This is an installment of 2024 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed. (part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: the Dearly Departed)2024 DEBUTS These comic strips and panels began appearing in U. S. newspapers in 2024. BREAK OF DAY by Nate Fakes January […]
Roundups of the best editorial cartoons of 2024 will be coming quickly as the New Year closes in. The Chattanooga Times Free Press offers a gallery of 2024 Clay Bennett cartoons of the year. The Guardian collects The best of: First Dog on the Moon cartoons 2024. Earlier it was local subjects, now The Times-Picayune/The […]
Prince Valiant was full of ships yesterday. The Tom Yeates title panel and the big shipping out panel in yesterday’s Prince Valiant was matched by the December 16, 1984 Vintage Prince Valiant page by John Cullen Murphy that Comics Kingdom also issued yesterday.We can only hope, for Arn’s sake, that Val’s ship doesn’t make any […]
More newspapers and websites roll out the best of editorial cartoonists’ commentary from the past year. Who What Why presents Ted Rall. Michael Ramirez at The Las Vegas Review-Journal offers up CARTOONS: A look back.For Voxeurop it was: a real challenge to sum up 2024 with a selection of press cartoons, as we do every […]
Various items from various places with friends Tom Beland and Nazish Jonathan, Wayno and Dan Piraro, and Mark Evanier and Russell Myers.Checking in with Tom Beland. Tom Beland got some local notoriety as an editorial cartoonist: Beland spent worked as a cartoonist, graphic artist and sometimes reporter for the Napa Valley Register from 1989 to […]
Another roundup of the year 2024 in editorial cartoons. The New Orleans Times-Picayune and NOLA.com present Walt Handelsman: 2024 cartoon review of local topics.From The Las Vegas Sun comes Mike Smith: Editorial Cartoons of 2024. Elections in the UK and US brought political upheaval. That was perfect for Times cartoonist Peter Brookes, who was also […]
Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic West by William Grady (2024)Nearly 50 years after Maurice Horn’s Comics of the American West we get another book charting “the Western genre in American comics from the late 1800s through the 1970s and beyond.” By the time comic strips came along the Real […]
From the day after Christmas and into the New Year we will see newspapers’ and websites’ collections of “the year in review” featuring editorial cartoons from the past year chosen by the cartoonists or their editors.Let’s get started: From WhoWhatWhy comes the Best Jon Richards Cartoons of 2024The Toronto Star presents The year in cartoons […]
Schulz, the man who birthed the lovably hard-luck Charlie Brown, was known to have wrestled with self-doubt. Yet when it came to taking the reins of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” in 1965, the “Peanuts” creator was a thinker of unwavering confidence and cool-headed belief, his longtime screen collaborator and late producer Lee Mendelson — who […]
Christmas with Will Eisner, C. E. Mondfort, Joe Kubert, Walt Kelly, Bill Watterson, and many more.Newspaper cartoonists have been celebrating Christmas since The Nineteenth Century. We, however, will remain a bit closer to our times. In the comic book newspaper insert of the 1940s, commonly called The Spirit Section, Will Eisner regularly celebrated Christmas in […]
The Mail on Sunday’s peerless cartoonist Stan ‘Mac’ McMurtry has been chosen as an Oldie of the Year. Praised for ‘making news pages brighter by putting in a laugh’, 88-year-old Mac was selected for The Oldie magazine’s award, alongside former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman, also 88; film director Mike Leigh, 81; and actress Nanette Newman, […]
A mischievous cartoonist landing an invite to the White House? It could only have happened during the heyday of the daily comics page. Throughout the 1980s, a series of spirited young strips — including “Bloom County,” “Calvin and Hobbes,” “Cathy,” “The Far Side,” and “For Better or Worse” — together drew hundreds of millions of […]
SuprDee Parson, Jack Davis, Bill Watterson, Liz Climo. Plus notable comic strip compilations for 2024 and an animation In Memorial for those we lost in 2024. ANDERSON, Ind. — The bonds and rivalries of three sisters are the focus of a comic strip that is now syndicated in newspapers around the country. The comic behind […]
Saturday’s Alley Oop held out the promise of an actual adventure. Monday’s Alley Oop hasn’t disabused me of that hope. We’ll see.I could very well be wrong, it wouldn’t be a first, but I think last week was the first full week of Slylock Fox dailies that had Scott Underwood co-signing with Bob Weber, Jr. […]
Gag cartoonist Wayne Horne has passed away. Wayne Laverne Horne September 29, 1927 – December 21, 2024From the obituary: Wayne Laverne Horne, a talented artist, cartoonist, and graphic designer, passed away peacefully on December 21, 2024, in Phoenix, Arizona, at the age of 97. Born on September 29, 1927, in Omaha, Nebraska, Wayne lived a […]