Jules Feiffer has signed on to do a regular monthly comic strip for Tablet Magazine.Well, maybe not just a comic strip, maybe essays or a play or…It is my pleasure to announce, on behalf of the editors, a new feature at Tablet magazine, which will consist, beginning today, of regular contributions by Jules Feiffer. The editors […]
Raina Telgemeier‘s graphic novels are very popular. And they have the full confidence of her publisher Scholastic/Graphix. Raina’s forthcoming graphic novel Guts, which will continue her memoirs of grade school, will get a first edition print run of 1 million copies.Before the September 2019 publication of Guts, Scholastic and Raina will release a half million […]
Millions missing. Elder-abuse allegations. The last days of Marvel wizard Stan Lee have been mired in controversy. Here, Lee—alongside his daughter—speaks out for the first time.A new interview with 95-year-old Stan Lee, not about his career but about his recent troubles and the headline making charges on those surrounding him.Today, Lee’s hearing is almost shot, […]
Return with us to those thrilling days of yesteryear…specifically the 1950s.The Western was King in the 1950s – books, movies, magazines, TV, store shelves, and comics.The Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, Red Ryder, The Cisco Kid, and Gene Autry were all on TV and all had comic strips. And there were dozens more western […]
For 24 years, Bruce Quast scoured the latest goings-ons in and around Rockford for opportunities to make people laugh — or think. The political cartoons he produced for the Register Star picked apart the news under four Rockford mayors and five Illinois governors. Bruce Quast‘s editorial cartoon has appeared weekly on the opinion page of […]
Wilmington sport cartoonist Charley Burns has passed away.Charles Kennedy (Charley) Burns January 10, 1923 – September 29, 2018 From the obituary:[Charley] graduated in 1949 from the John Hussian School of Art in Philadelphia, which launched his art career with the E.I DuPont & de Nemours Company for over 30 years. After retirement, he started his […]
Since Mike reminded some of us how old we are, let’s prepare ourselves with the recently released first print issue of The Nib, which deemed it apropos to debut with a Death Issue.The Nib has previewed a bit of the premiere issue’s contents at its site.For the younger generations, who plan to stick around on […]
Walt Kelly’s Pogo first appeared in a comic strip 70 years ago today. hat tip Tom Heintjes for abovePogo, of course, first showed up in a comic book seven years earlier. On the other hand Ripley’s Believe It or Not first (digest) comic book was 70 years ago this year.It was a hundred years ago this […]
Rocko Jerome was there (see comment below)!Rocko, who is a freelance writer not an artist, so don’t let that above image scare you, gives a detailed (written) report of his attendance at the Olivia Jaimes panel at the CXC festival.The moderator of the discussion was a woman named [Shena], the editor of Nancy on behalf […]
Chris Britt‘s former newspaper, the Springfield (Illinois) State Journal-Register, reports that the editorial cartoonist…has received multiple death threats in connection with his recent cartoon depicting the praying 10-year-old daughter of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.In an interview Chris told the State Journal-Register:“The reaction is unbelievable,” Chris Britt told the SJ-R in a phone interview […]
Fox News reports:A left-wing editorial cartoonist faced backlash over the weekend for drawing a cartoon that critics say mocked Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh‘s 10-year-old daughter, Liza.A right-wing “anonymous Twitter user” was upset over a recent Chris Britt cartoon reworking a portion of Brett Kavanaugh’s opening statement before the September 27 Senate Judicial hearing, and […]
After 75 years America’s maid is no longer being regularly published. September 29, 2018 was the date of the last Hazel panel distributed by King Features Syndicate. above: the last syndicated Hazel panel (odd choice in this age-of-assault climate) Hazel was a cartoon panel created by Ted Key that first appeared February 13, 1943 in the […]
Daddy Daze Gets Spot in Local Paper John Kovaleski and his new Daddy Daze comic strip will get a spot in The Gettysburg Times.Kovaleski has served on the board of the National Cartoonists Society and has ghost-written for well-known strips. His work has appeared in Mad magazine and many other publications. He has illustrated sequences […]
I was hoping to post a bunch of cartoonists recapping their attendance at the 2018 AAEC Convention in Sacramento, but there seems to be a dearth of such retrospectives. I guess they had to rush to this week’s CXC festival where Mike Peterson is detailing the AAEC’s participation even as we type.However there are a […]
Annie’s Li’l Orphans by Stan Drake and Bill YatesAround the early 1970s(?) bigfoot partnered with realistic to produce a strange hybrid comic strip.Annie, drawn by Stan Drake, was a counselor at Wanderland Orphanage, whose kids were drawn by Bill Yates. According to Bill Yates’ introduction to the strip Stan Drake drew Annie using a model and […]