From The Pulitzers in mid-April to The Reuben come late May, it’s Awards season. Let’s start with the 18th World Press Freedom International Editorial Cartoon Competition. This year’s theme was “The high price of a free press” and Bado shows us the winners and some very profound cartoons at http://bado-badosblog.blogspot.com/2018/05/18th-world-press-freedom-international.html Last month The Society of […]
I am worried about King Features Syndicate. I am not sure that their Acquisitions Department is ACTIVELY engaged. The recent news of Deflocked leaving KFS for A/M pressed my apprehensive button. In the past three years, King Features has lost eight comic features: Grin and Bear It (2015), Apartment 3-G (2015), Edge City (2016), Bleeker, the Rechargeable […]
From cartoonist Mike Lynch: The new issue of Reader’s Digest is on the stands. And there are three cartoons in it. Not bad. One was originally published by The New Yorker magazine some years back. The cartoon was then bought by RD this year from the New Yorker’s Cartoonbank. There is a cartoon from Cartoonstock, […]
A couple weeks ago I noticed that Jeff Corriveau’s Deflocked suddenly had a page on the Andrews McMeel site. http://syndication.andrewsmcmeel.com/comics/strip/deflocked But Deflocked is a King Features strip. What’s up? Reaching out to creator Corriveau he was kind enough to reply, and confirms he is indeed switching syndicates. Deflocked by Jeff Corriveau debuted May 5, 2008 at KFS. As Jeff […]
What can be done as far as comics history books? Who’s going to improve on Brian Walker’s The Comics? Who’s going to out-reference Holtz’s American Newspaper Comics? The answer is to get specialized. Take a subdivision of the genre and go in-depth. That’s what Ron Goulart did with his The Adventurous Decade years ago, and that’s what Eddie Campbell […]
Cartoonist William Hamilton’s widow recalls a peculiar work habit of the cartoonist. https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-sound-of-wit/ Later this month the National Cartoonists Society will award The Reuben to The Cartoonist of the Year. What better time to remember Rube Goldberg. Yesterday The Smithsonian did just that. During his 72-year career, cartoonist Rube Goldberg produced more than 50,000 drawings and thousands of comic strips. […]
Comic Strip Cartoonist #7 Snuffy Smith cartoonist John Rose interviewed Rina Piccolo says goodbye to Tina’s Groove Justin Thompson and his MythTickle comic strip Visiting the Charles M. Schulz Museum Corbett Features’ self-syndicated cartoonist Barry Corbett and more. Now available in print or in PDF: http://www.comicartspress.net/ Hogan’s Alley #22 Cartoonists of the old Open Road […]
Once upon a time, in the 20th century, cartoonists submitted gag cartoons to the top magazines – The New Yorker, Esquire, Playboy. Gags rejected by those editors were recycled to the next tier – SatEvePost, Collier’s, True. And so on down the line to trade journals and then to those joke and cartoon magazines. By […]
The University of Virginia is the new home of the papers of Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Patrick Bruce Oliphant. The archive…includes more than 6,000 of Oliphant’s daily political cartoon drawings, including the plate used by the Denver Post to print the cartoon that earned him the Pulitzer Prize. University Librarian and Dean of Libraries John […]
The National Cartoonists Society is wanting to expand its Reuben Awards weekend into a full blown public festival for the host city. As they explain: For the past few months, we’ve been exploring the feasibility of staging a free Comic Arts Festival, based on the kind of event that is so popular in Europe in […]
There is no way we can catch up on all the news that happened during this site’s two year hiatus. Just this year alone there was: Wayno taking over the daily Bizarro panel, the end of Bud Grace’s Ernie/Piranha Club strip, the death of superstar Mort Walker, the end of Chris Monroe’s Violet Days, Will […]
Among the many regular occurrences in the Sally Forth comic strip is the morning breakfast cereal Powdered Toast Crunch. This was a sort of salute to the 1990s Ren and Stimpy cartoon show where the cereal originated. Unfortunately a month ago allegations were published that the creator of Ren and Stimpy had engaged in sexual […]
For six years, from 2007 – 2013, cartoonist Mike Holmes contributed “True Story” to the Halifax alternative newspaper The Coast. It adapted reader stories into a weekly comic strip. Now he has revived and reworked the concept into a regular feature for the new (improved?) Mad magazine as “Real, Dumb.” About the new feature: “That […]
2018 Eisner Awards Nominees for this year’s Eisner Awards have been announced. Results of the voting will be revealed the evening of Friday, July 20 at Comic-Con in San Diego. Among the categories is Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips The nominees are: Celebrating Snoopy, by Charles M. Shulz, edited by Alex E. Fajardo and Dorothy O’Brien(Andrews McMeel) […]