Here’s the story in a nutshell. In May, 1952, after the Russian invasion of Yugoslavia, the principal United Nations countries and the United States declare war. The United States uses atomic bombs against Russian industrial complexes. Soviet forces invade West Germany, the Middle East and Alaska. US forces, in disarray, have retreated on all fronts. […]
Earlier we managed to get through the first three years of special guest appearances by comic characters in Mike Curtis and Joe Staton‘s run on Dick Tracy. Let’s try get through the next three years (2014-2016) in this installment.The guest spots come early as the first Sunday of 2014 presents Vitamin’s co-star. Mary Perkins shows […]
Gene Kannenberg, Jr., famed librarian, comics historian, and cartoonist, has created a book that Peanuts Inc must publish. It is a 3-D pop-up of the first Peanuts comic strip of October 2, 1950. Check it out on Gene’s Twitter feed or as a widescreen Facebook video.
For the entire month of December, USA TODAY cartoonist Mike Thompson, along with cartoonists from the USA TODAY Network and the Cagle cartoon syndicate, will provide retrospectives of their favorite work from the past decade.According to USA TODAY: The cartoonists were asked to gather their 20 favorite cartoons from the past decade into individual collections, and we’ll be […]
The New York Post reports:The 121-year old Dayton Daily News and two other Ohio newspapers will shrink to three days a week from daily publication to appease regulators who on Monday approved a $3.1 billion acquisition of Cox TV stations and newspapers by private equity firm Apollo Global Management. The other two papers facing the […]
In the nearly nine years that Mike Curtis and Joe Staton have been doing Dick Tracy special appearances and cameos began showing up fairly quickly. These eventually turned into regular guest starring roles for (mostly) retired comic strip characters. Currently Steve Roper and Mike Nomad are taking a turn as guests in the Dick Tracy […]
above: “Purgatory”Daryl Cagle welcomes Peter Kuper to the Cagle Cartoons family:I’m happy to call attention to our new CagleCartoonist, Peter Kuper, who has joined our newspaper syndication package at CagleCartoons.com, along with our PoliticalCartoons.com store and Cagle.com. See our archive of Peter’s latest cartoons on Cagle.com. Peter has an impressive cartooning resume! He is a […]
Burne Hogarth took over the Tarzan Sunday page from Harold Foster and, like Foster, became very famous drawing that feature. After eight and a half years Hogarth walked away from the strip.From a 1982 Comics Scene interview:CS: Why did you leave Tarzan after 10 years? BH: Very simply, you’re talking about United (syndicate) and Tarzan. […]
© Scott AdamsThis calendar year ends and another begins in less than a month, and calendars are selling!The Dilbert Day-to-Day Desk Calendar (above) is the best-selling comic-related calendar on the Amazon site at this writing. It is #1 in the Humor & Comic Calendars department, #2 in the all-encompassing Calendars, Planners & Organizers department, and […]
In Samoa almost 4000 people have come down with measles; 55, mostly young children, have died. The Samoan measles outbreak was turned into a gag by New Zealand cartoonist Garrick Tremain.It sparked immediate outrage and was labelled racist, heartless, and insensitive. The outcry led to the Otago Daily Times, who published the cartoon to issue an […]
Sputnik News, owned and funded by the Russian Government, is registering displeasure over a recent Mike Luckovich cartoon.Sputnik, using a lot of boldface, says:An award-winning American political cartoonist has made a habit of deploying bigoted tropes as a political weapon against Russians. His latest doodle features a nefarious “Russians” figure arbitrarily thrown into a motley […]
Josh Neufeld and Journalist’s Resource have partnered to present a Graphic Guide to the 2020 US Census.The seven-page handbook can be read at the Journalist’s Resource site.This piece is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For educators, editors and anyone else who would like to republish it in print, we are providing […]
above: a wonderful seasonal drawing by the wonderful Arnold RothThe NYC Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society will be hosting the 2019 Holiday Bash.When: Wed, Dec 11, 7-10pmWhere: Society of IllustratorsE 63rd between Park & Lex, NYCDetails at the NCS site.Early registration pricing ends on December 4, so book now to save a few bucks. […]
It has recently been pointed out to me that I have inadvertently insulted Frog Applause cartoonist Teresa Burritt with a throwaway line while discussing the possible upcoming syndication of Dark Side of the Horse.I’ll let Teresa tell it (in the comments section here): A couple things:I never said the strip was bad. The list of […]
The 125th anniversary of James Thurber’s birth arrives on Sunday, December 8, and this year fans of the legendary humorist have extra reason to celebrate. Launched earlier this fall, A Mile and a Half of Lines: The Art of James Thurber is a two-pronged presentation of Thurber’s drawings, both in an exhibition at the Columbus […]