Happy 90th Birthday to Warren Sattler. Being born on September 7, 1934 entitles him entry to our Senior Strippers club.Warren was a comic strip cartoonist from 1960 working with Crockett Johnson on the reinvigorated Barnaby through the end of the 20th Century with King Features and Gil Thorp and Grubby. The comic strips Warren worked/assisted […]
The National Cartoonists Society has published their Playbill for 2024’s 78th Reuben Awards and NCS Conference in a sixty page digital edition making it available to for those of us who didn’t get to San Diego last month. Says NCS: We are pleased to showcase this year’s Reuben Awards playbill in a digital edition. Thank […]
Wes Tyrell, President of the Association of Canadian Cartoonists (ACC), and Jack Ohman, President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC), have both signed off on the updated schedule of the joint ACC/AAEC Montreal Convention to be held October 3 – 6, 2024. Below is the new updated schedule. Featuring: Aislin, Lalo Alcaraz, Barry […]
So alphabetically Loose Parts follows Looks Good on Paper and yesterday they had an eruptive juxtaposition. Joining in the Mutts 30th anniversary celebration is the only not-Patrick McDonnell cartoonist, that I know of, to draw a Mutts comic strip – Jim Keefe. At his Patreon account Keefe tells how it happened that he partnered with […]
Rounding up a few items about editorial cartoonists and cartooning. For 13 months political commentator Michael Smerconish had had cartoonists contributing exclusive political cartoons to his newsletter three or four times a week; for the most part they have been Steve Breen, Jack Ohman, Rob Rogers, and Scott Stantis. Now he is publishing those cartoons […]
Postmedia, Canada’s largest newspaper publisher, has taken ownership of major parts of SaltWire Network, the largest newspaper group in the Atlantic Canada region. From the CBC: SaltWire publishes newspapers in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador, including the Halifax Chronicle Herald, the Cape Breton Post and the St. John’s Telegram. Earlier this month, a […]
Walt Kelly’s Can’t Record Storybook Cover and Story Page Original Art Group of 28 (1969)Heritage Auctions has a preview of an upcoming lot by Walt Kelly for bid: Walt Kelly, the genius behind Pogo, brings his whimsical charm to a delightful children’s story. Created for the 28-page storybook accompanying a 45-RPM vinyl record that tells […]
Yesterday saw the release of Breaking the Chain: The Guard Dog Story and tomorrow will be the 30th anniversary of the Mutts comic strip. The Daily Cartoonist is splitting the difference and celebrating both today. First the book. From the award-winning syndicated comic strip Mutts, the long-awaited “Guard Dog” story is now collected and presented in […]
Sez Keefer: The Orange Dotard’s trip to Arlington National Cemetery and the foolishness that ensued reminded me on this classic strip by Cat cartoonist B. Kliban. I had to pay homage. Keith Knight is having fun with a cartoon classic. Check out Keith Knight’s Substack where he posts the above (th)ink cartoon and the original. […]
Olivia Jaimes returned to the Nancy comic strip today after taking a sabbatical. While gone Olivia got (bribed? coerced?) other people to create Nancy comics in her absence. Following are the credits for the Summer of 2024. Olivia Jaimes April 9, 2018* – June 22, 2024 (*Sundays May 6, 2018 – June 16, 2024)Leigh Tuna […]
Oregon cartoonist Bill Friday has passed away. William Rodney (Bill) Friday November 8, 1942 – August 23, 2024 From the obituary: William “Bill” Rodney Friday, fondly known to many as Uncle Bill, passed away in Bend, Oregon, in 2024 at the age of 81. Born on November 8, 1942, in Payette, Idaho… Bill spent the […]
1814 Surrender of Alexandria, Amtrak across America, Page One-above the fold Cartoonist Profile, Letterer Appreciation Day, Cartoonists for ,la. Prominent Alexandrians saw how British forces burned Washington, D.C. on Aug. 24, 1814. Although the War of 1812 had started two years earlier, the war came home to residents of Alexandria in 1814, when our city […]
Mike Lynch (with Art Bouthillier, Randy Glasbergen, Ted Goff, George Jartos, Bart Roozendaal, and George Trosley), Ed Steckley, Warner Bros cartoons, Flash Gordon comic book, AI, and (sorry) Scott Adams.The Aspiring Cartoonist: The Craft and Business of Gag CartooningMike Lynch has a very fine habit of pulling old cartooning magazines out of his closet and […]
We start not with Peanuts but Sparky’s other comic It’s Only A Game. A dozen years ago Nat Gertler wrote of a Charles Schulz rarity he had missed out on: … a booklet called Golfing — It’s Only A Game, which reprinted seven panels from Schulz & Sasseville’s “It’s Only a Game” feature, behind a […]
Ruben Bolling, Georgia Dunn, Keith Knight, and dozens of more cartoonists; plus Dogs of C-Kennel, Lola, Shifts, Crabgrass, and the missing Vintage Apartment 3-G. Ruben Bolling, who has drawn and written his intricate, incisive, shape-shifting weekly cartoon “Tom the Dancing Bug” for more than three decades, works best under the pressure of a deadline. “Years […]