Cartoonist and author Lincoln (Big Nate) Peirce is interviewed as his 2nd Max and the Midknights book is soon to be released. [H]ow are Nate and Max different? Nate has a much bigger ego than Max and is convinced of his own exceptionality. He’s older than Max is, but not as emotionally mature. He’s impulsive […]
Accounts of comic/cartoon history that we stumbled on this past week.Eustace Tilley: Origins of an IconAlex Jay’s short pictorial… leads us to R. C. Harvey’s 2017 True History of Eustace Tilley essay at The Comics Journal. Eustace Tilley is the name given to the 19th century boulevardier languidly inspecting a passing butterfly through his […]
Small Newspapers and Freelance CartoonistsSmall Market Sports © Bill CharbonneauDarren Johnson on getting cartoons for small newspapers: Still, when I started publishing newspapers 11 years ago – after working at other publications – I imagined that a cartoonist would be important to this hoped-for media empire. I did an Internet search and found a young […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for November 2020 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Pogo The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips: Pockets Full of Pie (Vol. 7) So Embarrassing Gross Exaggerations: The Meshuga Comic Strips of Milt […]
Recent (and not-so-recent) articles on comic and cartoon history.God’s Man, A Novel in Woodcuts by Lynn WardThis is “Gods’ Man,” a 1929 black-and-white wordless novel that tells a Faustian tale of ambition, love, greed and death. It’s by the illustrator and woodcut artist Lynd Ward. It is widely regarded as the first American book of […]
© King Features SyndicateHägar the Horrible is slated for prime time animation. From Deadline: Hägar the Horrible is set to make a raid on the small screen with an animated family sitcom series in development. Fresh Off the Boat writer and producer Eric Ziobrowski is writing the adaptation, which comes from King Features, the Hearst-owned […]
“A Wealth of Pigeons” by Harry Bliss and Steve Martin will soon be released. [Steve] Martin, who collaborate[s] with New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss, calls cartooning comedy’s last frontier. “It was a completely unique experience,’ he said. “It’s the precision of one thing. This is a one-second link between the picture and the words, or […]
November 7 Cartooning Workshop for Beginners with Rick Stromoski art © Rick StromoskiLearn how to draw cartoon characters and animals with Rick Stromoski. Kids will gain an understanding of how to create an infinite number of characters and a variety of expressions just by altering a few shapes and/or lines to a drawing. Students will […]
It was October 1970 and a few newspapers were willing to take a chance on a new comic strip about college life from a recent college graduate. Doonesbury and all supporting characters © G. B. TrudeauOn October 26, 1970 college students Mike and BD made their national debut in the Doonesbury comic strip. […]
Hitpig © Aniventure Hitpig LimitedBerkeley Breathed‘s newest project moves closer to production. Animation Magazine:Aniventure has revealed the voice cast for its new animated feature, HITPIG!, along with a first look at the Berkeley Breathed project’s concept art and details of the porky plot… Set in a futuristic cyberpunk world, HITPIG! is a riotous journey that […]
The book business is seeing a better year, as Publishers Weekly reports. A number of big summer bestsellers, a surge in interest in books on social justice, and ongoing demand by parents for children’s books that both educate and entertain combined to continue to push up unit sales of print books through this year’s third […]
Steve Brodner (Ind) starts us off with the State of the Disunion.It’s a touchy situation, because, on the one hand, people still need to show up and vote or we’re back where we landed in 2016.On the other hand, it’s encouraging and uplifting to see how the people appear to be rising up against the […]
Publisher Nat Gertler is a go-to guy for Peanuts trivia. He recently published a new edition of Miss Caroline, and while doing so he noticed our obituary of Miss Caroline creator Gerald Gardner.Again, go-to guy for Peanuts trivia. Our obituary reproduced an October 6, 1963 Gerald Gardner article from The Chicago Tribune about mass market […]
Macanudo © Liniers, distributed by King Features Syndicate Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for October 2020 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1919-1921 Frankie Comics BB3X: Baby Blues: The Third […]
October 2, 1989. What better way to celebrate 31 years of JumpStart than to issue a 30th Anniversary book.The October 4, 2020 JumpStart made a sideways note about the book.JumpStart © Ruff Sketch, Inc. Robb Armstrong is the first Black cartoonist to have a comic strip run for 30 consecutive years. To honor the 30th […]