Announcing the 2022 Davenport International Cartoon Contest! A festival that honors a famous Political Cartoonist seems almost naked without some kind of competition focused on that endeavor. To that end, the International Cartoon Contest has returned! Also, since we have not changed either our entry fees or our prizes in over 30 years, we have […]
50 years ago, on July 15, 1972, Apex Novelties released Funny Aminals #1, an underground comix book with work by Robert Crumb, Justin Green, Shary Flenniken, Jay Lynch, Michael McMillan, Bill Griffith, and Jim Osborne.Oh, and a three page story by Art Spiegleman. Three pages that would evolve into a Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book.Six years […]
A reminder that if you are, or know, a young cartoonist doing political cartoons or comics journalism, you have until July 15 to submit work for this year’s Locher Award! The Sunday Heathcliff every which way. © Creators SyndicateExcept for the title and the Kitty Korner companion panels Sean Kleefeld rearranges the Heathcliff Sunday half page […]
Argentinian cartoonist Liniers’s internationally syndicated daily comic is collected for the first time in English in Macanudo: Welcome to Elsewhere (Fantagraphics, Aug.). Being Fantagraphics that book is now scheduled for September. With the cartoonist’s first book for the English speaking world coming soon Publishers Weekly talks with Macanudo comic strip creator Liniers. I loved […]
Cartoonist and comics historian Bob Harvey has passed away. Robert Charles (Bob) Harvey (a.k.a. R. C. Harvey) June 22, 1937 – July 7, 2022 Bob’s friends Tom Tanquary and Carolyn Weller have informed the comics world that R.C. Harvey has passed away due to complications following a fall.From Bob’s daughter Julia:Last week Dad fell and […]
Despite their vast impact, the whole story of the underground comix movement has never been fully told in a coherent, systematic way. Sure, over the years we’ve seen some good work focus on individual creators or publishers, and some good bibliographic work tracking down the titles and print histories from a collectors’ perspective, but nothing […]
Around mid-year we update our Senior Strippers list with a birthday of a cartoonist around this time. However there are no 90th birthdays on our list for mid-2022 (the next on our schedule isn’t until 2023).But we have added a few since last year. Most recently Playboy cartoonist and children’s book author/illustrator Don Madden, whose […]
© Tauhid BondiaStopped and got the local McClatchy newspaper today. Cost me $3.00 plus tax (for 16 pages!) but I got me a tearsheet of Tauhid Bondia‘s first syndicated Crabgrass. © Peanuts Worldwide Title IX was not tremendously popular with everyone when it first passed in 1972. The legislation, which bans sex-based discrimination in schools and […]
Real Estate Listing: Terry Manor For Sale Location: Bronxville, New York – Price: $5.995 million Originally built in 1935, Terry Manor is a fully restored and renovated Tudor-style home set on nearly an acre of park-like property in Lawrence Park West, a tree-lined neighborhood in Westchester County. The period home was built by Charles Lewis […]
A few book related items have surfaced recently. So…Our friends at Stoopid! take the comic part of comic book seriously and they have just released a new issue of the funny book. Order the new issue here and catch up on back issues you may have missed. At the dawn of the Silver Age of Superheroes […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for June 2022 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Back Issue! 136 Red and Rover: Fun’s Never Over My Perfect Life Dirty Pictures You Know Exactly Batpig: Too Pig to […]
Thirty years ago (give or take) new Sunday Popeye cartoonist Randy Milholland had his dreams bashed by his first grade teacher.And then…© Randy Milholland New York magazine audio editorial director Hanna Rosin tweeted about a new movie.And then…And then…After deleting the tweet, Rosin issued an apology.Vanity Fair carries the story. Alison Bechdel has spoken. The cartoonist […]
Publishers Weekly reports the death of Blanche Cirker. Blanche Cirker, co-founder of Dover Publications, died last week at the age of 104. Cirker and her husband, Hayward, who died in March 2000, founded Dover in 1941. Dover Publications was famous to comic strip fans as the publisher of “treasury-size” editions of Little Nemo and […]
Graphic Illustrator or Cartoonist? What is a graphic illustrator? A graphic illustrator is a professional who creates illustrations with the help of computer software, application, or by hand. They create visual content such as logos that help their clients display their intentions and messages. To be a graphic illustrator is not easy as it requires […]
Mo Willems Strapping in for a self-proclaimed emotional roller coaster ride, author-illustrator Mo Willems sat down with Union Square Kids editorial director Tracey Keevan to discuss his epic 20-year-plus journey in children’s books and the release of his eighth Pigeon book, The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster! (September). By way of highlighting Willems’s achievements, […]