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 Nancy, Alley Oop, Deflocked, Sarah Scribbles, Garfield, and more make the list of Stephen Roth‘s 10 Biggest Comic Strip Stories in 2018.    

 Cathy Guisewite remembers childhood, Christmas, and Midland Michigan.The Midland Daily News interviews Cathy about her childhood Christmases, with a nice slideshow.In a 180, Cathy has a new book coming out in Spring 2019 about her current view of life.   Howard Maier recalls his young adulthood.The library recently opened a biographical file on Maier, including nearly 400 […]

 Adam Zyglis Is ConfusedFrom The Buffalo News:The editorial cartoon on Tuesday was misleading. The Democrats, liberals and leftists are the ones endorsed by the communists and socialists, not the National Rifle Association. The NRA is fighting to keep the Constitution so that our defense against tyranny is maintained.  …but you published this unconscionable “cartoon” anywayAs an […]

 At the time of his death in the early 20th Century Thomas Nast became known as “The Father of the American Cartoon.” Well-known as creator of the Republican and Demoocratic party symbols, the elephant and the donkey. He was credited in helping to bring down the corrupt Boss Tweed.Further, at this time of the year, […]

 For 50 years, he has been at the heart of Britain’s morning conversation, as much a part of breakfast time as cornflakes and toast and marmalade. We are talking, of course, of Mac, the Daily Mail’s celebrated cartoonist whose laugh-out-loud drawings – sardonic but never cruel – have ensured readers up and down the country […]

 “Other teachers would call my mother into school. They’d say, ‘He sits and draws all day.’ My mother would say, ‘He wants to be a cartoonist.’ ‘Don’t worry,’ the teachers told her. ‘He’ll grow out of it.’” Spoiler: He didn’t.Hy Eisman has been in the comics business for nearly 70 years! As a young man […]

 Cartoonist/caricaturist Frankie Bernard has passed away.FRANCIS J. (FRANKIE) BERNARD, JR. April 30, 1967 – December 18, 2018 From the obituary:Frankie plied himself as a talented and professional cartoonist. He was a featured editorial cartoonist for the Chelsea Record and Journal Transcript Publications, he also worked several years as a caricature artist in Boston’s Faneuil Hall Market. […]

 Bobby Hart, the Matriarch of the John Hart Studios crew, has passed away.From the obituary:Bobby Hart (Ida Jane Hatcher) left this world in the wee morning hours of Saturday December 15th, to reunite with her cartoonist husband Johnny Hart, on Heaven’s dance floor. Bobby is survived by daughters Patti Hart and Perri Hart, grandsons Mason […]

 In December 1918 Leroy Robert Ripley came up with an idea that would make him famous … and rich. But he didn’t realize it then, and it wouldn’t be until the end of the following decade when his idea struck gold.Robert, having dropped the Leroy, was a sports cartoonist for the New York Globe and […]

 Boy’s Life began in 1911. The next year it was bought by, and became the official magazine of, the Boy Scouts of America. Comics had been a part of the magazine from the beginning but a particular energized period was the couple of decades when the comics section was produced by Johnstone and Cushing ad […]

 A few decades ago Dave Whamond began his career as an editorial cartoonist for The Calgary Herald while still in college. Now he once again joins The Brotherhood of Editorial Cartoonists.Daryl Cagle welcomes Dave “to Cagle.com and our syndication package.”The Dave Whamond archive at Cagle Cartoons only has a dozen or so cartoons up at […]

 Books due to be released December 2018.   Library of American Comcs Volume 12: Baron Bean, 1918    My First 100 Peanuts Words boardbook    Superman: The Silver Age Sundays, Vol. 1: 1959 – 1963    Garfield Nutty as a Fruitcake: His 66th Book    A Valentine For Linus! (Peanuts)    Laughing Matters: The Political Cartoons of Richard Laurent    American Comic […]

 Frew (Australia) The Phantom comic book wraparound cover by Sunday Phantom artist Jeff Weigel.  Many of today’s young people seem to know little about history and geography, among other things, and it doesn’t help when even the comics page is feeding misinformation. The Dec. 11 “One Big Happy” has a father asking his son, “What’s Istanbul […]

 Marshall Ramsey, who has garnered considerable attention this year with his double cartoon tributes of Barbara and George H. W. Bush, has left the Jackson Clarion Ledger (a Gannett newspaper). Sez Marshall: “I’m leaving by my choice.”Earlier today Marshall informed via Twitter:Bit of person news: On December 16, 1996 I sat down at this drawing […]

 [Association of American Editorial Cartoonists President Pat Bagley will be handing over the mantle to Kevin Siers next week. In the meantime, here is his departing letter]  Dear Colleagues, First, the good news. The long-awaited redesign of our new website is nearing launch and should be up sometime in January. (Buy Adam Zyglis a beer […]