Does the name Ken Foster[sic] mean anything to you? Okay, how about Ruben Bolling? Finally, how about Tom the Dancing Bug? They are all one and the same. I didn’t know that either. It turns out that Foster[sic], a long time Upper East Sider, is a highly successful editorial cartoonist. He chose Ruben Bolling as […]
As a cartoonist, I’m always asked about my greatest influences. I have quite a few, but my earliest — like many, many cartoonists — was Charles Schulz (Peanuts). Therefore, you can imagine how honored I am to be speaking at the Charles M Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, CA on Saturday, June 25! It’s a […]
As Scoop describes it: Cartoonist and caricaturist Angelo Torres, known for his work in MAD, EC, and Warren, is the subject of the new short film, My Dinner with Angelo. Now streaming on Vimeo, the movie features Torres interviewed by Ian Scott McGregor. Scoop continues: Accompanying the interview is new footage of Torres’ contemporaries like […]
A very late notice that Glenn McCoy, after a four year absence, returned to The Duplex comic strip on April 18, 2022 (the dailies, Glenn started doing the Sundays again on May15, 2022).His sojourn in Hollywood seems to have refreshed his comic strip sensibilities – the art and gags seem fresher than ever.Not to downplay […]
Wallace the Brave (AMS) takes a sweet but kind of downer look at Father’s Day. Their wistful pessimism is not, however, to be confused with Prickly City (AMS), which takes the occasion to be genuinely unpleasant and divisive.Spud and Amelia don’t hate their fathers. They miss them in their own quite different ways: Spud literally never […]
A few book related items have surfaced recently. So…Our friends at Stoopid! take the comic part of comic book seriously and they have just released a new issue of the funny book. Order the new issue here and catch up on back issues you may have missed. At the dawn of the Silver Age of Superheroes […]
The Great Bend (Kansas) Tribune announced new comics coming to the paper. June 19 [2022] marks the day for new comics in the Sunday paper. The Great Bend Tribune is excited to introduce fresh, new comic strips to you. We hope you will enjoy them, as we tried to pick comics that would be appropriate […]
Dated June 17, 1942 was the first issue of Yank, The Army Newspaper.That issue contained a number of cartoons and comic strips by soldiers. One of those comic strips was the first appearance of The Sad Sack by Sgt. George Baker.The Sad Sack would be in Yank from the first to the last. In the […]
Beware of Toddler by George Gant will make its Comics Kingdom debut on Father’s Day June 19, 2022, joining a growing list of webcomics on the site that includes Funny Online Animals, Gearhead Gertie, Rae the Doe, #Sales, Kevin and Kell, Safe Havens, and Todd the Dinosaur.The announcement was made as part of an interview […]
Agnes (Creators) and Trout debate the reality of what’s right in front of their faces, which certainly fits in with all sorts of current events that I plan to save for another day, though I’ll add the possibility that Trout is just jerking her chain.Point being that it’s hard to know, these days, who is […]
Rob Tornoe, for Editor & Publisher, takes a look at the current status of newspaper syndication as it involves comic strips and editorial cartoons (and puzzles).Rob starts the article with self-syndicated cartoonist Chad (Tundra) Carpenter. While “Tundra” has lost some papers that were forced to cut back or shutter during the pandemic, he did benefit […]
Cowboy poet and humorist Baxter Black has passed away. Mamta Popat, Arizona Daily Star Baxter Black January 10, 1945 – June 10, 2022 Cowboy poet, humorist, columnist, songwriter, speaker, author,and comic strip writer. From Farm Journal:Baxter Black, the veterinarian turned cowboy poet, storyteller and philosopher of rural life in America, died Friday, June […]
© RL Crabb Let’s start with a cartoonist’s cartoon about cartooning. © EC Publications I grew up in central Maine in the ’60s and ’70s, and while we weren’t exactly the Mayberry of the North — the fictional town of “The Andy Griffith Show” — if you were looking to find a nearly 100% […]
Heidi MacDonald reports on the WEBTOON advertising blitz: I don’t take the subway very often here in NYC, but other local Beat staffers (and a smattering of other social media postings) have noted that Webtoon has launched a pretty prominent subway advertising campaign around town. I witnessed these Webtoon subway ads myself last Friday night […]
Deadline breaks the news: CBS has put in development JumpStart, a multi-camera comedy based on Robb Armstrong’s long-running comic strip. Wayne Conley (The Best Man) will pen the TV adaptation, which hails from Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and CBS Studios. Based on the popular comic strip that debuted in 1989, JumpStart is set in Philadelphia […]