Jeff Mallett and his comic strip alter ego Frazz are triathletes.Jef may be a bit less accomplished, but is no less dedicated than Frazz.Jef is interviewed about his upcoming 4.2-mile swim on Labor Day across the Straits of the Mackinac between Michigan’s peninsulas that runs along the Mackinac Bridge.Of the triathlon activities, swimming is not […]
Ron and Shirley met in 1957, in 1958 they became Mr. and Mrs. Bugos. They are longtime fans of Rex Morgan, M.D., and the current creator of the feature Terry Beatty helped them celebrate their 60 anniversary in the comic strip.With their 60th anniversary approaching, the Bugos’s five children and 17 grandchildren wanted an appropriate […]
To counter what it describes as President Donald Trump’s “dirty war against the free press,” The Boston Globe is urging newspapers across the country to take a coordinated stand against his anti-media attacks. And scores have already answered the call to battle. On Saturday, Marjorie Pritchard, the Globe’s deputy editorial page editor, told CNN that […]
There’s a Man Who Leads a Life of Danger Secret Agent X-9/Secret Agent Corrigan ran as a daily-only comic strip from 1934 to 1996. Mark Carlson-Ghost looks at the star and co-stars of the strip, and at the creators assigned to the G-man.Secret Agent X-9 is well known by comic strip fans, but is largely […]
In the 1970s Garry Trudeau edited a series of comic strip reprints. Among the “Cartoon Stories For New Children” was a Gasoline Alley by Dick Moores. Bill Peckman and Michael Sporn presented the book in two parts. Part One. Part Two. Summer Fun. With a title of Sunday Funnies we ought to have some color. So […]
Bob Montana’s ArchieA bronze statue of comic book and comic strip character Archie, with a plaque honoring Bob Montana, was dedicated in Mededith, N.H. August 9, 2018. TV station WMUR filmed the unveiling. The Charlotte Observer carried a short AP piece. Cartoonist Becomes EditorLong time Big Valley cartoonist Marc Lutz has taken a job as editor […]
Over the last 150 years there were and are many great editorial cartoonists, you can name your favorites and I can name mine. There are fewer that we deem a Master of the Craft.Paul Conrad was a Master.Paul Conrad often claimed that making President Richard Nixon’s enemies list in 1973 was one of his proudest […]
An international line-up of Americans Ward Sutton, Matt Bors, Brian Fies, and Rob Rogers;Canadians Terry Mosher, Wes Tyrell, and Graeme McKay;New Zealanders Sharon Murdoch, Toby Morris, Rod Emmerson, and Nigel Buchanan.Hosted by Sacramento Bee editorial cartoonist Jack Ohmanand Salt Lake Tribune cartoonist and AAEC President Pat Bagley.Plus seminars, exhibits, business meetings, and the crowning of […]
If you are heading to get some book bargains at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, you may want to arrive earlier and visit the current MAD magazine exhibit before hitting the book sale.Artistically MAD: Seven Decades of Satire is on display until late October. This comprehensive exhibition will showcase original drawings and paintings […]
Erik Larsen’s Savage Dragon #236 (on sale now) has a few pages of the kids’ adventures drawn as tribute pages to Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes.Of course tributes to the genius that is Bill Watterson is not uncommon.Some years ago Dan and Tom Heyerman did Calvin and Hobbes some years later. Locust Moon Comics’ Little Nemo: Dream […]
Cartoonist John Blair Moore has passed away.JOHN BLAIR MOORE 1948 – AUGUST 5, 2018 From John’s autobiography:Born in Tibet in the 1880’s, John Blair Moore was raised by a family of iternant(sic) Yak herders high in the Himalayas, where he spent years perfecting his skills in animation and narrative cartoon strips. Unfortunately, being about forty […]
There are three sketch artists in the courtroom for Paul Manafort‘s financial crimes trial.Reuters is using the artwork of William (Bill) Hennessy, Jr. The Associated Press is going with Dana Verkouteren. NPR has the talents of Art Lien. Network and cable news seem to be gravitating toward the Hennessy drawings.Hennessy was the artist Stephen Colbert used for an […]
Drawing Caleeforneeya: Political Cartoons of Rex Babin, 1999 – 2012 The California Museum, in association with the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, is presenting a retrospective exhibit honoring Sacramento Bee editorial cartoonist Rex Babin.The exhibit, running August 14 – October 14, 2018, will coincide with the AAEC Convention in Sacramento, California the weekend of September […]
Dan Saad hasn’t been out of print since college. When U.S. newspaper circulation peaked at more than 60 million in the 1980s, his editorial cartoons graced the pages of The News-Herald. Three decades later, they still do.Dan’s AAEC profile says he “worked as the editorial cartoonist at the student newspaper, The South End, from 1972-1977.” […]
CommentatorsSomeone must have switched Rick Marschall‘s Sanka to real coffee. Suddenly he’s become a dervish of activity. Recently announcing the revival of Nemo, now he is commencing a weekly column of comic related anecdotes and history. The first column is an autobiography of sorts.The column will have its home base at John Adcock‘s Yesterday’s Papers, […]