I’m rising to a point of personal privilege today, because my father was born March 28, 1921, in Ironwood, Michigan, which deserves some fanfare at least at my house, and so here’s the local paper his father might have read in the waiting room at the hospital.The Supreme Court had just ruled that money made […]
Ginger Meggs Punchline ContestAbove is the opening panel to the page Jimmy Bancks was working on when he died in 1952. The page was laid out and mostly inked, and the script was lettered except for the last panel.Ginger Meggs ™ Winslow Investments Pty LtdFrom Bancks family members and Ginger Meggs cartoonist Jason Chatfield: Now […]
This Pearls Before Swine (AMS) starts us off with something silly.But silly isn’t stupid. After all, Isaac Asimov wrote silly limericks, and nobody would call him stupid. And speaking of limericks, Oliver St. John Gogarty, James Joyce’s roommate in that Martello Tower, wrote very clever, dirty limericks — including the one ending “they argued all […]
Autobiographical comic strips are appearing at the moment. We mentioned Lennie Peterson winding down his The Big Picture with a history. And The Daily Cartoonist Facebook page recently showcased the 1948 series of comic strip creators doing graphic autobiographies for Collier’s magazine. Meanwhile last Saturday (Friday prologue?) saw Bill Griffith sit down with Bill Griffith […]
It seems Bruce Tinsley rushed a Mallard Fillmore comic strip in response to Gannett ordering its newspapers to drop the conservative comic. On Monday March 22 the syndicated newspaper strip issued what was an obvious acknowledgement of Gannett’s actions.© King Features SyndicateIt should be noted that soon after Bruce’s return in September of 2020 a […]
National Cartoonists Society members are being asked to vote their favorites in five Reuben Award divisions for work that appeared in 2020.There are five divisions to vote on, the top three nominees in each division are what you’ll be deciding. All of these divisions were juried by regional NCS chapters and the results were tallied […]
Lincoln Peirce offered a bit of critical commentary in Big Nate (AMS) yesterday.It’s no secret that a lot of comic strips have outlived their creators, but, when a cartoonist gives up a strip, what happens next varies. If a strip is not in a lot of papers, the syndicate may shut it down, but if […]
Yesterday we noted that The Keizer Times had signed the Steve Breen’s caption contest Caption It! They also added Dave Coverly‘s gag panel Speed Bump, so now the prospective gag writers of the caption contest will have a professional’s capabilities to compare with their attempts at humor. Coverly is the creator of Speed Bump, a […]
The Minneapolis Star Tribune will start carrying the Baldo comic strip as a replacement for the Buckles comic strip, which ended its run today.The paper doesn’t mention Buckles in today’s interview with Baldo co-creator and writer Hector Cantú … Q: Is Baldo you as a kid? Carlos as a kid? Your third cousins? A: Baldo […]
G. B. Trudeau’s Doonesbury debuted October 26, 1970. The daily, that is.It took another five months for the first Sunday Doonesbury to show up.Fifty years ago: And today:© G. B. TrudeauFrom Comic Book Resources: Top Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Doonesbury.
Mostly not to be.James Allen shows his original vision for the September 25, 2016 Sunday Mark Trail page. We pair it with the published version.© North America Syndicate/KFS Topps has cancelled a Garbage Pail Kids Shammy Award sticker card. From meaww: The Shammy Awards is currently under fire for a violent portrayal of BTS in their […]
The Keizer Times, a weekly broadsheet newspaper serving Keizer, Oregon, will test its readers ability to be gag writers for Steve Breen’s Caption It!© Creators Syndicate/Steve BreenFrom the paper’s introduction: About 10 years ago, Breen began giving readers of The San Diego Union-Tribune a weekly opportunity to caption one of his drawings. The idea grew […]
We’ll start off a Canine Cascade with Wumo (AMS), for no particular reason except that I just swapped out my Facebook pics, which I don’t do terribly often. It is a form of branding, after all: People see your pic before they read your name.Which makes dog faces an excellent Facebook pic locally, since most […]
From today’s Washington Post comics page.Rhymes With Orange is by Hilary Price and Rina Piccolo © RWO Studios Lio is by Mark Tatulli © Mark Tatulli Wiley
A Jamestown resident whose comic strip pays homage to his hometown is releasing another book on the exploits of his whimsical characters. “Wicked Epic Adventures,” the third collection of “Wallace the Brave” comic strips, hits the shelves Tuesday. The strip is drawn by Will Wilson, under the pen name Will Henry, and is printed in […]