The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum claims to house the world’s largest collection of cartoon- and comics-related materials, including a range of inked paper, artifacts, newspaper clips, magazines, scrapbooks, and even the drawing board used by Chester Gould, who created the Dick Tracy comic strip. But it is much more than an archive: it is at […]
The time honored tradition of the newsboy delivering the daily newspaper is no more. Begun long ago with boys hawking sometimes ten different editions a day on city streets. The practice began to change when home delivery became common, along with fewer extras. Though well into the 20th Century youngsters continued to deliver newspapers to […]
Got a bit of a whiplash reading the Sunday Funnies today what with cartoonists using their Sunday comics to switch between Super Bowl topics and Valentine’s Day themes. And then Dick Tracy abruptly breaks off its this year’s unfinished plot line to go to two weeks ( February 11 – 25, 2024) of a Minit […]
Original Peanuts comic strip artwork by Charles M. Schulz are highly prized by collectors. So naturally some try to profit off that attraction. Artist and original art collector Rob Stolzer makes us aware of one such attempt. Live Auctioneers carries an Andrew Auctions, who “acts solely as an agent for various owners and consignors,” item […]
Rick Stromoski, Lynn Johnston, Raina Telgemeier, and Bob Fingerman.Rick Stromoski, the cartoonist of Soup to Nuts and Andrew’s Journal fame, returns with a second book, in what can only be called a series now, about the adventures of Schnozzer & Tatertoes, a pair of anthropomorphic dogs. Schnozzer is a level-headed, intelligent schnauzer who keeps his […]
Comics writer and editor and comic strip historian Alfredo Castelli has passed away. Alfredo Castelli June 26, 1947 – February 7, 2023Several comic sites have reported the death of Alfredo Castelli. On February 7, Aldredo Castelli died in Milan, at the age of 76. Since 1965, his name has been linked to the history of […]
Presenting a duke’s mixture of cartoonist and comics related news items. With Lent and a period of self-sacrifice quickly approaching we feast on a glut of funny as New Orleans cartoonist Walt Handelsman and The Times-Picayune present a selection of Fat Tuesday cartoons Walt has drawn through the years. ********** When the News-Sun announced it […]
Although the entire run of Calvin and Hobbes is available both online and in print, many fans are interested in finding other comic strips that are similar to Calvin and Hobbes. Thanks to the amazing quality of Calvin and Hobbes, finding a worthy successor is a challenge. There are several comic strips, however, that either […]
Cartoonist, illustrator, and painter Frank Renlie has passed away. Frank Hanson Renlie April 17, 1936 – September 10, 2023From the obituary: Frank Renlie graduated from the Burnley School of Professional Art (currently known as The Art Institute of Seattle). His early work was particularly inspired by his instructors William Cumming and James Edward Peck. Following […]
It has been nearly a month since Michael de Adder‘s last weekly cartoon for The Washington Post. Three years ago Michael, after freelancing for the paper, was signed as a contract cartoonist to The Washington Post and charged with supplying three cartoons a week.Over the years that was dropped to two cartoons a week. Then […]
Capp, Kitchen, and Comix; Hal Foster’s medieval masterpiece; The making of Wednesday Comics, DC’s weekly broadsheet comic book; Charles Dana Gibson educates Mr. Pipp; Flash Gordon and beautiful women.When Dennis Kitchen tried to get Al Capp to draw an underground comix cover. It’s hard to name an institution that represents the golden age of underground […]
So who came out ahead with the recent spat of newspaper groups standardizing their comics pages? Gannett/USA TODAY Network with around 200 newspapers, Lee Enterprises with more or less 70, McClatchy‘s 30 or so, PostMedia‘s three dozen dailies(?), and Wick Communications’ 10 papers comes to about 350 newspapers whose parent companies have determined what comic […]
Comic book and comic strip artist Jose Delbo has passed away. Jose Delbo (José María Del Bo) December 9, 1933 – February 5, 2024)His family shared the sad news: Today we lost a legend of a father, grandfather, husband, and artist. [Jose Delbo] was as kind and as noble a man as there could be. […]
It’s been a while since I shared some current comic strips, so let’s do some catching up. I’m a sucker for cartoonists playing with the format. Breaking the panel borders is nothing new, but Tatulli playing havoc with the copyright notice hooked me. And the five panel staging struck me as odd for the strip, […]
From The Daily Pennsylvanian: Interim Penn President Larry Jameson criticized recent political cartoons published by a lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication.In a statement published on University social media Sunday night, Jameson said that the cartoons do not reflect his or the University’s views, describing them as “reprehensible, with antisemitic symbols, and incongruent with […]