Newspapers From this past weekend’s Albany Times-Union: On April 4, 1924, the Times Union told its readers it had officially became a Hearst publication, ending its years as a privately owned newspaper under the stewardship of publisher and former New York Gov. Martin H. Glynn. But the article noting the sale pledged there would be […]
Bob Weber, Jr., he of Slylock Fox fame, and Gary Hallgren, he of Air Pirates Funnies fame, have been friends and coworkers for going on forty years. Their latest partnership has been Hägar the Horrible for the past decade. Bob Weber, Jr. began writing gags and scripts for the Hägar comic strip in 2014 and […]
Tank McNamara cartoonist Bill Hinds to be honored.From the National Cartoonists Society: Bill Hinds will be presented with the Gold T-Square award at the 78th Annual Reuben Awards in San Diego, August 23rd. The Gold T-Square is awarded for 50 years as a professional cartoonist. So far, four have been presented: to Rube Goldberg in […]
Editor & Publisher will open the window to submit entries to their annual EPPY™ Awards on August 1, 2024.The EPPY™ Awards include two Editorial/Political Cartoon divisions. Some frequently asked questions and information about the rules: The EPPY™ Awards are open to all media and media-affiliated websites. Entries for 2024 will begin on August 1st, 2024 with […]
E. S. (Everett Samuel) Glenn is a comic creator and a New Yorker cartoonist, and soon he will be a regular presence on Comics Kingdom with his New Tricks, subtitled Remixed New Yorker Cartoon Rejects.From the Comics Kingdom New Tricks “about” page: E. S. Glenn spent many years in New York, deeply embedded in the […]
From the AP news story: Cartoonist Roz Chast will receive the [Brooklyn Book Festival’s] annual BoBi (Best of Brooklyn) award, given to those who best exemplify the spirit of the New York City borough. About Roz Chast from The Brooklyn Book Festival: Roz Chast‘s cartoons began appearing in the New Yorker in 1978, where she […]
The recent CrowdStrike debacle gives lessons for all of us in how to (and how not to) communicate in a crisis… While an extreme case, CrowdStrike illustrates some of the tensions at play in any brand crisis — trying to balance responsibility and mitigate liability with incomplete information while still trying to fix the issue. […]
Here’s an oddity: A Garfield Sunday where everyone is happy about everything. Just a coincidence that it is Jon Arbuckle’s (and Jim Davis‘s) birthday? Some comic strip ephemera. MIke Lynch posts a circa 1973 Courier Journal/Louisville Times comic strip promotional pamphlet featuring comic strips with creator profiles. Ten of the seventeen comics are still around […]
Fridays at the San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) is Eisner Award night, this year that was last night July 26, 2024. The SDCC posted the results with some introduction, but we like Comics Beat reporting ’cause they got the introductory stuff and the results like SDCC along with reminding us of the nominees in each […]
Garry B. Trudeau’s Doonesbury comic strip isn’t the powerhouse influencer it was in the mid-1970s when Trudeau won The Pulitzer Prize, made magazine covers, and was mandatory reading by The President of The United States. But it still raises the hackles of the Far Right. Particularly one Peter Parisi, who just can’t not read the […]
The same month that a Sydney Australia council removed a “playful” artwork of Jesus … Sydney artist Philjames’ work, Jesus Speaks to the Daughters of Jerusalem, was removed from the Blake Art Prize exhibition at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre after fierce criticism was directed at the artist and gallery on Friday, just two days […]
Over the course of Spring 2024 The Santa Maria Times print comics page has been slowly switching to a King Features Syndicate-only page. Above is March 26, 2024; below is the June 26, 2024. Yesterday The Santa Maria Times announced that they have signed onto the Comics Kingdom digital program: For decades the Santa Maria […]
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson has made a career drawing images that reflect contemporary American life. Wilkinson says she is now mostly retired, but her cartoons appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News for 35 years. Now, about 30 pieces of her work are on view at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. […]
Some cartoonist news. “I do oil paintings of horses,” “A friend I’ve done Super-Pet commissions for asked if I’d do an oil painting of Comet. So I gave it a try and he was happy with the result.” The cartoonist who had no fear – walking the line between art and trash. The Pompidou Centre […]
August Froehlich, Bill Watterson, Lynn Johnston, Elkanah Tisdale, Charles Schulz, Garry Trudeau.Nazi Death ParadeFrom The Smithsonian Magazine of 2022: In early January 1945, just before the liberation of Auschwitz, a small group of journalists and artists, many of them European immigrants, published a roughly 50-page pamphlet titled The Bloody Record of Nazi Atrocities. Printed byArco […]