Cartoonist Frank Bolle was born on June 23, 1924 and passed away last month. He became a regular contributor to comic books in the last half of the 1940s after serving his country during World War Two. During his early comic book career he often partnered, and developed a lifelong friendship, with fellow cartoonist Leonard […]
Award-winning cartoonist Ruben Bolling is the guest on the latest episode of Gil Roth’s “Virtual Memories Show.”From Gil’s site:Herblock Award-winning cartoonist Ruben Bolling joins the show to celebrate 30 years of his comic, Tom The Dancing Bug! We talk about his two new collections, Into the Trumpverse and The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader (Clove Press), and how pandemic-uncertainty means you’ll need to pre-order those […]
I’m not in the mood for politics today, and, fortunately, some strip artists put up fine work, which works out nicely and so Friday Funnies come on a Tuesday this week. But, before that, politics are pretty funny at the moment, too, and Matt Wuerker‘s commentary on John Bolton’s book provides a moment to reflect on […]
MONTAGUE: Yeah. I had emailed just, like, the general New Yorker email from the Instagram account and had said, hey, you know, there’s a lot of – there’s definitely some diversity lacking at The New Yorker and The New Yorker cartoons just based on the characters that are drawn and the point of view and […]
The Greensboro (North Carolina) News & Record subscribers had a little surprise this morning:Have no fear. We have not changed our Sunday comics lineup! Because of an insertion error, most of our customers received two versions of the Sunday comics — a correct version and a second copy printed for another publication. Unfortunately, some of […]
When June Met RexToday Rex Morgan gets around to telling Sarah how he first met her mother.In another time and reality (as Terry Beatty has explained) young Doctor Rex meets Nurse June – The last three dailies from the first 1948 week of Rex Morgan, M.D.: And In The End…After teasing last week, Jan Eliot confirms […]
Who’s zooming who?There are two parts to this thing that happened, or didn’t, last night.The first is that Zoomers pranked the Diaper Don into thinking he had a million requests for tickets for his Tulsa rally, most of which actually came from people with no intention of attending his party.Best part is that by keeping […]
Cartooning from across the ocean, Irish Times wag Martyn Turner sets the stage for today’s posting and tonight’s rally.The inverted red triangles — signs of neo-Nazi sympathy that recently got some Trump Facebook postings banned — are a nice touch.The T-shirt reading “White Lives Matter Most” is also relevant, particularly in light of the way […]
Last year Viacom bought Garfield. Now…Garfield.com is no longer an active destination.Visitors to the website will be directed to the Nickelodeon and GoComics websites.Garfield.com via The Wayback Machine.
Uncle Ben. Aunt Jemima. Eskimo Pie. Tayo Fatunla goes there with his recent Our Roots.When the images on the products are eventually changed, I will miss the smiling and inviting faces that made people of all races buy them. From an artist’s point of view, the images have been selling the products. I will not […]
The Hollywood TV/Film industry news site Deadline is reporting that Nickelodeon has won a bidding war for Phoebe and Her Unicorn for a “multi-platform franchise across an TV animated series, movies and more.”From Deadline:Roy Lee and Miri Yoon of Vertigo Entertainment are partnering with Bridget McMeel of Andrews McMeel Entertainment to produce Phoebe and Her Unicorn content. Lee brought the […]
I woke up this morning and discovered that the new horror on social media was that, while small-business owners were describing their experiences during the lockdown, Dear Leader was goofing on his phone and paying no attention.Which you can see here but is it really that much of a shock?Granted we didn’t have smartphones back […]
Last year Quinton Reviews gave us an introduction to pre-Garfield Jim Davis. Earlier this year he spent some vacation time delving deeper into Davis’s Comics From the Unknown. So here is more about Gnorm Gnat, and Jon, and even some Jim Davis high school cartooning. Hey, there’s even some Garfield! Watch The Origin of Jim […]
Over at Latin Heat Entertainment, they’re profiling (in a good way) cartoonist and animation writer/producer/consultant Lalo Alcaraz.From the piece:At this point in his career, Alcaraz has come full circle, from a child who watched cartoons on television wanting to see Latinos on television, to helping create television shows with positive Latino characters and storylines. Twitter: @laloalcaraz