The 50th year of Doonesbury (including the Bull Tales years) marks the first time journalist Jane Pauley will interview cartoonist husband Garry Trudeau.From the CBS press release: To mark the 50th anniversary of the famed cartoon strip, Pauley and Trudeau traveled to Yale University, where it all began when Trudeau was a 20-year-old college student, […]
Autumn Years, the Bergen County magazine for over sixty types, cover featured an eight page story about cartoonist Hy Eisman for its Summer 2018 issue. Detailing his life and career from Depression Era child to 91 year old Popeye cartoonist and everything in between. From Little Lulu to Little Iodine, from never-was comic strips (Joe […]
Gasoline Alley recently celebrated its centennial anniversary. Only the Katzenjammer Kids has had a longer run, starting December 12, 1897 and running until sometime into 2006 for over 108 years.But a few more will soon reach their 100th year of new comic strips. The first one less than a month from now. Champs and Chumps […]
We’ve had an unusual amount of updates and it’s not practical to bump every one of them to the top of the list, so lets review them here. Wayne Stayskal – RIPThe first update to Wayne’s obituary was bumped up. Since that there has been more added. Also, earlier today, The Chicago Tribune has published a […]
Rarely in the history of comics has there been a turnaround as abrupt and pronounced as that of “Nancy.” As of just a few months ago, no discerning critic paid the long-running comic strip any mind. Sure, the strips made back in the day by original creator Ernie Bushmiller were held up as revered objects […]
Editorial and comic strip cartoonist Wayne Stayskal has passed away.WAYNE H. STAYSKAL (né Stejskal) December 11, 1931 – November 20, 2018Columnist and friend Cal Thomas broke the news:Google “Great American Political Cartoonists” and you will undoubtedly find the late Herbert Block (aka “Herblock”) of The Washington Post, (Paul) Conrad of the Los Angeles Times, Michael […]
Missed from earlier this month.Syndicated cartoonist Nancy Ohanian has won the National Press Foundation’s Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons. Ohanian will be honored at the National Press Foundation’s annual journalism awards dinner on Feb. 13, 2019.In what is really a bit of understatement the NPF judges said:“Nancy Ohanian’s work is […]
For a fine history of Gasoline Alley read R. C. Harvey’s essay from 2013.The first three years of Gasoline Alley can be read at Crittenden.A buncha great Frank King Sunday Gasoline Alleys at The Bristol Board.Michael Sporn has some nice Dick Moores here and here and here.GoComics has a deep archive of the Jim Scancarelli […]
Tampa Bay Times Executive Editor Mark Katches notes:There is an openly shared sentiment among top newspaper editors that changing comics is like touching the third rail. Readers tend to react with fervor.But that doesn’t stop newspapers from updating their comic strips occasionally, usually after a reader poll so they can deflect any blame.So the Tampa […]
Cartoonist Werner Wejp-Olsen has passed away.The Wejp-Olsen family has informed the world:It is with our deepest sorrow that we share this news with you; our beloved father, husband, and brother Werner Wejp-Olsen has passed away on November 15, 2018. We miss him sorely but try to find solace in the beautiful memories of the loving […]
Cartoonist Redesigns Turkey Cartoonist Kevin Cannon has redesigned the Star Tribune turkey.For the 40th “Oh, You Turkey” coloring contest Kevin becomes the second artist to draw the page, replacing Bruce Bjerva. The Star Tribune interviews the new cartoonist. Science is FunVery soon a spacecraft will, if all goes well, land on Mars to perform a very […]
…a few days ago I saw a really interesting cartoon, and I want to talk about it today. The cartoon, which is about the California wildfires, was created by Ed Hall, an established political cartoonist whose work has appeared in major newspapers and magazines for many years. The notable thing about this one is that […]
The Solano County/Fairfield (California) Daily Republic is adjusting to economic realities:It costs a great deal of money to report, write, illustrate, design and ultimately pull that local news and information together for each day’s print edition. The changes we have made – and continue to make – keep the focus on what’s local. As such, […]
By the early 1960s Wally Wood was a known comic artist. His EC science fiction and MAD work was hailed. Early on he was good enough to draw Will Eisner’s The Spirit and spell Frank Frazetta on the Ace McCoy comic strip. His fantasy illustrations for pulps and his adventure sequences for the Valor comic […]
This coming weekend Gasoline Alley will celebrate its 100th anniversary, having first appeared November 24, 1918 in the Saturday edition of The Chicago Sunday Tribune.The writer-artist behind the ongoing strip today is Jim Scancarelli of Charlotte, N.C. He is just the fourth cartoonist to [sign] the comic. The North Michigan Christian Voice talks to Jim Scancarelli […]