Kids’ author Mo Willems is here to make Mondays a little better for a while: Starting today, he’ll release a new “Lunch Doodle” video each Monday at 1 PM.The Kennedy Center and Mo Willems informs:When I became the Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence, I didn’t realize the most impactful word in that title would be ‘Residence.’ With […]
Cartoonist Basil Wolverton made a name for himself as a comic book artist, with weird humor and art. Like most cartoonists of the time he tried to create a syndicated newspaper comic strip. But he never made it – well, he did make it for one panel.One of Basil’s attempts at syndication was a Buck […]
The 2020 Reuben Awards Weekend and Dinner is being held in Kansas City, Missouri.The choice of Kansas City has to do with it being the home of Andrews McMeel, and has been since the company started 50 years ago. So it is A Golden Anniversary for the syndicate.Origins from ReferenceForBusiness.com:The company that became Andrews McMeel […]
Six weeks ago Little Oop, the Sunday Alley Oop, began a time travel story. Three weeks later (a week earlier than in our timestream) the strip jumped ahead, and the snarkers had a fit.Me? I’m not married to continuity, so have been enjoying Little Oop in general and this bit in particular. (And the snarkers […]
In 2019, more Americans went to the library than to the movies.A Coronavirus Library Update from Publishers Marketplace:Overdrive tells libraries it is “assembling a series of digital content options to respond to the challenges your communities are facing.” For academic libraries and customers, Proquest issued a list of over 50 publishers that have joined in […]
Tea Fougner is the Editorial Director for Comics at King Features Syndicate and joins [Graphic Policy] to talk about comics strips past and present. As Tea says, “Comics is a format, not a genre.”Tea has been with King Features for over 11 years and was promoted to Editorial Director of Comics about a year and […]
REMINDER: Only two days left for NCS members to vote for the Reuben Divisional awards. As conventions are being cancelled or delayed the National Cartoonists Society updates the current status of The 2020 Reuben Awards:We have received a number of enquiries about the feasibility of this year’s Reuben Awards weekend in light of the spread […]
Al Jaffee, the cartoonist responsible for you not being able to find a mint condition copy of MAD Magazine, celebrates his 99th birthday on March 13, 2020. Happy Birthday Al! Thanks for the laughs.The Official Al Jaffee Website.Al Jaffee’s Twitter Feed. Al Jaffee’s comic book credits from 1942 up. A selection of Al Jaffee Tall […]
REMINDER: Four weeks to deadline for the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists’ The Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning submissions. As conventions are being cancelled or delayed the AAEC discloses their current plans:At this point we are 10 weeks out from the gathering in Ottawa, and one month from the hotel and registration deadline. That’s still […]
The March 10, 2020 edition of Jeopardy had Comics as a Double Jeopardy category.They seemed to be really easy “answers,” but we’re fans. (not the art used)The contestants pretty much avoided the category, and the last “answer” was left on the board.According to The Jeopardy Fan website apparently that last one was:THE COMICS: This comic […]
An informal poll of cartoonists taken in the early 1930s named Frederick Burr Opper the funniest man who ever worked for the American press.That is how The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum began their biography of F. Opper. It was backed up with over 50 years of hilarious cartoons, from the late 19th Century […]
The Wall Street Journal bought a cartoon from Pat Byrnes but changed the caption on publication.From Pat Byrnes Facebook posting: Last Friday, the Wall Street Journal ran the cartoon below on the right. On the left is the original caption. They bought it in November, 2017. I wrote it months before that. And I acknowledge […]
The student newspaper of University of Maryland, The Diamondback, has published its last print edition after 110 years. It will continue as online-only.From The Diamondback:After 110 years in circulation, The Diamondback will cease its weekly print publication in March, the newspaper’s parent company announced Monday… According to Tom Madigan — board president of Maryland Media […]
Comic book artist Allen Bellman has passed away.Isadore Allen Bellman June 5, 1924 – March 9, 2020comic book artist, graphic designerAllen Bellman was one of the few remaining comic artists of the “Golden Age” of comic books. He contributed from the World War II years through the Korean War years, mostly with the Timely/Atlas (now […]
Norma Martin, widow of famed cartoonist Don Martin, is asking for help. Norma is fighting to retain the trademark on “Don Martin.” Norma Martin has opened a gofundme account to raise money for legal fees in a fight to keep “Don Martin” a part of their family.He made other people rich. But he was only […]