The (Columbia) Missourian has moved their Sunday Funnies. No longer a free-floating insert, the Sunday comics are now a part of the regular newspaper pages just like the daily comics. The June 24, 2018 Missourian front page.From Editor Mike Jenner: Dear Reader, You may have noticed something different about today’s print Missourian — the Sunday […]
The phone calls and emails started on March 14, the first day The News & Advance was without “Snuffy Smith” on its daily comic pages. “Please bring back Snuffy Smith. I have enjoyed that comic strip for more than 50 years.” “We enjoyed reading Snuffy Smith and do not care for the replacement. As long […]
Mickey at 90 The Mickey Mouse Campbell’s Soup Cans have been announced by the brand in collaboration with Disney to help celebrate the iconic mouse cartoon character’s 90th birthday. The limited-edition soup packaging has been created with three different variations with the varying styles of the character in mind to commemorate its iconic popularity.The Mickey […]
Scooby Doo becomes the latest cartoon character to appear on a United States postage stamp.Linn’s Stamp News reports:Cartoon canine Scooby-Doo is taking time out from solving spooky mysteries to help solve the world’s environmental challenges. As part of his new quest, the animated Great Dane is appearing on a new United States postage stamp that […]
The new alternative newspaper Pittsburgh Current has reached an agreement to publish Rob Rogers political cartoons on the web and in print.Pittsburgh Current is pleased to announce that it will be the first Pittsburgh publication to carry former Post-Gazette cartoonist Rob Rogers. An agreement was reached with this morning with Andrews McMeel Universal, Rogers syndication […]
The Clarksdale (Miss.) Press Register will be featuring the work of editorial cartoonist Ricky Nobile each week on their opinion page. Ricky has been providing locally-themed cartoons to Mississippi newspapers since 1971.Ricky has provided over 48 years of editorial cartoons on Mississippi politics to over 40 newspapers and is the editorial cartoonist for The Mississippi […]
Eyebeam by Sam Hurt via The Austin Chronicle comics page. 1930 photobomber by Jefferson Machamer (Judge magazine) via Curious Bygone Days. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Introduces New Editorial Cartoonist Reeve Cannon via Breaking Burgh. Out of the Inkwell by Max Fleischer and more via Yesterday I Was A Dog (hat tip: Bristol Board). February 13, 1983 – Thomas […]
The Oldest Surviving Animated Films by Sarah Nour at Reel Rundown.The Oldest Surviving Animated Films Part I (1892-1909)Charles-Émile Reynaud was the inventor of optical theatre, an animated moving-picture system that he patented in 1888. In October of 1892, he screened three of his own animated films in a demonstration at the Musée Grévin, a museum […]
Dick Tracy: Dead or Alive #1 (of 4) Lee & Michael Allred (writer) • Rich Tommaso & Michael Allred (artists) • Laura Allred (color)IDW Publishing proudly presents the rebirth of one the most iconic comic-strip heroes of all time, Dick Tracy! The All-American detective just made the biggest collar of his career, and it only […]
Deacon Stephen Bentley of St. John the Evangelist is better known around these parts as cartoonist Stephen Bentley, creator of Herb and Jamaal.For years part of Deacon Bentley’s ministry has been to create Frankenbikes. Taking in donated bicycles Stephen repairs them by gathering parts off various cycles and then gives the newly created bikes to […]
The King Features Weekly Service is no longer syndicating Ricardo Galvão‘s The Cashier. The Cashier by Ricardo Galvão June 4, 2015 – March 8, 2018 weekly strip King Features Weekly Service [Start and stop dates as published in the (Plattsburgh) New York Eagle News.] Starting Saturday, June 9, [15-year-old Hunter] Wooldridge began publishing his comic strip […]
Complimenting their 11 Things You Might Not Know About Jim Davis of two years ago, Mental Floss has now issued 20 Things You Might Not Know About Garfield.A major Garfield accomplishment was changing the New York Times Best Selling List.17. THE GARFIELD COMIC STRIP BOOKS HAVE BEEN HUGE HITS “The 11 Garfield comic strip books […]
The fact checking site Snopes has investigated the circumstances surrounding the recent difficulties between the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Rob Rogers.Was a Cartoonist Fired for an Anti-Trump Drawing?WHAT’S TRUERob Rogers was fired by the ‘Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’ after the newspaper rejected a number of cartoons critical of Donald Trump’s presidential policies.WHAT’S FALSERogers’ firing wasn’t based on one […]
The book with a new original sketch by Bill Watterson sold at the charity auction for $11,000 to comic book artist Tony Harris. above: Shelton Drum, Tony Harris, and Mr. Harris’ sonDetails about the highlight of the auction, and more about Team Cul de Sac, at Mike Rhode’s interview with Chris Sparks.Mike Rhode: You’ve mentioned […]
On June 18, 2018 the television game show Jeopardy!, in the first round, contained a category for comics’ fans.COMIC-CONVERSATIONS The “answers”:$200 It encloses dialogue from a specific speaker’s mouthThen showing an image similar to $400 An image that extends beyond the edge of a page is said to do this medical verb$600 King Features specializes […]