January 7, 1991 saw the first Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce. 30 years later, following so many comic strips and books (both collections of the strips and original material) Big Nate is bigger than ever.Andrews McMeel and GoComics celebrates with a Lincoln Peirce interview.What’s been your favorite story arc or gag in 30 years? Hmm. […]
Fame came to cartoonist Bill Brewer early, winning a national contest for college cartoonists judged by Groucho Marx, Steve Allen, and Al Capp.Bill then began a career as a commercial cartoonist but, like all cartoonists sixty years ago, the dream was to match fame with fortune as a syndicated comic strip creator. His 1961 attempt […]
Pearls Before Swine (AMS) sets the mood for today’s risky choice, which is to have a few laughs while we wait for Joe and Kamala to take the wheel.It’s a risk because there’s nothing new to be said about Trump’s endgame and I don’t want to wallow in it this morning, but if political cartoonists […]
Continuing a hundred year tradition the El Dorado (Ark.) News -Times has announced a comic strip contest for area teens and preteens.The News-Times is excited to announce our first-ever Comic Strip Contest! Open to Union County students in fifth through 12th grade, three winners will be selected from our submissions to be featured in our […]
Being “a bear of very little brain” I didn’t catch what Macanudo was about today. So I dug up the title panel not shown on the Comics Kingdom site which gave me the hint I needed.© Liniers I needed no hint to get the latest Flash Forward, instantly recognizing the source that gave Peter Poplaski the […]
Steve Sack (Star Tribune) offers a rueful chuckle in the wake of the Capitol riots and Twitter’s banning of Donald Trump.It’s not the first time Dear Leader has failed to appropriately acknowledge tragedy, having cheerfully tossed paper towels to people devastated by a hurricane.His genuine inability to process other people’s emotions is part of who […]
The Schulz Museum has supplied the illustrations and guide for you to publish Peanuts comic books.Added is the template for the little ones (or you) to create their own mini-comics.The Charles M. Schulz Peanuts Mini Comic page. While we’ve got Peanuts on our mind…Nat Gertler shows that they are editing Schulz. Eagle-eyed AAUGH Blog reader David […]
Artwork originally intended to be the cover of a Tintin comic book (album) has sold for 3.2 Euros ($3,872,000.00).From Artnet: A picture by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé (1907–1983) has set a new record for the most expensive work of comic book art, selling for €3.2 million ($3.8 million) on January 14 at an auction at Artcurial in Paris. The […]
Maybe. If things settle down, I’d like to go back to an irregular schedule of politics some days and comedy others, rather than staking out Friday for a break in the tension.So I guess we’ll see. While we wait, Candorville (WPWG) offers social commentary that verges on the political, and if one party had a corner […]
In an early “First and Last” entry we mentioned an attempted Li’l Abner revival by Norm Hochberg and Steve Stiles. In 1997 Steve told the details of this 1990 adventure in his career to a fanzine. © Steve Stiles © Capp EnterprisesFANAC presents Idea #10 with Steve Stiles version of the Li’l Abner revival. Advertising in […]
The 2021 Garry B. Trudeau poster for the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival has been released.© Garry B. TrudeauFrom the Adirondack Daily Enterprise: Using this Carnival’s designated theme, “Mask-erade” — which Trudeau spells with the more traditional “Masquerade” — the poster shows multiple “Doonesbury” characters with different face masks representing various features of the Adirondacks. Trudeau, […]
NPR talked to Garry Trudeau and a couple others about Doonesbury. It all began as an irreverent strip called Bull Tales in the Yale Daily News when Garry Trudeau was a junior… The strip caught the attention of a fledgling newspaper syndicate which told Trudeau the drawing and lettering needed work but also told him […]
Into the Swamp: The Social and Political Satire of Walt Kelly’s Pogo, an exhibition curated from the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (BICLM) collections, showcases political satire and commentary using a motley group of swamp critters from Walt Kelly’s newspaper comic strip Pogo. Into the Swamp is on view January 30 through October 31, […]
Last week Stephan Pastis warned that his upcoming Pearls Before Swine comic strip featured a military coup story line. Now the syndicate, Andrews McMeel, has pulled the strips.An upcoming storyline in “Pearls Before Swine,” the popular comic strip created by Santa Rosa cartoonist Stephan Pastis, has been pulled from 850 newspapers by its distributor because […]
© Tom GauldBelow are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for January 2021 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. A Cockeyed Menagerie For Better or For Worse: The Complete Library, Vol. 5 Ditko Shrugged BB BluesBird and the Terrible, […]