Fred Basset has been in rerun status for nearly two months. A week after celebrating its 60th anniversary the comic strip went into rerun mode. According to a comment by “dv”: Fred Basset comics are reruns right now because the artist who has been drawing them since 1991, Michael Martin, has retired. The copyright holder, […]
I wish I could believe in Paul Fell’s vision of a world in which labor unions had the upper hand on management. He’s got a point in that the falling unemployment rate gives workers a degree of leverage they haven’t enjoyed in quite a while, and it’s also true that there has been a jump […]
A bunch of comic strip characters are making guest appearances in other than their own comic strips this Sunday. So what’s going on? My theory is the cartoonists conspired for this to happen because it is Reuben Week. Fort Knox sneaks some Bloom County residents into that comic strip. Arlo and Janis mentions Snoopy. Snoopy […]
In the 1960s many magazine cartoonists had hopes of becoming the next Mort Walker, Hank Ketcham, or Johnny Hart. Possibly reaching Charles M. Schulz status? George Gately (né George Gately Gallagher) was one such hopeful, though his first effort to rule the newspaper funny pages didn’t hit the heights.But then he created Heathcliff. above: the […]
Lemont confronts a harsh truth in today’s Candorville (WPWG) and not a bad introduction to Labor Day. To put a positive swing on it, you might say that no matter how much you define yourself by what you do for a living, your friends in the real world see only your off-duty persona. Which is […]
The new book Funny Things: A Comic Strip Biography of Charles M. Schulz presents the story of the creator of the Peanuts comic strip, through over 400 pages of comic strips. It’s a very interesting approach, as authors Luca Debus and Francesco Matteuzzi create comic strips that stick pretty snugly to the format, style, and […]
Rachel Smythe is the creator of Lore Olympus, one of the most popular comics in the world. If you haven’t heard of it, you’re not on WEBTOON. With more than 85 million monthly active users, it is the most-read digital comics platform in the world. Lore Olympus, which is a retelling of “The Abduction of […]
As Comics Kingdom informs us, “Pros and Cons is no longer offered as the author has ended the comic strip.” Pros & Cons by Kieran Meehan began as A Lawyer, A Doctor & A Cop on September 5, 2005. The back story that drives the strip’s humor is the friendship between the three characters that […]
I would have used this Existential Comics discussion yesterday if I’d realized the concept of theft and/or compensation was going to be debated in the comments. I like our comments section and appreciate that the great bulk of entries are genuine conversation, whether I agree with them or not.But theories don’t pay the rent.Existential Comics […]
Matt Bors, editor and publisher of The Nib, sent a message this morning: Tomorrow is the final day of publishing for The Nib. We have a blowout planned with more comics than we have ever published in a single day. That seemed like the only proper way to do it. Thank you for reading our […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for August 2023 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Got a few books released in August missed on the mid-August listing. So… Arnold: The Complete Collection Volume 1 The Cambridge Companion to […]
Glad I didn’t use this Pearls Before Swine (AMS) when it appeared Sunday, because there has been an explosion of conversations about art and ethics in the days since.Not, mind you, that this is the first time the issue of purchasing vs downloading music has come up. Doonesbury devoted a week to the topic back […]
Matt Groening and Life in Hell, Bruce Petty and the Vietnam War, Etta Hulme and Comic Books, Art Evans and College Mascots, Carl Jones and The Boondocks, Tom Batiuk and Chuck Ayers and Roses in December.Before there was Homer, there was Binky Everyone knows that The Simpsons is what made Matt Groening one of the […]
Ella, Nathan Archer’s weekly comic strip for The Tallahassee Democrat, ended earlier this year. Nathan Archer had been a regular freelance cartoonist to The Tallahassee Democrat until this past Spring when Gannett decided to do away with editorial cartoons. It was also this past Spring that Nathan’s comic strip for that newspaper also ceased appearing […]
I think Jonesy is being a little hard on meaningless connective phrases, but that may be because I tend to use “so” as a connective phrase, which makes it okay. On the other hand, a connective phrase should connect two things, which makes “so” an absurd way to begin.Listening to the news will expose you […]