Cartoonist Bob Scott has no intention of sending his Bear into hibernation this winter. A new Bear With Me book will soon join his first Molly and the Bear book in stores and comic shops.Recently John Adcock interviewed Bob at Yesterday’s Papers: Brett Koth and I were hired to co-pencil Jim’s comic strip US Acres. I […]
The question of whether or not to take the vaccine is loaded. Both Biden and Harris (as well as Pence) have taken the shots in order to promote the idea that the vaccine is safe and effective, but, as noted here before, the Queen was going to take it for the same reason only decided […]
New Hampshire State Representative Dawn Johnson is apologizing after retweeting a reworked cartoon poster of a Daily Stormer racist, anti-semitic trope aimed at Georgia voters.Representative Johnson (R-Laconia) pleaded ignorance of the cartoon’s background and of The Daily Stormer. I regret sharing what I thought was a benign link about Georgia politics on social media. After […]
After 28 years Dan Gola has retired his weekly Claude & Ernie comic strip due to ill health. © Dan GolaIn a note to readers of the Echo Journal Dan says: To all the readers who shared some laughs with me and “Claude and Ernie” for the past 28 years: You are the reason it […]
It used to be a tradition this time of year to break the fourth wall and wish readers a Merry Christmas, these being some examples by classic strips back in 1925. I didn’t see many examples today, though it may be that, come next Friday, more cartoonists will do that. It’s a clumsy situation to have […]
Pearls Before Swine © Stephan Pastis Over the Hedge © MFry & TLewis Prints available via GoComics Shop disclosure: TDC and GC owned by AMU
Keith Knight, Tove Jansson, Charles Addams, Matt Groening, Aaron MacGruder, Edward Gorey, E. H. Shepard, Liz Montague, and others. Finnish illustrator Tove Jansson spent many summers at a remote mökki (cottage), enjoying idyllic moments that would later make their way into the stories of her famous comic strip, The Moomins. Cartoonist Keith Knight’s The K […]
The end of the year brings out the “Best of” lists.Some of which contains items that we have mentioned here.The Beat‘s list of the 50 best comics of 2020 includes titles by seasoned creators and up-and-coming talents. Forbes has put out their list of The Best Graphic Novels of 2020. Polygon has a different view of The […]
Harry Bliss, who lives about 20 miles south of here, cites 40 inches of snow from yesterday’s morning dump, and I got a laff over his having bought JD Salinger’s home and then joking about having to dig himself out.Salinger wasn’t a hermit — he came into town and was sociable enough — but he […]
Mike Morgan refers to his nearly 30-year career as author and illustrator of the “For Heaven’s Sake!” comic strip as his “advocation to go with vocation” as senior pastor at Gainesville First United Methodist Church. Morgan’s “For Heaven’s Sake!” was first published in the Faith and Values section of The Macon Telegraph in [September] 1991. […]
Some of you may have noticed that some of us have an obsession with Firsts and Lasts. So when we presented the first Newspaper Enterprise Association Christmas strip from 1936 last week, our goal was to bookend that with the last NEA Christmas strip.In January 2009 cartoonist Dan Thompson got Rip Haywire, his parody of/homage […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for December 2020 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books – review Barnaby Volume Four Max and the Midknights: Battle of the Bodkins […]
A roundup of recent news items.Tomversation, Humor for a Sheltered World© Tom FalcoThe Miami Herald highlights Tom Falco‘s contribution to making the pandemic a bit more bearable. When the pandemic started, Tom Falco got back to drawing comics. On May 4, he began publishing them online through “Tomversation,” which he subtitled “The real world. Just […]
I realize it’s a case of “damning with faint praise,” but Mike Luckovich (AJC) offers the best of a bunch of happy cartoons praising the rollout of the Covid vaccine, which is a demonstration of Tolstoy’s opening of Anna Karenina that “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”That’s […]
Desirée N. Santos has earned the Girl Scouts Gold Award for her Emma webcomic.The Gold Award is the highest achievement within the Girl Scouts of the USA. From NJ Advance Media: Desirée N. Santos, a resident of Cranford and a Lifetime member of the Girl Scouts of Cranford (Service Unit 48), recently received official approval […]