It is strange the inordinate amount of time it took me to figure out how they transmogrified the Prince Valiant half page into a tabloid page. Far longer than it should have. Frazz, B.C., and Over The Hedge, on weird winters. I mentioned last week about James Allen‘s new art style. Well… this week the […]
original February 17 item:In The New Mexican Rhymes With Orange will move into Feuti’s Retail space. The comic strip Retail, a fixture on The New Mexican‘s daily comics page for years, is closing up shop. Saturday’s strip will mark the end of Retail‘s daily syndication run after more than 14 years. The strip’s creator, Norm […]
Lio may be on the right track.One advantage of a parliamentary system is that elections can be called anytime but then they only last a few weeks.Yes, Brexit went on — has gone on — forever, but that’s an exception.Under a parliamentary system, the Democrats and Republicans would each choose a party leader and then […]
James Thurber‘s first drawings appeared in the The New Yorker dated ninety years ago today.In the New Yorker issue dated February 22, 1930 a short James Thurber contribution included two illustrations, the first Thurber drawings to appear in the magazine.[James Thurber’s words first appeared in the February 26, 1927 New Yorker, but since prose and […]
Snoopy (Peanuts Workdwide LLC) tweeted out a message to Franklin this morning and then quickly deleted it as some found it offensive (racist).The tweet was deleted so quickly that Truth or Fiction took it up, explaining the trouble:The phrase “You’re one of the good ones” is a backhanded compliment often proffered in racist or misogynist […]
We’ll lead off today with aJuxtaposition of the Day(Retail)(Rob Rogers)Transposed like this, the connection between the penultimate Retail strip and Rob Rogers’ piece of Bill Barr is more obvious than I expected it to be.Back in the glory days of PBS, Ebert & Siskel used to criticize what they called an Idiot Plot, defined as […]
Cartoonist Nicola Cuti has passed away.Nicola (Nick) Cuti October 29, 1944 – February 21, 2020 News of Nick’s passing was made public on his Facebook page:Legendary comic creator Nicola Cuti, whose career has spanned over fifty years, has died. Sources close to the family have reported that Cuti passed in Tampa on Friday, February 21, 2020, […]
Arlo plays the old gaffer yet again.I was going to make a joke about how “Seven O’Clock Straight Up” means “without ice,” but, then again, we’re living in a world where people assume a martini is made with vodka.And I grew up in a world in which not only is a martini, by definition, made […]
Lincoln Peirce‘s multimedia success (popular comic strip, best selling comic collections and illustrated novels, musical theatre) is now getting a Nickolodeon animated series.Animation Magazine reports:On Wednesday, Nickelodeon detailed its new, wide-ranging content slate for 2020-21, with a brand-new book-inspired animated series amid several live-action originals… Greenlit for 26 episodes, Big Nate is an all-new animated […]
The National Cartoonists Society has announced that Jim Davis, creator of Garfield, the most widely syndicated comic strip in the world, will be a guest speaker at their 2020 Reubens weekend:A previous Reuben-winner, Jim will be speaking at the NCS conference on Friday, 5th June at the Marriott Kansas City Downtown. His exclusive talk for the NCS “The […]
Tom Toles expresses some impatience with the public’s willingness to ignore what’s going on around it.Granted, ostriches do not, in fact, stick their heads in the sand and imagine that they are hidden.We do, however, and, as Toles suggests, we not only do it, but we do it wonderfully well. We also do it unpredictably. When […]
Today’s Reality Check by Dave Whamond which immediately brought to mind, not Maxwell Grant’s, but Mike Kaluta’s The Shadow. James Allen has now spent years as the signed artist of Mark Trail, and I, for one, am happy to see him drawing his own version of the character instead of lightboxing (or whatever) Jack Elrod‘s […]
In an effort to keep active duty frontline soldiers uninformed, the new Pentagon budget would cut all funding for the Stars and Stripes newspaper.The proposed cuts to the editorially independent news organization, which is partially funded by the Pentagon, were a product of the recent defense-wide review ordered by Defense Secretary Mark Esper, said Elaine […]
above: Régis LoiselAn exhibit of original European comic art in New York City gives Forbes a reason to look at the collectors market for original comic art.Philippe Labaune, founder of Art9, has a few ideas explaining why American collectors are getting into original comics art right now. “The American collector is moving steadily towards the […]
I rise to a point of personal privilege this morning to join Wiley Miller in celebrating his 20th anniversary with Andrews-McMeel and Non Sequitur’s 28th overall, though we don’t really celebrate anniversaries that are not at least divisible by 5 and preferably 10.Though, in fact, I’ve known Wiley long enough to remember when he switched […]