above: the first four Alley Oop comic strips, December 5 – 8, 1932. The Alley Oop comic strip began on December 5, 1932 from the small Bonnet-Brown Syndicate. above: the last Bonnet-Brown strip, April 24, 1933The strip ended abruptly on April 24, 1933 with the bankruptcy of Bonnet-Brown. The strip disappeared for four months, during which […]
Non Sequitur leads us off with this concise history of Labor Day and how it almost worked and then pretty much fell apart, though he applies the principle that history is written by the victors, so it seems, on the surface, to have a happy ending.I blame George Westinghouse, the son of a bitch who […]
More letters celebrating the obvious greatness of comics (and puzzles). This time it’s from The Greensboro (N.C.) News & Record.From the letter:That’s almost enough to make me drop my subscription, but the comics page and puzzles are still pretty good and probably worth the price. Besides, those diversions keep me occupied so I can’t focus […]
Brigham Young University professor Kerry Soper has released another book on the career and influence of a significant cartoonist of the 20th Century. His most recent subject is Gary Larson of “The Far Side” fame (joining Garry Trudeau and Walt Kelly).From the promotional notes on Amazon:In this first full study of Larson’s art, Soper follows […]
Bumped to the top and updated.Jack and Carole bid farewell in what, for the moment at least, is the last Alley Oop panel. Read the entire final Bender daily strip at GoComics.Carole says Goodbye on her Facebook page –Doing Alley Oop is a dream job we were lucky to have, but make no mistake about it, […]
One of these women is turning 94 today and the other is my great-granddaughter and thus her great-great-grandaughter.So, in honor of the occasion, here are some cartoons my grandfather might have read in the newspaper when he wasn’t pacing the floor on September 1, 1924, which is what expectant fathers did in those days.(Editor’s note: […]
After shutting down the print edition September 2017, now the online Village Voice is shuttered.Three years after buying The Village Voice, and a year after the paper shut down its print edition, owner Peter Barbey told the remaining staff today that the publication will no longer be posting any new stories. Barbey said that half […]
Writing to the editor of the (Tucson) Arizona Daily Star, reader Clifford Schneider offers a common-sense solution for what’s ailing newspapers.From the letter: The comics section of the Daily Star is undeniably the most important part of the paper. So why do I so often have to search for it as a mere attachment to […]
“Phoebe and her Unicorn” cartoonist Dana Simpson’s longtime (1998 -2008) web comic “Ozy and Millie” has been collected into book form and is now available from Andrews McMeel Publishing.See it for sale here at Amazon.The Daily Cartoonist is owned by Andrews McMeel Universal.
In a huge piece of news for the newspaper industry, the United States International Trade Commission overturned a Trump administration decision to tariff Canadian newsprint.From the New York Times story:The unanimous decision by the five-member body eliminates tariffs that have been in effect since January, handing a win to small and medium-size newspapers, which have […]
Amid the flood of Back-to-School cartoons that didn’t make me laugh, Baby Blues evokes a memory of parenting that did.Granted, it wasn’t over math, since my boys were both better at math than I was and the teaching of math is far superior than it was in my day. Those factors are probably related, but […]
Karen Moy has been the credited writer of the Mary Worth comic strip since 2004. Two years ago she was joined by artist June Brigman, and for the first time since 1939 women were the creative team of Mary Worth.Kurt J. Kolka interviews Karen about her background, her comic strip career, and Mary Worth’s future.I […]
Earlier this week Stephen Roth interviewed Jeff Corriveau about his Deflocked comic strip and life as a cartoonist.GoComics: You’ve stated that DeFlocked is based loosely on Hippocrates’ Four Humors. Can you explain to those of us who aren’t Greek scholars what that means, and how you came up with the idea? Jeff: Yeah, it’s this […]
It’s Mary Shelley’s birthday so I’m gathering pieces from various spots to compose a Quick Hits entry. It’s BookFest all over the Nation The Washington Post celebrates by commissioning cartoonist Patrick McDonnell to compose a simply wonderful comic strip featuring his Mutts characters. Mr. Fish: Cartooning From the Deep End The biographic documentary about cartoonist Dwayne Booth […]
As Mike Peterson noted today, anti-Muslim fanatic Geert Wilders planned to replicate a cartoon contest that a dozen years ago resulted in death and destruction.The contest was to have been held at the tightly guarded offices of his Party for Freedom in the Dutch parliament building. The Dutch government had been at pains to distance […]