Georgia Dunn uses her Sunday page to celebrate ten years of Breaking Cat News today. Let’s compare – here’s the March 12, 2014 debut comic strip of Breaking Cat News: As for the future? Yes, cartoonist Georgia is going there, covering real news! More previews at Georgia’s Patreon.
“News” is up for debate in some entries below, but we will start with actual news. Mike Manley has revealed that he is scheduled to return as daily artist on The Phantom June 10, 2024.Grawlix IllustratedZits today; Beetle Bailey tomorrow. Let’s stay at King Features for another news item. I’m not in the habit of […]
It is common knowledge that part of a baby’s healthy development is the new parents talking to them. The humor in Daddy Daze by John Kovaleski arises as the father explains to his infant son the circumstances surrounding them. That conversation is about to get very serious. Beginning March 11 and running for nearly two […]
“After opening in prayer at a church about 15 miles northwest of the state capital, panelists spoke of pornography in libraries, calling library board members cowards for not doing their jobs. “Then the leader of a political website remarked about book challenges in Alabama’s public libraries. “Burn the freaking books.” Little saddens me more than […]
Hi and Lois cartoonist Chance Browne has passed away. Robert David (Chance) (Bob) Browne June 17, 1948 – March 1, 1948Chance Browne, the son of Dik Browne and older brother of Chris Browne, died earlier this month. From the Stamford Advocate: Chance Browne died [Friday] at his home at age 75 after being diagnosed with […]
Radical Socialist Cartoonist William Gropper Since 1920 Cartoonist William Gropper has been busy as a beaver, trying to gnaw down the capitalist system. One day that year Manhattan’s Tribune rashly sent Gropper to caricature an I. W. W. rally. Instead,he became a convert. This week Manhattanites from Red to pink and some who just like […]
I own a lot of comics history books, most list the details of who created the comics and when they were published and the characters in those comic books and strips. And while I am always happy to see another well done comics history book being published, I am overjoyed when someone gives us a […]
Miss Cellany calls on Bryn Durgin and Navied Mahdavian, Jonathan Lemon, Barbara Brandon-Croft, Drew Dernavich, Chuck Asay, and Terry (‘Aislin’) Mosher.Miss Cellany gets unstuck in time and pulls up this, what The Pulitzer Board would call Illustrated Reporting and Commentary. The Los Angeles Times calls it an “Op-Comic.” It’s a multi-panel opinion comic from two […]
Editorial cartoonist Steve Benson is under medical care after suffering a stroke last month. The Pulitzer Prize winner, who retired late last year after 44 years, was admitted to a hospital in Arizona.Steve’s wife Claire noted on Facebook: I thought you’d like to know Steve had a stroke on 21 February and is now recovering […]
As the Breaking Cat News comic strip approaches its 10th anniversary the comic’s creator Georgia Dunn sits down on March 5, 2024 (1pm eastern/10am pacific) for a live interview with Glenn Fleishman to discuss How Comics Are Made and Watercolors in the Age of Digital Reproduction. Glenn’s interviews with current cartoonists are part of his […]
Is it murder in Milford? Will there be sports at the Spencer Spread? Amalgam Comics was a blending of DC and Marvel heroes in the 1990s and that was the feeling I got when I saw the early access look at the March 11, 2024 Judge Parker. Having seen Rod Whigham art on Gil Thorp […]
San Diego Comic Convention (Comic-Con) has announced that the Eisner Awards judges have selected 19 individuals to automatically be inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame for 2024. These inductees include 12 deceased comics pioneers and 7 living creators. The deceased greats are Creig Flessel, A. B. Frost, Billy Graham, Albert Kanter, […]
Some thoughts on scrolling through The Sunday Funnies on the new revised Comics Kingdom site. That gawdawful black background has gotta go. Or at the very least surround every comic with an eight inch (preferably a quarter inch) of white space a la The Saga of Brann Bjornson. Too much clicking. To start my look […]
A cartoonist who thought his comic strip about a town’s ducks would last a month has retired after 51 years. Mere Quacks was first featured in the Diss Express in 1973 after Mike Webb was approached by a journalist friend. His first editor suggested the theme because the Norfolk town has a six-acre (2.5 hectares) […]
The Reply All comic strip by Donna A. Lewis has switched syndicates this past week. above: Reply All for February 29, 2024; below: Reply All for March 1, 2024On March 1, 2024 Reply All began carrying a Counterpoint Media notice replacing the WPWG notice. And with the new syndicate Reply All dailies return to new […]