This is an installment of 2018 Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed. (part 1: Debuts – – part 2: Departures – – part 3: Dearly Departed – – part 4: Detours) 2018 Departures These comics ceased production for U. S. newspapers in 2018 PIRANHA CLUB by Bud Grace February 1, 1988 – February 3, […]
This is an installment of 2018 Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed. (part 1: Debuts – – part 2: Departures – – part 3: Dearly Departed – – part 4: Detours) 2018 Debuts These comics began appearing in U. S. newspapers in 2018 WALLACE THE BRAVE by Will Henry (William Henry Wilson) March 26, […]
The Syracuse Post-Standard picks various cartoons and cartoonists to look back at 2018.Cartoons were drawn by Bill Bramhall, Chan Lowe, Dan Wasserman, Dana Summers, Scott Stantis, Walt Handelsman, David Horsey, Phil Hands and Joel Pett of Tribune Content Agency; and Tim Campbell, Mike Lester, Signe Wilkinson, Lisa Benson, Nick Anderson, Clay Bennett, Jack Ohman and […]
Consolidated Publishing (the Anniston Star and the Talladega Daily Home) will begin printing its Sunday Comics Section locally. Their long time supplier of preprinted Sunday color comics has decided to shut down. Beginning next Sunday, Jan. 6, Consolidated Publishing Company will introduce a new Sunday Comics section. It will be called Hot Blast Comics and […]
Part Two of the Best of the 2018 Editorial Cartoons. Part One is here. Kevin Siers of The Charlotte Observer An introduction by Taylor Batten, Kevin’s editor. John Cole’s North Carolina Policy Watch cartoonsJohn Cole’s political cartoons on North Carolina topics appear weekly for NC Policy Watch. He is currently the staff cartoonist for the editorial pages […]
Taking the Cartoon Literally A reader is upset that an editorial cartoon took liberties with the pre-Nativity narrative.…the cartoonist completely twisted the biblical event of Joseph and Mary looking for a room in Bethlehem where Jesus would be born… He made them out to be unwelcome immigrants who should have been stopped by a wall. […]
The Chisholm Kid shows a different color of the American West The title character of this newspaper cartoon, which ran from 1950 to 1954, is decked out in blue trousers held up by a double-holstered gun belt, a red shirt with a white stylized longhorn skull across the broad chest, a blue kerchief tied at […]
Got a little distracted the past week, so here’s some catching up. Stone Soup Creator Jan Eliot Donates Collection to Ohio State’s Billy Ireland Library & MuseumMentioned the beginning of this back in August, here’s the Billy Ireland news release:The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at the Ohio State University acquired cartoonist Jan Eliot’s collection […]
Editorial Cartoonists get love from newspapers at the end of the year with the annual wrap up of events that made the cartoons during the past 12 months. Here’s a look back at 2018 events as seen by political cartoonists. As usual, the [Cincinnati] Business Courier asked editorial cartoonist Joe Hoffecker to comb through his funnies from the […]
The Dick Tracy comic strip will end the year (and start the next) with a new Minit Mysteries arc.Along with the story twists this one also has a creator twist – instead of a guest artist like the previous Minit Mystery, this one has a guest writer.Cartoonist Donnie Pitchford, of Lum and Abner fame, informs […]
Vox’s Todd VanDerWerff says A mysterious 20-something artist named Olivia Jaimes revived the legacy of a comic that had fallen on hard times – in hilarious fashion.Nancy was running in just 79 newspapers (down from a height of 700 in the 1970s) when Guy Gilchrist signed off in February … Andrews McMeel, the company that […]
At the moment, checking the bestsellers in Amazon‘s Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Comic Strips category, about half of the top 50 are calendars.Shown on this page are the current top 4 calendars in the comic strip category. Here are the Top 100 calendars in Amazon’s Books > Calendars > Humor & Comics category.
From 1940 to 1951, excepting the WWII years when he was in the service, Will Eisner devoted a Spirit story to Christmas. This is The 1946 Christmas Spirit. This year Jules Feiffer raised a glass to Will Eisner and The Christmas Spirit. The Christmas images come from various sources, among them:Yesterday’s Papers’ Christmas With the […]
Last month we were told that Intelligent Life would be ending its print syndication.But questions remained:Whether December 22, 2018 (a Saturday) is the end of the print Intelligent Life or not is something that is not verified. Also, will King Features continue as the digital syndicator of Intelligent Life or will David take it on […]
Jim Keefe‘s present is a presentation of a 1939 King Features set of Christmas cards by Soglow. DeBeck, Raymond, Foster, Knerr, Davis, Herriman, Gottfredson, and others. *The above Alex Raymond Christmas illustration is from an earlier Keefe post. GoComics digs into their archives to find some strips about The Christmas Story. Jim Korkis devotes an entire Animation […]