words & pictures © Steve Martin & Harry BlissThe New Yorker presents The Origin of Team Steve Martin and Harry Bliss,a multi-page sequential comic as shown in their new book A Wealth of Pigeons.Spoiler: It’s not all fun and games.
A month late but GoComics is interviewing cartoonist Paul Trap as his Thatababy comic strip reaches its 10th year of syndication. GC: How do you keep the jokes fresh and funny every day for 10 years?Paul: Caffeine and panic. GC: What’s your trick/go-to to overcome artist’s block?Paul: I’m first in line if someone comes up […]
© King Features SyndicateHägar the Horrible is slated for prime time animation. From Deadline: Hägar the Horrible is set to make a raid on the small screen with an animated family sitcom series in development. Fresh Off the Boat writer and producer Eric Ziobrowski is writing the adaptation, which comes from King Features, the Hearst-owned […]
The responses to the King Features survey for suggestions to a comic revival brought varying responses as to which character to bring back in new strips. But they seem united in agreement that bringing back Krazy Kat would be sacrilege. (For the record I marked Krazy on #2 and for #3 Krazy was the only […]
(Non Sequitur — AMS)(Prickly City — AMS)The most unpleasant part of our current situation is that a pair of cartoonists, working from different sides of the political spectrum, could drop such spot-on strips today, despite each working with a substantial lead time.We’re that divided politically, and, more than that, we’ve also divided between people who […]
King Features Syndicate is running a short survey to find which Classic KFS comic strip fans would like to see revived with all new stories and art.While I remain totally noncommittal, you can secretly deliver your preference by casting your vote for King Classics at the SurveyMonkey page.all images © King Features Syndicate
Over the Hedge gives us their Sunday lead time (six weeks).© M Fry & T Lewis Are there no boundaries in Red and Rover?© Brian Basset Bizarro teases a hard copy that doesn’t exist (but the webcomic does).© Dan Piraro Curtis, Rex Morgan, and Lola all accept that they are figments of imagination.© King Features Syndicate© North America […]
Bon vivant and cartoonist Janet Salter has passed away.Janet S. (Lipsky) SalterDecember 10, 1922 – October 31, 2020From the obituary: Mom was on lots of commissions, but enjoyed the Fine Arts Commission the most.Early on, she became part of the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild, which honored comedians, actors and singers and raised funds for struggling […]
Rupert characters are © & ™ Express Newspapers & DreamWorksNewspaper comic features that are still appearing in newly produced and printed episodes after 100 year can be counted on one hand – Gasoline Alley, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Thimble Theater starring Popeye, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, and now Rupert Bear.*On November 8, 1920 […]
Piers Morgan explains: America’s new President-Elect, Joe Biden, has a framed cartoon strip on his desk. It features Hagar the Horrible, the red-bearded Viking character created by American cartoonist Dik Browne, stranded on a rock in a violent storm as his ship sinks, lashed by thunder and lightning. ‘Why me?’ he shouts up at God. […]
Kieran Meehan couldn’t have known how funny today’s Pros and Cons (KFS) would be when it hit, or, at least, how timely.We’ve had “news” that someone was caught throwing out ballots, only it turned out he was just discarding a sheet of instructions.And then we had “news” that dead people were voting in Michigan, only […]
Wouldn’t it be nice if they carried signs like this fellow in Macanudo?But we don’t discuss politics on Friday.However, discussing both life and philosophy is permitted and Macanudo (KFS) is often the sort of thing you could spin a whole day from if you slowed down enough.Is a humble-bragger more to be feared than someone […]
Doonesbury © Garry B. Trudeau What was the key turning point for you? After returning from a sabbatical in 1984, I started to move the characters forward in real time, aging them, giving them jobs, families. I realized that by keeping them frozen in time on a college campus, I’d been neglecting all the generational […]
© Grant Snider Grant Snider, whose newest collection “I Will Judge You By Your Bookshelf,” was nominated for a 2020 Goodreads Choice Award gets profiled in The Derby Informer. Once he went off to college at the University of Kansas, Snider began drawing comics for the student newspaper, “The University Daily Kansan.” He was drawing […]
Betty Debnam, the creator and editor of The Mini Page, has passed away. Betty Glass Debnam Hunt October 23, 1929 – November 1, 2020 Elementary school teacher, advertising copywriter Creator of the educational newspaper insert The Mini PageFrom the obituary:While teaching in Wake County, Betty had the idea of combining education and journalism into a newspaper […]