Garfield by Jim Davis turns 40 today. Newspapers around the world are celebrating the occasion.In Canada the Edmonton Journal ran an article and interview with Jim Davis.Q: What did your life look life before Garfield? A: I was earning $135 a week as an assistant to T.K. Ryan on the Tumbleweeds comic. I wanted to […]
Sky Masters of the Space Force: the complete Sunday Strips in color (1959-1960) written by Dave Wood and Dick Wood, art by Jack Kirby and Wally Wood produced and edited by Ferran Delgado Print previews the book.This passion project of Delgado’s reproduces the Sunday Strips full tabloid size and lovingly restored. It also features essays […]
Underground Heroes: New York Transit in Comics New York Transit Museum Exhibit June 21, 2018 – January 6, 2019The New York Transit Museum’s newest exhibition, Underground Heroes: New York Transit in Comics is a raucous ride through New York’s transit system from a range of visual storytellers and draws on satirical cartoons, comic strips and comic […]
The Gasoline Alley comic strip has been in rerun status since November 2017. The most recent story line was rerun comic strips from May and June 2007. above: the original June 15, 2007 comic strip and the rerun from June 13, 2018.The 2007 story continues, for weeks, with Slim’s sleep disrupted by kids playing basketball […]
He is short, fat and bald. He never had a wife, a girlfriend or a date. And he doesn’t wear pants. Or shoes. Seven years ago, on the occasion of Tom Wilson‘s death, The Cleveland Plain Dealer took a look at Tom’s most famous creation (I’m hoping Tom II will forgive the slight.) That leads […]
The press has had a field day pumping the news that a publisher’s firing of a political cartoonist in Pittsburgh is a sign of President Trump’s war on freedom of the press. It’s nonsense. above image via KDKAMonica Showalter at The American Thinker takes a contrarian viewpoint to the cartoonist firing.
Fare Well Evelyn Smith! John Kovaleski reveals that KFS editor Evelyn Smith is retiring. Evelyn spent the 1980s and 1990s as Managing Editor for Tribune Media Services, the 2000s and 2010s as King Features Syndicate editor. The 2017 King Features Directory lists her as Senior Comics Editor. We wish Evelyn the bluest skies. Warner Bros. Announces […]
Daddy Daze by John Kovaleski debuts June 17, 2018
While some cartoonists issue reruns for a couple weeks to get vacation time (or grab some shut-eye), Darrin Bell has come up with a unique method of getting ahead of deadlines so he can clock in some vacation, or do promotional tours, or give him time to do his political cartoons.Darrin does two daily comic […]
“Kurt Vonnegut once compared the artist to the canary in the coal mine, a hypersensitive creature who alerts hardier life forms to toxic gases by kindly dropping dead. Given the steady demise of editorial cartoonists during the past several years, newspapers might begin to wonder about the quality of the air.” – Doug Marlette After […]
First and most important: When will Steve McGarry do a page on Ray Davies. quite simply the greatest songwriter of all time? Do people still know the origins of Lalo Alcaraz’s The Beandocks? Does Brooke McEldowney have a one-track mind? Who is In The Bleachers cartoonist “Benz”? (My Guess is Ben Zaehringer.) Berkeley Mews, by […]
Bubbles: Drawing on Wit These Comics Have Something to Say Bubbles is a special Lee Enterprises tabloid-sized “tribute to the wit of all cartoonists,” as expressed in the page 2 introduction.The insert gathers comic strips and panels from Andrews McMeel Syndication, Creators Syndicate, King Features Syndicate, and Tribune Content Agency (no Washington Post Writers Group […]
To celebrate President Trump’s birthday Steve Brodner and The Village Voice present: A Cartoon History of Trumps, 1869-2018 1. Friedrich Trump is born in Kallstadt, in what was then Bavaria. At the age of thirteen he is apprenticed to a barber. He later leaves for Bremen, and in 1885, at sixteen, departs for New York […]
Some (better sounding) details about the chaos now surrounding Stan Lee from Rob Liefeld via Heidi MacDonald’s The Beat.My friend told me Sunday afternoon that the latest episode with Stan would soon be resolved. He has contacted me today, visited with Stan personally, twice, in the last 48 hours and shared that among the topics […]
Many groups hold conferences in hotels or convention centers, but one year the NCS took over Elvis Presley’s mansion, Graceland, for their event. We were watching “the King” on a big screen dancing with a Vegas showgirl in a sparkly bikini when a voice called out from behind me, “Hey!! That’s my wife!!!”A Murder of […]