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Filed under: Comic Strips
Coming Soon: Father’s Day and Daddy Daze
As the ads inform us, it’s only 10 days until Father’s Day.The same June 17th date will debut Daddy Daze, and there is activity showing that launch is getting closer.King Features has set up the Daddy Daze page at the syndicate’s website, which features some samples of the new comic strip.The Daddy Daze official website […]
Pseudonymous Olivia Jaimes remains Pseudonymous
From Vice.com comes an article about The Woman Behind Nancy [who] Has Made an 80-Year-Old Comic Funny Again.The long-running comic was recently taken over by Olivia Jaimes, who’s shifted the focus from boomer humor to jokes about Snapchat, apps, and Twitter bots.Author Grant Pardee, for Vice, says Nancy isfor the first time since the Eisenhower […]
Fun Facts about The Funnies
Cartoonist Jim Keefe recently revealed how he released some pressure 20 years ago when he was being laid off from the King Features art department – by way of the Flash Gordon comic strip. Meantime Jake Rossen at Mental Floss has been collecting Things You Might Not Know about various comic strips. These include:11 Fun […]
New(ish) local comic: “Pet Peevy” by Rob Snyder
Rob Snyder is the Spirit’s publisher, and also a photographer, writer, copy editor, editorial cartoonist, headline writer and ad salesman. He’s also the weekly paper’s sole comic strip artist. The first stripJust learning of this funny local weekly comic strip. It began November 15, 2017 in the Spirit of Jefferson (Charles Town, W.V.). The Spirit […]
R.C. Harvey Profiles Ted Shearer
Over at The Comics Journal, R.C. Harvey writes at length about pioneering African-American cartoonist Ted Shearer and his syndicated comic “Quincy.”Ted Shearer from the article:“When I gave my name over the phone in arranging for an appointment, I suppose they figured that ‘Shearer’ was Irish. But when I showed up for the meeting and the […]
Garfield 40th Anniversary Book to Feature Foreword by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Garfield’s 40th Anniversary book “Age Happens” is being released on his 40th Birthday, June 19th.The book features a foreword from longtime fan and Pulitizer Prize-winner Lin-Manuel Miranda of Broadway’s “Hamilton.”Buy it here.Twitter: @garfield@Lin_Manuel
Wine Shop Owner Draws new Wallace the Brave strip
[William Wilson’s] “Wallace the Brave” comic strip, which he pens under the name of Will Henry, is now in more than 100 newspapers across the U.S., including the Houston Chronicle where it begins Sunday.And the Houston Chronicle is where this piece introducing readers to their newest comic strip appears. Will Henry’s Wallace the Brave remains […]
ICYMI from 2014: Ivan Brunetti on His Failed Attempt to Become the ‘Nancy’ Cartoonist
In case you missed it the first time it published, this is a worthy read and/or re-read. It’s especially poignant because of what’s happened with the cartoonist change on the feature in the last few months.My failed attempt to draw the Nancy comic stripwww.gocomics.com/nancyTwitter: @BoingBoinghttp://www.fantagraphics.com/artists/ivan-brunetti/
Weekend Quick Hits – Comic Strips
Last month Kirk Walters and The Toledo Blade celebrated 30 years of Maumee Dearest, the local weekly comic strip. This weekend the paper and the cartoonist looked back.In 1988, a young cartoonist at The Blade named Kirk Walters submitted a multi-panel strip he’d drawn in the hope the paper would consider running it on the […]
Reading Twitter Reports of Nick Meglin’s Passing
Tom Hentjes and Jason Chatfield have both tweeted that MAD Magazine legend Nick Meglin has passed away. Nick was present at last week’s Reuben Awards in Philadelphia.
NCS Uncovers Awards Error
The National Cartoonists Society has discovered that two awards were given out erroneously last Saturday at the Reubens banquet in Philadelphia.From NCS President Bill Morrison’s note to the membership:When compiling the names of the winners to send to our award manufacturer, I accidentally took the names for the four online voting categories (Newspaper Panel, Newspaper Strip, Editorial […]
‘Peanuts’ Original Up for Auction Expects to Fetch a Salty $30,000
Mental Floss has a story on an upcoming auction at Swann Auction Galleries of Charles Schulz’s original “Peanuts” art. One Sunday from 1970 is estimated expected to reach $30,000.http://mentalfloss.com/article/545662/original-peanuts-comic-strip-auction-block-estimated-sell-30000(photo Swannn Auction Galleries)
Father John Misty on ‘Calvin and Hobbes’
It’s an article from last year, but as his new album releases today, a reminder that Calvin & Hobbes had an important influence on Josh Tillman.From the Exclaim.ca article:“I was so much like Calvin when I was a kid. Down to, like, really intense anthropomorphizing toys and stuff. I was sort of depressed in the […]
The Opposite of “Unfortunate Timing”
Every cartoonist knows that at sometime there will be a syndicated comic strip, done weeks ago, that lands in the newspapers at a very inopportune time.Michael Fry and T. Lewis, who have been doing Cliffsnotes TV gags this week, are enjoying the opposite with today’s Over the Hedge.Michael about today’s strip says,I wrote this two […]