The Eisner Awards were handed out Friday night at the San Diego Comic Con.Below are a select few with categories and winners in bold. Best Short Story“Funeral in Foam,” by Casey Gilly and Raina Telgemeier, in You Died: An Anthology of the Afterlife (Iron Circus)“Generations,” by Daniel Warren Johnson, in Superman: Red & Blue #5 […]
So everyone has had fun now, making Josh Hawley jokes, and the Senator has, predictably, offered the PeeWee Herman “I meant to do it” defense.Clay Jones offers the best cartoon I’ve seen so far that captures this bold cowardice. Beyond that, Will Bunch encapsulates what I’m hearing on the street, which is that the biggest revelation […]
A letter to the editor of The Cadillac (Michigan) News: I take exception with your weekend comic strip “Over the Hedge.” The portrayal of guns being stolen from a home through a pet door and buried, suggesting the guns themselves are a problem. In fact, people can use guns for good or evil as the […]
above: Florence W. Taylor from The Intelligencer of 1926The Lancaster Pennsylvania newspaper, LNP, received a letter to the editor: I have a question for your newspaper editor or editorial board or whomever. Do you actually pay to support 38 comic strip writers in your paper? Count them! You are raising my subscription cost for LNP […]
Mike Rhode reports on Sara Duke revealing that The Library of Congress has received a new addition from 1918 to their collection by Harrison Cady, a master of the arts. “Written by Jim Edgar, ‘Matt Marriott’ was the finest and most atmospheric newspaper strip about the American Wild West that has ever been produced,” artist […]
I’m not in a political mood today, but I’ll feature this Carpe Diem (KFS) because I’m pretty sure that, since Niklas Eriksson lives in Sweden and his panel is not political, his lead time was significant and this is a coincidence.I wouldn’t run it if I thought he were drawing a fist-bump cartoon not out […]
A message from Joe Wos: Hi. It’s me Joe! Your friendly neighborhood cartoonist. Recently while I was on tour I was mugged. My phone and wallet were taken (credit cards, ID) and I was left with a broken arm, wrist, teeth and quite a few scrapes and bruises. I will bounce back and be back […]
Slate: Andy declares himself not ready to die until he hears Pet Sounds on CD. It’s a really specific choice that becomes quite beautiful at the end. Do you recall how that notion worked its way into the strip? Garry Trudeau: During the ’80s, many music geeks, including me, waited impatiently for beloved classic albums […]
In posting this cartoon to his Twitter page, Pat Byrnes admitted that he’d likely undercounted the number of gun deaths on the left side, but was content to make the point that, despite the successful intervention of a bystander in an Indiana mall shooting, “Good guys with guns” are a pretty poor defense system. And Clay Jones […]
Paul Anderson was 6 years old when his teacher bragged to the entire class one day that Paul’s dad, Brad Anderson, was the famous cartoonist who created “Marmaduke,” the wildly-popular syndicated comic about a mischievous but lovable Great Dane. Every kid in the class was smitten by the weekly tales about that larger-than-life dog, so […]
Later this year will be the 100th anniversary of Charles M. Schulz’s birthday. AP photo“Peanuts” was America’s favorite comic strip. At its peak, there were 100 million readers each day. Charles Schulz drew it for almost 50 years, through the relatively complacent but anxious Cold War 1950s, the tumultuous 1960s, the Vietnam War, the civil […]
Political cartoonist and comics historian Jim Ivey has passed away. James Burnett (Jim) Ivey April 15, 1925 – July 14, 2022 Friends of Jim are sharing the sad news.From Craig Zablo: Jim was born James (but preferred the much less formal, Jim) Burnett Ivey on April 15, 1925 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Jim attended the […]
Webtoon, the popular mobile online comics platform owned by Korean tech giant Naver, just announced its payments to English-language comics creators and the results are eye-opening in an industry not famous for its generosity to artists and writers. According to Webtoon, payouts to English-language creators topped $27 million since 2020, or more than $1 million […]
Vancouver’s Slap Happy Cartoons has announced a partnership with Andrews McMeel Entertainment, a division of global media company Andrews McMeel Universal, to develop the popular newspaper, web and book-based property Heart of the City. Slap Happy Cartoons and Andrews McMeel Entertainment believe the strip has strong potential in other formats. The target audience […]
I’m a fan of the Sunday Garfield title panels going way back. Here’s a few title panels from the randomly chosen Summer of 2007. So yesterday’s (July 17, 2022) title panel amused and surprised me. The surprise is that I don’t remember ever seeing a Garfield title panel like it. © Paws Inc.There may have […]