From the Schulz Museum about a new Adults by Schulz exhibit:Sometime in the mid-1950s, Schulz developed a concept for a workplace humor strip featuring adults. He titled it Hagemeyer, after his close friend from the Army. The strip was proposed to United Feature Syndicate as a new strip by Charles Schulz and was drawn on […]
There’s a raft of stupid out there, as noted in today’s Mt. Pleasant (Tribune) and, yes, the only thing more annoying than unmitigated nonsense is people who feel superior for believing it.Appropriately, there’s a new study out that shows that the people who pride themselves on being able to spot fake news are the most […]
The nationally syndicated comic Scorchy Smith portrayed the derring-do of an American flyboy and was already running in 250 newspapers across the country in Fall 1936, when a young graphic illustrator from Fort Collins, Colorado, took it over and pushed the aviation adventure strip to new heights. It was everything Christman loved: drawing and airplanes. […]
The newest syndicated comic strip is introduced by its creator in his hometown paper.Andy Marlette, the editorial cartoonist for The Pensacola News Journal, will debut the new comic strip Shrimp & Grits Monday, May 31, 2021. Today he is allotted space in the News Journal to tell readers about the comic and the feature’s characters.From […]
Advertising artist and cartoonist Cliff Witkowski has passed away.Clifford William (Cliff) Witkowski June 26, 1937 ~ May 24, 2021 From the obituary: Cliff was a U.S Naval company commander at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center and aboard the USS Eversol DD789 during the Cold War. After his military service, he attended The Chicago Institute […]
Archie Comics’ webcomic, Bite Sized Archie, is reaching a bigger audience. Bite Sized Archie, the first-ever webcomic series from Archie Comics, is expanding its online presence with a new syndication deal with digital comics app Tinyview and the upcoming release of the first in a series of digital collections on ComiXology. “We created Bite Sized […]
The AAEC alerted members to an exhibit of Pat Oliphant cartoons at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge the other day.I’d already known about it, but the hassles of traveling in the pandemic had let me procrastinate, so I jumped in the car yesterday and drove down to catch the second-to-the-last day.The museum isn’t huge […]
Walt Handelsman (AMS) has what appears to be the best take on the revelation that the coronavirus is more likely to have escaped from a laboratory than, as the Chinese government had originally contended, been a spontaneous crossover from China’s bushmeat markets.It’s possible that the virus was developed in the lab. It’s also possible that […]
Bazooka Joe in Israel © ToppsThe Virtual Museum of Israel Chewing Gum Wrappers looks at the Bazooka Joe chewing gum there since at least the 1960s. Pulp Fiction© the respective copyright owners A scarce first edition of The Shadow, published in April 1931, recently sold for $156,000 at Heritage Auctions, setting a world record as the […]
Before we get into the Juxtapositions, a couple of cartoons that pinged me on a personal level.Macanudo (KFS) hits on a particular favorite, because we read “Great Expectations” in junior high and I didn’t get it, except, wow, a surprise ending.But, yes, I can put a peg in the ground to mark who I was […]
Being ADD is either a disability or a great advantage, depending on severity and other talents. A lot of ADD people pop up in emergency services, because they do their best work, as someone put it, “when the world is moving at my pace.”It’s also a potential benefit for newspaper reporters because the combination of […]
The news agency Associated Press was founded 175 years ago in May 1846.According to Wikipedia, which takes the date from New York Natives, the prime date is May 22, 1846, so we missed the anniversary by a couple days.More from Wikipedia: The Associated Press (AP) is an American non-profit news agency headquartered in New York […]
Brian Anderson is now running his Dog Eat Doug comic strip on the Webtoons site. So far the strips seem to be reruns but there is the chance of new strips appearing: Thrilled to announce Dog eat Doug will run on Webtoons with new comics every Monday, Wednesday and Friday! Best part, Webtoons is free! […]
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 […]