This week’s daily BC comics are promoting the LUMA Projection Arts Festival in the Mastroiannis’ hometown of Binghamton, N.Y.From Mason Mastroianni’s Facebook page:Tomorrow, a special event week of BC Comic Strip will begin in newspapers across the world. From Monday through Saturday, We will be celebrating LUMA Projection Arts Festival, and it’s impact on community arts in our hometown […]
Sources reporting that King Features will end the Hazel comic panel. The last daily will be September 29th.From the King site: The name Hazel has become synonymous with a live-in maid who is more to her “family” than a housekeeper. This lovable character was created by Ted Key in 1943 and began appearing in the Saturday Evening Post. […]
The September 3rd Nancy featured a couple of panels with the dialogue “Sluggo is Lit.” The Twitter-verse grabbed a hold of the phrase and turned it into a meme under the hashtag #sluggoislit. In the wake of Twitter’s response, Comicbook.com has listed the Top 10 “Sluggo is Lit” mashups. And the internet comic mercandise and apparel company […]
Eisner-nominated Michael Cavna does a fun roundup of editorial cartoons that are weighing in on Bob Woodward’s Donald Trump book. Featuring Jack Ohman, Clay Bennett, Mike Keefe and Bob Englehart.Check it out at The Washington Post site here.
Andrews McMeel has launched a new searchable licensing site. The site features searchable archives of more than 100 comic features including such favorites as Calvin and Hobbes, Doonesbury, NonSequitur, Cathy, Luann, Stone Soup and The Comics Strip That Has a Finale Every Day.The Daily Cartoonist is owned by Andrews McMeel.
A new book from Eisner-nominated, Reuben and Addy award winner Jim Benton has been announced by IDW Publishing. The book is available for pre-order for a February 2019 release date. And there’s a nice blurb from Dav Pilkey on the cover.From the IDW site:When Clyde the Bear decides to ditch his safe and peaceful life in […]
Reality Check cartoonist, multiple Reuben category award-winner and all-around Canadian Dave Whamond has just released a new book from Kids Can Press. “Rosie’s Glasses” is written and illustrated by Dave and early reviews over at Amazon are saying:“one of the best books I have ever read.”“charming”“wordless”Here’s more from the promotional piece on Amazon:Award-winning author and illustrator […]
Former Nancy and The Muppet Show cartoonist Guy Gilchrist is featured on a podcast called “Tomorrow Comes Movies.”From the podcast:Guy on finding out he had The Muppets Show comic gig:“I had to sit there in my garage studio and pretend that miracles happen ever single day to me — and be a grown-up — and […]
Over at The Comics Journal, Teagan O’Neil reviews Paige Braddock’s new 20th anniversary Jane’s World collection from Lion Forge.From the review:Love Letters is an apt title as the book is actually interspersed with testimonials from folks like Howard Cruse, Alison Bechdel (who attests that Braddock draws breasts “better than anyone”), Stephen Pastis, and Hilary Price. The […]
George Gene Gustines over at the New York Times weighs in on the Benders retirement from “Alley Oop” and the strip’s future.From Carole Bender:“Alley Oop has been our constant companion for a big chunk of our lives. Jack started drawing Alley Oop 28 years ago, and I joined him as an assistant 27 years ago. We […]
Over at The Comics’ Journal, there’s a nice piece from Frank M. Young on how Roy Crane handled marriage in his King Features’ comic “Buz Sawyer.”From the piece:This is the triumph of Buz Sawyer. Though full of violence—with moments of stark brutality that rival Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy—Sawyer is a character study that inverts the romantic notion of the […]
King Features is launching “Macanudo” this month from Argentinian cartoonist and recent Eisner-award winner Ricardo “Liniers” Siri. It’s unclear from King’s release what day in September it is launching.One of the launch clients appears to be The Aberdeen News in Aberdeen, South Dakota. They’ve done a welcoming article here (with paywall, unfortunately). update:Today (September 4) King […]
What is today’s Arlo and Janis? Is it an homage? An encomium? Or perhaps a panegyric to Ernie Bushmiller’s 1969 (below) Labor Day Comic. Whatever you may call it, Jimmy Johnson has done it and now it belongs to the world.www.gocomics.com/arloandjanisInteresting to note, that new Nancy creator Olivia Jaimes has also turned in an “I’m […]
Today’s installment of “Hi and Lois” features a remembrance of its co-founder Mort Walker (with Dik Browne). The strip (currently done by Mort’s sons Brian and Greg) is a nice tribute to the cartooning great as we approach what would have been his 95th birthday on September 3rd.See the strip here.
More letters celebrating the obvious greatness of comics (and puzzles). This time it’s from The Greensboro (N.C.) News & Record.From the letter:That’s almost enough to make me drop my subscription, but the comics page and puzzles are still pretty good and probably worth the price. Besides, those diversions keep me occupied so I can’t focus […]