Huffington Post UK is reporting that The Guardian has rejected a Steve Bell editorial cartoon, about the death of Palestinian medic Razan al-Najjar, as being anti-Semitic. Cartoonist Steve Bell denies using anti-Semitic tropes saying in a couple e-mails to the paper:“I cannot for the life of me begin to understand criticism of the cartoon that […]
As the ads inform us, it’s only 10 days until Father’s Day.The same June 17th date will debut Daddy Daze, and there is activity showing that launch is getting closer.King Features has set up the Daddy Daze page at the syndicate’s website, which features some samples of the new comic strip.The Daddy Daze official website […]
From Vice.com comes an article about The Woman Behind Nancy [who] Has Made an 80-Year-Old Comic Funny Again.The long-running comic was recently taken over by Olivia Jaimes, who’s shifted the focus from boomer humor to jokes about Snapchat, apps, and Twitter bots.Author Grant Pardee, for Vice, says Nancy isfor the first time since the Eisenhower […]
Cartoonist Jim Keefe recently revealed how he released some pressure 20 years ago when he was being laid off from the King Features art department – by way of the Flash Gordon comic strip. Meantime Jake Rossen at Mental Floss has been collecting Things You Might Not Know about various comic strips. These include:11 Fun […]
Waiting for Hogan’s Alley magazine’s fantastic photo feature of the 2018 Reuben Weekend which, if past practice is any indication of future results, will present hundreds of pictures of hundreds of cartoonists; until then here’s a few others from the gala. Lynn Johnston has posted about receiving the NCS Medal of Honor. Can Lynn see the […]
Rob Snyder is the Spirit’s publisher, and also a photographer, writer, copy editor, editorial cartoonist, headline writer and ad salesman. He’s also the weekly paper’s sole comic strip artist. The first stripJust learning of this funny local weekly comic strip. It began November 15, 2017 in the Spirit of Jefferson (Charles Town, W.V.). The Spirit […]
First look at the animated Addams Family movie! Courtesy MGM and Behind The Thrills comes a peek at the upcoming (next year) animated movie feature of Charles Addams classic creation. Warning: link contains an earworm! Jules Feiffer Has Never Been HappierFeiffer expresses great enthusiasm for his latest project, which is something he never imagined would actually […]
[William Wilson’s] “Wallace the Brave” comic strip, which he pens under the name of Will Henry, is now in more than 100 newspapers across the U.S., including the Houston Chronicle where it begins Sunday.And the Houston Chronicle is where this piece introducing readers to their newest comic strip appears. Will Henry’s Wallace the Brave remains […]
Sports and political cartoonist and journalist Rob Tornoe, who also comments on the media, has an article for today’s (June 4) Philly.com/Philadelphia Inquirer with the latest on the Rob Rogers/Post-Gazette situation.The problems between Rogers and Burris date back to March, shortly after Burris first took over as the newspaper’s editorial director. On his Facebook page, […]
Last month Kirk Walters and The Toledo Blade celebrated 30 years of Maumee Dearest, the local weekly comic strip. This weekend the paper and the cartoonist looked back.In 1988, a young cartoonist at The Blade named Kirk Walters submitted a multi-panel strip he’d drawn in the hope the paper would consider running it on the […]
Eulogies honoring the memory of Nick Meglin are appearing.A wonderful tribute came from comics writer. editor, and executive Paul Levitz. With permission:Word is spreading of the sudden passing of Nick Meglin, an insufficiently celebrated but extraordinarily important influence on American culture and cartooning. Nick is close to the last survivor of the offices of E.C. […]
Lee Holley 1932 – 2018 Lee Holley died earlier this year. Comics historian R. C. Harvey has done a career-spanning obituary for The Comics Journal.
Every cartoonist knows that at sometime there will be a syndicated comic strip, done weeks ago, that lands in the newspapers at a very inopportune time.Michael Fry and T. Lewis, who have been doing Cliffsnotes TV gags this week, are enjoying the opposite with today’s Over the Hedge.Michael about today’s strip says,I wrote this two […]
At the National Cartoonists Society’s72nd Annual Reuben Awards dinner on May 26th 2018The Reuben Award was presented to… GLEN KEANE also nominated:LYNDA BARRYSTEPHAN PASTISHILARY B. PRICEMARK TATULLI hat tip to Tom Heintjes UPDATED The National Cartoonist Society announcement of Glen Keane as 2017 Reuben Award Winner.
Nell Minow does a nice write-up at Medium.com about some of the National Cartoonists Society‘s panels that took place over this past Reuben Awards’ weekend.The NCS meeting always blends the past and future with presentations by new young comic artists and oral histories of the classics.Many more (much shorter) reports plus photos can be seen […]