Chef and cartoonist Phil “Bunk” Griffin has passed away. Philip M. (Bunk) Griffin June 17, 1940 – October 16, 2024From the family obituary: A lifelong resident of [Saranac Lake], he was by professional cook, having worked in The Dew Drop Inn, Tyson’s, The Mar-Mac, and finished out his career at the Adirondack Medical Center, where […]
V. T. Hamlin’s Alley Oop; Bob Chambers’ Halifax; Pogo’s letterers Walt Kelly, George Ward, and Henry Shikuma; and a couple cartoonist self-portrait galleries.Sunday Adventures in History with Alley Oop Alley Oop portrays the exploits of a time-traveling caveman (yes, you read that correctly). The comic, which has been running since 1932, was created by V.T. […]
Billy Ireland & Jenny Robb, Marshall Ramsey, Ernie Bushmiller, Ward Sutton & Stan Kelly, Paul Gilligan, and Mort Walker, Bill Hoest, & Bil Keane. Chillicothe, Columbus, and the World — A boy who grew up in Chillicothe and then worked for the Columbus Dispatch to became a world-famous cartoonist was part of the focus of […]
Cartoonist Charles Fredrick has passed away. Charles Wright Fredrick November 3, 1942 – October 4, 2024 From the obituary: Charles attended Springfield, Missouri schools, graduating from Parkview in 1960, before heading to Texas to attend Baylor University and graduating in 1964. The beginning of his adult work life took him for brief stints in federal […]
It is late October in The Year of Our Lord 1968, a Presidential Election year. The election is two weeks away and Walt Kelly, as is his wont, has decided to satirize American politics. Kelly’s subject is third party outlier George Wallace, most famous for his performance of blocking a schoolhouse door in 1963 to […]
Auctions featuring original comic and cartoon art and comic books.Occasionally a comic book collection of immense value goes public. Such is the case up Mike Peterson way. From Seven Days last month: Following the death in April of Vermont comic book retailer and collector Christine Farrell, her legendary collection is about to go up for […]
Featuring Bianca Xunise, Chip Beck, Alan Hardman, Eli Valley, Patrick McDonnell, Herblock, Larry Todd, Matt Wuerker, Ann Telnaes, Michael Ramirez, Pedro Molina, Vladimir Kazanevsky and Rachita Taneja. Bianca Xunise is the Ignatz Award-winning author of comics including GothThrob, Imaginary Boyfriends, Keep Out, and Say Her Name. She is one of the authors of the daily […]
President Joseph R. Biden presented the 2022 and 2023 National Humanities Medals, in conjunction with the National Medals of Arts, on Monday, October 21, 2024, in a private ceremony at the White House. The 19 distinguished medal recipients include writers, historians, educators, and filmmakers. And a cartoonist! Cartoonist and author Roz Chast was among those […]
Ninety years ago yesterday one of the greatest 1930s adventure strips debuted in the New York Daily NewsIt would be the following day when we would learn the full title of Milton Caniff‘s new comic strip. Terry and the Pirates by Milton Caniff would catapult the cartoonist to fame and fortune. Peter Bosch at 13th […]
Ripley’s Believe It or Not details the hierarchy of artists and Kieran Castaño shows, by drawing four claws, that cartoonists are in The Upper Class. Well. maybe not all of them: Cartoonists working on the Super-Fun-Pak Comix, edited by Ruben Bolling, are from a more common class.Along with (some) cartoonists the Prince of Thule is […]
Former editorial cartoonist Steven Lait got a couple paragraphs in a recent New York Times article about The Costco Connection, a monthly magazine for the membership-only retail warehouse store. Each month, 15.4 million copies of Costco Connection are mailed out to members. Another 300,000 are distributed via Costco warehouses. It is now the nation’s third […]
There was a big cartooning event in Washington DC today I knew nothing about until it was over. The Institute for Democracy, Journalism & Citizenship at Syracuse University held an event featuring editorial cartoonists Matt Wuerker, editorial cartoonist and illustrator, POLITICO; Ann Telnaes, editorial cartoonist, The Washington Post; Michael Ramirez, editorial cartoonist, Las Vegas Review-Journal; […]
Cartoonists for Kamala continues receiving and auctioning cartoon art. One of the latest is from Robb Armstrong where he revises a recent Sunday JumpStart. Robb rewrote the last two panels: From Mike Lynch via Antonio Marques we are treated to a four page informative article on “How An Animated Film Is Made” written by Jerome […]
With today’s October 19, 2024 comic strip (above) the daily Fort Knox has come to an end.Paul Jon Boscacci and Fort Knox celebrated 15 years of syndication at the beginning of this month.According to The Hammond (Louisiana) Daily Star the Sundays will continue until November 10, 2024: Since 2005 [2009], “Fort Knox” – the cartoon […]
Tony DePaul, Joe Wos, Larry Lieber, Charles M. Schulz, and…Hall of Famer Sergio AragonésSergio Aragonés was one of five to receive a Harvey Hall of Fame Award last night at the New York Comic Con. File 770 has the full results of the 2024 Harvey Awards. Screenshot of the Sergio announcement via The Geekly Grind.The […]