Rob Harrell in Adam @ Home reminds some of us that we have a daily duty to perform, and my duty to The Daily Cartoonist is getting later in the day than usual. Lincoln Peirce’s Big Nate explains why. Summer has arrived in The Big Valley and errands are being run in the morning while […]
Linda Walter, cartoonist for the Susie Q. Smith comic panel and strip among others, died 14 years ago and since then she had been kept at a funeral home without getting a proper burial. From WTEN-TV: WOODSTOCK, N.Y. (NEWS10) — After going unclaimed for many years, the cremated remains of 1950s comic strip illustrator Linda […]
Reuben Award nominee Jeff Smith, Reuben Award nominee Bill Griffith and Reuben Award-winner Ernie Bushmiller, Zapiro, courtroom sketch artists Bill Hennessy and Christine Cornell, Darrin Bell, Alison Bechdel, and Dale Hrabi & Kagan McLeod are among the cartoonists in the news in today’ weekend roundup.Reuben Award nominee Jeff Smith‘s college comic strip Thorn is being […]
Today’s theme being comic strips you may not find funny, we’ll start out with a La Cucaracha (AMS) that explores areas I probably shouldn’t try to comment on.Spanish-speaking people are not a single ethnic group, and are barely a single linguistic group, and yet they are treated as a single group. I don’t think Cubanos […]
The Minnesota History Center will host a year-long exhibit of Peanuts and Charles M. Schulz. The event is covered by local and national news. KSTP-TV: A museum exhibit set to open next month aims to teach visitors something new about Minnesota’s most famous cartoonist. The Minnesota History Center is celebrating St. Paul native Charles Schulz, […]
Way back one hundred years ago The Los Angeles Times produced a Sunday supplement for and by younger readers it called The Junior Times. That entertainment and educational section ran from July 23, 1922 – July 15, 1934 and our interest in it is that it ran comics by aspiring cartoonists. One such Junior Times […]
The boys are prepubescent, but their exact age is unclear, as is their relationship to each other … Are they twin brothers? Friends? The same kid in alternate universes? Or is it more of a Jekyll-and-Hyde situation? It doesn’t really matter. Goofus and Gallant are symbols more than characters. In every issue, they play out […]
(Or Wednesday. Whatever. I’m retired; I don’t have to know that stuff anymore.)Well, then, we’re making progress! This sequence in Pros and Cons (KFS) cracked me up in large part because I only dipped a toe into therapy during our divorce, and that had more to do with setting up visitation and so forth. Which […]
‘Red and Rover’ cartoonist, based in Edmonds, looks back on careerBrian Basset has drawn newspaper comic strips for decades. Now he’s preparing for the next phase of his career. If you are like me the Everett Herald headline and subhed shrieks that Brian Basset is retiring. Rest assured that is not the case … not […]
Charles Schulz’s Art Studio For Sale A tranquil midcentury modern home in Sebastopol used as an art studio by Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz to draw his nationally syndicated comic strips hit the market Friday, June 23, for $3.95 million, according to Coldwell Banker Realty. The home, built in 1966, rests on 7.2 acres of […]
Mutt and Jeff, recognized as the first regularly published daily comic strip >see Allan Hotz’s comment below<, ended after 75 years on June 26, 1983. Above are the last daily (June 25, 1983) and the last Sunday (June 26, 1983) strips from the Charlotte Observer which carried the strip to the end, by then being […]
The Duplex (AMS) nearly gets the Accidental Timing Award, and I say “nearly” because, first of all, Putin would be way over-matched and I’m sure would refuse to compete, and, second, as I’m writing this at 5:25 EDT (and editing at 7:42), we can’t find either of them.My theory is that they’ve set off together […]
Bill Griffith looks forward to reminiscing in Zippy the Pinhead. The strip ends with a promising future where “comics-on-paper” make a vinyl-like comeback to popularity. Time Passages Synchronicity In a wonderful multi-panel juxtaposition we see time, in a matter of hours, pass in Wallace the Brave; while time, taking years, also passes in Six Chix. […]
In such troubled times, a good laugh is of great value, and Fiona Katauskas gives up on ruminating over the true meaning of woke and the false meanings of woke and settles, instead, on the utter meaninglessness with which the dorks have endowed it.And the flatulent pride with which they parade their ignorance.This is not […]
This is a “Where do I begin?” day, because I have a file full of worthwhile cartoons, including a new one by Lee Judge (KFS).In his latest substack, Kareem admits that, when he was young and naive, he thought voters were eager to learn about issues and make intelligent choices. But as he grew older, […]