Comic Con International, more famously known as the San Diego Comic Con, mostly spotlights comic books and movies; but there are a few comic strip cartoonists spread among the attendees.The National Cartoonists Society has a booth with cartoonists showing up throughout the weekend. Also there are some panels featuring comic strips and NCS people. Thursday July […]
In all email to all the paper’s journalists, Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell has attacked his editors’ refusal to run his latest cartoon, suggesting it is due to “some mysterious editorial line” about antisemitism. In the latest submission by Mr Bell, whose cartoons have appeared in the paper since 1981, Labour deputy leader Tom Watson is depicted […]
Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for July 2019 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon (though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.) For Better or For Worse: The Complete Library, Vol. 3 Complete Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy Volume 26 American Comic Book Chronicles: 1940-44 Garfield Fat […]
The current issue of the French magazine Blandice has a Dean Yeagle cover,unfortunately, due to a series of mistakes, Dean was neither credited nor paid for the art. Tom Heintjes noticed it while traveling abroad and informed Dean.Dean, taking it in stride, wrote on Facebook: Then Bleeding Cool picked it up:Blandice there, a comic book that declares […]
Some Sunday comics of note today, only one noting Bastille Day. I like the nice Summer day look of Judge Parker but that dark last panel … Evil looms! Whereas Macanudo’s Summer day in the woods just makes me smile. More than smile, Buckles and Bound and Gagged made me laugh.Yeah. one’s been done before and the other […]
Charles Schulz is Peanuts and Peanuts is Charles Schulz.But Schulz did a few more series than Peanuts. There was the Peanuts precursor Li’l Folks in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Young Pillars mostly for the Church of God magazine Youth, the very early Just Keep Laughing.. for Topix Comics, a series of Saturday Evening Post […]
Today’s Garfield gives a disguised nod to a milestone.Debuting 41 years and 25 days ago, the July 13, 2019 strip is Garfield’s 15,000th.If you have a spare hour or two read all 15,000 at the Garfield homepage or at GoComics.
Longtime MAD contributor Sergio Aragonés just can’t imagine a world without MAD. Aragonés sees MAD as a way of presenting people’s foibles and the world’s problems with humor. “Instead of crying, you laugh at it,” he said, suggesting the magazine’s influence has reached a swath of humanity that includes politicians lampooned in its pages. “They say, […]
Clay Jones’ cartoon yesterday was about the Social Media Summit and political cartoonists.Clay expanded on his thoughts, about the Executive Branch’s desire for what amounts to a state run media, in his column following the cartoon:Donald Trump is hosting a “social media summit” today at the White House. This morning, he tweeted, “A big subject […]
Hector Cantu writes the comic strip Baldo, the only nationally syndicated comic strip about a Latino family. John Yang: Even more dramatic was the 2007 April Fool’s day strip. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers wrongly accuse Tia Carmen of being in the country illegally and take her away in handcuffs. Hector Cantu: It was just […]
Editorial cartoonist Ben Garrison’s invitation to a White House Social Media Summit has been withdrawn.After news of the White House inviting Ben Garrison was made public, a backlash from all sides of the political spectrum erupted over the Administration asking an accused Anti-Semitic cartoonist to meet with the President.When news of the invite broke a […]
GoComics has high hopes for its newest feature.Currently online-only, Ask A Portly Syndicate Person will, no doubt, soon be syndicated to thousands of newspapers and church bulletins around the world, and quickly shame the circulation numbers of Garfield, Blondie, and Peanuts. This will feature is expected to reach the pinochle of success. Below: the second (July […]
A sure sign of the Apocalypse.The Orlando Sentinel published black-and-white comics Wednesday morning.I wish I had a simple explanation for why our comics appeared in black and white today. The simple answer is it was a mistake. The complicated one that that the page was set “as full color enhanced black, meaning all the text […]
More letters to editors ’bout comics and cartoons. God is just. KAL is not.KAL has sunk to a new low with his Sunday cartoon. Not only does he continually disrespect President Donald Trump, but now he disrespects Almighty God himself.Diane of Freeland accuses KAL of blasphemy. 100% off basePrejudging the president’s Fourth speech leads to a cartoon […]
The Toronto Star and a Halifax artist are being criticized over the publication of an editorial cartoon depicting Tourism, Culture and Sport Minister Lisa MacLeod.The drawing comes after MacLeod was in the news due to vulgar language she reportedly directed towards Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk at a Rolling Stones concert near Barrie over the […]