Wiley Miller is in the midst of an impressive run of news/deadline synchronicity, with this Non Sequitur appearing just as Laura Ingraham announces on national television that she is not the unwitting victim of some subconscious prejudice but is, in fact, a fully intentional white supremacist who wishes to have our government enact blatantly racist […]
Tom Spurgeon over the Comics Reporter has a small piece on The Billy Ireland Museum at Ohio State University holding their first annual duplicates sale on August 30th. And you ask: What in heaven’s name is a duplicates sale? Well, keep reading …From their site: Calling all collectors, book worms, scholars and fans!The Billy Ireland will hold its […]
(Signe Wilkinson)Well, thanks for coming. That’s all for today.———–Okay, perhaps a little commentary, though I think Wilkinson’s pen drop pretty much says it.There’s some argument to be made that these aren’t Trump’s lawyers but Manafort’s, but that seems like a distinction without a difference.As Dear Leader said, Manafort is being treated like Al Capone: You […]
Erik Larsen’s Savage Dragon #236 (on sale now) has a few pages of the kids’ adventures drawn as tribute pages to Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes.Of course tributes to the genius that is Bill Watterson is not uncommon.Some years ago Dan and Tom Heyerman did Calvin and Hobbes some years later. Locust Moon Comics’ Little Nemo: Dream […]
“Jane’s World” was the first gay-themed work to receive online distribution by a national media syndicate (United Features/Comics.com). Paige Braddock is the cartoonist behind the long-running comic strip and TDC interviewed Paige as she prepared for the August 21st launch of her 20th Anniversary “Jane’s World” book from Lion Forge. TDC: Forgive the ignorance, did Jane’s World first debut in […]
From the story:The August 20, 1913, edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (subscription required) reprinted a cartoon from the London Chronicle about the newspaper of the future. And it serves as a fascinating snapshot of an era when automobiles were still relatively new, powered flight was just a decade old, and broadcast radio was still for early adopters.
After reading the write-up for Colonial Comics: New England, 1750-1775 at Comics Worth Reading, I made a mistake that has both positive and negative outcomes for readers here: I accidentally ordered the Kindle version instead of the paperback.The positive is that I was able to sit down and read it sooner and can report that […]
Over on reddit.com, this post getting some love.Twitter: @Garfield
Berkeley Breathed restarted “Bloom County” in 2015 and he’s now onto his third collection of those new strips. IDW will release “Bloom County: Best Read on the Throne” this September. It’s available for pre-order here.From the IDW site:Collecting year three of the Bloom County relaunch begun in 2015! The stakes are higher, the punchlines are sharper, and […]
The Smithsonian.com jumps in on the Olivia Jaimes helmed “Nancy.” From the story:The Revamped ‘Nancy’ Is the Perfect Comic Strip for 2018. The comic’s first woman artist mines her own girlhood experience to make the eternally 8-year-old, cookie-loving grouch even funnier.
Let’s start with a salute to fortuitous timing by Wiley Miller, whose Non Sequitur by, I assume, happenstance hits the comics pages while Wells Fargo’s incompetence, venality and lousy response is in the rest of the newspaper.In another bit of interesting timing, NPR has just started a series on the housing crisis with the observation […]
CommentatorsSomeone must have switched Rick Marschall‘s Sanka to real coffee. Suddenly he’s become a dervish of activity. Recently announcing the revival of Nemo, now he is commencing a weekly column of comic related anecdotes and history. The first column is an autobiography of sorts.The column will have its home base at John Adcock‘s Yesterday’s Papers, […]
Scott McCloud released his “Understanding Comics” in 1993. Barnes & Noble has marked the anniversary with this interview.From the site:“I’d like to think that Understanding Comics helped contribute to comics’ broader acceptance by both the general public and by various institutions like libraries, museums, and universities. But guys like me are only half of the solution. We […]
Cartoonist, shampoo actor and noted Australian Jason Chatfield was recently taken to task by a group of individuals who were offended by a recent New Yorker cartoon he created.From Jason’s blog:As a rule, I never engage in social media comments sections– especially when it comes to my work. I like people to just fight among […]
I will confess to going through a burn-out phase at the moment, in which I find today’s Reality Check refreshing.All commentators, including cartoonists, go through these phases where I have of late,—but wherefore I know not,—lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly […]