Today saw the Doodles Sunday page go to rerun following the death of cartoonist Chris Foote.Doodles began on Sunday October 19, 1986 as a kid’s activity/gag page titled Professor Doodles – Just For Kids Corner created by Steve Sack and Craig MacIntosh.From a Daily Cartoonist article last year: In an early (1987) interview Craig MacIntosh […]
Westerns had always been a part of American popular culture, so when radio began turning over news and lecture time to dramatic storytelling around 1929 Westerns were among the programs offered. Most, like Death Valley Days and Bobby Benson, were original to radio, some, like Rin Tin Tin, were adapted from other media.When The […]
It was a mystery on a par with The Riddle of The Sphinx or what happens when we shuffle off this mortal coil.Just who was the Lucy and Sophie Say Good Bye cartoonist?The 1905 run of the Chicago Tribune comic strip Lucy and Sophie Say Goodbye became popular because of the long goodbyes the title […]
© The Vancouver Sun Graham Harrop looks as whimsical as you might expect from a cartoonist known for aiming at the funny bone. He seems to have a perpetual wry smile, like he’s hard-wired to see the absurdity of life. On his head, white hair tumbles over his forehead and ears. That he has so […]
MAD and MAD images © EC Publications You may not immediately recognize the name John Caldwell of Ballston Lake. But if you’ve ever read MAD Magazine, National Lampoon, the Harvard Business Review, or a host of other magazines, or if you’ve ever sent a Recycled Paper greeting card or perused a collection of one […]
The new New Yorker is a Food and Drink issue. One of the thrills of living in a big city, especially a cosmopolitan one like New York or London, where the cartoonist and artist Tom Gauld lives, is the abundance and variety of delicacies that are readily available to tempt even the most finicky of […]
A number of people have recently treated us to a number of old public domain comics. From the National Institutes of Health and their National Library of Medicine comes The Tooth-Ache by Horace Mayhew and illustrated by George Cruikshank ca. 1850, a comic book consisting of forty-four sequential panels. Still in the 19th Century but after […]
When the Freckles and His Friends daily strip ended in 1971 Newspaper Enterprise Association supplied the first strip from September 20, 1915 for newspapers breaking the news to their readers.Which I guess is technically true, that was the first strip titled “Freckles and His Friends.”Merrill Blosser had only a few years of cartooning behind him […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for August 2021 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Birth of a Beetle: The Magazine Cartoons of Mort Walker Comic Book Artist Bullpen Trubble Town Red Lines Big Nate: Aloha! Authorizing Superhero Comics Tundra: Fashionably Funny Get the H*ll Out of […]
Dateline: CanadaDateline: CanadaSteve Canyon came to a U. S. Air Force base in northern Canada last winter and was promptly dropped from the comic page of the Peterborough Examiner. In an editorial the newspaper explained, “We have become disturbed by the political implications of the strip. The hero and his friends were on what was […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 uses […]
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 Handbook of Comics […]
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 with a […]