For reasons remaining unknown The Honolulu Advertiser decided to go all out for their 85th anniversary on July 2, 1941. For rationale just as mysterious we’re acknowledging that 80 years later.The Advertiser invited the cartoonists whose features ran in the newspaper to help celebrate. George (Grin and Bear It) Lichty, John (Strange As It Seems) […]
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Ziggy‘s first dated panel GoComics interviews Tom Wilson, Jr., the son and successor of creator Tom Wilson. I remember Dad saying how, when he was a kid, he loved watching Laurel & Hardy films. He said his favorite instances in those films were when Laurel would do […]
Fifty years ago on Sunday June 27, 1971 newspaper readers were introduced to Ziggy in a promotional teaser for the next day’s debut.On Monday June 28, 1971 Ziggy by Tom Wilson began as a daily panel.Selling points for the panel was the clean uncrowded art and a lot of pantomime gags; if lettering was necessary […]
A century ago, Sydney artist Jimmy Bancks created an iconic Aussie character, a red-headed boy called Ginger Meggs. Part battler, part larrikin, part philosopher, Ginger Meggs is one of Australia’s most successful cultural figures, ranking alongside Dame Edna, Crocodile Dundee and Blinky Bill. When Sydney artist Jimmy Bancks created a newspaper cartoon strip in 1921, […]
Last month John Rose celebrated being hired by King Features Syndicate to succeed Fred Lasswell as the cartoonist for the Barney Google and Snuffy Smith comic strip.But it wasn’t until May 21, 2001 that the first strip carrying the John Rose signature appeared.© King Feature SyndicateHappy Anniversary John! Another Twenty?
The first edition of what is now called The Tribune hit the streets on April 15, 1871. It was called “The Tribune & Utah Mining Gazette.” As part of the Sesquicentennial Celebration cartoonist Pat Bagley created a poster.Thoughts on seeing stuff like this are (1) how long did this take to complete? And (2) at […]
G. B. Trudeau’s Doonesbury debuted October 26, 1970. The daily, that is.It took another five months for the first Sunday Doonesbury to show up.Fifty years ago: And today:© G. B. TrudeauFrom Comic Book Resources: Top Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Doonesbury.
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York is pleased to announce the presentation of Three with a Pen: Lily Renée, Bil Spira, and Paul Peter Porges featuring works by the three Jewish artists driven from their homes in Vienna after the German annexation of Austria, the so-called “Anschluss,”, in 1938. On view March 11 through September […]
Everywhere around the world they’re dancing in the street, ’cause it’s Al Jaffee‘s birthday!Michael Cavna, at The Washington Post has a brief talk with the birthday boy.“Hitting the century mark in age, it’s a nice number” for the brain to consider, Jaffee said with a warm laugh Thursday from his New York […]
Mort Gerberg is celebrating a 90th birthday, born March 11, 1931 (yeah, we’re a day late). Also this year he will be celebrating his 60th year as a cartoonist.In Mort Gerberg On the Scene Mort explains the he did cartoon for his high school newspaper but put that aside for the Army and a mainstream […]
100 years ago today in Gasoline Alley (from the New York Daily News):Over the years Jim Scancarelli has used the Sunday around Valentine’s Day as a reason to revisit the day Skeezix was found and his life after that momentous occasion.It was not unusual for the birthdays to be numbered. Birthday’s of note have […]
The St. Louis Post Dispatch has regularly featured the Weatherbird on its front page since 1901. Since February 11, 1901 to be exact.The Weatherbird didn’t appear every day that February, but beginning March 4, 1901 the comic character became a regular front page feature during the week (it would take a few years for Weatherbird […]
Henry Martin A little drawing appeared around Reunions in 1983. It showed a smiling tiger strolling into Murray-Dodge Hall to the new AA Haven, set up to support alumni during Princeton’s annual alcohol-laden bash. “It was just a little vignette, but it was lighthearted and it made the whole thing seem unthreatening. And thoroughly Princetonian,” […]
Sam Viviano has devised a wonderful project for the world.Next month (March 13) is Al Jaffee‘s 100th birthday and Sam has an idea that involves very little effort on our part:In normal times, we’d throw a huge party, and invite all fifty billion of Al’s closest friends to attend. Unfortunately, this is not a normal […]
A number of comic strips debuted on January 7.1900 (not the first strip) 1929© Dille Co. 1929© ERB Inc. 1934© King Features Syndicate 1990© Baby Blues Bros. 1991© Lincoln Peirce