Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for May 2022 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Are We Lost Yet?: Another Wallace the Brave Collection Popular Comics: Giant-Size Volume 1 Black & White Edition Remarkably Ruby The Best of the Rejection Collection Heart […]
Word has reached The Daily Cartoonist that Hy Eisman is recovering from health issues. With Hy’s permission we can report that he is home rehabilitating and recovering from a procedure that cauterized a bleeding ulcer. Hy is being cared during recuperation by his lady Cary and daughters Mindy and Merle.Hy, who turned 95 this past March, […]
For a generation of comic book fans, June Brigman’s name conjures a particular accolade that – while entirely deserved – undermines the impressive body of work that she’s built up across a career that’s lasted 39 years at the time of this article being written. But before we address that dubious honor, however, let’s appreciate […]
Mike Smith (KFS) suggests that MAGA supporters are either stupid or hypocritical for ignoring the outrageous flaws of our previous president while blaming the current one for things beyond his capacity to control.It is, unfortunately, a view of the world as it should be rather than the world as it is. There’s a lot of […]
King Features has released their Syndicate Directory for 2022. Some notes…Most important is the question: Has Hy Eisman retired? Past Directories listed Popeye as “Dailies reprint, Sundays new.” This edition, as does 2021’s volume, leaves it marked as reprint with no difference.The last time we checked Hy was still doing the Sunday page.Only Flash […]
Edison Lee (KFS) pays tribute to the date, though I’m a little uncertain of the premise, since his father and grandfather would be more apt to recognize a Friday the Thirteenth reference than someone Edison’s age, given that the movie came out 42 years ago.Which, now that I do a little math, means his father […]
In May 1947 Milton Caniff was voted “Outstanding Cartoonist of 1946.”Seventy-five years ago Milton Caniff, creator of the Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon comic strips received the first Billy DeBeck Memorial Award, or The Barney, as the highest honor from the newly established National Cartoonists Society (NCS).Yes, The Reuben Award began as “The […]
Ruben Bolling, author of the “Tom the Dancing Bug” satirical weekly cartoon strip, has won the 2021 Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons from the National Press Foundation. He accepted the award at the National Press Foundation’s May 4, 2022 awards dinner in Washington, D.C. The judges cited Bolling’s mordant wit, […]
Existential Comics strikes my mood perfectly.We didn’t read a lot of 20th Century anything back in the 60s when I was in college, so de Beauvoir wasn’t on the docket, but there were other philosophers who offered a bit of comfort in what we then thought were dark days.Yes, little did we know, and I’ll […]
National Cartoonists’ Day was last week so this is late, but how can it be late when we’re talking about the past? Every year, May 5 is observed as National Cartoonist Day. Why May 5 is considered as National Cartoonist Day? On May 5, 1895, the New York World carried a single-strip, full-color drawing of […]
Last year David Reddick excited fans with a teaser about Legend of Bill webcomic.Today he gave us the Reveal! David gave us only a bit more to dwell on:It seems Legend of Bill will become a Comics Kingdom web exclusive –I don’t think this is an indication of newspaper print syndication (yet).David already does Intelligent Life […]
It started, as most searches do, by looking toward the end. “COVID taught us all just how precious and fragile time with family is,” reflected 34-year-old Charlestonian video editor/director/cinematographer Gavin Shelton. Thus began Shelton’s pandemic project: a curation of the life and legacy of his uncle, underground comix icon Gilbert Shelton. Gilbert Shelton, now in […]
A Sack Full of Wit © Journal Gazette/Steve Sack When Steve Sack, the editorial cartoonist for The Minneapolis Star Tribune, announced his retirement last week, his fans in the Twin Cities thanked him for four decades of great work. But readers of The Journal Gazette’s editorial pages have known him even longer. In fact, Steve […]
The Walker Bros. and Eric Reaves gives us some background in Hi and Lois. © King Features Syndicate(Love the opening butterfly panel.) When the Vintage Editor and the Contemporary Editor don’t confer.Today’s Vintage Tiger:and today’s currently syndicated (tho still a rerun) Tiger: Tiger © King Features Syndicate Synchronicity? Foxtrot © Bill Amend; Wizard of Id © John Hart […]
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not. Your mother brings you into the world, carries you first in her body. What do we know about what she feels? But whatever she feels, it, at least, must be real. It must be. What are our ideas or […]