A new fifteen day Minit Mystery will be featured in the Dick Tracy comic strip. It will start Sunday April 28, 2019 and end on Sunday May 12, 2019.The new Minit Mystery will be written by (Sgt.) Jim Doherty; no word on whether Joe Staton or a guest artist will do the art.Jim Doherty is […]
The Mueller Report is not the only important issue facing us these days. For instance, if you haven’t been reading Non Sequitur, you might not have begun contemplating the issue of whether squirrels poop.So now I’ve given it some thought and I suppose they’re like mice and it just kind of falls out randomly, which […]
Adam Zyglis greeted Easter with a question he might also have posed at Christmas simply by swapping the bunny for Santa.The answers range from the obvious to the somewhat profound.As a multicultural society we’re not inclined to embrace the religious underpinnings of any holiday, though, in closing schools, banks and post offices, we only acknowledge […]
Since Hilary was a child Sally has eaten the ears off her Chocolate Easter Bunny.As Francesco Marcuiliano explains, the 34 year old running gag “has evolved into a loving tale of parental mind games and ensuing childhood mental breakdowns.”The tradition had its origins on April 3, 1983, 15 months after the strip debuted: The Hilary […]
Bruce Tinsley Likes Comic Strip on Opinion Page Mallard Fillmore cartoonist responds to a local controversy:I do the Mallard Fillmore comic strip that’s always getting into trouble in your paper and across the country. Thanks to readers like Terry Ebaugh for sticking up for my sometimes controversial ideas and to this newspaper for having the […]
Gasoline Alley Of course there were (more than) a few Sunday strips about Easter today, but not many impressed me. Jim Scancarelli‘s holiday panels are always a treat for me and today’s brought Walt Kelly to mind: Six ChixConfirmation of supposition. When Maritsa Patrinos was introduced as a new contributor to Six Chix, the speculation was […]
This past Sunday’s Edison Lee has not simply been sitting in my “Friday Funnies” folder but has also been rattling around in my head.One of the elements of having grown up hard-core country is that I had a full set of stars overhead, particularly in winter when the combination of early sunsets and cold nights […]
Here are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for April 2019 release. Images and links via Amazon (though ordering through your local comic book shop is a good idea.) The Star of the Telegram: The Cartoons of Harold Maples Johnny Hazard The Newspaper Dailies Volume Seven: 1954-1956 Thelwell’s Pony Panorama MacDoodle St. The Art […]
The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on slates. `What are they doing?’ Alice whispered to the Gryphon. `They can’t have anything to put down yet, before the trial’s begun.’The Attorney General of the White House is going to hold a press conference at 9:30 to discuss a report nobody (except his BFF) will […]
Awards are handed out every year at The Reubens Dinner. Most are annual acknowledgements, some are occasional. The ACE Award is on the intermittent schedule.The ACE Award, or Amateur Cartoonist Extraordinary award, is given to a celebrity or notable who aspired at one time to become a cartoonist, but whose path led them to an […]
The Kliban ExclusionThe above cartoon ran as shown on GoComics, eliciting howls of censorship. But the edited image was the one GoComics received from the Kliban estate. Then the Kliban people corrected the false impression many readers imagined: Its a great cartoon so the dilemma was wanting to post it but knowing the guidelines GoComics […]
There have been a couple of okay cartoons about the Notre Dame fire and then a raft of weeping gargoyles. I’m going to hold back for a day or so to let more cartoonists weigh in.There’s plenty more out there to comment on, starting with …I was glad to see Darrin Bell recognized with a […]
Only one short month until “America’s Biggest Comic Arts Festival!” Officially it runs May 17 to May 19, 2019, but there’s a signing event on May 16 and a live podcast on May 20th. Get there early and stay late. Like the star of his Badlands comic strip, Steve McGarry is the white hat-wearing good guy riding […]
If seeing Notre Dame Cathedral was on your bucket list, you screwed up.Apparently, parts have been saved, but it will be some time before it’s restored, and then it will be restored, and it will be another century before the restoration feels properly a part of the 850-year-old edifice.But you let other things come first. […]
Comic Strip Cartoonist #10Last month I got the delightful 10th (#10) Anniversary issue of Comic Strip Cartoonist. “Ski” gives us the origin of the magazine, followed by a summary of the first 9 issues. Then we get an enjoyable gallery of comics from cartoonists featured in those nine issues, with an update on what those […]