Thatababy © Paul TrapCongratulations to Paul Trap on ten years of Thatababy.The entire 10 year archive is available at GoComics. Bringing Up Father © King Features SyndicateIn the vintage section of Comics Kingdom Jiggs is running for mayor. Two days after our September 29 Presidential Debate the 1946 vintage rerun seemed as current as any editorial […]
Garfield © Paws, Inc and distributed by Andrews McMeel SyndicationIf you think Garfield is just a gag-a-day comic strip you don’t know Garfield. The Garfield comics reek of a dogmatic ideology. They formulate and endorse a brand of lazy cynicism that not only encourages readers to accept the status quo, but also frames the concept […]
Famed cartoonist Quino has passed away. Joaquín Salvador Lavado (“Quino”) July 17, 1932 – September 30, 2020 From the Buenos Aires Times:“Quino has died. All good people in the country and in the world will mourn him,” Daniel Divinsky, the head of Buenos Aires publisher Ediciones de la Flor, wrote on Twitter. Under his pen-name “Quino”, […]
The State of California is now offering Snoopy license plates for cars and motorcycles. The special plates will help raise funds for museums statewide.From the Cal Museums site:Certainly, these stylish plates proclaim your love for the world’s most famous beagle. They also support a great cause by raising critical funds for California’s great museums, including […]
Jerry Craft’s middle-grade graphic novel New Kid broke new ground in more ways than one: it was the first graphic novel to win the Newbery Medal(it also won the Coretta Scott King Author Award and Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature), and it’s the first mainstream middle-grade graphic novel to frankly depict the everyday racism […]
Sheldon (independent) pretty well sums up the hazards of knowing what’s going on in the world, and the last two or three days have been astonishingly toxic and depressing.I woke up this morning and found my newsfeeds full of people trying to decide how they should respond to the president and his wife testing positive […]
Charlie Brown remains my favorite Peanuts character.Peanuts and the characters are © Peanuts Worldwide LLCSeventy years after its creation, and 20 years after the death of its creator, Charles M. Schulz‘s Peanuts remains on of the most popular and influential comic strips of all time. The anniversary is being celebrated across the world (and the […]
Every October there is a celebration of ink drawing with the surprising codification of Inktober.Many artists go freelance while others take up “prompt” challenges.This year IDW through its Library of American Comics brand has the challenge I’m excited about. We know many of you are artists, cartoonists and illustrators! Many of you have probably participated […]
Exuberant President Trump supporter Scott (“Dilbert”) Adams has taken Trump’s failure to denounce white supremacy as a personal affront, and that cost him Adams’s vote.Mediaite reports: The Dilbert creator explained that he was excited when the “fine people hoax” came up again and expected Trump to shut down “the lie,” but was incredibly disappointed with […]
Over at The (Comics) Beat Avery Kaplan gives a very positive review of Half Full-cartoonist Maria Scrivan’s middle grade novel “Forget Me Nat.” From the review: One of the highlights of the Nat series has been the way Scrivan brings her well-honed skills as a syndicated daily newspaper cartoonist to the drawing table. Scrivan’s skill at spinning a gag […]
A fellow named Rickey Scott got in touch with me at CSotD and offered to compile a list of Patreon and other support sites.If you are a cartoonist with a support site not listed here (or you spot a typo in yours), put it in the comments and drop me an email.And if you are […]
GoComics and Andrews McMeel have sent notice that due to the overwhelming response of Frog Applause fans to the threat of the comic being removed from the site, the decision has been reversed and Frog Applause will remain on GoComics! Your fans have spoken and we are listening. We have reassessed and would like to […]
September 29 updateKing Features Syndicate via Reed Brennan announced that Jules will be taking over the Sunday Mark Trail page beginning November 8, 2020: Attention MARK TRAIL Clients:A new artist will be beginning on MARK TRAIL with the Monday of 10/12 and the Sunday of 11/8. At that time, please adjust your bylines to read […]
Pluggers header from 2015 (above) and 2020(below) © Tribune Content AgencyJust saying – I would like to see a Rick McKee illustration replace the old Gary Brookins header for the Pluggers Sunday page.And yes, I realize that The Amazing Spider-Man continues to use the John Romita title panels 40 years after John stopped drawing the […]
I’m going to wait another day for a few more Trump/Tax cartoons to hit, but Morten Morland (London Times) lays out the administration’s response, which is, of course, denial.Trump’s constant refrain about fake news brings up the line from Princess Bride: “You keep using that word. I am not sure it means what you think […]