Greg Robinson for Nichi Bey writes: By the 1930s, comic strips had become important vehicles of social and political commentary…Yet… representations of racial minorities in mainstream strips, especially positive ones, were rather rare…As a result, I was pleasantly surprised recently when I came across the Toya Matsu episode in the 1930s comic strip “You be […]
We are a week late in honoring Spanish cartoonist Josep Marti who was born February 28, 1932 and is now eligible for our Senior Stripper Club for cartoonists aged 90 and over. Spanish artist Josep Marti i Capell has drawn for various European publishers. He started out with realistic western and war stories for the […]
A new co-signature appeared this week in the Bliss panel.© Harry BlissA commenter at GoComics guessed Cary Stringfield, a web developer and cartoonist. With no proof I propose an alternative – Anne Stringfield, aka Mrs. Steve Martin (Steve Martin has been offering gags to Harry Bliss for a while now).From The Famous People website (since […]
R. F. Outcalt, F. Opper, George Luks, Gus and Rudy Dirks, F. M. Howarth, Bunny Schultz, C. W. Kahles, and others are among the comic strip creators of the first decade of Sunday Comic Supplements as described by Roy L. McCardell, journalist and humorist (and occasional gagman for the cartoonists) who had a hand in […]
From around the internet some recent posts about comic strip history. © Tribune Content AgencyKyle Anderson, at The Nerdist, remembers and compares the Rogues’ Galleries of Dick Tracy versus The Batman.One of the very best things about the Batman mythology (some might even argue the best thing) is the wild cadre of baddies who populate Gotham […]
Vintage Comics Kingdom has returned after taking the weekend off, except for a week of Office Hours which they don’t have in their archives.Mike Peterson usually does this, but I’ll do the honors today the best I can.© King Features Syndicate Office Hours for 1/5/1974 does not exist in […]
As Christianity’s most holy season approaches the Assembly of God celebrates the life of two-time Pulitzer Prize winning, and man of God, editorial cartoonist Vaughn Richard Shoemaker (1902-1991). Exhibiting more confidence than he felt, Shoemaker went to the offices of the Chicago Daily News to ask for a job. Told there were no openings, […]
[Liza Donnelly’s] latest book, Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists, publishes in March. In it, Donnelly continues telling the history of some of the women artists published in the nearly 100-year-old magazine starting from 2005, where her earlier book, Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists And Their Cartoons, left off. North […]
David Sipress writes: In the fall of 1969, I made a spur-of-the-moment decision to quit graduate school at Harvard, where I was enrolled in a master’s program in Soviet studies. As the euphoria brought on by my boldness began to fade, an overwhelming anxiety about consequences took over… Chief among my real-world worries was that […]
Despite the legendary status of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, neither were universally loved during their presidencies. The History Channel, through their history.com website, featured a look at the 1860s editorial cartooning of Honest Abe Lincoln earlier in this Presidents’ month. In this pro-Lincoln cartoon published during the 1860 presidential campaign, “Honest Old Abe” wields […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for February 2022 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 1922-1924 Invisible Presence Flash Gordon Dailies: Austin Briggs Come Over Come Over (hardcover edition) review SUPERHUMAN: THE BRONZE AGE OF […]
Syracuse University has Ray Thompson‘s Papers and the inventory includes a biography of the 20th Century cartoonist and writer: In the autumn of 1926, after attampting in vain to land a job at any of the city’s newspapers, he decided to try freelancing. He had been drawing cartoons since grade school and sold his first […]
A reminder that the deadline for entries to the National Cartoonists Society’s Divisional Reuben Awards ends in three days – February 2, 2022. The NCS has put up a video describing the selection/election process of the Reuben Awards.(As much as I love the procedural explanation I love the various interpretations of the NCS logo.) In today’s […]
100 years ago this week Gene Ahern, in his Our Boarding House panel, started a sequence that would have a great impact. In 1922 the week began on the Monday of January 23 and featured a mystery stretching through the week. (Click on panels to embiggen, a second click will supersize.)January 23, 1922: January 24, […]
Southeast Tennessee’s McMinn County School Board has voted unanimously to ban Art Spiegelman‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus from every school district library. From the Daily Beast: The McMinn County school board’s 10 members voted to axe Maus from curricula and school libraries, citing its use of the phrase “God Damn” and its drawings of […]