It seems Jim Davis is divesting himself of everything Garfield except for the comic strip.Earlier this year Jim donated the Paws, Inc. headquarters to the Ball State University Foundation. Earlier this month he sold off the Paws, Inc. enterprise to Viacom. Now Jim has contracted with Heritage Auctions to auction off his 40 year collection […]
It an emergency situation!LESS THAN 24 HOURS FOR ROB ROGER’S BREWED ON GRANT KICKSTARTER!$3,500 is still needed to bring Rob’s comic strip back via Pittsburgh Current.Reliable sources say with Kickstarter, you either make it or break it: All or nothing. This project will only be funded if it reaches its goal by Wed, August 28 […]
Happy Birthday to comic book artist Don Perlin, born August 27, 1929. The reward for reaching age 90 is The Daily Cartoonist Senior Strippers Plaque:No, wait! There is no such Daily Cartoonist honor, that’s Don getting the National Cartoonists Society’s divisional Comic Book Award in 1997. Don began his comic book career about 70 years ago; and […]
From Jef Mallett’s Facebook Page:It’s here!Old Ox Brewery, in Ashburn, VA, just released a special-edition Frazz IPA, “A Hoppier Place.”Old Ox is a local operation, and even though Prohibition has been repealed for some time now, they can’t ship. Unless you live in the DC area, or know your own personal Al Capone who does, […]
“Next Door Neighbors” cartoonist Pat Sandy is featured in a two-part interview on Geoff Grogan’s “Blockhead” podcast.Sandy: “A comic strip, this is just my philosophy … it’s kind of like writing a novel, but you get to publish like three sentences a day.”Link: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7vfb2-bc2208?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share L
Woke, the live-action/animated comedy inspired by the life of The K Chronicles cartoonist Keith Knight, is being picked up to series by the Disney-controlled streamer. An episode count and premiere time frame was not immediately available; Hulu declined comment as the deal technically isn’t done.Lamorne Morris stars in the series, which revolves around an African-American […]
Michael Ramirez riffs on George C. Scott’s famous speech in the 1970 film, “Patton,” as Trump continues to deliver convoluted, contradictory explanations of his disastrous trade policy.The (apocryphal) line from the film is “Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by […]
In a recurring background sometimes I’ll draw it once and then drop it in using Adobe Photoshop.Last week Jim Keefe showed us a process he uses on Sally Forth. It looks like Dave Clark read that and tried it on this week’s Barney & Clyde, though Dave Clark’s strip is thiiiis close to wallpaper.Also – I […]
This is very complicated and, without my going to Youngstown and Warren, Ohio, and interviewing people, it’s not possible to be completely accurate, but, from here, it appears that comics may have delayed, perhaps even prevented, the destruction of a local paper.The Vindicator, Youngstown’s hometown newspaper, recently announced its death, leaving a significant city without […]
Paul Berge’s current blog features a collection of 1919 cartoons about the “Summer Widower,” and he addresses it as something known only in those days.Not sure how old Paul is, but I caught the tail end of the phenomenon.There was a time, O Best Beloved, when people didn’t — couldn’t — go all that far […]
Way back in 1957 the people involved with newspaper comic strips were celebrating the 60th anniversary of their craft. Yeah, they were a couple years off. These days it is 1895, not 1897, that is generally celebrated as the birth year of newspaper comics (though newspaper comics had appeared earlier than 1895).Anyway…In 1957 a few […]
Occasionally cartoonist Sandra Bell-Lundy dreams of the Old Country.The Old Country is Newfoundland, the home of her mother and grandmother. Occasionally it is mentioned by name in Sandra’s Between Friends comic strip.It’s because Bell-Lundy has a strong connection — both her mother (Shirley Bell, nee Graham, age 85) and grandmother (Harriet Graham, nee Taylor, born […]
We still haven’t actually seen Eugene the Jeep in this week’s 1936 Thimble Theater, but there’s already a villain seeking to kidnap — jeepnap? — the little fellow.Wikipedia (mostly) disputes the story that Eugene inspired WWII GIs to refer to their small, go-anywhere vehicles as “Jeeps” but doesn’t explain why, or provide examples of how, […]
Big conventions, like those in Salt Lake City and San Diego, attract huge numbers of artists and fans. For Santa Barbara, California-based Dana Simpson, it became too much. “I’ve started doing more of these smaller conventions. I got tired of the big conventions because they’re big and loud, and it’s easy to feel lost. I […]
Jimmy Margulies explains today’s lack of any particular theme. Dear Leader has become so erratic that it’s possible to blend the political with the comical and the only real problem is that he’s got access to the launch codes.We’ve managed to bring Great Truth to that cynical National Lampoon parody of Desiderata:You are a fluke […]