Tom Spurgeon: So with the finale for the television show Lost rapidly receding into the background, the reaction to the show suggests the question: what are the best “final episodes” in comics history? Like television, some of the best ones weren’t official finales, or didn’t quite take. With that general caveat in mind, here are […]
With the announcement of the end of Little Orphan Annie, Time Magazine is looking at the best long-running comics. They also allow you to order them in your order of preference.Here’s their original list: B.C. Dennis the Menace Beetle Bailey Annie The Katzenjammer Kids Gasoline Alley Blondie Dick Tracy Prince Valiant Brenda Starr
Dynamite Entertainment, under license from King Features syndicate, returns The Phantom to comic books this August with Alex Ross at the creative helm, Scott Beatty scripting and Eduardo Ferigato on art in the ongoing series.The series begins with no Phantom. The historic line stops at Kit Walker the 21st, who has forsaken the mantle of […]
Charlos Gary isn’t saying which character, but on a recent blog post he announced that one of his characters from Cafe Con Leche “will be coming out of the closet in June.”He writes on his blog: It’s been a long time since I wrote a blog entry. I’m just writing to let you know that […]
A restaurant man who was featured in Doonesbury back in 1997 for a eminent domain dispute between Donald Trump and the restaurant owner has died. Just a reminder, The Boondocks returns to the Adult Swim this Sunday.Political cartoonist Ed Stein will speak to the Redlands Forum on “the art of using political cartoons to comment […]
To commemorate the second volume of the Bloom County Complete Library being released, USA Today is running select strips with commentary from Berkeley Breathed this week. The commentary today is about the eighties and Star Trek references. Q. In Ted Koppel’s intro to Bloom County: The Complete Library, Volume 2, he writes, “I never believed […]
Speaking of original Peanuts artwork, a Phoenix woman took her stash of original Peanuts art that she’s been buying up since 1950 to the “Antique Roadshow” hoping that they’d appraise enough help she and her husband retire. She estimated her collection was worth about $50,000, but the appraiser on the television show said that her […]
Congratulations to Dick Locher who was honored yesterday with the unveiling of a new Dick Tracy statue that will now stand in the Naperville Riverwalk, where Dick has resided for many years.For more information, check out the close up photo of the statue is here, read statements by the Chester Gould family and information about […]
Three publications have listed the 1997 comic strip April Fools switcheroo as one of the all time best. Klue.com lists their top three as: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest, BMW Revolutionary Technology and The Great Comics Switcheroonie. Bob Eckstein, posting on dscriber.com puts the stunt at number two, behind a PC computing article that “noted” legislation […]
Ted Dawson has posted two original art from Rose is Rose and Hi and Lois (1961).
Paul W.S. Anderson is said to be working on a Buck Rogers 3D feature film. Anderson directed “Alien vs Predator.” The screen play is reportedly being written by Iron Man writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway. The Buck Rogers character is based on a comic strip of the same name that appeared in 1928.
Douglas Wolk, writing for the New York Times, writes about the surge of comic strip republications lately. As the modern-day American newspaper comic strip slowly chokes to death, done in by shrinking spaces and exhausted franchises, its more vibrant ancestors are living in renewed luxury. Comic strips are the most ephemeral kind of art; each […]
United States Postal Service will begin selling Bill Mauldin stamps this month. The stamp features a photo of himself along with his signature characters Willie and Joe. The Postal Service will also be releasing a series entitled The Sunday Funnies which will feature Archie, Beetle Bailey, Dennis the Menace, Garfield and Calvin and Hobbes. The […]
The tenth triennial Festival of Cartoon Art will take place at The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH October 14-17, 2010. The Festival is a unique celebration of cartoons and comics, and their creators. This year’s line-up of presenters include Steve Breen, Roz Chast, Tony Cochran, Jan Eliot, Matt Groening and Tom Gammill, Dave Kellett, […]
I have no recollection of the strip running in any papers I grew up with, but in case you did and you’re interested: During the 1980s, author Michael Vance and several well-known cartoonists produced a comic strip, “Holiday Out”, that was syndicated in more than one hundred newspapers, magazine, and fanzines during its peak. Three […]