I’m blaming Norman Lear.We had, in our house, “The Archie Bunker Rule,” which was that nobody who would not be welcome through the door was welcome through the television. My boys railed against it from time to time, and I relaxed it if they could make a good case for an exemption.But I watched the […]
Animator Gene Deitch has passed away.From the Expatz Czech notice:Prague, April 17 (CTK) – American director and animated film producer Gene Deitch, living in Prague with his Czech wife, animator and producer Zdenka Najmanova, died there last night at the age of 95 years, Garamond publishing house owner Petr Himel told CTK today. Eugene Merril […]
The print edition of Positively Naperville will start carrying a new comic strip. Sam & Joe by Jared Moser had appeared on the paper’s website, now it will beginning running in the print edition.Cartoonist Jared Moser, hailing from Wheeling, Illinois, is a freshman at North Central College, studying journalism and media communications, with a minor […]
It’s getting really hard to avoid politics on Friday, and Rabbits Against Magic provides a demonstration.I suppose there were people who listened to FDR’s Fireside Talks or Churchill’s encouragement during the Blitz and dismissed them as partisan politics, but not many.Anyway, the “pollution” analogy holds for me. It’s everywhere. Granted that Non Sequitur runs on the […]
Wha..?? A last Cats With Hands? Yes. It seems Joe Martin has stopped producing new Cats With Hands strips and panels. (Joe continues creating Mr. Boffo and Willy ‘n Ethel comics.)Last month Neatly Chiseled Features started issuing “The Best of Cats With Hands” dailies beginning March 16, 2020. That strip was a rerun of the […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for April 2020 release. Images and links (mostly) via Amazon, though ordering through your local comic or independent book store is a good idea. Addams’ Apple: The New York Cartoons of Charles Addams Ed Leffingwell’s Little Joe by Harold Gray Nat Enough I Think He’s Crazy […]
Updating the earlier Moose and Molly post.It seems a certainty that Bob Weber has ended his Moose and Molly comic strip.Moose and Molly by Bob Weber dailies: September 20, 1965 – March 28, 2020* Sundays: September 26, 1965 – April 5, 2020 King Features Syndicate [titled “Moose” September, 1965 – May, 1971 titled “Moose Miller” […]
This is the second installment of an exciting new feature called “Three Word Answer” here on The Daily Cartoonist where we’ll ask a cartoonist 20 questions. We politely request that they answer each of the questions in three words (or fewer). But of the 20 questions, the cartoonist may chose three questions (of the 20 […]
Starting with a cheat: This is yesterday’s Brewster Rockit, but I’m featuring it today because it contains an important factor, which is defiant accuracy.The pop-culture-overused-cliche-quote is “Houston, we have a problem,” but that’s not what he said, which matters for two reasons.One is that no test pilot — and that’s what astronauts were in those […]
After nearly 55 years Bob Weber is taking weekends off. The last Sunday Moose and Molly appeared April 5, 2020.The first Moose and Molly Sunday strip appeared September 26, 1965 (below).The strip itself debuted on September 20, 1965 as ” Moose.” above: the first Moose comic strip starring “Moose Buttons”Mark Johnson tells us it was […]
Easter Games People Play Breaking Cat News and Thatababy both have activities for kids of all ages. 33 Eggs!! The first thing I thought when Dagwood suggested a melted cheese meal: Then I came upon today’s Sally Forth…and thought of Noel Sickles taking over Scorchy Smith.Like Sickles and Terry, Jim Keefe is too good to fake […]
An Easter to remember, and Signe Wilkinson sets the stage.The people, I would note, appear to be getting a bit grumpy.We were all willing to pull together for a couple of days, even a couple of weeks, but that sense of national purpose seems to wearing a bit thin, as we’ve reached the point where […]
Cartoonist Bill Nellor has passed away. William L. (Bill) Nellor September 12, 1923 – April 8, 2020advertising agency artist, director, owner cartoonistFrom the obituary:… he had an ongoing comic series in the Press Democrat called the “Funny Fizzles” which were all based on real life patented inventions that never made it to production. Quite humorous. […]
Well, since Mike brought up Bakersfield…Bakersfield Californian Executive Editor Christine L. Peterson received a question about why the coronavirus pandemic is curiously missing from most of the current comic strips.On another note — because it’s all about the comics — why are all but “Over the Hedge” void of coronavirus quarantine mention? “Pearls Before Swine” […]
Strip cartoonists have been at some pains to remind us that they work several weeks in advance and we shouldn’t take offense if, in the current crisis, a comic strip seems in dubious taste.However, there’s also the random chance that a strip will inadvertently provoke more thought than intended, and today’s Buckets coincides nicely with […]