When Nancy Beiman was 65 and contemplating retirement from her job as a professor of animation, she had no clue as to how she would fill her days. “Many people take up an artistic hobby. But what was I, a professional artist, supposed to do? Take up accounting?” Before she could embark on a crash […]
The current Mary Worth makes me wonder if June Brigman ever drew Angel and the Ape. “According to my research” – No.So Tom Batiuk has moved his Komix Korner format from Funky Winkerbean to Crankshaft. Cricked necks are in the forecast. Earth Day has been cancelled. Yesterday Alley Oop and company blew up the planet. […]
G. B. Trudeau has gone too far! From The Oregonian: Another reader responds in The Oregonian letters section: A reader was offended by a recent Doonesbury cartoon in which Donald Trump replaced Jesus in cartoonist Garry Trudeau’s version of The Last Supper, (“Readers respond: Comic strip crossed the line,” April 14). Yet Trump has many […]
Since The Daily Cartoonist has reported the deaths of Don Wright, Bob Beerbohm, and Trina Robbins others, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, have noted their passing. Don Wright The New York Times Don Wright, Editorial Cartoonist With a Skewer for a Pen, Dies at 90 He won two Pulitzers for Florida […]
A program of nine restorations, titled Back From the Ink: Restored Animated Shorts, will premiere at the 2024 TCM Classic Film Festival on Saturday, April 20 at 6:30pm, with an in-person introduction by MacFarlane. Seven shorts directed by Dave Fleischer will be screened: Koko’s Tattoo (1928), Little Nobody (1935), The Little Stranger (1936), Greedy Humpty […]
From Interviewer William Schwartz: From 2006 to 2020, Norm Feuti wrote and drew Retail, a syndicated strip surprisingly low on wacky antics, preferring to deal with the mundane farce of retail employees stuck between intractable corporate policy and arbitrarily unreasonable customers. Feuti spoke with me about this and the other comics of his career. The […]
Tim Jones, who lives in Smithfield with his wife, Kathy, daughters, Eily and Jillian, and large dog, Ezzy, has spent the past decade developing and refining “Sour Grapes,” a self-syndicated comic strip featuring “Aesop,” a miserable flying dog, living in a strange, problematic and troubled world along with his odd family and pet cloud, “Ominous.” […]
Signe Wilkinson, Anne Morse Hambrock, Zach Hansen, NCS Reubens, AAEC/ACC Conference, George, John, and Peter – the Gallaghers of Bergen CountySigne Wilkinson retired a few years ago but returns occasionally when issues dear to her heart arise. Signe reacted when recently in Philadelphia: With the death of another toddler who accidentally shot themselves after discovering […]
Louis M. Glackens: Pure Imagination April 14, 2024 through March 30, 2025 Louis Glackens was a trailblazing figure who became one of the first illustrators of animated cartoons from 1915-1920, creating characters for production houses such as Baré, Pathe and Sullivan Studios. His fantastical depictions of mermaids, anthropomorphic beasts and pie-faced grown-ups carved a path […]
Though in my mind Rose Gumbo is around thirty years of age, she turns forty today. At least her comic strip does. above: the first three dailies and the first SundayRose Is Rose began on April 16, 1984 with the title character portraying the life of a homemaker. Within a couple years creator Pat Brady […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for April 2024 (and some March) release.Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. American Comic Book Chronicles: 1945-1949 by Richard Arndt, Kurt F. Mitchell, Keith Dallas At long last, […]
Beginning April 15, 2024 The San Luis Obispo Tribune will reduce the frequency of it print edition, from six days a week down to two days a week. The paper informed readers Sunday (also at Yahoo): Tribune readers will notice several major changes beginning Monday. Print schedule: Starting this week we will publish print newspapers […]
Let’s start with some King Features funnies … oh, wait it’s been two days since the last time and I have to log in, again, and check off my favorites, again. So, again, I will plead for Comics Kingdom to put a “select all” box on their favorites page that would automatically check all the […]
One hundred years ago one of the greatest adventure comic strips by one of the greatest cartoonists debuted – Washington Tubbs II by Roy Crane first appeared on April 14, 1924. While the promo above tells us to “Watch For The Adventures” there was no thrilling action at the start. Don Markstein explains that Washington […]
David Fitzsimmons semi-retired at the start of 2023. The joy of being retired is no longer having to rush to meet a deadline. I can draw for pleasure at a leisurely pace. David has taken to writing his Substack columns: David takes us through the unrushed steps of a recent cartoon. In this instance I […]