Over at Vice Sports, there’s a story about Charlie Brown’s desire to be a great athlete and his complete lack of ability to ever make it a reality.From the story:What Schulz creates in Charlie Brown’s baseball career is a pure neurotic flip of that dream, a nightmare where a young man is given pure Athlete […]
Over at The Comics Journal, historian and cartoonist R.C. Harvey writes a lengthy piece on who made the initial suggestion to Milt Caniff that lead him to create his most-famous character — The Dragon Lady.From the piece:The idea of the Dragon Lady came from quite another source. It’s fairly certain that Captain Joseph Patterson, honcho of the New […]
A letter in today’s Lincoln (Neb.) Journal Star took issue with the violence portrayed in the August 5th installment of “Hagar the Horrible.” From the letter: Society should be campaigning on behalf of everyone — whether young or old, female or male — making it clear that abuse to any degree toward anyone should never […]
King Features has announced that Darrin Bell will be bringing his editorial cartoons over from The Washington Post News Service and Syndication where he’d been since 2013. Darrin’s two syndicated comics (Candorville and Rudy Park) remain with the Washington Post.From the KFS press release:“It’s a great pleasure to welcome Darrin to the King Features family […]
GoComics has announced and posted the pubic voting site to their animation contest for ten semi-finalists. The public vote will narrow it down from ten to three finalists. The three finalists will be voted on by industry-related judges and the winner will get $25,000.https://usscpromotions.com/gocomics/shortshorts/semifinalistsGoComics and the Daily Cartoonist are owned by Andrews McMeel.
Writing on Medium.com cartoonist Liza Donnelly recalls the opening remarks United Nations’ Secretary General Kofi Annan gave during a 2005 event called “Unlearning Intolerance.”From the story:“I have always thought that cartoons are one of the most important elements in the press. They have a special role in forming public opinion?—?because an image generally has a […]
A letter to the editor at the Laurenbourg (N.C.) Exchange gives a thoughtful take on the role of comics in newspapers.From the letter:Because of the daily comics pages in my local newspapers, I was encouraged to read. I discovered the books and films that inspired the cartoonists. I found a passion for art. I was encouraged […]
From the article:“Rex’s death was like the Kennedy assassination of American political cartooning in a lot of ways,” says Jack Ohman, Babin’s longtime friend who took over the cartoonist position at the Bee in 2012. “He was this young, vital guy who was there one minute… it was like, this seems so unfair and inexplicable and wrong.”http://www.sactownmag.com/Blog/2018/California-Museum-exhibit-Rex-Babin/
Comics Kingdom has announced that Darrin Bell’s editorial cartoons will start running on their site starting next week.The obvious next question is: does this mean Bell is leaving The Washington Post News Service and Syndicate for King Features? Will Bell’s work continue on GoComics? The only KFS feature that currently runs on both Comics Kingdom […]
Noted Oregonian and long-time “Stone Soup” cartoonist Jan Eliot recently posted on social media about her permanent contribution of 10 years of “Stone Soup” comic originals to the Billy Ireland Museum at Ohio State University in Columbus. The Daily Cartoonist asked her some probing follow-up questions.**TDC: You recently donated 10 years of Stone Soup comic originals to Ohio […]
In advance of the October release of their 35th book “Adult Time,” the Daily Cartoonist conducted an email interview with “Baby Blues” creators Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott.**TDC: Your 35th (!) Baby Blues book hits the streets in mid-October. How does a 28-year-old comic have 35 books?JS: This is actually our 45th Baby Blues book, […]
Michael Cavna over at the Washington Post interviews Art Speigelman on being first cartoonist to receive the award.From the story:The MacDowell Colony arts organization in New Hampshire wanted to bestow upon the legendary cartoonist its 2018 honor, which has previously gone to such creative titans as Stephen Sondheim, Georgia O’Keeffe, Toni Morrison and David Lynch. […]
Trending up as the No. 3 video on all of YouTube.com, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah covers the 50th Anniversary of Franklin’s first appearance in “Peanuts.”
The recently opened National Comedy Center in Jamestown, N.Y., has reconstructed Brad “Marmaduke” Anderson’s studio and create an interactive exhibit.From Brad’s son Paul:They had contacted us with a request to donate as much of Brad’s studio as we could. Drawing board, light board, chair, materials, items on walls, papers as they were about the office. […]
Tom Spurgeon over the Comics Reporter has a small piece on The Billy Ireland Museum at Ohio State University holding their first annual duplicates sale on August 30th. And you ask: What in heaven’s name is a duplicates sale? Well, keep reading …From their site: Calling all collectors, book worms, scholars and fans!The Billy Ireland will hold its […]