I hate to discuss this in relation to a man but … Alison Bechdel has joined Rube Goldberg as a cartoonist whose name is now a word in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.“Bechdel Test” is one of over 500 new words added to the M-W dictionary in September 2019.Hat tip to Seven Days for the notice.Thanks to Tribeca […]
Cartoonist Lynda Barry is among those awarded a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship.Commonly called a Genius Grant, “The MacArthur Fellowship is a $625,000, no-strings-attached award to extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an investment in their potential.” The Wisconsin State Journal reports that the University of Wisconsin-Madison proudly boasts it is home to two of this year’s MacArthur […]
Susan Gerbic: [Rex Morgan, M.D.] was created by Dr. Nicholas Dallis and has been in print for over seventy years. I believe you became involved as the artist in 2013 and took over the writing as well in 2016. Beatty: Yes, I had been drawing the Sunday adventures of The Phantom for King Features for […]
It’s not the skill of the drawing, or the lines, or the lettering, or the funny words that make a strip work. Timing is the life force of comics. Without a sensitivity to the rhythms and the music—a.k.a. the reality—of life, a comic strip will arrive D.O.A., nothing more than a bunch of dumb pictures. […]
If you are headed to the AAEC Convention/CXC Festival be sure to pick up this limited edition, soon-to-be-collectors’-item book available only there this weekend.As the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists tweeted:Politico’s [Matt Wuerker] & a slew of guest cartoonists have put together a book that ties into “Front Line: Editorial Cartoonists & the First Amendment,” […]
Artist, author, cartoonist Laurie Mitchell has passed away. Laurie L. Mitchell (aka Lori Jackman) ca. 1957/58 – September 14, 2019 From the obituary:On her return [from Europe] she worked as assistant manager at the Towne West B. Dalton Bookseller for 10 years before retiring to pursue her art. She sculpted in papier mache, did fabric decoration, […]
Mike has mentioned the ever-shifting English language as displayed in today’s Pearls. So I’ll just point to the June 16, 1958 Peanuts comic strip as the inspiration:That is really the middle of a ten day arc. Start on June 9, 1958 and read through. Milking it for all it’s worth; today’s Agnes is going to […]
MAD Magazine #10, the last (for now) all-new issue, will soon hit the stands.Bloody-Disgusting.com previews the MAD #10 cover, and Sergio Aragonés’ A MAD Look at Alfred Hitchcock Movies. As mentioned this is the last ALL-NEW issue of MAD.Tom Richmond expands:There are a lot of rumors going around that MAD is ceasing publication after this […]
Three years ago Scott Adams and Jake Tapper partnered on a week of Dilbert comic strip dailies. That week of strips, with Jake as cartoonist, can be read here.above: Dilbert by Jake Tapper, and Jake Tapper by Tom RichmondNow Scott and Jake are set to repeat the collaboration. Three years ago, when Jake Tapper — […]
Updating some recent posts. The Knight Life Ends.Keith Knight uses The K Chronicles to confirm the ending of The Knight Life. The Knight Life Still RunsAbove is The Knight Life running in this weekend’s Stars and Stripes newspaper. It is a repeat of the first 2019 Sunday strip. I don’t know if other papers will also do […]
James Jeffrey, for The American Conservative, appreciates the comic strip.The newspaper comic strip section is a particularly and peculiarly American institution. I can’t deny that, being British, when I open the special Sunday edition comic pull-out—six pages’ worth, and all in color!—I feel a twinge of self-consciousness. But I also won’t deny that I fight […]
The University of Tennessee Libraries has acquired the papers of critically acclaimed cartoonist and distinguished UT alum (Knoxville ’85) Paige Braddock. The Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives now holds an ample collection of black-and-white pen-and-ink drawings, cover art, watercolors, print proofs, and thousands of original pen-and-pencil panel drawings, covering Braddock’s work from […]
So what fight was the actual Battle of the Century?Jack Johnson and James J. Jeffries? Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier? Captain Easy and Bull Dawson?Maybe Stan Laurel and Noah Young: All contenders, but contenders only.The Battle of the (20th) Century was precipitated by the introduction of Bluto on September 12, 1932. above: the first appearance […]
Among the many things that the National Cartoonists Society organizes is Cartooning For Kids. The good deeds are emulated by NCS Chapters across the nation and the continent. But it doesn’t stop there, individual cartoonists have a passion for children in need of a smile.Greg Cravens is a fine example of one such cartoonist.Since 1989, […]
Following the death of long-time comic book fan and long-time comic book historian Bill Schelly, Kurt Mitchell has taken on the writing of the 1945-1949 volume of American Comic Book Chronicles. above images via My Comic ShopBill Schelly had written the 1950s volume of the series, while Kurt Mitchell has written the recently published 1940-1944 […]