© the Estate of Edward GoreyDeadline is reporting that Edward Gorey’s The Doubtful Guest is being pitched as a live-action feature. Being in the middle of the Gorey biography Born to Be Posthumous the news caught our eye. © Alison BechdelAs a kid, cartoonist Alison Bechdel was obsessed with the bodybuilding ads at the back […]
Joel Pett wraps up both the message and the problem of World Press Freedom Day in a single cartoon: We all want truth. We just can’t agree on what it is. We should expect spin, the presentation of facts from a partisan viewpoint. John Cole offers a chuckle about the FBI search of Rudy Giuliani’s apartment […]
King Features Syndicate has issued an advisory through Reed Brennan: Attention MUTTS Clients: King Features Syndicate advises that the May 2 Sunday strip centers around the Bidens’ dog Major and his life as a shelter dog. Because of the current delicacy of this topic, we understand that this comic may not be right for all […]
The last week of April 2021 saw a new cartoonist drawing the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! daily panel. The change in art styles is obvious, much more so than when John Graziano took over the feature from Don Wimmer in 2004.Below is the penultimate daily by John Graziano and the second daily by “the […]
Deflocked (AMS) sets the theme for today. As noted yesterday, we’re no longer in Perpetual Panic mode, but it is nice to put the serious issues aside for a moment.OTOH, Mamet doesn’t simply put them aside but keeps his head buried, and it’s depressing to see the absolute garbage available on TV.But take heart, because […]
The Northside Sun of Jackson, Mississippi has partnered with Creators Syndicate to supply comics and cartoons to its readers on the newspaper’s website. It is a unique webpage format that I haven’t seen with other newspapers. Curious if it is the paper’s design or the syndicate’s. Newspapers and comic strips have been intertwined for ages. […]
Differing from those instances when a cartoon is modified by redrawing one portion of the art to change the purpose, here is a case where the entire idea is just redrawn without credit or permission. A US cartoonist has accused a Hong Kong education publisher of “stealing” his work after a drawing depicting a “cultural […]
Here are the questions [Emmy] asked Brian: Where did you come up with the name ‘Pickles’ for your comic strip? Tell me about Opal and Earl. How did you get major newspapers to publish your comic strip and keep publishing it after all these years? How do you come with ideas for a new comic […]
Heart of the City is a sweet slice-of-life strip starring Heart Lamarr, an endlessly energetic middle schooler with Hollywood dreams in her eyes. “I just think she’s living in her own little world,” Steenz laughs, “and reality comes a-knockin’.” The strip centers around Heart’s everyday misadventures with her similarly pop-culture-obsessed friends and her harried but […]
Either Jeremy’s Mom in this Zits (KFS) has a lot more faith in bipartisanship than I do or she has no idea what coffeeshops pay.That’s the last I’ll say about last night’s speech: I’m glad Biden called for a raise in the minimum wage but never mind that the Mocked Turtle was staring straight ahead […]
© Don AsmussenThe last new Bad Reporter was in March. Hope Don Asmussen is okay. © King Features SyndicateBruce Tinsley has increased his weekly share of Mallard Fillmore since commenting on the Gannett cancelling of the strip. He had been doing the Sunday page and two weekday strips, but since the week of March 21, 2021 […]
Shary Flenniken ran away from Seattle and became a cartooning star. In her free time, she started illustrating covers and comics for the fleet of underground newspapers that were springing up around Seattle in those days: the Helix, the Seattle Simpleton and the Seattle Liberation Front’s flagship title, Sabot. After a few false starts, Flenniken […]
© Andrews McMeel SyndicationSteenz celebrates a year on Heart of the City with a nice promo poster. © Tristan Bancks and Jason Chatfield; Ginger Meggs ™ Winslow Investments Pty LtdJason Chatfield‘s continuing celebration of Ginger Meggs‘ 100th sees a new book on May 4. © Ghazal QadriGoComics celebrates signing Ghazal Qadri’s Salt n Pepper by interviewing the […]
Military.com is reporting: A movement is gaining steam to recognize a heroic Black sailor from World War II, who towed a raftload of wounded shipmates through shark-infested waters after their ship was sunk in 1942. Social media posts over the weekend began highlighting the story of Petty Officer 1st Class Charles Jackson French of Foreman, […]
Steve Bell’s If …, the Monday through Thursday comic strip for The Guardian, will end on Thursday, April 29, 2021 after nearly 40 years. From The Press Gazette: Monday’s column teased the impending end to the long-standing political cartoon, which began in November 1981, with the final edition to be published on Thursday. Bell, whose […]