Gannett, continuing its recent actions, has cut loose dozens of journalists today including editorial cartoonists Steve Benson and Charlie Daniel.From Poynter:Another brutal day for journalism. Gannett began slashing jobs all across the country Wednesday in a cost-cutting move that was anticipated even before the recent news that a hedge-fund company was planning to buy the […]
Eighty-five years (and a couple days) ago the daily strip portion of Alex Raymond‘s January 1934 trilogy of newspaper comic strips debuted. But young Raymond wasn’t the *BIG NAME* used to promote the new feature.A bit over two years earlier Dick Tracy had appeared and become a comic strip sensation. King Features reacted by hiring […]
Sunday’s Nancy’s Gets Some Notoriety Olivia Jaimes‘ fourth wall (and gutter)-breaking January 20th Sunday strip for Nancy is getting some hand clapping around the internet. (The twitter link shows more comic strip samples of the concept.) 11-Year-Old Ezra Gets Comic Strip in Newspaper It’s not every day that Boise Weekly accepts a new submission from a […]
I was wronged. All I wanted was a trial by jury, a right enshrined in Anglo-Saxon legal tradition in the Magna Carta 903 years ago. Is this still America? No. America is dead.For me personally the ruling necessarily means bankruptcy and/or being forced to leave the United States so I can continue to earn a […]
A cartoon strip featuring a child’s counting song that was used as racist rhetoric in the past was published across the country on Monday, the day the U.S. honored the late Martin Luther King, Jr.After NBC 7 [TV San Diego] was contacted by one of our viewers, we reached out to the author of “Pickles.” […]
“It is with great sadness that I inform all of you who love Gahan Wilson, that he is retiring. After 60 plus years as one of the greatest cartoonists ever…”From earlier this month:<< It is with great sadness that I inform all of you who love Gahan Wilson, that he is retiring. After 60 plus […]
Why Trump is Cartoonist’s Target-in-Chief“You pick on Trump way more than you picked on Obama.” I started wondering if these people were on to something. Trump officially marks the middle of his term Sunday, so I decided to go back and count the cartoons I’ve done on him over the past two years and compare […]
The above is making the rounds and ties in somewhat with part of today’s essay by Mike Peterson. The original four panel strip can be read here. Two comic strip cartoonists have been selected by the judges to be added to the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2019. Morrie Turner and Tarpé Mills will be […]
Cartoonist and artist Jeff Stahler is featured on the PBS show Broad & High. Equal parts about his cartooning career and his art career. It’s the first four and a half minute segment after the introduction. Editorial cartoonist and illustrator Randall Enos remembers a “typical evening at the [National] Cartoonists Society” about 60 years […]
The Erie Times-News plans on cutting 14-16 of its 36 comic strips and panels.Our intent is to eliminate one of the two pages of comics we run each day, which means dropping 14 or perhaps 16 of the 36 comics we run Monday through Saturday. We are not making wholesale changes to our four-page, full-color […]
90 years ago on January 17, 1929…E. C. Segar introduced Popeye into his comic strip. Popeye was only intended to be in this one episode of Thimble Theatre and disappear, but by the end of the adventure Popeye had become too popular to ignore. After a brief absence Popeye returned and stayed.Segar was a genius […]
Popeye’s Cartoon Club, the new weekly online comic strip, is set to debut from King Features Syndicate on January 17, 2019, the 90th anniversary of Popeye’s first appearance in Thimble Theatre. A page is set up on the KFS site.As explained in an early December 2018 New York Times article the strip will feature a […]
Here are some books scheduled for January 2019 release.Images and links to Amazon (though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.) Peanuts Every Sunday Box Set Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union Complete Chester Gould Dick Tracy Volume 25 The Best of Alex 2018 Steve Canyon Volume 9: 1963-1964 by Milton […]
Tom Batiuk spent a few days of his Funky Winkerbean last week dishing on young’uns unknowledge of zipatone and Dr. Martin’s and other old school cartooning equipment. Magazine and Marmaduke cartoonist Brad Anderson‘s papers have been donated to the Billy Ireland. Some (well, at least one) major bookstores break protocol by putting out new releases early, seemingly […]
Heidi MacDonald reports that Olivia Jaimes was voted The (Comics) Beat Newcomer of the Year.The voting for Comics Industry Person of the Year was a foregone conclusion. As Heidi explains:The overwhelming choice was the one and only Stan Lee. Although Stan’s passing on November 12th 2018 was fresh on everyone’s mind, his historical stature ensured […]