The American Newspaper Publishers Association Convention in 1926 was naturally covered by Editor & Publisher. E&P previewed it in their April 17, 1926 edition. Included with that issue was a comic supplement which featured original comic strips by a number of syndicated cartoonists all concerning publishers, editors, and the convention.It is proper that it was […]
Twenty-five years ago Jim Scancarelli‘s Gasoline Alley mentioned comics characters looking funny.And the comics did look off-model that day – ’cause it was April 1, 1997.The Corpus Christi Caller-Times hedder:Today is the silver anniversary of The Great Comics Switcheroonie of 1997.A Scripps Howard article explained what was happening to a confused public. To celebrate the occasion […]
The late 1960s to the mid 1970s was the height of the underground comix, and the creators and producers of those comix enjoyed a brief time of being joined by some old masters of the cartooning art. Historian Brian Doherty has a new book, Dirty Pictures, coming out this Spring about Underground Comix. One chapter […]
My blogging partner, DD Degg, forwarded an article from the Spectator on war and cartooning, in which the above WWII David Low cartoon is referenced though not shown.The article is a quick read and nicely done, but doesn’t show any of the cartoons it discusses. Which is why you should read it there and then […]
March 26, 1972 saw a new comic strip appear about a group of high school students created by school teacher Tom Batiuk who also happened to be a cartoonist.The Funky Winkerbean cast spent 20 years in high school until Tom decided to move them on to a different arrangement, advancing them 4 years after their […]
In 1926 cartoonist George Storm adapted Johann Wyss’ The Swiss Family Robinson into a comic strip serial for the McClure Syndicate. The closed-end strip ran daily from October 18, 1926 to March 18, 1927 in most newspapers that carried it.Ron Goulart excerpts from Nemo, the Classic comics Library #4: While looking for something or other I […]
J. R. (James Robert) Williams’ Out Our Way panel first appeared in newspapers on March 20, 1922, 100 years ago today. It’s not-always-tender look at the travails of regular folk became hugely successful.Per Brian Walker: “In 1936, Williams had 700 daily and 242 Sunday clients, the most of any syndicated feature.” Here are the first […]
Bill Suddick, Chuck Asay, Kate Beaton, Roy Thomas, Edward Sorel, and Jackie Ormes. Beach Metro Community News cartoonist, illustrator and educator Bill Suddick will be the guest speaker at the Tuesday, March 22, online event hosted by The Beach and East Toronto Historical Society. The free Zoom presentation will feature Suddick talking about the stories […]
Ninety years ago Carl Anderson, at age 67, became an overnight success. Well, his comic character Henry became an overnight success. Carl had been toiling in various newspaper art departments for 40 years and trying to hit the big time as a cartoonist for at least 30 of those years.Art Baxter relates Carl Anderson’s struggles: […]
In 1970 Prince Valiant creator Hal Foster was nearing 80 years and decided to slow down. After interviewing a few comic artists to take on the task of drawing Prince Valiant’s Sunday page he settled on John Cullen Murphy. Hal would (mostly) continue to write and layout the comic through the 1970s.Nate D. Sanders Auctions […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for March 2022 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists It’s a Pug’s Life Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes Britain’s Best Ever Political Cartoons Comic […]
It has come down through the history books that Uncle Sam, a term applied to the U.S.A. since The War of 1812, first appeared as a cartoon image in the United States in the New York Lantern dated March 13, 1952 (below). From Sarah Ames’ research: In New York City today, a political cartoon appeared in […]
The above For Heaven’s Sake was one of very few comic strips that touched on the subject this year.But the National Catholic Reporter has a story about the Treasure Chest comic book whose first issue was published in time for Lent 1946. As Lent began in 1946, students in American Catholic schools were treated to […]
The first Daylight Saving Time changeover was March 30, 1918, back when photographic set pieces like this, featuring small children in hastily-made costumes, were a fading but still present part of newspaper graphics. One complication was that the next day was Easter, but the good people of Harrisburg, PA, didn’t have to worry about missing services, […]
A couple articles about Jewish cartoonists dropped today. The Jewish News of Northern California introduces its readers to Rebecca Schuchat: Comics are Rebecca Schuchat’s preferred mode of self-expression. Yet the Oakland-born cartoonist, whose new comic strip, “Where’s My Timbrel?,” is debuting here and will continue on J.’s social media channels, tends to make comics that […]