A hodgepodge of recent comic related items featuring Jules Feiffer, David Potter, the Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, Ed Steckley, Joel Priddy, William Hennessy, Allan (Sols) Salisbury. HarperCollins Publishers has announced the forthcoming publication of Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer Jules Feiffer’s first graphic novel created for young readers. Amazing Grapes is scheduled for publication on […]
David Fitzsimmons semi-retired at the start of 2023. The joy of being retired is no longer having to rush to meet a deadline. I can draw for pleasure at a leisurely pace. David has taken to writing his Substack columns: David takes us through the unrushed steps of a recent cartoon. In this instance I […]
Ernest Lawrence Thayer with Brian Nelson and Harvey Kurtzman and Jack Davis, Garfield, Steve Brodner and The Herblock Prize, Jay Stephens’ homage to EC, AI gag writing, a centennial Annie-versary, and Dan Piraro and Wayno and Bizarro.Batter up! Brian Nelson, at The Worcester Telegram, offers a brief history of Casey at the Bat in his […]
Artvy is advertising its Milton Caniff inspired AI created illustration “art.” Personally I’m not seeing much Caniff there. Mostly just generic retro magazine figures (without the hands).Kevvo at AdExchanger riffs on the “digital advertising ecosystem.” While we’re discussing stealing… I don’t know why and neither do you, but those unlicensed Calvin and Hobbes “Calvin Peeing” […]
Before another Saturday comes around I’d best get this Wayno Blog from last month out of the way where Wayno discusses the idea of waiting for an idea to come to you rather than chasing an idea. Our colleague Mark Parisi, cartoonist of the award-winning panel Off the Mark, recently started a lively social media […]
Featuring Lalo Alcaraz, Julia Wertz, Flash Gordon, HerblockAnissa Rivera for The San Gabriel Valley Tribune reports on Lalo Alcaraz’s three month project.********** Cheryl has a cartoonist daughter of considerable renown. Publishers pay to print her books. Several have been translated into French. She appears regularly in The New Yorker. Julia Wertz is probably the most […]
Presenting a duke’s mixture of cartoonist and comics related news items. With Lent and a period of self-sacrifice quickly approaching we feast on a glut of funny as New Orleans cartoonist Walt Handelsman and The Times-Picayune present a selection of Fat Tuesday cartoons Walt has drawn through the years. ********** When the News-Sun announced it […]
Ruben Bolling tells us that a comic strip he produces under a pseudonym has ended. From his newsletter: It is my sad duty to announce that The Comic Strip That Has a Finale Every Day has finally ended its eight-year run on gocomics.com on December 31, 2023. It has had its final Finale. Ruben added: […]
Out and about with Posy Simmonds, Bill Griffith, Gilbert Shelton, Walt Handelsman, Willard Mullin, Sarah Anderson, Alex Segura, Michael Moreci, Jim Keefe, and Greg Cravens.Posy Simmonds wins the Grand Prix British cartoonist Posy Simmonds has won Angouleme’s Grand Prix, considered one of the highest honors in comics worldwide. … she is the seventh non-French cartoonist […]
Bayeux Tapestry as the first-ever comic strip The Bayeux Tapestry is considered one of the most famous and recognisable historical documents in history. Sprawled out across nearly 70 metres of fabric, in stunning detail, is an entire catalogue of the past. As well as offering future generations a full-bodied window into military, social and cultural […]
Michael Maslin, Sandra Boynton, Dishonest John, and others. Michael Maslin has a fun, short essay about Fridays for New Yorker cartoonists and those same Fridays when The New Yorker hits a two week double holiday issue (Christmas/New Year’s in this case) and the routine is disrupted. Fridays for New Yorker cartoonists is usually the day […]
Support Your Local (or Distant) CartoonistMike set it up last year and we occasionally add to it and post it here for fans to support their favorite cartoonists. Recently Jim Keefe opened a Patreon account: My Patreon is a catch basin for all the things that I’ve learned in a career spanning some 30+ years. […]
Dave Blazek, Paul Kirchner, Michael de Adder, Chris Britt, Leigh Rubin, Randall Enos, Jerry Craft, Dan Piraro, Dan McConnell, and a couple more are featured in some reports that due to a hectic holiday schedule, were undeservedly not featured here. So before this month and year is ushered out… The Wenatchee World reports local cartoonist […]
Snoopy, Olive (Emi Burdge) & Popeye (Randy Milholland), Dilbert and Scott Adams, Noah Voelker, Jason Chatfield, and Thomas May. It’s Snoopy’s world, and Gen Z is just living in it – apparently. For months, social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram have been flooded with memes, clips and stills of Snoopy in action, clipped from […]
Ed Subitzky, Walt Handelsman, David Sipress, Roger Kastel, Ron Turner, Denis Kitchen, and more.Speaking of leftovers – here’s some stuff that was sitting in the queue. The Ed Subitzky Anti-Interview A full house turned out for the book launch of cartoonist, writer and sometimes television celebrity Ed Subitzky’s long-awaited first anthology of work at Rizzoli […]