am a comics journalist and editorial cartoonist for WCPO/9 […]
The Cartoon Art Museum is proud to announce its second biennial Tribute Auction, A Boy and His Tiger: A Tribute to Bill Watterson, featuring original art in homage to Bill Watterson and his seminal comic strip creation Calvin and Hobbes.And the auction is a go!The Cartoon Art Museum’s salute to Watterson’s enduring talent, A Boy […]
“All this happened, more or less.”Publishers Weekly is reporting:Indie graphic novel house Boom! Studios announced plans to publish a graphic version of Kurt Vonnegut’s classic sci-fi/antiwar novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, to be adapted into a graphic novel by the writer Ryan North, artist Albert Monteys, and colorist Ricard Zaplana. The book will be released in September 2020. […]
The current issue of Charlie Hebdo is a special about The New Censors. (Google translation) AlterNet looks at French humor on the fifth anniversary of the horrible terror attack:Before 2015, about 40,000 people read Charlie Hebdo each week. Given that many hundreds of thousands declared “je suis Charlie”, most were clearly not regular readers. “Je suis […]
Mistakes Were Made, the first Timmy Failure book by Stephan Pastis, has been adapted to the moving picture medium and will hit theaters early next month.https://youtu.be/4loOtFz–J0Today Disney released the official trailer (above).Here The Oregonian previews the movie, shot on location in Portland, Oregon.
Newspaper comics readers might notice something different in their papers when browsing the funnies. The space where Jill Kaplan, a Jewish mother and wife living in Ohio with her family, experienced everyday life but with a humorous, modern twist in “The Pajama Diaries” for about 14 years will be replaced with panels of another adventure. […]
THE spoof magazine, MAD itself, got spoofed by Madison Magazine.From Madison Magazine:We’ve gone MAD! Don’t think we haven’t heard the whispering behind our backs from people who don’t take our monthly publication as seriously as we do: “Madison Magazine? More like MAD magazine!” Well, to those folks we say: Your wish has been granted! In […]
On occasion an old comic strip, which can be linked to current world events, will go viral. Also on occasion the comic is fake. Real or Unreal? Such is the the question regarding a recent, low-res Calvin and Hobbes strip that has flooded the internet.Snopes has confirmed that it is an actual Calvin and Hobbes […]
Former editorial cartoonist Jerry Holbert and his wife Cheryl are struggling with a rare and incurable form of dementia.After a long road of prayer, testing, misdiagnosing, and questions, Jerry was finally diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2019 – a rare form of dementia where portions of the brain shrink (atrophy) leading to devastating personality and […]