Mt. Pleasant by Rick McKee and Kent Sligh has ended. Cartoonist Rick McKee notified readers Monday on the GoComics site: Yes, unfortunately, this is the end here. We began Mt. Pleasant two years ago in what was already a challenging newspaper market, with very limited space available for new comics. We knew it would be […]
One comic strip has taken over the headlines this weekend, but there are others in the funny papers. Or is that funny pages? Today Ziggy took me back to another who advised against taking life too serious. A bit surprised no one mentioned Pogo in the Ziggy comments. The Man, The LegendAlso not mentioned in […]
Yesterday’s F Minus (AMS) is clearly coincidental, given that it was not only written and drawn but printed and sitting in newspaper mailrooms well before Scott Adams immolated himself last week.But it’s a good summary of the story nonetheless, given the number of people rushing to proclaim that they never liked the sumbitch or his […]
Scott Adams response to the Dilbert cancellation from his Twitter account: Dilbert has been cancelled from all newspapers, websites, calendars, and books because I gave some advice everyone agreed with. (My syndication partner canceled me.) and I’ve lost three careers to direct racism so far. Crocker Bank, Pacific Bell, and cartooning. All three were perpetrated […]
Andrews McMeel Universal announced late Sunday evening that they will no longer associate with Scott Adams. The full AMU statement: Andrews McMeel Universal is severing our relationship with Dilbert creator Scott Adams. The process of this termination will extend to all areas of our business with Adams and the Dilbert comic strip. As a media and communications company, […]
Andrews McMeel Universal, the distributor of the Dilbert comic strip and publisher of the Dilbert reprint books, has issued a preliminary statement about the recent podcast by cartoonist Scott Adams where he encourages Whites to separate from Blacks. We are disturbed by the personal views recently expressed by Dilbert creator Scott Adams, and do not […]
After the way cartoons have gotten punched around this week — one in particular — First Dog on the Moon‘s take on AI and the art form is particularly solid. I often feel a little guilty featuring the whole thing, and you should realize that he does others I don’t show here and that you […]
The New York Daily News began in 1919 and it took about two years for The New York Sunday News to appear. After about another two years, on February 25, 1923, the paper began running a Sunday color comics supplement. Here is the section from 100 years ago by way of newspapers.com These days the […]
Fallout from Scott Adams’ podcast a couple days ago begins. From Cleveland Plain Dealer editor Chris Quinn: Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, went on a racist rant this week on his Coffee with Scott Adams online video show, and we will no longer carry his comic strip in The Plain Dealer. This […]
First, a bit of serendipitous timing, as Pros And Cons (KFS) manages to unintentionally comment on the decision by New Mexico authorities to drop the firearm enhancement charge in the case in which Alec Baldwin faces an involuntary manslaughter accusation for the accidental, fatal shooting on the set of a movie.Turns out that, as in […]
Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams: “… the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people.” On his Real Coffee with Scott Adams daily podcast yesterday the cartoonist took the results of a Rasmussen Poll and stretched it to farcical lengths. The Daily Beast reports on the 12 […]
More information about the new editions of the collected Calvin and Hobbes books has been released. The first set of books collecting Bill Watterson’s timeless Calvin and Hobbes comics in a compact, portable format designed to introduce the timeless adventures of a boy and his stuffed tiger to a new generation of readers. Featuring over 500 comics from the strip’s debut […]
From 100 years ago is an article on the then-current comics scene from the February 1923 Vanity Fair. THE largest group, dealing with married life, reaches its lowest level of painfulness in the series “For Better For Worse”, by Tad, and perhaps its highest level in Briggs’ series “Mr. and Mrs”. It includes such varied […]
Allan Holtz has turned his Stripper’s Guide over to Alley Oop publisher Chris Aruffo for three days allowing Chris to reveal how he went from Oop fan to Oop publisher. It’s a fascinating story. Chris takes us from reading the comic strip in his newspaper to reading it online to gathering the physical strips in […]
The Anchorage Daily News informed readers of changes to their comics page today: Readers of the comics pages are going to notice some changes this week. A couple of these occurred at the first of the year, but we’ve added several features — and cut some — starting this week. The new comics to the […]