The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest is certainly the most famous and popular of the current You-Write-the-Gag exercises. So popular it has birthed a book, a game, and winners become news stories for their local newspapers.Cartoon Collections runs the similar idea. So similar it uses New Yorker cartoonists to supply the drawings. This is a […]
© Rick McKee and Kent SlighGoComics has been running the Mt. Pleasant comic strip for at least a month. Recently they ran an introductory post on their blog by interviewing the creators. How did the two of you meet and hatch the idea for Mt. Pleasant? Kent [Sligh]: In May 2019 I received an email […]
We’ll end the week with a bit of politics, as Gary Clement (Cartoon Arts) hits with one of the first cartoons to shift from war to cease-fire in the Middle East.I found it particularly interesting because I stumbled onto the press conference the White House scheduled with the President Biden and South Korean President Moon […]
Last month John Rose celebrated being hired by King Features Syndicate to succeed Fred Lasswell as the cartoonist for the Barney Google and Snuffy Smith comic strip.But it wasn’t until May 21, 2001 that the first strip carrying the John Rose signature appeared.© King Feature SyndicateHappy Anniversary John! Another Twenty?
Edison Lee (KFS) doesn’t say everything I’ve been thinking about this, but he says enough.One of the things popping up on my social media feed again lately has been calls for term limits.We’ve got term limits. They’re called “elections.”If they don’t work, the answer is in this comic strip, because Congressmembers spend way too much […]
I don’t remember the characters of The Wizard of Id and B.C. comic strips mingling except in promotional material like the above. That changed Monday.I liked this. There is an internal logic that a potion or incantation of the Wizard’s went wrong and he ended up where he did. Also both the characters meeting are […]
Ann Telnaes is hardly the only cartoonist to show people — particularly Republican politicians — wearing their covid masks over their eyes, but she does some of the best caricatures in the business and keeps up with Who’s Who in Washington.And she doesn’t insult your intelligence with labels. She assumes you keep up with the […]
K. C. Green, creator of the internationally famed “this is fine” internet meme, is taking his humor to King Features with the new Funny Online Animals comic strip.© KC Green KFS editor Tea Fougner introduces the new comic: Wow! I’m so thrilled to introduce you to our newest members of the Kingdom, the FUNNY ONLINE […]
Pop Culture scholar and historian M. Thomas Inge has passed away.Milton Thomas (Tom) Inge March 18, 1936 – May 15, 2021 As CBR noted in their subhed: “M. Thomas Inge [was] one of the very first academics to cover comics as a college course and one of the earliest scholarly comics writer[s].”Tom Inge has long […]
Broadcaster and cartoonist Mike Mundt has passed away. Michael Elmer (Mike) Mundt September 6, 1953 – May 7, 2021 From the obituary:He graduated from the University of Idaho in 1976 with scholastic emphasis in Architecture, Electronics, Engineering, and Broadcast Communications. His early broadcast career was as a Broadcast Engineer for KUID-TV and as an instructor of […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for May 2021 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Back Issue #127 We’ll start the book section with a couple filed for May but released in April. Caricature and National Character The […]
This Reply All (WPWG) ran a couple of days ago, but it anticipated yesterday’s CDC announcement that you can stop masking if you’ve been vaccinated.The announcement has been greeted with joyous political cartoons, but over in Stripland it means we’re going to discover a lot of cartoonists’ lead times because there will continue to be […]
The syndicates have been busy this year adjusting their pages that feature the comics offered to newspapers. The year started off with Tribune Content Agency introducing Mt. Pleasant as a new comic strip. That was quickly followed by Andrews McMeel Syndication taking on the distribution of Half Full, and more recently dropping Tarzan from their […]
© King Features SyndicateHermes Press interviews Sy Barry on his years as The Phantom comic strip artist. In a way I got to feel that the way [Lee Falk] tried to minimize my impact on the strip every turn he could find. I began to get more and more turned off to him. I […]
May 13, 1991 saw the first Sherman’s Lagoon appear in newspapers. It first appeared in 1991 in the Escondido Times-Advocate and was self-syndicated by Jim Toomey under the name of “Pacific Press Features.” If that comic strip seems strange for a debut, understand that Jim Toomey had planned on the strip to appear a couple […]