We were going to set up an anniversary post for Wednesday but Wiley beat us to the punch with today’s Non Sequitur. Wiley, who has better resources than we, works a very clear shot of that original panel from February 16, 1992 into the February 13, 2022 Non Sequitur strip. Wiley admits […]
Sentimentality for the good old days is not a new emotion.On February 13, 1922 Al Posen with his Them Days Is Gone Forever yearned for better times. above from The Shreveport Journal of February 13, 1922Here’s Allan Holtz talking about the Posen and his comic strip:It seems to me that having to do a daily […]
Milton Caniff finds his horizons unlimited as Steve Canyon debuts January 13, 1947. The first eight dailies and the first Sunday.© Ester Parsons Caniff Estate
With the Sally Forth comic strip celebrating its 40th anniversary today (and all week), cartoonist Jim Keefe is taking the opportunity to recall the time he met Sally Forth creator Greg Howard, accompanied by Jim’s Sally Forth mentor Craig MacIntosh. I got to meet Greg Howard just once in 2012 before I took over the […]
Comic books had appeared long before 1922, but that was the year a comic book appeared on a regular periodic schedule as the appropriately named Comic Monthly began to be published on a monthly basis, with the first issue cover dated January 1922.From ComicBooks.com: In January of 1922 Comics Monthly #1 appeared on the newsstands […]
… Stephan Pastis got the pig to say:Pearls Before Swine made its newspaper debut on December 30, 2001.As Stephan explains it was a premature birth: It was December 30, 2001 that Pearls Before Swine first debuted in newspapers. Well, newspaper. This strip ran in the Orlando Sentinel, which for some reason needed to start the […]
Early next year the Sally Forth comic strip will celebrate 40 years.And it looks like Francesco Marciuliano and Jim Keefe have something special planned.© King Features Syndicate
To celebrate the 230th anniversary of The Bill of Rights we travel back thirty years when cartoonists and syndicates collaborated with The Newspaper Features Council to mark the bicentennial of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. So, from The Iola Register of 1991, we present The Art of Democracy. Charles M. Schulz […]
Ginger Meggs has joined an elite club – one that only a handful of comic strips have attained* – Ginger Meggs has regularly run new material for 100 years.When introduced Ginge’s Us Fellers comic strip wasn’t anticipated as the main attraction. Ginger Meggs first showed up in the premiere issue of Us Fellers by Jimmy Bancks […]
The Ginger Meggs comic strip will mark its one hundredth anniversary this week. It was Aussie Jimmy Bancks who introduced the world to this mischevious scamp in November 1921 in a feature called Us Fellers, which he changed to Ginger Meggs about a month later. A series of creators followed Bancks’s untimely death in 1953: […]
The debut of the short subject Rooty Toot Toot seventy years ago this month is as much a groundbreaking moment for animation as the first full-length feature, animated shows on prime-time TV, and the advent of computer-generated imagery. It tells a darkly comedic tale that would seem daring even for live-action films of the time, […]
The local comic strip Overheard in San Diego by Jay Allen Sanford is celebrating 25 years of appearing in the alternative San Diego Reader newspaper. Bonus: It gets the cover story!Jay Allen Sanford relives the past 25 years in the feature story:At first, I was only the writer. I used artwork by Rock ‘N’ Roll […]
“I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.” – – – – Bill Mauldin (October 29, 1921 – January 22, 2003)William Henry Mauldin, better known to the world as Bill Mauldin, was one of the most popular and influential cartoonists of the twentieth century. In 1975, Bill Mauldin gave […]
Beginning on October 27th and running through November 3rd of this year, the National Cartoonists Society and the NCS Foundation will hold a major art auction online, with all proceeds going to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The NCS has enlisted the help of Heritage Auctions, the industry leader in the field of comic […]
German-American artist Lyonel Feininger was born on July 17, 1871 – 150 years ago today. He became the most recognized (and successful) of the German cartoonists hired by The Chicago Tribune in 1906 to re-create the Sunday color comics section of that newspaper.From the Lambiek Comiclopedia biography: His highly imaginative art work displays interesting uses […]