One of the world’s most recognizable cartoon characters, Mickey Mouse, is celebrating his 90th birthday on November 18. The date is taken from the 1928 premiere of the animated short film “Steamboat Willie” in which Mickey Mouse made his theatrical debut.Nation Multimedia (Thailand) presents 10 fascinating facts and fun trivia about Mickey Mouse.Among them:Mickey’s first […]
Patrick McDonnell as Schulz Museum’s Second Saturday Cartoonist – or not On November 10 the Schulz Museum was all set to welcomeaward-winning cartoonist Patrick McDonnell, creator of the comic strip Mutts, to talk about his favorite mutts, from real-life dogs to Snoopy. McDonnell will sign books after his talk, including his newest collection of Mutts […]
The audio interview with new Alley Oop creators Joey Alison Sayers and Jonathan Lemon at Tall Tale Radio includes a number of reveals – one is that their new Alley Oop comic strips will begin Monday January 7, 2019. above: Jonathan Lemon’s model sheet for Alley Oop via the New York Times As Andrews McMeel has […]
Enemy of the People: A Cartoonist’s Journey by Rob Rogers coming December 2018.2018 has been an eventful time for Rob Rogers – from staff editorial cartoonist to fired staff cartoonist, and becoming a cause célèbre in the process. Rob writes about the unsettling year and his life leading up to it in a new book. […]
Speaking of Social Media Standards… (see Matt Bors)Rachita Taneja had one of her Sanitary Panels comic strips removed from Facebook.Facebook on Tuesday morning took down a comic strip criticising the alleged inconsistent application of its community standards, the framework within which the social media giant takes action against comments and other material reported as offensive. […]
Before the polls opened in the U.S. on November 6 Matt Bors tweeted:Which resulted in, according to Matt: and Twitter promptly suspended Matt’s account. People, some well-known, noticed and responded.and Twitter took notice of the objections and restored Matt’s account. Matt is back on Twitter, though his original tweet is apparently permanently deleted. Whoops, Matt was suspended again, this second […]
Next week David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek will present the 6th Annual Jumble Guest Week.As is their custom they have issued a promotional piece featuring images from the special guest cartoonists but not identifying them.Now the trick is to identify who will be next week’s creators on the Jumble feature.#1 is Crankshaft by Tom […]
Pogo by Doyle and Sternecky Steve Breen Joe Heller Curtis by Ray Billingsley Peanuts by Charles Schulz Dwane Powell Captain America by Jack Kirby and Syd Shores Shouldn’t the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November be a national holiday?
After hiring Steve Kelley as its editorial cartoonist a couple weeks ago, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has decided to increase Steve’s P-G income by carrying his syndicated comic strip Dustin. Dustin, syndicated by King Features Syndicate, is a joint effort by Steve Kelley and Jeff Parker.Mr. Kelley, who has performed as a stand-up comedian on stage and […]
Almost ten years after the death of Bruce Lee the Los Angeles Times Syndicate tried distributing The Legend of Bruce Lee comic strip. (Comic strip syndicates have never been renowned for quickly latching onto pop culture phenomena.) The strip was written by Sharman DiVono and drawn by Fran Matera and Dick Kulpa, and lasted a […]
Hilary B. PriceHilary opens her studio! A new Rhymes With Orange collection! Hilary’s Mom! Hilary visits Rina Piccolo! Hilary and Rina jam on a King Kong comic! And more at Hilary’s infrequently updated blog! Bob Mankoff Bob Mankoff picks his 10 All-Time Favorite Cartoons for Parade magazine. Asterix and Obelix and Political CorrectnessSections of the French press […]
above: Sunday November 4, 2018 Pearls Before Swine Creative Loafing Charlotte Ceases Print, Staff Let Go Alt-weekly newspaper Creative Loafing Charlotte in North Carolina has ceased print production with its October 31st 2018 edition.Creative Loafing, received an email Tuesday night from the paper’s publisher, Charles Womack III. Wednesdays are production days for the paper, which […]
Cartoonist Keith Knight‘s life is set to be a pilot, and possible series, for Hulu.Titled Woke, the half-hour, single-camera comedy revolves around an African-American cartoonist who is on the cusp of mainstream success when his mild comics take a decidedly provocative tone following a run-in with police. Now, Keef is in an irreversible state of […]
The Chicago Sun-Times in an effort “to reinvest in the quality journalism you’ve come to expect” will “[pare] back some comics.”Today marks some changes to the comics and classified pages of our Monday-through-Saturday print editions. Rather than three dedicated pages of comics, we’ll be publishing one comics page with the New York Times crossword and […]
Mike Luckovich Talks Politics …a lot of people now realize how fragile our democracy is…ArtsATL interviews Mike Luckovich about editorial cartooning and The State of The Union. From one side of the fence to the other. Antonio Branco Talks PoliticsI don’t shy away from the fact that I’m conservative…Poynter gave Antonio Branco a call and talked editorial […]