Wishing Jenny Campbell blue skies. © Jenny CampbellWas aware of the Christmas Covid problems Jenny had, but nothing of today’s Flo & Friends topic (if it means what I think). What could make an All-American Family turn on Stephan Pastis?© Stephan Pastis (or maybe Bil Keane Inc?)Read the disgusting Pearls Before Swine before we throw it on […]
Monty (AMS) has been having various misadventures in the Arctic, and here, as noted in that fourth panel, he’s having his leg pulled by the locals.Do the natives have 50 words for snow? According to this, yes but also no, since, to begin with, there’s more than one Eskimo/Aleut language and 50 was a rough […]
A Comic Chronicles EditionSo much comics history. IF FAY KING HADN’T MARRIED A PRIZE FIGHTER named “Battling” Nelson, we’d know almost nothing about her life. We know her opinions about the manners and mores of the twenties and thirties from her comic strips, cartoons and columns. And we have an inkling of what she looked […]
My initial response to Clay Bennett (CTFP)’s cartoon is not “maybe it’s me” but “yeah, it’s definitely me.”I was thinking that because you can declare an Ace to be 1, he still had a straight flush, J-Q-K-1-2. I’m less embarrassed by thinking a flush could — how you say? — go around the corner, than […]
Ginger Snappish offers a primer on comic lettering. Part 2 of The Art of Lettering Comics. Other blogs about typography and lettering…from Todd Klein and Alex Jay.
Comics Kingdom bailed out on the last segment of the current Vintage Radio Patrol story. Here’s what you missed:
Crabgrass by Tauhid Bondia will debut in newspapers on March 28, June 27, 2022.The Elizabethtown (Ky) News-Enterprise, in a front page above the fold story, revealed the date. Elizabethtown native Tauhid Bondia soon will be making readers across the country chuckle. His daily humor comic, Crabgrass, about two best friends named Kevin and Myles, is […]
Ron Goulart died on the morning of January 14th, 2022. It was the day after his birthday: an irony wrapped in a riddle strangled by a conundrum. Actually the date was merely a coincidence. No, it was an irrelevant fact. I am struggling with a way to begin this, fooling myself that I can “open” […]
Cartoon Exhibit[E]ditorial cartoons [will be] exhibited at the University of Tennessee’s Downtown Gallery beginning Wednesday, January 26 through Saturday, February 26. The Downtown Gallery exhibit is called Point of View: Regional Editorial Cartoons. This exhibition is in conjunction with A Serious Look at the Funnies, an exhibition at the Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture […]
While we’re recovering up here in the US from a flood of MLK-themed political statements in which people failed to rise to the occasion, Cathy Wilcox kindly explains it all from a neutral viewpoint in Australia.I take some comfort in the fact that they’ve got plenty of their own problems down there and an even […]
The poster and button art for the 2022 Saranac Lake Winter Carnival by G. B. Trudeau has been released. Posters and buttons are available for purchase. Using the Winter Carnival’s designated theme “Totally 80’s,” Trudeau’s illustration shows the “Doonesbury” characters J.J. sitting in the iconic 1980s Delorean time machine from the film Back to the […]
Looks as if today’s Luann has a Groo-some guest star.(Check out the doodle on the napkin.) One of the suspects in the current Dick Tracy Minit Mystery is definitely Not Gomez Addams. In Mary Worth we find that Wilbur Lives!He has washed up “on the shore of this uncharted desert isle.” (Certainly alive, Karen and June showing […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for January 2022 release.Images and links (mostly) via Amazon,though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Alley Oop Book One: Dinny Comic Book Women The Complete Funky Winkerbean Volume 11: 2002-2004 Drawing the Past, Volume 1: Comics and the Historical Imagination in the […]
Dallas Frazier, Songwriter of ‘Elvira,’ ‘Alley Oop’ and Many Country Hits, Dies.Excerpt from the Variety obituary: Dallas Frazier, a songwriter who broke out with the pop novelty hit “Alley Oop” and went on pen country classics like the Oak Ridge Boys’ “Elvira,” died Friday at 82. “Dallas Frazier is among the greatest country songwriters of […]
Cartoon artist Paul Trap has to keep the creative juices flowing to come up with plots and punchlines for his daily comic strip, Thatababy. Sometimes the inspiration needs coaxing. “I attribute it to caffeine and the pressure of deadlines,” Trap said The strip centers on two parents and their curious, often mischievous infant, inspired by […]