Frank O’Neal was a successful freelance magazine cartoonist of the 1950s and, like many gag cartoonists before and since, he thought a syndicated comic strip was the ticket to ride. So following the likes of Mort Walker, Hank Ketcham, Johnny Hart and others, O’Neal came up with an idea and signed with the Newspaper Enterprise […]
Arizona Daily Star cartoonist David Fitzsimmons spent part of last week in Mexico City attending The Line of Fire international conference.La Línea de Fuego was hosted by the Cartooning For Peace organization. As this Google translation explains:18 press cartoonists from 14 countries meet for several days at the Memoria y Tolerancia Museum in Mexico City to discuss the […]
Cartoonist and worship leader Lorraine Williams has passed away.After moving to Homer, she attended and graduated from Alaska Bible Institute in 1985. That same year, she married her husband, Darren Williams. Moving back to California in 1987, she became an adored worship leader with a wonderful community of friends. She was sent back to Homer […]
Updated with today’s (September 16) Las Vegas Review-Journal introductory article, but mostly because I couldn’t resist the above fantastic cartoon of Ramirez arriving in Las Vegas.“It’s good that, naturally, I’m an evil, demented individual,” Ramirez jokes. We think. “That helps — having a twisted sense of humor.” As such, Ramirez tends to provoke laughter and […]
Lost between tomorrow and yesterday Between now and then…Now we’re back where we started Here we go round again* And so begins a 100 year retrospective.Jim Scancarelli starts looking back at a hundred years of Gasoline Alley comic strips. The middle panel of today’s (September 13, 2018) strip is Jim’s edited look at a detail of the […]
The first week of the National Football League‘s 2018 season had some bad news.The Pittsburgh Steelers’ pathetic performance against rival Cleveland Browns, the Dallas Cowboys‘ continuing inability to score more than 20 points, every new NFL coach losing the first game of the season…and then there was really bad news.New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady […]
A Roll Call editorial cartoon by R. J. Matson equating the 9-11 Al Qaeda attacks of 2001 with the current Russian attacks on the United States’ voting sovereignty has some taking umbrage.From a Conservative Review news item headlined “Sick:”A tasteless political cartoon disgraced Roll Call’s cartoon page Tuesday morning, on the 17th anniversary of the […]
Happy anniversary Leroy and LorettaYesterday was the 50th anniversary for The Lockhorns, debuting September 9, 1968.But today’s panel seems to be celebrating the occasion. Mars LandingAfter years of training and traveling…Safe Havens has a (not quite man) landing on the moon. Comic Strip Within a Comic Strip Perhaps most famously would be Al Capp’s Fearless Fosdick.Today Tom […]
Update:Larry Lieber‘s last daily pencilled Spider-Man comic strip was dated September 8, 2018.Beginning September 10, 2018 the dailies are pencilled and inked by Alex Saviuk.Alex Saviuk is now the daily artist and Sunday penciller of The Amazing Spider-Man comic strip. original August 2, 2018 post:It seems Larry Lieber is retiring from daily penciling of The Amazing […]
Illustrator Wallace Tripp has passed away.From Wallace Tripp’s Facebook page earlier today:Dear friends, Wally has passed on to the Studio in the Sky. He had a wonderful life full of love, laughter, art, music and airplanes.WALLACE WHITNEY (WALLY) TRIPP June 26, 1940 – September 9, 2018 A bit of biography from the Wally Tripp homepage:Wallace […]
The producers and creators of the very popular Lone Ranger franchise tried to duplicate that success with The Green Hornet. And that included trying to get the character starring in a comic strip.Green Hornet historian Martin Gram has explained that after an aborted 1939 attempt Bell Syndicate gave it a shot in 1940. Bell’s proposal […]
The Albany Times-Union notified its readers that they will begin carrying the new Macanudo strip starting Sunday September 9.But I will also tell you that an editor quickly learns what readers consider important when, say, there’s a missing clue to a crossword puzzle, or when a typo creates a recipe calling for 1 T. of […]
The Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site‘sMary Tucker Jasper Speaker Series…annually welcomes 300 prestigious guests to enjoy a dinner, nationally recognized speaker, and the presentation of the Advancing American Democracy Award.The Advancing American Democracy Award is bestowed annually by the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site upon an individual who, in an exemplary way, advances the values of our […]
King Features Syndicate has cancelled a few comics features.Henry and Hazel has already been noted here and here.Also announced is the end of Happy Musings by Sally Huss.Happy Musings is an illustrated panel featuring a pithy maxim.Created by artist and author Sally Huss it debuted as a six-day-a-week feature from King Features on October 23, […]
Artist and comics historian and comic art identifier Hames Ware has passed away.CARLTON HAMES WARE AUGUST 20, 1943 – SEPTEMBER 5, 2018 From Karen Green’s September 6 Facebook post: In June, I went to Arkansas to meet with Hames Ware, a genius of Golden Age comics research and co-editor of THE WHO’S WHO OF AMERICAN […]