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The Secret Origin of “Ace Backwords”
From Wikipedia: Peter Labriola (born September 12, 1956), better known by the pen name Ace Backwords is an American author and a former underground cartoonist based in Berkeley, California. Backwords, born Peter Labriola, published Twisted Image, a punk rock tabloid, from 1982 to 1984 featuring interviews with Johnny Rotten, Jello Biafra, Henry Rollins, Charles Bukowski, […]
Posted on: Jul 24, 2021, Section: Alternative comics, Comic history, Comic strips, Comments: 0 Comments
2021 Eisner Award Winners
The winners of the 2021 Eisner Awards were announced Friday night at the San Diego Comic-Con. A mostly comic book affair here are the winners in some categories we regularly cover here at TDC. Best Reality-Based Work WINNER: Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio, by Derf Backderf (Abrams) Big Black: Stand at Attica, by Frank “Big […]
Posted on: Jul 23, 2021, Section: Awards, Books, Comic Books, Comic history, Comic strips, Graphic Journalism, Graphic Novels, web comics, Comments: 0 Comments
Lyonel Feininger – 150ster Geburtsfeier
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 […]
Posted on: Jul 17, 2021, Section: Anniversaries, Comic history, Comic strips, Comments: 3 Comments
Hey Kids! Comics! History in July
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for July 2021 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Rebirth of the English Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope, 1847–1870 Lieutenant Dangerous The Spellbinding Episodes of Phoebe and Her Unicorn […]
Posted on: Jul 14, 2021, Section: Books, Cartoonist, Comic Books, Comic history, Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Illustration, Comments: Comments Off on Hey Kids! Comics! History in July
Sex, Drugs, and Rex Morgan
John Wells recent posting of an intriguing 1954 Judge Parker Sunday … … got me thinking of a Rex Morgan, M.D. story by the same author of few years earlier. Nick Dallis tells of the dangers of drugs on America’s youth. A couple months later the comic strip would be reproduced in a comic book […]
Posted on: Jul 12, 2021, Section: Comic history, Comic strips, Graphic Journalism, Comments: Comments Off on Sex, Drugs, and Rex Morgan
A Desert Island Cartoon Before It Became Cliché
© Bill Griffith 2020 Of the 126 or so cliché cartoon gags probably none is as well known as the one with a palm tree on a small tract of land sticking up out of the ocean. After all, you aren’t asked what ten CDs you would want if you were abducted by aliens, or […]
Posted on: Jul 11, 2021, Section: Comic history, Magazine cartoons, Comments: 3 Comments
Reinhold Reitberger – RIP
Cartoonist and comics historian Reinhold Reitberger has passed away. Reinhold C. Reitberger December 25, 1946 – June 25, 2021 A cartoonist and comics historian based in Germany, Reinhold and Wolfgang Fuchs’ Anatomy of a Mass Medium, along with George Perry and Alan Aldridge’s Penguin Book of Comics (which I got one within a year of […]
Posted on: Jul 10, 2021, Section: Cartoonist, Comic history, Comic strips, International, Obituary, Comments: Comments Off on Reinhold Reitberger – RIP
Bernstein, Blum, Lockman, Newman Get The Finger
The San Diego Comic-Con has announced the comics writers who will be awarded The Bill Finger Award this year. Comic-Con is proud to announce six writers who contributed greatly to the history of comics have been selected to receive the 2021 Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing. The selection, made by […]
Posted on: Jul 1, 2021, Section: Awards, Comic Books, Comic history, Comic strips, Comments: Comments Off on Bernstein, Blum, Lockman, Newman Get The Finger
Post-Dispatch Comic Artists Profiles 1951/52
Beginning in the Fall of 1951 until the Spring of 1952 The St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a series of profiles illustrated by cartoonists who were appearing on their daily and Sunday pages. Over two dozen comic artists contributed original art, caricatures, and photos for the project which ran as a third-page in the Sunday color […]
Posted on: Jun 23, 2021, Section: Comic history, Comic strips, Comments: 3 Comments
Chicago Celebrates Its Classic Comics Culture
Who would have guessed that Chicago was the birthplace of comics? The exhibition focuses on the origins of the comics in popular publishing, the immeasurable importance of African-American cartoonists and publishing, the first woman cartoonists and editors, the first daily comic strip, and finally the art and comics of undeservedly forgotten Frank King, who with […]
Posted on: Jun 22, 2021, Section: Alternative comics, Cartoonist's Cartoonists, Comic history, Comic strips, Exhibits, Magazine cartoons, Comments: 2 Comments
Cartoon Chronicles – Huddled Masses
Little Orphan Annie and the Melting Pot Harold Gray has been derided as a conservative, and that he was, but he had a complicated relationship with ethnic figures. He both painted them with limiting stereotypes at the same time as elevating them to heroic status that few other comic strip creators of the era […]
Posted on: Jun 17, 2021, Section: Comic history, Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Comments: Comments Off on Cartoon Chronicles – Huddled Masses
Hey Kids! Comics! – Papa’s Got a Brand New Book
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for June 2021 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Scoop Scuttle and His Pals Charlie Brown’s America review Squiggles by Sharon Coping Skills by John Cuneo […]
Posted on: Jun 16, 2021, Section: AAEC-feed, Books, Cartoonist, Comic Books, Comic history, Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, web comics, Comments: Comments Off on Hey Kids! Comics! – Papa’s Got a Brand New Book
2021 Eisner Award Nominees – Comic Strip Division
The annual Eisner Awards, in association with the San Diego Comic-Con, have announced the nominees in their various groupings. While there is no exact comic strip or editorial cartoon categories, there are some divisions and nominees to which we can relate among the mostly comic book awards. The most direct comic strip category is […]
Posted on: Jun 9, 2021, Section: Awards, Comic Books, Comic history, Comic strips, Comments: Comments Off on 2021 Eisner Award Nominees – Comic Strip Division
Charles Schulz Documentary June 25
Apple TV+ today revealed the trailer and premiere date for its upcoming documentary special, “Who Are You, Charlie Brown?,” set to make its global debut on Friday, June 25 on Apple TV+. Honoring the “everyman” creator, Charles “Sparky” Schulz, “Who Are You, Charlie Brown?” celebrates the significance and global multi-generational popularity of the comic strip […]
Posted on: Jun 8, 2021, Section: Comic history, Comic strips, Television, Comments: 1 Comment
First and Last – Mutt and Jeff, Part 1: Chronicles
In 1905 twenty-year-old Harry Conway (Bud) Fisher left Chicago for San Francisco where he got a job working for de Young’s Chronicle newspaper. It seems his theatrical portraits began appearing in the paper in November of 1905, with his sports cartooning splash coming on November 15, 1905. His caricature of Bob Fitzsimmons, an aging, freckled, […]
Posted on: Jun 2, 2021, Section: Comic history, Comic strips, Comments: Comments Off on First and Last – Mutt and Jeff, Part 1: Chronicles
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