Warner Bros. Animation is producing new Looney Tunes for the public. Returning to the original 1930s and 1940s cartoons for inspiration, new shorts go heavy on sight gags and don’t spare the violence. So snowflakes, who demanded the elimination in the ’70s and ’80s of what made the Tex Avery/Bob Clampett/Frank Tashlin/Chuck Jones cartoons […]
John Rose discusses 100 years of Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. I had been Fred Lasswell’s inking assistant for three and a half years. When Fred passed away in 2001, I was offered an audition by Jay Kennedy, the late, great longtime editor at King Features. He auditioned four or five other people […]
Fresh off winning a divisional Reuben Award for Newspaper Comic Strip, Will Henry sits down with Dave London and Pete Chianca. It always sounds like Dave London and Pete Chianca are having fun on “Strip Search: The Comic Strip Podcast,” but it’s rare that they seem to have this much fun recording a […]
Alex Jones and Infowars have agreed to pay Pepe the Frog creator Matt Furie $15,000 to settle a lawsuit concerning misuse of the cartoon character. Infowars included Pepe the Frog in a poster by Jon Allen featuring right-wing public figures in a campaign to earn money for the conspiracy-theory website. Both sides claimed victory […]
As expected political cartoonists are registering their disgust with the New York Times’ response to a New York Times International editor picking a cartoon that produced some blowback. Above Clay Jones draws his reaction, but also uses his column to explain the good editorial cartoons do for newspapers and society. Below Joep […]
From Patrick Chappatte: THE NEW YORK TIMES WILL END ALL POLITICAL CARTOONS I just learned, weeks after they published a syndicated Netanyahu cartoon that caused a scandal. For me, this is the end of an adventure that began 20 years ago. But the stakes are much higher. In 20-plus years of delivering […]
Cartoonist and musician Skip Morrow has passed away. Dennis B. (Skip) Morrow circa 1951 – May 28, 2019 cartoonist, illustrator, musician From the obituary: All the while, he loved to sketch. His art mostly consisted of cartoons, although he was talented in several mediums. In 1974, while still playing music on the […]
Next to the door of my father’s studio stood a non-functioning lacquered mahogany grandfather clock, which faced down a hall that ran the length of our 10th-floor apartment. If the studio door was closed I would sometimes open the clock’s cabinet and set its brass pendulum swinging to produce a resonant tick-tock that softened […]
Donald Duck was introduced to the public when Walt Disney and company adapted The Little Red Hen fable as the Silly Symphony short The Wise Little Hen premiered on June 9, 1934. https://zippy.gfycat.com/EducatedImaginativeGrunion.webm above: via gfycat At the same time Donald Duck debuted in print as part of a Walt Disney partnership […]
It seems newspapers are slowly returning Non Sequitur to their comic pages. After the fubar earlier this year and the accompanying cancellations, editors are listening to their readers who continue to want the comic back in their papers. The latest is The Spokesman-Review. You wouldn’t believe how many notes I still get each […]
In Lufkin, Texas the switching of comics, beginning today, rates a front page story – admittedly below the fold at the bottom of the page, but still, front page news! Good News Starting today, readers of The Lufkin Daily News can look forward to seeing a few new cartoons on the comics page. ‘‘Nancy’’ and […]
Erie native Dave Blazek has written and drawn his daily cartoon panel “Loose Parts” for nearly two decades, and the panel has been collected into five books and counting. But he never considered himself a cartoonist until May. That’s when Blazek and “Loose Parts” received the highest honor a newspaper panel cartoon and its […]
Mike Hill is the Florida State Representative for the Pensacola area. Andy Marlette is the editorial cartoonist and columnist for the Pensacola News Journal. So, as one would suspect, they butt heads on occasion. Their latest started with Rep. Hill, a Godly man, speaking of banning abortion because life is sacred. News Journal […]
In a seismic shift for the book trade, Elliott Advisors (UK) Limited have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Barnes & Noble in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $683m (£537m), including the assumption of debt. James Daunt, chief executive of Waterstones, will assume also the role of c.e.o. of Barnes & Noble […]
Cartoonist Joe Lanier has passed away. Joseph Phillip (Joe) Lanier November 19, 1937 – May 26, 2019 From the obituary: After finishing time in law enforcement, Lanier’s security industry career began in 1968 as an installing dealer and then progressed in 1973 with the formation of Texas-based Defensive Security Southwest, a wholesale distributor […]